Petros Chrisostomou

Petros Chrisostomou
Photographer
Location: London (UK)

Petros Chrisostomou (born 1981, London, UK) photographs small-scale, ordinary, ephemeral objects in architectural models that he constructs himself, and then dramatically arranges, often employing lighting and staging conventions of the theatre. With the alteration of scale and reversal of the relation between object and environment, between imaginary and real space, his photographs challenge the viewer’s visual certainties. The illusionary effect he achieves highlights the artist’s playful approach, which fluctuates between mimicry of the real world and construction of a surreallistic reality.

Website→  www.petrosc.com

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Elizabeth Ohlson

Elizabeth Ohlson
Photographer
Location: Sweden

Elisabeth Ohlson was born in 1961 and started working as a press photographer in 1980. Her artistic breakthrough came with the photo exhibition Ecce Homo in 1998. It showed Jesus in the company of LGBTQ people and evoked very strong emotions.

Ecce Homo.

The opening took place in Uppsala Cathedral, leading to bomb threats and the pope canceling a scheduled audience for then Swedish Archbishop KG Hammar. Ecce Homo toured Sweden and Europe for two years. In many places there were riots, demonstrations and death threats.

In her work as an artist, Elisabeth generally works with a documentary tradition at heart. Then the fiction is added to the images. The models are meticulously directed and arranged to get the message across. Elisabeth’s great source of inspiration can be found in the ancient biblical paintings of Caravaggio and Artemesia Gentileschis. These Baroque masters inspired the 2007 exhibition In Hate We Trust.

Injustice.

Making injustice visible and when something goes wrong for the individual is like a common thread running through Ohlson’s images. In 2010 she went to Jerusalem and created 15 images showing the love of LGBTQ people in the city of Jerusalem. The exhibit was first shown at the World Culture Museum in Gothenburg, but only after museum management removed a photo showing three gay Muslims praying. The Museum of World Cultures feared a terrorist attack and put all visitors through a security check.

King Carl-Gustaf.

Another much talked about work by Elisabeth Ohlson came in 2012 and shows King Carl-Gustaf with his male friends eating pizza on Camilla Henemark’s naked body. Next door, a scrubbing Queen Silvia tries to pull a swastika off the floor. The Queen informed several newspapers which published the photo. There has been a great debate about the scope of satire. After this uproar, Elisabeth publishes a documentary photo book on Sweden.

Elisabeth also works with commercial and editorial photography. She specializes in taking strong portraits and has assignments for book publishers, newspapers, companies and organisations.

Website→ https://ohlson.se/

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Katerina Belkina

Katerina Belkina
Photographer
Location: Havel (Germany)

Early on Katerina Belkina knew about her exceptional talent to see the world through different eyes. Born in Samara in the southeast of European Russia, she was brought up in an creative atmosphere by her mother, a visual artist. Her education as painter at the Art Academy and from 2000 at the school for Photography of Michael Musorin in Samara gave her the tools to visualize her ideas. Exhibitions of her sublime, mystic self-portraits ensued in Moscow and Paris. In 2007 Katerina Belkina was nominated for the prestigious Kandinsky Prize (comparable to the British Turner Prize) in Moscow. Recently she got the Hasselblad Masters Prize. Currently she lives and works in Werder (Havel) near Berlin.

Website→  https://www.belkina.art/

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Sebastian Magnani

Sebastian Magnani
Photographer
Location: Switzerland

Sebastian Magnani is a Swiss-based photographer known for his intimate portraits that masterfully use light and color to create emotional scenes. His latest series “Daily Bat” skillfully captures the aura of cultural icon Batman and places it in the context of our normal everyday reality. The Batman figure becomes someone we can identify with, seeming to sympathize through a shared sense of isolation.

Website→ https://www.sebastianmagnani.com/

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Tang Tawanwad

Tang Tawanwad

Photographer
Location: Thailand

Born in Chiang Mai in 1991. Tawanwad Wanavit (Tang) works as a professional cinematographer in a production company in Thailand. He first had a strong passion for street photography, which could be proven by many finalists and awards he has received over the past few years. Such as Miami Street Photography Festival. Street Photo San Francisco. London Street Photography Contest, etc.

Splashing flash.

Most of his works are presented by splashing flash techniques which eventually led him to join an international collective of street photographers called Full Frontal Flash. Besides street photography, he experimented with other areas of photography like conceptual photography. Monsters of The Shallow. A conceptual artwork showing strange human shapes and colors underwater. As Tang mentioned, the idea came from a feeling of escaping people who underwater are safe as a shelter where he could hide from any crisis. Today, Tang mainly creates street photography works. Also, he also experiments with passion in other areas of photography.

Website→  https://tawanwad.com/

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Alejandro Cartagena

Alejandro Cartagena
Photographer
Location: Monterrey (Mexico)

Alejandro Cartagena, Mexican (born in 1977 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) lives and works in Monterrey, Mexico. His projects use landscape and portraiture as a means of examining social, urban and environmental issues. Cartagena’s work has been exhibited internationally in more than 50 group and individual exhibitions in spaces such as the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris and the CCCB in Barcelona, ​​and his work is part of the collections of several museums including MOMA in San Francisco, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the MFAH in Houston, the Portland Museum of Art, the West Collection, the Coppel collection, the FEMSA Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the George Eastman House and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and among others.

Gallery.

His work is represented by the Circuit gallery in Toronto, Canada. The Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles and the Galería Patricia Conde in Mexico.

Website→  https://alejandrocartagena.com/

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Christophe Fouquet-Sparta

Christophe Fouquet-Sparta

Photographer

Location: Saint-Denis (France)

Christophe Fouquet-Sparta

Photographer

 

Christophe FOUQUET SPARTA was born in Paris on September 8, 1971.

He travels a lot from a young age and very early frequents the theaters. Then, the cultural places for having had the chance to grow up in the wake of Daniel Mesguich.

Historical patrimony.

After studying commercial action, he gained his first professional experience in various fields of activity. Fashion industries. Communication agencies. The automotive sector or sustainable development. But very quickly, passionate about the world of the arts, his artistic inspirations will be influenced by the evolution of artistic movements compared to historical heritage and by the love of the beauties of life. It finds its expression in photography.

Silver art photography.

Since 1995, he has practiced silver art photography to bear witness to the world around him. He invented a very personal technique of photographic superimposition when shooting. His dual perspective on our changing society. With all that it implies through its multiple facets. Its double meanings, sometimes even its dualities, is a harmonious composition.

Surimpressionism.

His work reveals the unconscious. A quest for oneself trying to better understand oneself in order to better understand the future of which we are the guarantors. Thus, Christophe Fouquet-Sparta builds for future generations a transgenerational memory carrying our universal values ​​by immortalizing his subjects in space. Instant and timelessness: Surimpressionism.

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"Superimpressionism is a continuation of Impressionism and Surrealism, sources of my inspiration in order to create a new photographic universe, mixing heritage and historical personalities, inscribing them in time." Christophe Fouquet-Sparta

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Paul Clarke

Paul Clarke
Photographer
Location: Suerry (UK)

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Paul Clarke (1959, Surrey, United Kingdom) makes photos and mixed media artworks. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, Clarke investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us.

Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.

Tactile nature.

His photos are notable for their perfect finish and tactile nature. This is of great importance and bears witness to great craftsmanship.

By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way. He tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.

His works never shows the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality.

Social reality.

By focusing on techniques and materials. He considers making art a craft which is executed using clear formal rules and which should always refer to social reality.
His works establish a link between the landscape’s reality and that imagined by its conceiver.These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence

Website→  https://fr.paulclarkephotoart.com/

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Mak Remissa

Mak Remissa
Photographer
Location: Phnom Pen (Cambodia)

MAK Remissa is considered one of the most successful Khmer photographers of his generation. He awarded his first and third places in the 1997 National Photojournalism Competition, organized by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club and chaired by Phillip Jones Griffiths, as a major catalyst for his career.
Currently working as a photojournalist for the European Press Photo Agency (EPA), his work is often seen on international news channels. His 2005 art photography exhibition, titled after a traditional Khmer proverb: “When the water rises, the fish eats the ant; when the water recedes, the ant eats the fish ”, has been shown in Phnom Penh galleries such as Popil and Java, as well as at the Angkor Photo Festival. Born in 1970, Remissa and his family were displaced from Phnom Penh five years later by the Khmer Rouge and resettled in Takeo province.

Reuters.

In 1995, he graduated in Fine Arts and Photography from the Royal School of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, and his work quickly appeared in numerous publications such as Cambodge Soir and the Phnom Penh Post.
He also worked for Reuters and other organizations. Remissa has exhibited his fine art photography in Cambodia, France, Canada and the United States, and after spending a few years in Canada, he returned to live and record events in his country of birth. Seven pieces from Remissa’s work Fish and Ants have recently been added to the permanent collection of the Singapore Art Museum.

Website→  https://www.facebook.com/remissa.mak

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Mario Cresci

Mario Cresci
Photographer
Location: Bergamo (Italy)

Since the end of the 1960s, Mario Cresci has been the Italian artist whose work has allowed the development of an experimental language specific to photography.

His complex work is rooted in the multidisciplinary studies he undertook in Venice in 1962. He was influenced by his encounters with the main artists of Arte Povera. In particular Pino Pascali, Eliseo Mattiacci, Yannis Kounellis and Alighiero Boetti, after his installation in Rome. in 1969.

1969.

In 1969, he produced the first Photographic Environment at the Il Diaframma gallery in Milan, exhibiting a thousand transparent cylinders containing a thousand photographs, also transparent.

In 1970, he was invited to his first Biennale in Venice; since then he has been invited again three times (1978, 1993, 1995).

In 1974 he moved to Matera – which was chosen to be the European Capital of Culture in 2017. Thus, he undertook a project that would become essential to the development of photography in Italy. In particular with the publication of Matera, immagini e documenti. A book which is today considered the first photographic work on urban cultural anthropology.

Give meaning to photography.

Later, Mario Cresci developed new themes and new experiments that earned him a prominent place among the Italian photographers who give meaning to photography. A photograph with its power to constantly shift our relationship to reality. Photograph which modifies the terms of the question, evoking an “illusory” form of naturalness.

Isn’t that the only question that perhaps validates the practice of photography, the question of the meaning of reality. To know how to represent it and how to imagine it? Mario Cresci answers this question in a remarkable way.

Website→  https://www.mariocresci.it/

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