Light Painting

Andy Hemingway is a Huston-based photographer, who in his latest series "Light Painting" applies light graffiti to an abandoned parking garage in his home town. Done with a flashlight and some projection  tools, the result is a spectacular combination of flowing light effects to an lifeless concrete backdrop.

SARA RAHBAR: violence and healing

Sarah Rahbar is an installation artist, sculptor and photographer, currently represented by renowned galleries worldwide. At a young age, during the Islamic Revolution,  she and her family were forced to leave her homeland of Iran. In her work she explores issues of displacement and belonging which stem  from her own experiences during and after the Revolution.

In her own words:  “I work to work out the turbulence that exist within me, I am healing myself and at the same time communicating an immense pain. It’s about falling, standing and attempting to survive it all. In the end we are all in exile…”



Sarah Rahbar: Love arrived and how red, number 7.

Rahbar is mainly known for her photographic series entitled “Love arrived and how red”. A series that was made as a reaction against the psychiatric impact that the events in the Middle East have had on its inhabitants.

One possible reading of this work,  is the title’s reference to the horrific expectations that traditional societies have of virgin brides.

Sara Rahbar: Flag Series

Initially Rahbar became known for her “Flag Series” (2008-present). Here, she reworked flags  into collages, that express the conflicting roles that flags play as symbols of nationalistic violence.

Islamic Last Supper

In “Last Supper – Gaza”, artist Vivek Vilasini concentrates on social structures in the Indian society. His photograph shows women wearing a chador, depicting the last supper. Vilasini has turned apostles into prophets of islam. The bread, used to symbolize the body of Christ, is now accompanied by pomegranates: the fruit that symbolizes fertility, but that is also associated with death because of its intense red color (the grenade-bomb was named after this fruit).



Vivek Vilasini: Last Supper - Gaza, 2008.



The Toaster

English photographer Mac Adams is especially known for his "mystery environments": photographs in which he creates imaginary, narrative situations that often seem to point towards a criminal act. Take a look, for example, at his work "The Toaster":  in the first picture you can see a shiny toaster and mixer that mirror a woman. In the second picture you can see the same woman lying dead on the floor. The toast is burned.



Mac Adams, The Toaster



Royal Blood

“Royal Blood” is a controversial photographic series made by the dutch Amsterdam-based photographer Erwin Olaf.  Olaf, whose images usually show an edgy lust for provocation has worked for Diesel Clothing, Microsoft, Heineken, has had numerous exhibitions worldwide and can often be found back in magazines such as the New York Times Magazine.

The “Royal Blood” series consists out of 8 photographs of famous people that we remember especially because of the brutal way in which their life ended.

The depiction of Lady Di, was received with unbelievable controversy in the USA, UK and Australia.  The photograph shows a Diana look-a-like with an innocent look in her eyes and a Mercedes star – the car in which she was involved in a fatal collision in Paris- in her upper arm, with blood flowing out.

Other pictures of this series include Julius Caesar, Marie Antoinette, Sissi, Jackie Onassis, Tsarina Alexandra



Jackie Kennedy Onassis, with her husband's blood splattered over her face and clothing



Julius Caesar

photo sources: http://www.erwinolaf.com/

Melvin Sokolsky Retrospective

The new Le Royal Monceau - Raffles hotel in Paris, known since its reopening in October 2010 for its active role in the parisian artistic scene, is hosting an exhibition of the Bubble and Fly series, which photographer Melvin Sokolsky made in the the mid-1960s. These represent the innovative vocabulary of 1960s photos, which still inspires present-day photographers. A spectacular blend of fashion and photography, the Melvin Sokolsky "Retrospective" is open until September 3rd.

Over New York 1963

                                                             

Le dragon 1963

Du taxi 1963

Fly Dior 1965