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KITTY GALLANNAUGH

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Pictures can touch in so many different ways. The only 21 year old Kitty Gallannaugh is truly inspiring. All her images are warm, beautiful, and sensual. Sun-drenched girls lying in a flowery meadow, couples in Love with bleeding amorous glance. We talked with the London based photographer about her inspirations and where she sees herself in 5 years.

Photography means to you??
The difference between remembering and seeing.

What do you want to capture in your pictures?
Rawness. Whether it be emphasizing youth, happiness or solemnity, I forever endeavour bring out the rawness of the emotion being portrayed.

Where do you get your inspirations from?
Everywhere. From the emotions I feel, books I read to songs I hear – my mind is a sponge and soaks up inspiration from even the darkest of corners. It’s endless, my mind is forever awake, ticking.

You favorite places in London?
There are too many. Can I say all of it? I love the diversity of locations so close together. You can find the deepest woods to sanded bays by the river. London offers everything, it is perfect for photographers who shoot on location – it’s all about just exploring and keeping your eyes wide open.

The most important thing in life is?
It’s personal to the individual. For me, it’s happiness. Without happiness things can’t progress and seem to fall apart.

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
26, hopefully have a few more bigger jobs under my belt. Happy and content. Maybe with a kid living a fun life. The one thing I know for sure is that I will only ever be more passionate about photography and I’m excited to see which direction it takes me in next.

www.kittygallannaugh.com

all images © KITTY GALLANNAUGH – Interview by Christine Guggenberger

Beautiful People

EXHIBITION “BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE”

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teaser image: Beautiful People Exhibition -  BJORK1993 by Kevin Westenberg

“Beautiful People” is an exhibition which will take place at Thierry Ruby / Cabinet des Curieux in Paris from 07.12.2011 – 28.01.2012. This exhibition’s unifying theme is transgressive and alternative beauty, illustrated through portraits of artists, musicians, fashion designers, writers and actors. Who have gone beyond the realms of academic style to embrace uniqueness.

These frequently intimate works of art, including quite a few previously unreleased, bringd you closer to the artists (Madonna, Pete Doherty, Amy Winehouse, Nina Hagen, Björk, Marilyn Manson, Nick Cave, Tm Burton – just to name a few) who, from the 80s to today, have inspired and influences the metamorphosis of our aesthetic and social values, explored the paradoxical concepts of ambiguous beauty, strangeness, transgression, uniqueness – that lead to the absolutely sublime. These portraits reveal also their authors, who also sought to reveal the foundations of this strange beauty.

Beautiful People Exhibition - Dita Von Tesse by Andy Julia 2010

Dita Von Teese by Andy Julia
Dita Von Teese is queen of burlesque and international fashion icon. She is a stripper, dancer and model. With a character created out of whole cloth a dress code sexy pin-up hair notched, make-up and silhouette puply “femme fatale”, she is propelled to the front of the stage. Andy Julia is a young French photographer. His desire is to create harmony between the aesthetics of the past and the contemporary world. ww.andy-julia-photography.com

Beautiful People Exhibition - Jean Paul Gaultier by Patrick Sarfati 1983

Jean-Paul Gaultier by Patrick Sarfati, 1983
Terrible kid of French fashion, Jean-Paul Gaultier assembles, recovers, seam, breaking and mixing styles for over twenty years. Dissatisfied worker, he explores the world of the most eclectic, electronic jewelry to furniture moving, house music flavors. It foams and dress codes away, pushes the frontier of beauty and ugliness while quietly assuming its role as an agitator permanent. In marine jersey, kilt and brush plate, the cult figure messes ready-to-wear collections over the stirring references urban, ethnic and religious. Photographer Patrick Sarfati captured the young Jean-Paul Gaultier before and after makeover.

left: Augusto Manas (Photo) and Manuel Albarran (Metal couture)
right: Rick Genest by Colin Singer

Beautiful People Exhibition - Liori Patterson - The Batcave London by Pierre Terrasson 1981
Thierry Ruby / Cabinet des Curieux
Diplômé de l’Ecole du Louvre
12 Passage Verdeau 75009 Paris
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LAUREN ENGEL

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Describe yourself in 5 words!
Motivated, methodical, eclectic, proactive and dependable!

You are only 17 years old. How did you start taking pictures?
For my 12th birthday, my parents bought me small red Olympus digital camera—I loved it: hiking up the mountains, the lens became my eyes to the world, in family gatherings it nestled into my palm as I captured memories.  Needless to say, the extensive travelling that my camera had caused it to deteriorate- the edges started to dent and slowly by slowly it started malfunctioning. Upon my 16th birthday present, I split the cost of a new Canon 500D with my parents. I started shooting school friends, and now fashion photography really attracts me so I often collaborate with a team of agency models, stylists and makeup artists.

What is Photography means to you?
Nothing can capture as many memories as pictures can.  One picture of mine that really defines photography to me is one of my grandfather kissing my niece on her forehead, which combines everlasting love and timelessness.  Photography allows me to portray the emotion that I feel at that time and through it, I can shape who I want to be.

What kind of camera do you use and why?
I use Canon 500D, it’s the first camera I could get my hands on.  It’s always the artist behind the camera that is more important!

5 things that you can’t live without
A camera stung across my shoulder, a journal to record inspiration, salmon hand roll sushi, swimsuit and a photo album of the places I have been to with my family, I can go anywhere the world takes me!

5 things that makes you happy
The annual celebration with my entire family of everyone’s birthday with a massive cake, a-la-mode-ing everything, eating gefilte fish, drinking hot chocolate with marshmallows while snuggling in bed in the winter, and having a childhood movie marathon just for old times sake!

Credits
Photography: Lauren Engel
Model: Sarah Rockowitz
Hair&Make-up: Linda Lai

Interviewed by Sohyung Kim

website laurengel.4ormat.com

all Artworks ⓒ Lauren Engel

Mike-Chard

EDITORIAL MIKE CHARD

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PHOTOGRAPHER Mike Chard | mikechard.com
MODELS Elina Ivanova & Danielle King @ TCM models
HAIR & MAKEUP Lindsey Watkins | lindseywatkins.com
WARDROBE STYLING Phaedra Goodgame
Special thanks to Aaron Russell Videographer, Zebra Club, Merge Seattle, Vintage Angel Company

VIDEO – A behind the scenes look at a Mike Chard editorial photo shoot
Produced by Requisite Bureau
Elina Ivanova – imdb.com/​name/​nm2628625/​
Danielle King – fashionmodeldirectory.com/​models/​Danielle_King/​
Phaedra Goodgame – phaedragoodgame.com/​
Lindsey Watkins – lindseywatkins.com/​

Music Credit: “Paradise Circus” by Massive Attack

Andrea-Pun

ANDREA PUN

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Andrea Pun was born in 1991, raised in Hong Kong and am currently living in LA. She always thought that she would be a Chinese writer when she was younger, but after all those years of writing, she decided to take a break after she moved to LA. At that time, she was introduced to conceptual photography on Flickr. When she realized that photography could be another way to tell a story, she picked up a camera in June 2009. And since then, she never stopped taking pictures and it is something that makes she feel alive.
Check out: www.andreapun.com

Interview Coordinated by Sohyung Kim


all images © Andrea Pun
Gloria-Marigo

GLORIA MARIGO

Photography

Gloria is a young and aspiring photographer from Italy. Principally she is shooting in digital, but she also loves working analog, especially Polaroid. Enjoy her beautiful and adorably work.

What  does photography mean to you?  I know it’s trite to say, but photography is everything for me. It is a great, great passion, that I hope someday will  become my job.

The perfect picture? For me a picture becomes perfect when magic meets simplicity.

The most important thing in life is? Happiness

web gloriamarigo.carbonmade.com

all images © GLORIA MARIGO

hotography, Editing and Make Up by Ana Gely A.

“Imperfection” Ana Gely A.

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The other day I was talking to my flatmate about human nature. Since there is so much injustice out there and things I want to change she was asking me if I think that humans are fundamentally more bad than good. I think everyone of us has both sides inside, good and bad, happy and sad, generous and greedy, black and white- and all sorts of other shades of that. And what sounds negative at first, such as anger f.e. can sometimes be good in order to change a situation. As humans we have to accept that we are like a big puzzle of feelings – and even though we can´t always control them we should try to act considerate towards others. Moreover I think we have to stop thinking that we have to only have good feelings all the time. There is nothing wrong with having moments and times where you just don´t feel like you want to hug the whole world. Probably that would be a good moment then to spend some nice time alone. Some days ago I stumbled over this image called „Imperfection” by Ana Gely A.- I couldn´t have found a more perfect picture to add to my thoughts…

Photography, Editing and Make Up by Ana Gely A.
Title: Imperfection
Model: Yasmin Ogbu

Text by Sigrun Guggenberger

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No fashion, please!

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231100-0002 Sandra with Beard (Frankfurt/Main, Germany), 2000

“Fashion photography is the mural painting of modern times.”No fashion, please! Fotografie zwischen Gender und Lifestyle ~ Im Rahmen des Herbstschwerpunktes zu Fotografie und Mode stellt die Ausstellung in der Kunsthalle Wien anhand von ca.15 Einzelpräsentationen junge internationale Fotografie vor, die teilweise für die Bereiche Mode, Zeitgeist, Journale etc. tätig sind, und schließt Fotografie, Fotosequenzen, Foto-Text-Kombinationen aber auch Videos mit ein.

Diese Beiträge stellen ein Protokoll einer sich wandelnden Mentalität dar, für die Kleidung Teil einer nur im Bereich des Mediums Fotografie erfolgenden Inszenierung ist. Wunschvorstellungen und Ideale einer sich verändernden Körperästhetik werden hier fixiert. Die darin vorkommenden nicht selten utopischen Kleider werden mit den Strategien der Modefotografie ins Bild gebracht, sind aber Hauptdarsteller von Erzählungen, die nichts mehr mit der Veranschaulichung einer tragbaren und funktionierenden Mode zu tun haben. Das inszenierte Bild wird zur Projektion einer künstlichen und fantastischen Wunschwirklichkeit.

Mit dabei: Chan-Hyo Bae, Tracey Baran, Jeff Bark, Leigh Bowery/ Fergus Greer, Steven Cohen/Marianne Greber, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Matthias Herrmann, Lea Golda Holterman, Izima Kaoru, Luigi & Luca, Sandra Mann, Martin & The evil eyes of Nur, Brigitte Niedermair, Erwin Olaf, Alex Prager, Hanna Putz, Viviane Sassen, Sophia Wallace, Bruce Weber

No fashion, please! Photography between Gender and Lifestyle ~ No fashion, please! – the rejection of traditional ideas of fashion and beauty characterizes the second show of the Kunsthalle Wien’s autumn program focusing on photography and fashion. Nineteen solo presentations outline the contemporary international photography scene that explores the fundamental relationship between bodies and clothes, the dialectics between the form of the body and its appearance. The selected photographers are rooted in the tradition of body art and strongly rely on references to installations, ceremonies, and rituals. Borders to other disciplines are crossed in both daring and reckless experiments. In the context of the exhibition, clothes and other products of the fashion industry only figure as fragments of a narrative mise-en-scène thematizing the dreams concerned with a changing aesthetic of the body and its ideals. The media strategies employed are manifold and span from staged photographic images, projections, and performances to body sculptures, video and film works.

Participating artists: Chan-Hyo Bae, Tracey Baran, Jeff Bark, Leigh Bowery/ Fergus Greer, Steven Cohen/Marianne Greber, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Matthias Herrmann, Lea Golda Holterman, Izima Kaoru, Luigi & Luca, Sandra Mann, Martin & The evil eyes of Nur, Brigitte Niedermair, Erwin Olaf, Alex Prager, Hanna Putz, Viviane Sassen, Sophia Wallace, Bruce Weber

Alex Prager: Rita, aus der Serie Week-End, 2009. © Alex Prager; Courtesy Alex Prager
& Gallery Yancey Richardson, New York

Viviane Sassen: HKA01, 2006. © Viviane Sassen; Courtesy Viviane Sassen

KUNSTHALLE Wien
10. November 2011 – 22. Jänner 2012
Ausstellungseröffnung: Mi, 9.November, 19 Uhr
Performance: Martin & The evil eyes of Nur
Im Anschluss Begrüßung: Gerald A. Matt (Direktor Kunsthalle Wien)
Zur Ausstellung: Peter Weiermair (Kurator)

KUNSTHALLE Wien, Halle 2 ,
Museumsplatz 1
A-1070 Wien

Ausstellungskatalog: No fashion, please! Fotografie zwischen Gender und Lifestyle. Hg.: Kunsthalle Wien, Gerald A. Matt, Peter Weiermair. Mit Textbeiträgen von Peter Weiermair und Eugenio Viola. Ca. 160 Seiten, Deutsch/Englisch. Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg

KUNSTHALLE wien, hall 2
November 10th, 2011 – January 22th, 2012
Opening: Wed November 9th, 7 pm
Performance: Martin & The evil eyes of Nur
Introduction: Gerald A. Matt (Direktor Kunsthalle Wien)
On the exhibition: Peter Weiermair (Curator)

Curator: Peter Weiermair

Exhibition catalogue: No fashion, please! Fotografie zwischen Gender und Lifestyle | Photography between Gender and Lifestyle. Ed. by Kunsthalle Wien, Gerald A. Matt, Peter Weiermair. With texts by Peter Weiermair and Eugenio Viola; c. 160 pages, German and English; Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nürnberg

web: www.kunsthallewien.at