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Photography

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    11 days ago

    Two of a kind: Street portraits of identical twins

    Over the last years, the London-based photographer Peter Zelewski took portraits of identical twins, which resulted in his project “Alike But Not Alike.” He explores the similarities as well as the striking differences between twins and askes: how identical are they really?

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    2 months ago

    Photographer Daniel Gebhart De Koekkoek presenting Pin-Up Guinea Pigs 2021

    It is the newest edition of the calendar you definitely want, but never knew you needed. After Jumping Cats, Floating Afghans, and The Secret Life of Alpacas, photographer Daniel Gebhart De Koekkoek releases his latest masterpiece: the 2021 Pin-Up Guinea Pigs calendar.

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    2 months ago

    The Bizarre World of Chicken Beauty Pageants

    We’ve all seen our fair share of cocky dancers, but they’re usually in a club after 2am pretending they’ve got “swagger” and they rarely look anything like this. Photographer and visual artist Ernest Goh, however, has created a series of images that highlight the beauty and character that chickens can exhibit when given a chance.

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    5 months ago

    Naked, raw, rebellious: Ren Hang exhibition showing in Italy

    Even after his death in 2017 the Chinese photographer and poet still remains a leading light in China´s late photography and art scene. An exhibition in Tuscany is featuring Ren Hang´s iconic works.

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    5 months ago

    Sarah Bahbah is giving you a glimpse of people's most intimate moments

    A beautiful, brunette woman is holding her face in both of her hands, her head turned away from the camera. "Fuck! I fell in love, how did this happen? He looked at me in French. I thought that kiss meant we were going to be lovers" Two pictures later, she is laying on her bed sideways, looking into the camera. "But I look at him, he looks out the window."

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    6 months ago

    Interview with Laura Schaeffer: 'Being well prepared gives you the freedom to be spontaneous'

    The Berlin-based photographer Laura Schaeffer just recently graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and already has an impressive portfolio of clients and projects to offer. We had a chat with her about what's to be found on the camera roll of her phone, how to overcome creative blockades, and her conceptual approach towards photography.

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    7 months ago

    Prosecco guns & VR-kisses

    The last couple of months surely took a toll on our carefreeness towards physical contact with people in our close environment and especially towards people we don’t know (yet). Shaking hands or the french Bisou-Bisou have been somewhat eliminated from our gestural repertoire and leave us awkwardly waving at our friends instead of giving them a hug.

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    7 months ago

    Inside the creative mind of Stefanie Moshammer

    We met the Austrian-born photographer and spoke to her about becoming who she is, her creative process, the value of construction and deconstruction and other key points of her career and work experience. Besides being nominated for multiple awards, Stefanie has already published multiple photo books and her work is frequently displayed in magazines, festivals and galleries around the globe, as well as used in advertising.

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    8 months ago

    Get a glimpse of Laurie Simmons' dollhouse

    Back in the 1970s Laurie Simmons took a job in a factory which produced dolls and dollhouses. This was a determining step for her career, since she used the miniature objects for her own artistic work. She started to take photographs of everyday scenes, which she recreated with the toys. Laurie focused on her own experience during her childhood in the 1950s. The motives were defined by stern gender roles and the domestic ideal of the time – channeling the myth of the American dream.

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    8 months ago

    Forward speakers through the lens of Stefan Grau

    At Forward Festival Munich, we invited photographer Stefan Grau to look through his Digital Eyes and take one-of-a-kind portraits of our speakers.  

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    8 months ago

    Made by & for creatives - Art Aid Austria offers beautiful prints by local artists

    Now, more than ever before, it is vital to find alternative solutions for artists, photographers, illustrators and designers to present and sell their art. Fortunately, more and more of these platforms have been popping up and we'd like to introduce one of them: Art Aid.

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    10 months ago

    TOILETPAPA by Max and Eckhard Siedentopf

    Max Siedentopf's latest book is the first bootleg copy of the infamous Toiletpaper Magazine by Mauricio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. TOILETPAPA shows some of Toiletpaper's most iconic photos reenacted by big fans of the magazine, Max Siedentopf himself, and - hence the name of the project - his father Eckhard.  

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    a year ago

    Identity for sale

    Can you put a price on identity? Well, if you sell it on eBay, yes.

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    a year ago

    The advantages of the aerodynamic figure of afghans

    Let us introduce you to the most elegant creatures to ever float in pools: The floating Afghans.

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    a year ago

    Tokyo Compression

    Humid, crammed, compressed. Photographer Michael Wolf captures the everyday horrors imposed on Japanese commuters by Tokyo's underground system.

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    a year ago

    Daniel Gebhart shoots wedding-portraits of DIYers and their tools

    Whether it be cats hurling through the air, the impact alpacas could have on our private life or the world’s most useless inventions: Viennese photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek has a special knack for all things odd and we love it!

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    2 years ago

    Roger Ballen x Die Antwoord

    When looking at Roger Ballen’s photographs you might think “What the fuck?!, “Who are these people?”, “Where do they live?” and “Jesus, who the hell took these pictures?”. Well at least that was, what Yolandi & Ninja, better known as Die Antwoord, thought when they saw his work for the first time. They knew instantly that they have found the identity and style for their music project that was still in its infancy at that time.

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    2 years ago

    Max Siedentopf's new magazine issue is all about toilet paper

    Issue 8 of Max Siedentopf's magazine Ordinary puts a spotlight on toilet paper. From Siedentopf, one of our upcoming speakers at Forward Festival Munich and Hamburg, we didn't expect anything less odd and hilarious as this.

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    2 years ago

    Larry Clark and his unadorned view at youth culture

    Raw, unfiltered, provocative – just a few words that come to one’s mind while looking at the artistic work of Larry Clark. Regardless of whether it is about his photography or his films, the expressive images move anybody and everyone has their opinion. His main motive is youth culture and everything regarding it, from sexuality and violence to skateboards and drugs.

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    2 years ago

    Odd everyday-life-enhancers grasped by Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek

    Gebhart latest work A Guide To Better Being draws attention to the art of inventing practical but useless tools - called Chindōgu. Chin..what? Chindōgu is Japanese and literally means "useless/weird tool". The term was coined in the 90ies by Kenji Kawakami who used it in his comical section in his monthly magazine Mail Order Life. Popularised in the English-speaking community through Kawakami's and Dan Papia's magazine Tokyo Journal, a fan base for odd tools grew steadily. Chindōgu as such is the perfect balance between creativity and absurdity.

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    2 years ago

    Oliviero Toscani and why successful advertising has to polarize

    There was a time when you could only love or hate Benetton ads. There was no in between. This was largely due to the work of Benetton's Art Director Oliviero Toscani. Whether genital calendars, gay and lesbian couples with baby carriages or a nun kissing a priest - Toscani’s advertising campaigns for Benetton provide a topic of conversation.

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    2 years ago

    Let Charley Williams take you to queer Britain

    Great Britain is known for it’s grey and rainy weather, but where there’s rain, there might also be a rainbow. In this case a very colourful and shimmering rainbow: The drag queens and LGBTQI party-goers. Photographer Charley Williams portrays the queer community of her hometown Bristol, one of the most progressive and vibrant places in Britain. She manages to catch this liberating spirit in her work.

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    2 years ago

    Photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek shows the secret life of alpacas

    “Better Living with Alpacas” by Austrian photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek is the calendar you never knew you needed. With his new project Daniel has unearthed the secret to eternal happiness. It isn’t money, fame or love — it’s alpacas.

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    2 years ago

    Docubyte presents the icons of the Space Race in their best light yet

    "At first there was a beep" - this is the introductory phrase of Docubytes description of his work Cosmic Pop! Documenting objects, in celebration both of the achievements of the Soviet space program and these early charming but brutal designs, in a flashing and poppy pink.

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    2 years ago

    Artist Olivia Erlanger takes mermaids from the ocean to your local laundromat

    A short while ago, by the end of summer, a couple of fishlike tails appeared at a laundromat in Downtown LA. On a closer look they seem to be tails of mermaids, hanging out of the big washing machines at the Laundry Zone in Arlington Heights. But how and why did they get there? Artist and author Olivia Erlanger has the answer.

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    2 years ago

    Ellie Davies' photography brings out the beauty of the forest

    UK-based land-artist Ellie Davies constructed pathways through the New Forest in New South England for her 2011 series “Come With Me”. Built from wool, powder, paint, wood or dirt, the pathways create a natural curvature around trees and bushes, incorporating the labour itself as a central concept to her work process. With the title of the piece, Davies invites you to follow her through the scenery.

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    2 years ago

    Kessels' "Group Show" and the renaissance of vinyl imagery

    Dutch graphic designer, advertising manager, editor, collector, exhibition curator and artist Erik Kessels is well known for his versatile projects. He is a creator of the digital age who, in his work, pays close attention to the most popular or trivial forms of photography. May this be family albums, commercial documentation or others, normally rejected by canon-defining museums. In his newest exhibition “Group Show” he shows an extensive collection of ‘vernacular’ vinyl records with, simply spoken, large groups of people on the cover.

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    2 years ago

    Vicente Munoz’s infrared series displays dystopic sublimity

    Deep red masses of trees bleeding within an ocean of concrete buildings presented in muted tones, an unpleasant yellow sky dominating the atmosphere. At first glance, the pictures of Vicente Munoz’s ongoing series „Sublimis“ seem to throw the observer into a dystopic, yet fictional world. But taking a closer look, one realizes that the images portray the photographer’s hometown Guayaquil, a 16th century port city and Ecuador’s commercial capital.

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    2 years ago

    Fake or real? “Icons” challenges the facts we take for certain

    In their series “Icons”, Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger recreate some of the most famous photographs in recent history. The seamlessly perfect illusions are immediately broken by the invasion of the work process.

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    2 years ago

    Stephan Zirwes’ “Pools” challenges you to rethink your water usage

    In his newest series „Pools“, the German photographer Stephan Zirwes presents intriguing drone shots of public swimming pools.

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    3 years ago

    Artist gives vintage ads a feminist makeover

    Whether attempting to sell clothing, coffee, or food, vintage ads from the mid-20th century were often riddled with sexism, forcing women into traditional gender roles. Now, however, a Lebanon-based artist has changed these out-of-date ads.

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    3 years ago

    Peter Funch takes a new approach to street photography

    Peter Funch has photographed the same people on the same street for nine years.

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    3 years ago

    Polaroid's new brand Polaroid Originals revives analogue photography

    After a 10-year-long hiatus Polaroid turns toward analogue instant photography again. Last week the company launched its new brand Polaroid Originals, that focuses solely on analogue photography.  

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    3 years ago

    A closer look at Apple’s new Instagram account

    What you should know first of all is that Apple doesn’t really do social media, except for Instagram. It has official Facebook and Twitter accounts, but hasn’t posted anything on there yet. However, it does have multipible Instagram accounts for Apple Music, iTunes, Beats 1, iBooks, Carpool Karaoke, and even Planet of the Apps.

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    4 years ago

    Cats Might Fly: The Weird World Of Daniel Gebhart De Koekkoek

    Winter-time camping enthusiasts, Jehovah’s Witnesses and curious Tyrolean traditions: Viennese photographer Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek, speaker at Forward Festival 2015, has an eye for the bizarre. His latest project is a comic and surreal 12-image set (and calendar) titled Jumping Cats.

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