© Kristoffer Axén, Untitled, from the series How we evolved from water, 2009-2010 © Kristoffer Axén, Untitled, from the series How we evolved from water, 2009-2010 “Built as a riddled narrative of essential fragments, How We Evolved From Water revolves around the state of isolation – not as a momentary occurrence of separation from other…
Read More┐ Éliane Excoffier └
© Éliane Excoffier © Éliane Excoffier “Excoffier’s tableaux bespeak a coherent narrative of the human drama. Despite postmodernism’s grandiloquent discourse about “paradigm shifts,” our tragicomedy most often unfolds incrementally, rather than by leaps and bounds. Likewise, the theatre of our lives resides rarely on mountaintops, but instead usually at the myriad interstices that we overlook…
Read More┐ Tor Seidel └
© Tor Seidel, Aussicht, from the series Tableaus, 2006 © Tor Seidel, Wildnis, from the series Tableaus, 2007 More of Tod’s work here
Read More┐ Huang Quingjun & Ma Hongjie └
© Huang Quingjun & Ma Hongjie, Untitled, from the series Family Stuff, 2005-2008 © Huang Quingjun & Ma Hongjie, Untitled, from the series Family Stuff, 2005-2008 “Time is in fact the secret protagonist in these photographs. Every picture shows its effects and relativity: It eats away at aged houses soon to be replaced by modern…
Read More┐ Phyllis Galembo └
© Phyllis Galembo, Affianwan, Calabar South, Nigeria,, 2005 © Phyllis Galembo, Okpo Masquerade, Calabar South, Nigeria, 2005 © Phyllis Galembo, Sierra Leone, 2008-2009 “Photographer Phyllis Galembo wants to transform you. What you experience with her photographs of African masks and costumes is not simply another form of virtual tourism.[…] To see these costumes is to…
Read More┐ Rodolfo Vanmarcke └
© Rodolfo Vanmarcke, Untitled, from the series Modern Solitudess © Rodolfo Vanmarcke, Untitled, from the series Modern Solitudess “The contemporary human being has buried himself in a devastating solitude due to the triumph of industrialization. We have systematically celebrated the mass manufacture of products that are elaborated under the slogan “Our greatest product is the…
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┐ Sheffy Bleier └
© Sheffy Bleier, Organs,, from the series Organ Gardens, 2007 © Sheffy Bleier, Internal Landscape in the Pink Outside, 2009 “Ultimately, the question that lurks in these images is that of the possibility of reaching the sublime, the spiritual through the medium that appears wholly antithetical to it – body’s inner organs. True, the organs…
Read More┐ Pinar Yolacan └
© Pinar Yolacan, Unitled, from the series Perishables, 2003 © Pinar Yolacan, Unitled, from the series Perishables, 2003 More of Pinar’s work here
Read More┐ Hyungkoo Lee └
© Hyungkoo Lee, Helmet 1 (Self portrait), from the series The Objectuals, 2000 © Hyungkoo Lee, Altering Features with RH5, from the series The Objectuals, 2003 “‘The Objectuals’ which seek the transformation of the original form is a narration of not actually changing the body, but a visual transformation created by the invention of a…
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┐ Stéphane Fugier └
© Stéphane Fugier, Kashka © Stéphane Fugier, Jean Marcel More of Stéphane’s work here
Read More┐ Koen Huaser └
© Koen Hauser, Untitled, from the series Kosmoz, 2005 © Koen Hauser, Untitled, from the series Kosmoz, 2005 “Kosmoz deals with notions of autism and auto-symbolisation of the self in the portrait genre. Following the visual aesthetics of early psychiatric research, characters were shaped into their self fulfilling appearance by means of digital two-dimensional sculpting.”…
Read More┐ Chih-Chien Wang └
© Chih-Chien Wang, Banana skin on chair, from the Jelly Project #2, 2009 © Chih-Chien Wang, Feet with dry leaves, from the series The centre of the forest is a lake like mirror, 2005 © Chih-Chien Wang, Crabs, from the series The centre of the forest is a lake like mirror, 2005 “In his photographs,…
Read More┐ Ina Jang └
© Ina Jang, A girl © Ina Jang, A boy “My on-going project is an interpretation on the world I dwell. It is a world where people interact with paper objects and blank walls. They seem isolated, emotionally neutralized and void of identities. In such a quiet world, what really matters left in the empty…
Read More┐ Erin └
© Erin, Perspective, from the series Self portrait Heaven and Hell © Erin, Brace yourself, from the series Self portrait Heaven and Hell More of Erin’s work here
Read More┐ Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand └
© Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand, Hibernatus, 2010 © Patrick Bailly-Maître-Grand, Untitled, from the series Les Gueules cassées, 2009 More of Patrick’s work here
Read More┐ Laurence Demaison └
© Laurence Demaison, Bobine n°1, from the series Bobines, 2007 © Laurence Demaison, Photographie n°15, 2005 “The photographic work of Laurence Demaison is exclusively made of self-portraits. Since 1994, she has made of her body and her face the subjects and the objects of the photographic exploration to which she is dedicated with obstinacy. Through…
Read More┐ Jukka Male └
© Jukka Male, Jolanta and Stasia Lewicka, from the series Srednia Wies, 1979 © Jukka Male, Ramón con su perro Toto, from the series Chino, Barcelona, 1991-today More on Jukka’s work here
Read More┐ Laura Hynd └
© Laura Hynd, Untitled, from the series New Forest © Laura Hynd, Untitled, from the series New Forest More on Laura’s work here
Read More┐ Clarita Lulić └
© Clarita Lulić, Untitled, from the series Limerent reaction, 2008 © Clarita Lulić, Untitled snapshot “My work is highly personal and explores themes surrounding my own views and concerns with life, identity, self-expression and emotion. The snapshot and its value in contemporary culture are of particular interest to me. I consider myself an ‘obsessive’ photographer…
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