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Documenting YOUTH and DREAMS of Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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Hassan Kurbanbaev’s recent project focuses on Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan, in which  he was born and where he lives to this day. Attempting to choose his favorite part of the city, Kurbanbaev maintains that he doesn’t know which place he likes the most. He loves the past and the present; the places that bring to him “the joyful freedom of childhood memories”. Photographing the city from three parallel but different angles, Kurbanbaev has created three interlinked photo diaries: tashkent.DOC, tashkent.YOUTH and tashkent.DREAMS. Each diary serves an individual purpose, but focus on the city. tashkent.DOC is the body of the city, tashkent.YOUTH is its face and tashkent.DREAMS are Kurbanbaev’s feelings towards it. In tashkent.DOC Kurbanbaev set out to document the capital as it is today. Photographing random parts of the city, you can see the past interacting with the present. The stark brutal, Soviet architecture painted with bright, colourful graffiti. The older generation walking side by side with the children of today. September 2016 was the 25th anniversary of Uzbekistan’s independence from the Soviet Union. …

Conceptual Photographer Sam Cannon — “Your Eye Must See”

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New York based photographer and director Sam Cannon is part of a new generation of conceptual artists that feed from modern visual culture and use its tools as a medium. In a contemporary digital era that has proven to fancy short attention spans and extremely capacious images, the artist aims to mesmerize the viewer. “I want them to stop scrolling through their feed and sit with the image.” Most of Cannon’s conceptual photography work is based on the ideas of time and observation; in her looped videos and animated GIFs she immerses us in a timeless, never-ending dimension. Cannon produces multimedia pieces, cinemagraphs, digitally manipulated photos combining different themes and fields. Her work contemplates a wide range of topics, including femininity, mass media, anxiety struggles, social issues… all mixed into an infinite loop of grotesque shapes. Cannon uses the tools of our present time to bring us into this timeless, reflexive scenario. A kaleidoscope of hands and legs, eye-shaped breasts and eye-filled faces, spider-like creatures and anthropomorphic aliens. These surreal, a bit dark environment smoothly flows into Cannon’s personal and …

LA-based Photographer Richard Ramirez Jr. An Intimate Diary of Ethereal Images

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Richard Ramirez Jr.’s photographs are reminiscent of an intimate diary from which the poems it contains reveal people’s beauty and their most inner thoughts. The simplicity of the settings is disrupted by the lighting, the unfathomable stares, and the innocence emanating from the subject matter. There are no noisy elements of surprise in his series. Ramirez Jr. confers to each photography the effect of slow motion, as if time had stopped and each picture was telling its own story. He captures the essence of a moment: soul-searching, satisfaction, content, or doubt; and translates it in his soft and opaque tones, spread out through the surface of the image, making it hard for us to leave the world we have just delved in. The sequence of the photographs resonate with how the scenes of a movie would stream. Inspired by movies and the process behind it, the photographer envisions moods and settings and restores them in real life for his cinematic art. The renderings are effortless and ingenious. Richard Ramirez Jr. is a self-taught L.A. based photographer. …

MAD NYC, What Have We Done, The Catastrophe of Homelessness

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— An exclusive photo editorial piece by photographer Alberto Alcocer. Words by Maya Amoah. Images below were shot in New York City and Madrid.  It’s 2 AM and the lights of Time Square brilliantly shine like no other place in the world. Pixelated images in every direction flash before the eyes of both tourists and New Yorkers alike and if this doesn’t keep them transfixed, the juggling street busker who breathes fire surely does. On a sunny day in hot July, children eagerly lap up melting sundaes and chow on some Coney Island chili fries, strolling the sand dusted boardwalk with mama and old Pops. “Isn’t life grand, dear?” Mom whispers into dad’s ear as she sweetly kisses his head. Indeed it is, for those who can afford it. Nestled under the steps of a merry go round just meters from the Coney Island boardwalk lives an invisible man. His decrepit figure and hapless fortune has deemed him unseen to society, yet he is just 1 of over 60,000 New Yorkers who hold membership to this impoverished underworld. “It wasn’t …

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Matthew Adams Dolan – Fashion Designer – Denim Editorial by Hadar Pitchon

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“The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. I have heard them all, and of the three elemental voices, that of ocean is the most awesome, beautiful, and varied. For it is a mistake to talk of the monotone of ocean or of the monotonous nature of its sound … Every mood of the wind, every change in the day’s weather, every phase of the tide – all these have subtle sea musics all their own … the continuousness of it, sound of endless charging, endless incoming and gathering, endless fulfillment and dissolution… Above the tumult, like birds, fly wisps of watery noise, splashes and counter splashes, whispers, and seethings… The seas are the heart’s blood of the earth. Plucked up and kneaded by the sun and the moon, the tides are systole and diastole of the earth’s veins … Consider the marvel of what we see. Somewhere in the ocean, perhaps a thousand …

The Divine Proportion, editorial by photographer Lindsay Keys

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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” — Albert Einstein The Divine Proportion also known as the Golden Ratio, the Fibonacci Series, or just Phi, can be found throughout Earth and the universe. Art, Architecture, the spirals of galaxies, the growth patterns of sunflower seeds and even our perception of beauty can be described as approximations to Phi. Is there a mathematical order of the universe or is it just our rational minds trying to find the balance in the chaos? – Photographer Lindsay Keys

A Little Distorded, A Little Foolish fashion editorial by Sebastiaan Pagano

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“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.” — Hermann Hesse.  Photography by Sebastiaan Pagano Mirani,  Styling Giuliano Bolivar, Model Lotte Timmer @ Ulla Models. Royal blue silk jumpsuit by Individuals AMFI, velvet shirt by, loafers by TOD’S. Brown silk dress by Gucci, boots by Filippa K Gold chain pearl pendant and necklace by Jane Kønig, pants by Xander Zhou. Double face leather jacket by Gianfranco Ferré, pearl earrings by Jane Kønig. Royal blue silk jumpsuit by Individuals AMFI, double pearl earring by Jane Kønig. Black silk scarf worn as choker by Rika, top by “2” long sleeve leather dress worn as wrap skirt by Rika, earrings by Jane Kønig.

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Art Books Under Glass: Paris Photo 2015

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PEACE FOR PARIS Due to recent tragic events, the 19th edition of the Fair has closed. Paris Photo is holding its 19th edition this November, with over 147 galleries and 27 publishers presenting both contemporary and historical work within the Grand Palais. Visiting photography buffs and book lovers can expect a feast of the senses beneath the Palais’ high glass ceiling, filled with opportunities to see work from a truly international mix of sources. The wide-ranging collection of exhibitors will feature a mix of current artists represented by galleries including Stephen Bulger, Sprueth Magers and Stephen Daiter. Organizers of the Paris Photo event have pulled some new tricks out of the hat this year, including BOOK MACHINE, an installation of 30 books hand-designed exclusively for Paris Photo through an international call for submissions. We recommend in particular the work of Stephen Shore, a legendary documentarian of American life and landscape who was among the first practitioners of the “diaristic snapshot” style. Also keep an eye out for a compelling series of works by postwar Japanese …

The stories I didn’t tell you

Published by Fernando Lahoz

“The stories I didn’t tell you” a men’s style editorial photographed by Jaesung Lee, stylist Caitlin Boelke, model Dustin   Mask stylist’s own, turtleneck sweater Raf Simons, draped sweater Yohji Yamamoto, pants Helmut Lang, shoes Gianna Barbato. Previous images: mask stylist’s own, shirt vintage Gianni Versace, pants Yohji Yamamoto, shoes Gianna Barbato   Mask stylist’s own, belts vintage, coat Maison Margiela   Lace stylist’s own, blazer Marc Jacobs Mask stylist’s own, Blazer Marc Jacobs, antique bustle, pants Helmut Lang, shoes Gianna Barbato Mask stylist’s own, shirt H&M, pants Helmut Lang

Siamese Cats Fashion Editorial

Siamese Dream – a women’s (and cats) style editorial

Published by Fernando Lahoz

Siamese Dream – photography by Lucie Hugary, styling by Stefanie Del Papa, makeup by Daniel P. with Creative Management @ MC2 using M.A.C. Cosmetics, hair by Erika Chrysler using Oribe, styling assistant Ricardo Guerrero. Models: Allegra Preuss @ Wilhelmina Models Miami and Anna Marie @ Next Model Managements Miami. Special guests Bobby and Marley. Previous page: On Allegra: Dress 10 Crosby Derek Lam rings HALEY HOLEMAN. On Anna: top DONNA KARAN, cardigan MARC BY MARC JACOBS, overalls VINTAGE LEVI’S. This page: On Allegra: dress ADIDAS ORIGINALS X OPENING CEREMONY, sunglasses PRADA, rings HALEY HOLEMAN. On Anna: top SONIA RYKEIL, leggings ADIDAS ORIGINALS X OPENING CEREMONY, sunglasses PRADA, rings HALEY HOLEMAN On Allegra: top and skirt TOPSHOP, vintage earrings. On Anna: top RACHEL ANTONOFF, tank RALPH LAUREN, jacket VINTAGE CACHAREL, skirt VINTAGE KENZO, vintage earrings and pin On Allegra: top MARC BY MARC JACOBS, necklace TATTY DEVINE. On Anna: top ADAM,necklace TATTY DEVINE On Anna: top THEORY, pants RACHEL ZOE, rings HALEY HOLEMAN. On Allegra: top JEAN PAUL GAULTIER, skirt RACHEL ZOE, rings HALEY HOLEMAN On …

Down in the LES, Rachel Hilbert fashion editorial

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Down in the LES – Model Rachel Hilbert @ IMG Models. Photographed by Russ Neipp. Art Direction and Styling by Juliana Bojorquez. Makeup by Christina Lee Adams at NARS. Previous page: blouse REFORMATION, shades THE ROW. This Page: jacket REFORMATION, underwear & thigh-highs CALVIN KLEIN, shoes REISS. Previous page: cardigan PRADA, bra CALVIN KLEIN, jeans RAG & BONE, creepers SANDRO. This page: Crop top REFORMATION, jeans RAG & BONE This page: leather pants J BRAND. Next page: blouse THE KOOPLES, skirt Alice & OLIVIA, creepers SANDRO, jacket REFORMATION.

Certainty is an Illusion — fashion editorial by photographer Raffaele Grosso

Published by Fernando Lahoz

“Certainty is an illusion, nothing exists beyond this very moment, the self is the only reality.” Photographer Raffaele Grosso, stylist Nicoletta Cianci, model Heni Udvarias at Monster MGMT Milan, makeup and hair Selica Laneselli using MAC Cosmetics and Aveda. Silver leather jacket by Christian Blanken Flower dress LIZ BLACK Dress LIZ BLACK Leather dress and raincoat CHRISTIAN BLANKEN Dress LIZ BLACK Leather jacket CHRISTIAN BLANKEN