Tiane Doan Na Champassak Photo Series ‘Spleen And Ideal’ Can Be Seen @ Copper House Gallery, Dublin From 29th May

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Photographs By Tiane Doan Na Champassak From Spleen And Ideal Called Body

Photographs By Tiane Doan Na Champassak From Spleen And Ideal Called Conscientious

Photographs By Tiane Doan Na Champassak From Spleen And Ideal Called Ideal

Photographs By Tiane Doan Na Champassak From Spleen And Ideal Called Kneel

Photographs By Tiane Doan Na Champassak From Spleen And Ideal Called Lie

Photographs By Tiane Doan Na Champassak From Spleen And Ideal Called Pussy

Photographs By Tiane Doan Na Champassak From Spleen And Ideal Called Spleen

Photographs By Tiane Doan Na Champassak From Spleen And Ideal Called Untitled

Photographs By Tiane Doan Na Champassak From Spleen And Ideal Called Woman

Tiane Doan na Champassak‘s photograph series ‘Spleen And Ideal’ can be seen at The Copper House Gallery, Dublin from 30th May – 11th June. It’s another wonderful photo exhibition from the curators of the Copper house Gallery, the last one being ‘Anthropocene by Irish artist David Thomas Smith.

Champassak began his career as a photo jounalist investigating issues around gender identity and over the years this has led him into a more artistic realm in which he uses various techniques, materials and formats to emphasise his subject matter.

In ‘Spleen and Ideal’ Chanpassak looks at the blurring of boundaries between male and female and transgressive sexual encounters, the pictures capturing what seem to be the same person on instant film and contextualised by images of the buildings in which they were taken in Thailand.

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Todd Gross’ Street Photography Is A Funny And Smart Look At Daily Life In New York

moray mair | Photography | 4 hours ago

Street Photography By Todd Gross Called Beach

Street Photography By Todd Gross Called Lawn

Street Photography By Todd Gross Called Old

Street Photography By Todd Gross Called Rubbish

Street Photography By Todd Gross Called Sexy

Street Photography By Todd Gross Called Shadow

Street Photography By Todd Gross Called Subway

Street Photography By Todd Gross Called Taxi

Street Photography By Todd Gross Called Water

What can one say about Todd Gross‘ street photography? Words aren’t needed. His pictures say everything about him; humorous, sharp, alert with a unique take on the daily grind, life on the streets of New York. It’s clear from his pictures that Gross has a close affinity with the city; it’s people, habits, rituals, light. His blog is full of images that make communities what are, full of the quirks and idiosyncrasies that make us all unique.

I found a great interview with him on a street photography site called erikkimphotography.com so I thought I’d post it up. It’s inspiring stuff and pure American.

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Thomas Devaux Experimental Photographs Are Sumptuous Images Of Timeless Beauty

moray mair | Photography | May 17, 2013

Photography By Thomas Devaux Called Blend

Photography By Thomas Devaux Called Fashion

Photography By Thomas Devaux Called La France

Photography By Thomas Devaux Called Hair

Photography By Thomas Devaux Called Portrait

Photography By Thomas Devaux Called Queen

Photography By Thomas Devaux Called Red

Photography By Thomas Devaux Called Twins

Photography By Thomas Devaux Called Woman

Thomas Devaux‘s photographs are sumptuous images of women that blur the line between painting, collage and experimental film and indeed the wonderful filmmaker David Lynch described Devaux’s images as:

His portraits of women seized in fashion then reworked digitally are a timeless elegance with which denounces the transience of beauty. Madonnas to die for eternity.

Devaux has always walked the line between artforms in order to investigate and probe into the sacred and the profane, each picture elegant, cocooned in it’s own classicism, mythology and beauty. These extraordinary photographs leave you questioning the ephemeral character of beauty, it’s fleetingness and ultimately its inevitable death at the hands of time.

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Benjamin Jay Shand’s Photographs From His ‘Form Follows’ Series Have A Beautiful Modernist Aesthetic

moray mair | Photography | May 16, 2013

Photos by Benjamin Jay Shand from Form Follows called Blue

Photos by Benjamin Jay Shand from Form Follows called Aerial

Photos by Benjamin Jay Shand from Form Follows called Cherry

Photos by Benjamin Jay Shand from Form Follows called Orange

Photos by Benjamin Jay Shand from Form Follows called Pipe

Photos by Benjamin Jay Shand from Form Follows called Square

Photos by Benjamin Jay Shand from Form Follows called Steel

Photos by Benjamin Jay Shand from Form Follows called Sun

Photos by Benjamin Jay Shand from Form Follows called Wall

Benjamin Jay Shand‘s photographs from his ‘Form Follows’ series betrays his love of modernist architecture and design. The clarity, minimal aesthetic, unified colours and sharp lines pay homage to the great architects and designers of the 20th century such as Le Corbusier, Dieter Rams, Mies van der Rohe and Louis Sullivan who popularized the phrase ‘form ever follows function’ from which Shand gets the title of his show.

Sullivan believed that a building’s size, massing, spatial grammar and other characteristics should be driven solely by the function of the building the implication being that if the functional aspects are satisfied, architectural beauty would naturally and necessarily follow. Shand, who studied Architecture and Design, has taken this mantle on and it is from this point that we must start looking at his photographs. Here’s what Shand has said about his work:

‘Form Follows’ doesn’t promote a style of ’shooting’ – rather, this is a display of my way of seeing. By granting the built world an exclusive aesthetic license, paved geometries rise full-frame as magnetizing protagonists – and skies sit unified with their concrete tenants below.

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Maurice Van Es Photographs Are Beautiful Still Lifes Of The Mundane

moray mair | Photography | May 16, 2013

Photography by Maurice Van Es Called Colour

Photography by Maurice Van Es Called Pipes

Photography by Maurice Van Es Called Rubbish

Photography by Maurice Van Es Called Sellotape

Photography by Maurice Van Es Called Silver

Photography by Maurice Van Es Called Sole

Photography by Maurice Van Es Called Table

Photography by Maurice Van Es Called Water

Photography by Maurice Van Es Called Wood

Maurice Van Es‘ photographs are beautiful still lifes of the mundane, the ordinary object. In many ways his images remind me of another young photographer, South African Nico Krijno, who is also pre-occupied with the re-examination of everyday objects. Both have a painterly and abstract aesthetic but while Krijno’s images can be seen to be imbued with a magic realism, a sexiness and unrestrained vibrancy Van Es is more concerned with the quality of the object, its physicality, it’s relationship to us and how the photographs holds within it memories of a time past.

Van Es’ photographs look closely at the intimate, the personal, the specific. Many of his pictures focus in on textures and everyday activities and all taken with a wonderful sense of composition, form, colour and perspective. It’s really quite incredible the projects he decides to undertake, they seem so banal yet he engenders them with such love and attention; close up pictures of textures found in old family photo albums, piles of clothing left by his mother, stains found in the family home, details of everything he’s worn over the past three years and so on.

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Marc Yankus Photographs Of Cityscapes And Landscapes Are Timeless And Romantic

moray mair | Photography | May 15, 2013

Photographs from Cityscapes by Marc Yankus called Eldorado

Photographs from Cityscapes by Marc Yankus called Coats

Photographs from Cityscapes by Marc Yankus called Perry

Photographs from Cityscapes by Marc Yankus called Stella

Photographs from Landscapes by Marc Yankus called Burgundy

Photographs from Landscapes by Marc Yankus called Holland

Photographs from Landscapes by Marc Yankus called Row Trees

Photographs from Landscapes by Marc Yankus called Wood

Marc Yankus trained as a painter before turning to collage and now photography, a medium that he uses to create compositions that speak to us of memory, to the past and present, the old and new.

In many of Yankus’ photographs, he digitally layers textures – scanned from old tintypes and books – ontop of the original image to create a timeless composition, a visual metaphor that is at once quiet, romantic, contemplative and melancholic. His photos are almost poetic, speak to us of the present time out of an echo from the past, an idyll that never existed but remains fixed in our collective memory, cities and landscapes at peace.

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Erin Frost’s Collages Are Erotic Self Portraits Of A Deconstructed Reality

moray mair | Art and design | May 14, 2013

collages by erin frost called alteration

collages by erin frost called disintegration

collages by erin frost called en masse

collages by erin frost called lying

collages by erin frost called more alteration

collages by erin frost called no2

collages by erin frost called portrait

collages by erin frost called void

Erin Frost‘s collages are a continuation of an artistic practice that has her perpetually exposing and disguising herself, creating intimate self-portraits that examine themes of identity, fantasy and the construct of self.

One could argue that these are merely erotic pictures, an narcissist at play. And you may have a point. But the fact remains that through her photographs, montages, collages and collaborations she always leaves us questions about how we view the female body; what is erotic? What is the difference between erotic art and a pin up model in a magazine? How do we view eroticism in the media? How do we view ourselves, our own body image?

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Bernhard Handick’s Photographs And Mixed Media Compositions Are A Wonderful Mix Of Graphic Design And Painterly Expression

moray mair | Photography | May 14, 2013

Photography by Bernhard Handick Called High Carat

Photography by Bernhard Handick Called Never Ending

Photography by Bernhard Handick Called Hangover

Photography by Bernhard Handick Called November Rain

Photography by Bernhard Handick Called Nude

Photography by Bernhard Handick Called Orbit

Photography by Bernhard Handick Called Sir Boquerones Fritos

Photography by Bernhard Handick Called Standing

Photography by Bernhard Handick Called What Remains

Bernhard Handick‘s photographs and mixed media compositions are a wonderful mix of graphic sensibilities with a more painterly approach. This fusion of two states of mind, the design and artistic, give his pictures an intense focus, an expressive quality that leave us, the viewer, with a lot to contemplate, look at, examine.

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Nico Krijno’s Photographs Put Magic Realism Into The Everyday

moray mair | Photography | May 13, 2013

photographs by nico krijno called nude

photographs by nico krijno called burn

photographs by nico krijno called pool

photographs by nico krijno called rhino

photographs by nico krijno called shadow

photographs by nico krijno called shirt

photographs by nico krijno called still life

photographs by nico krijno called water

photographs by nico krijno called wave

Nico Krijno‘s photographs have a singular aesthetic, a wonderful juxtaposition of objects, rich colours and textures that give his work a sexual undertone, a magic realism that is utterly addictive. It’s as if he plunges headlong into the bright African day – he’s South African – and throws everything, life and reality, out of the closet and into his own hyper reality. Everything he shoots whether it be car parts on heavily patterned fabrics, beautiful girls covered in tropical fruit or dizzy tiles in a pool have his distinct surreal mark on it.

The main subject of Krijno’s work is his girlfriend who seems to delight in being the subject for his intuitive, emotional connection to life. The two work so well together in creating a world that seems so alive, colourful, exciting and full of possibility. His work makes the everyday so wonderfully unique. If you want to know how to use colour then look no further. Here’s a statement from his website:

Nico Krijno started taking photos at a very young age while growing up in a small town in the South African semi desert, before venturing to Cape Town to pursue his career in photography and film, using commercial, fashion & architectural commissions to support an independent, fine-art practice. Krijno’s subject matter is wildly eclectic; sausages and carrots on a blindingly bright tropical shirt or a schoolgirl holding a snake sit alongside one of several portraits of his muse and girlfriend Mignonne. His photographs are at once hyper-real and otherworldly, with humour, sexual innuendo and surreality present in equal measure. Raw as well as magical, the work contains a dirty realism he is beginning to make his own.

Here’s what he has to say about photography:

I’m into imagery and moods more than the idea of ‘photography’ as a fixed genre. I’m not very comfortable with categories generally. Photography is certainly more instant than the other mediums I use to tell stories – films and music. I live in South Africa, a bizarrely magical country. Wherever you turn, something strange and beautiful unfolds.

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Ruby Squires Photographs Are Hand Painted Pictures That Remind Me Of Endless Summers

moray mair | Photography | May 10, 2013

photography by ruby squires called face

photography by ruby squires called fish

photography by ruby squires called back

photography by ruby squires called jump

photography by ruby squires called rainbow

photography by ruby squires called sheet

photography by ruby squires called swim

photography by ruby squires called water

photography by ruby squires called stars

Ruby Squires is a young photography student from the UK who makes me dream of endless summers, swimming in azure blue seas, eating around picnic blankets, drinking beers, hanging out and doing next to nothing for months on end. Her hand painted intensely patterned pictures exude youthful vigour, have a sense of possibility, innocence, a world before hurt and pain.

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Olivier Ratsi’s Photographs From His ‘Anarchitecture’ Project Fragment Our Physical Reality

moray mair | Photography | May 8, 2013

Photographs by Olivier Ratsi from Anarchitecture called buildings

Photographs by Olivier Ratsi from Anarchitecture called construction

Photographs by Olivier Ratsi from Anarchitecture called city

Photographs by Olivier Ratsi from Anarchitecture called digital

Photographs by Olivier Ratsi from Anarchitecture called skyscrapers

Photographs by Olivier Ratsi from Anarchitecture called digital urbanscpae

Photographs by Olivier Ratsi from Anarchitecture called hao duo

Photographs by Olivier Ratsi from Anarchitecture called night

Photographs by Olivier Ratsi from Anarchitecture called sanyo

Olivier Ratsi‘s photographs from his ‘Anarchitecture’ project deconstruct our everyday urban environment and create a new sci-fi reality, a physical world fragmented to such a degree that we are forced to question our perception of the world around us, our reality.

The images are part of a larger project that brings in different disciplines – such as photography, multimedia installation, audiovisual and mapping performances – which attempt to involve us through a mental exercise of visual reconstruction. Ratsi asks us to process information we know with information we don’t.

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Jonathan Hobin’s Photographs From ‘In The Playroom’ Are Macabre Re-enactments Of Headline Sories

moray mair | Photography | May 8, 2013

Photographs by Jonathon Hobin from In the Playroom Called A Boo Grave

Photographs by Jonathon Hobin from In the Playroom Called American Idol

Photographs by Jonathon Hobin from In the Playroom Called Boxing Day

Photographs by Jonathon Hobin from In the Playroom Called Dear Leader

Photographs by Jonathon Hobin from In the Playroom Called Dianas Dead

Photographs by Jonathon Hobin from In the Playroom Called Seal Heart

Photographs by Jonathon Hobin from In the Playroom Called The Saints

Photographs by Jonathon Hobin from In the Playroom Called The Twins

Jonathan Hobin‘s photos from ‘In The Playroom’ are a weird series of pictures depicting children re-enacting some of the biggest headlines of recent years; 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, the madness that is North Korea, Princess Diana’s death and so on.

What makes the series so macabre, dark, even sinister is that the scenes are set up as a role play in children’s rooms. Like any kid Hobin has built these ghastly headlines into a game using props such as dolls, plastic toys and stuffed animals. The result is a tableau that is complex, fun, bright, colourful and gaudy, a series of juxtapositions all banging off each other creating lively images that make us question our attitude towards the true tragedy of what lies beneath the joy of the spectacle. Which is exactly the point.

Hobin wants us to rethink the headline news, how we receive information from the media, how we digest news. In short the the series delineates the question of how far our current cultural climate alters and infiltrates our society.

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Takeshi Suga’s Photographs From HIs ‘Sakuramadelica’ Series Are Blissful

moray mair | Photography | May 7, 2013

Photographs by Takeshi Suga from Sakuramadelica called Blossom

Photographs by Takeshi Suga from Sakuramadelica called Cherry

Photographs by Takeshi Suga from Sakuramadelica called Colour

Photographs by Takeshi Suga from Sakuramadelica called Flower

Photographs by Takeshi Suga from Sakuramadelica called Fun Fair

Photographs by Takeshi Suga from Sakuramadelica called Light

Photographs by Takeshi Suga from Sakuramadelica called Tree

Photographs by Takeshi Suga from Sakuramadelica called Window

Summer is here and so are the photographs of Takeshi Suga taken from his ‘Sakuramadelica’ project. A blissful series of cherry blossoms, hazy afternoons and the promise of late evenings and loving embraces. Suga’s pictures are reminiscent of woozy Sundays, playful afternoons in the park, a psychedelic vision of this most wonderful of seasons. All is good in the super saturated world of Sakuramadelica and even as the wind howls outside my window he gives me hope for better times.

Suga has said that his ongoing project is an attempt to reveal the soul through his work, a means to find the essence of life.

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Rob Hann’s Photographs Of The ‘Deserted States Of America’ Is A Romantic Vision

moray mair | Photography | May 7, 2013

photographs by rob hann from deserted states of america called dome valley

photographs by rob hann from deserted states of america called deserted

photographs by rob hann from deserted states of america called amarillo

photographs by rob hann from deserted states of america called highway 70

photographs by rob hann from deserted states of america called highway 89

photographs by rob hann from deserted states of america called little america

photographs by rob hann from deserted states of america called marfa

photographs by rob hann from deserted states of america called prada

photography by rob hann from deserted states of america called salt lakes

photography by rob hann from deserted states of america called van horn

Rob Hann‘s photographs from his ‘Deserted States Of America’ says everything about the obsession we, on this side of the Atlantic, have for the wonder that is the desolate land of the United States. Like myself Hann fell in love with the Beats and the romanticism of the road before he ever took to it. The M50 the A1 in the UK and Ireland simply don’t have the same narrative as the highways that criss cross the heartland of America, the desert states of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Utah.

The last time I was in the States I went to Burning Man which is held on a dried up river plain, a playa, in the heart of Nevada. The journey from San Francisco to the middle of nowhere was an exhilarating trip. Endless roads, small diners serving fried pork chops and grits for breakfast, chapped lips, burnt grass and the most stupendous skies I have ever come to stand beneath. It is a wonder. It was for Rob Hann too. Where else in the world could you come across a Prada store in the middle of nowhere.

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Alex Prager’s Photographs From Her ‘Compulsion’ Series Lie In The Realm Of Film Noir

moray mair | Photography | May 6, 2013

Photographs by Alex Prager from Compulsion called Bunker Hill

Photographs by Alex Prager from Compulsion called Coldwater Canyon

Photographs by Alex Prager from Compulsion

Photographs by Alex Prager from Compulsion called Griffith Park

Photographs by Alex Prager from Compulsion called Interstate 110

Photographs by Alex Prager from Compulsion called Milwood Ave

Photographs by Alex Prager from Compulsion called Pacific Ocean

Photographs by Alex Prager from Compulsion called Redcliff Ave

Alex Prager‘s photographs lie in the realm of film noir and no more so than in her ‘Compulsion’ series. Prager plays on photographic history and representation often using other photographers, such as Stan Douglas, Weegee and Enrique Metinides, as a starting point for her more gruesome scenarios.

The pictures in ‘Compulsion’ are all cinematic visions, artificial scenarios inspired by real life tragedies and media stories that pay homage to Hollywood’s more surreal film Directors – such as David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock and films such as Metropolis and Un Chien Andalou – as well as taking an ironic look at her native Los Angeles and American culture at large.

Everything is heightened; the colour, tension, hyper reality. In particular the ever present eye in each of her Diptychs creates a strange tension between the image and the close up, the viewer and the subject. It’s as if Prager has presented us with a storyboard in which we have to figure out the narrative.

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Tiane Doan Na Champassak Photo Series ‘Spleen And Ideal’ Can Be Seen @ Copper House Gallery, Dublin From 29th May

Todd Gross’ Street Photography Is A Funny And Smart Look At Daily Life In New York

Thomas Devaux Experimental Photographs Are Sumptuous Images Of Timeless Beauty

Benjamin Jay Shand’s Photographs From His ‘Form Follows’ Series Have A Beautiful Modernist Aesthetic

Maurice Van Es Photographs Are Beautiful Still Lifes Of The Mundane

Marc Yankus Photographs Of Cityscapes And Landscapes Are Timeless And Romantic

Erin Frost’s Collages Are Erotic Self Portraits Of A Deconstructed Reality

Bernhard Handick’s Photographs And Mixed Media Compositions Are A Wonderful Mix Of Graphic Design And Painterly Expression

Nico Krijno’s Photographs Put Magic Realism Into The Everyday

Ruby Squires Photographs Are Hand Painted Pictures That Remind Me Of Endless Summers

Olivier Ratsi’s Photographs From His ‘Anarchitecture’ Project Fragment Our Physical Reality

Jonathan Hobin’s Photographs From ‘In The Playroom’ Are Macabre Re-enactments Of Headline Sories

Takeshi Suga’s Photographs From HIs ‘Sakuramadelica’ Series Are Blissful

Rob Hann’s Photographs Of The ‘Deserted States Of America’ Is A Romantic Vision

Alex Prager’s Photographs From Her ‘Compulsion’ Series Lie In The Realm Of Film Noir

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