Dennis Auburn is a 21 year old film photographer based in Houston, Texas. Regarding his artistic work he states: ‘I am for youth, going to the unknown, and learning throughout the process.’ In his series ‘American’ and ‘Idle’ he captures natural and at the same time transcendent moments of mostly female, partly nude models. Though they are acting in the centre of the composition, the surrounding and scenery turns out to be important, too. The shown landscapes are often desert like and decayed, building a stark contrast to the beauty and perfection of the human body.
375 VHS Tapes–all taken apart; all the cogs, springs and tiny pieces removed; and meticulously displayed under miles of film, stretching from the windows into the space. This mammoth sculpture filled the corner of Midtown Atlanta's Viewpointbuilding and was featured in Urban Fronts, an exhibition by AIA Atlanta that used empty storefronts along Peachtree as temporary gallery space.
Photographer Christoffer Relander (previously here and here) returns with the third installment of his beautifully executed multiple exposure photographs that blend aspects of nature with portraits of people. TitledWe Are Nature Vol. III, the series continues the Finnish photog’s experimentation with layering images in-camera using his Nikon D800, without the use of Photoshop. Prints available on request.
Myeongbeom Kim was born 1976 in Busan, he currently lives and works in Seoul and Chicago. With his installations he intends to describe his own experience in a placid manner through private conversations with his surrounding environment. ‘I try to examine how my surrounding is perceived and remembered. To do this, I listen to a whisper from objects within my surroundings. I attempt and intimate, private dialogue with the world, trying to concretely present the way other things approach me, by using other mediums,’ he explains. Myeongbeom Kim mainly uses heterogeneous objects. He has consistently experienced his surrounding objects from the perspective of life, growth, and decline, which lends vitality to his work. ‘I see my environment from the viewpoint of life,’ he summarizes.
Visual artist SUSO33, known for his abstract human forms comprised of quick gestural lines, recently painted this large-scale mural in Madrid depicting a hundred or so of his figures gathering to form a large one. If you liked this, also check out the work of Craig Alan. All photos courtesy Vandal Voyeur. (via This Isn’t Happiness)
Jaume Montserrat is a Barcelona based illustrator. His greatest passions are nature, society and traveling. He draws trying to bend those three worlds. Jaume found inspiration for his project ‘Emptyland’ while on a flight back home from South America to Spain.Montserrat fell asleep and imagined waking up on an island where he lives for 29 days with other animals. He explains: ‘On this island, there was only one animal from each specimen (kind of like Noah’s Ark). All of them were empty, asexual and immortal. They didn’t need to hunt, nor were they scared of being hunted – so there was a perfect symbiosis.’ He and the wildlife lived free from worries, and that empty paradise is what sparked these images.
Set against the backdrop of the digital age, Laura Plageman considers notions of realism and authenticity using analog processes. In her ‘Response’ series, she treats photographs as both representations and tangible objects, touching on the possibilities of realist representation, referentiality, and the photograph-as-thing. ‘My process unfolds through observation and experimentation; I let the image and its materiality dictate its direction. Playing with paper and light in unplanned and organic ways, I look for new ways to perceive space, form, and context of my subjects.’ she explains.
French photographer Christophe Jacrot made a series of photos dedicated to rain. ‘In my opinion, there are two ways of capturing the world for a photographer; on the one hand grasping its horror, and on the other sublimating it. I have chosen the second. More specifically, I like the way rain, snow and ‘bad weather’ awaken a feeling of romantic fiction within me, mainly in the big cities,’ explains the artist. Christophe Jacrot sees these elements as a fabulous ground for photography, an under-used visual universe with a strong evocative power with a richness of subtle lights. This universe is noticed only by a few people, since most are too occupied getting undercover.
