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The Beautiful Strangeness of Jack Davison’s Portraiture

Steph Wade — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:00:36 +0000

Jack Davison’s work refuses to conform to one style; instead moving fluidly across photographic fields. From documentary to abstract, many of the London-based photographer’s shots are portraiture-focused, with brooding subjects draped in black and white shadows, to color-drenched moments quietly experienced in public spaces.

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Light And Color: In Conversation With Daniel Dorsa

Rosie Flanagan — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 13:00:16 +0000

The work of Brooklyn-based photographer Daniel Dorsa refuses definition, toying with light and color as it intimately portraits people, and the world around them.

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Keith Oshiro Explores Individuality

Alice Harrison — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 17:00:31 +0000

LA-based photographer Keith Oshiro uses fashion and portrait photography to subvert stereotypes, confidently capturing the passions and personalities of his subjects.

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Exploring Identity With Adriana Roslin

Alice Harrison — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 10:00:01 +0000

Through an expert application of lighting, composition, and styling, Spanish photographer Adriana Roslin captures the interesting and diverse personalities of those she meets on her creative endeavors.

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Taiwan-based Photographer 草沒味 Creates Beautiful Female Portraits

Caroline Kurze — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 15:40:53 +0000

Taiwan-based photographer 草沒味 aka zrdyzrdy creates beautiful images experimenting with light and shadow. He draws sensitive portraits of women juxtaposed against rather harsh backgrounds of abandoned urban scenes. We showed outtakes of his works several time before in our weekly Flickr Friday, you can see more of his works on his profile at the photo community.

All images © 草沒味

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Jimmy Nelson Portrays The Disappearing Tribes Of The World

Caroline Kurze — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 08:45:42 +0000

Photographer Jimmy Nelson spent three years visiting more than 35 groups, tribes and people of indigenous cultures all around the world to create his series ‘Before They Pass Away’. His aim was to capture portraits of the disappearing people groups and to preserve glimpses of their rites, customs, and traditions.

The resulting images are hauntingly beautiful, offering a rare insight into a world seemingly far away from the one we live in where it’s all about the latest sneaker release, the biggest car and a well filled bank account. The photographer states: “There is no sociology, no statistics. It’s how I see the world. I am aiming to document the variety and importance of what is left of indigenous culture. Yes, it’s idealistic. Indigenous peoples are usually portrayed as impoverished. But they have a wealth and a pride. It’s not only about material possessions. I shoot from a very personal, aesthetic point of view. Different people can interpret what they like.”

You can follow Jimmy Nelson via Instagram, check out his latest TED talk or purchase the book ‘Before They Pass Away’ here.

All images © Jimmy Nelson | Via: designboom

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Travis Collinson’s Distorted Paintings

Caroline Kurze — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:16:54 +0000

San Francisco-based visual artist Travis Collinson’s drawing and paintings investigate portraiture, perception and his own subtle yet complex observations. His works are both, absurd and abstract while his subjects often seem to suffer from some kind of depression, lying on the floor with their eyes wide open, staring vacantly at the walls. Working from personal photographs and sketches derived from a process of automatism, Collinson selectively couples elements from each, reinterpreting them at a larger scale. Adding a skewed perspective and distortion of unassuming subjects, objects and environments, the artist’s compositions are at once familiar and enigmatic.

All images © Travis Collinson | Via: Beautiful Decay

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Mark Powell Uses Old Documents And Magazines As His Drawing Surface

Caroline Kurze — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 09:08:32 +0000

We’ve featured artist Mark Powell previously back in 2012. Revisiting his website, we spotted many exciting new works, that we’d like to introduce to you in the following update.

Powell draws portraits of elderly people and animals on vintage envelopes, maps and other paper documents using ballpoint pens, beautifully staging the process of aging and decay. For more check his webpage or follow him via Facebook.

All images © Marc Powell

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Photographer Ye Fei Knows How To Play With Light and Shadow

Caroline Kurze — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:58:48 +0000

Chinese photographer Ye Fei appeared more than once in our weekly best of Flickr selection so we decided to introduce him in a blogpost dedicated to his work. Ye Fei is based in Fuzhou where he created beautiful images mainly of women, always on the look for the best beaming rays of sunlight that would cover the photograph in a natural soft filter. You can see more of his works over on Flickr or follow him via Instagram and VSCO.

All images © Ye Fei

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Children’s Vacant Stares While Watching TV Are Captured in Donna Stevens’ Photo Series

Caroline Kurze — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 13:33:12 +0000

Photographer Donna Stevens created the series ‘Idiot Box’ documenting children vacantly staring at todays ever present black screens of the TV. Donna Stevens hopes to explore the darker side of our love for technology with these images. Shooting children watching TV represents the co-dependent yet contradictory relationship we all share with technology and the media.

Donna Stevens states: “Should we exhibit more caution about the role of technology in our children’s lives? Is our techno-paranoia warranted? No matter what gadgetry we may possess and blame for our undoing, do our problems still just remain human?”

All images © Donna Stevens | Via: Hypebeast

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Stunning Seaside Murals by Street Artist Sean Yoro aka HULA in Hawaii

Caroline Kurze — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 15:12:43 +0000

Hawaiian surfer Sean Yoro aka Hula combines his love of surfing and his artistic talent, creating hyperrealistic portraits of bathing women at different seaside locations. His work is inspired by street art and abandoned spaces that he uses as his hard-to-reach canvases. Carefully carrying cans of colored paint on the edge of his board, the New York-based artist applies his half submerged female portraits onto the wall. Find more of his works over on his website.

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Henrietta Harris Shows Her First Solo Show ‘The Hum’

Caroline Kurze — Wed, 20 May 2015 12:36:08 +0000

We’ve introduced artist Henrietta Harris previously on iGNANT now she got in touch, pointing focus on her latest works that she just showed in her first solo exhibition called ‘The Hum’ at Robert Fontaine Gallery. We’re really glad to see that she’s doing so well with her deconstructed watercolor paintings which we loved right from the start.

Here a little excerpt from the catalogue: “Harris’s paintings are often described as ‘deconstructed portraiture,’ and draw focus on the hesitant figures she paints with deliberate glitches in their form. Harris’s new work highlights less the individual, and instead the forms a person inhabits metaphorically. Her paintings are wet, and alive.”

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‘Invisible’ Captures The Real Faces Of Multiracial Women

Caroline Kurze — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 12:00:13 +0000

We introduced Samantha Wall and her sexually-charged series ‘Shame On Me’ previously on iGNANT. Now she’s back with a new series called ‘Invisible’ that was inspired by her ‘experience navigating multiraciality in Korea, and then the United States’.

She photographed and interviewed multiracial women to gather source material and to elicit an interpersonal connection during the process. Afterwards she selects an image that captures more than a portrait to draw it with graphite, charcoal or ink on paper. She states: “Through this work I am exposing the plurality of emotions that sculpt human subjectivity. The drawings of these women are portals into the human psyche, a place where emotions call out and perceived racial boundaries dissolve.”

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Hyperreal Paintings by Mike Dargas

Caroline Kurze — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 10:02:01 +0000

It almost seems like Cologne-based painter Mike Dargas was inspired by Blake Little’s honey-covered people when he was painting these hyperreal works. He transfers images of women’s faces covered in honey onto the canvas. We’re once more impressed by the skill to transfer photographs utterly perfect into large-scale paintings. If you’d like to see more hyperreal works, click here.

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Photographer David Williams Breaks The ‘Crazy Cat Lady’ Stereotype

Caroline Kurze — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 10:00:56 +0000

New York-based photographer David Williams potrays men with their cats to break the ‘crazy cat lady’ stereotype. “I wanted to show that regardless of gender, many people have found the joy that cat companionship can bring,” he said in an interview. Williams photographed a bunch of guys hanging out with their pet cats – proving that feline companionship isn’t based on gender. Williams himself lives with his cat in Brooklyn, NY.

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