why not?

The Inked series, by Nicolle Clemetson…

Posted on December 15th, 2009 by marica zottino
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Every room is illuminated, a fascinating, ethereal seres by Meng Jin…

“…These photographs show how reality changes with the use of different exposures and computer manipulation, resulting in overly bright lights. The lights are so bright that they appear to be on the verge of blowing out. This reminds of me the notion of vanishing power…”

Posted on December 10th, 2009 by marica zottino
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The striking  thirty-two kilos series by Ivonne Thein, a strong visual reflection on the Pro Ana phenomenon:

“the Internet movement  Pro Ana  elevates anorexia nervosa to the status of a new, positive lifestyle for young women. The Internet has become the virtual home to diverse communities [...] On these sites, this extreme body ideal is illustrated with abundant visual material [...] The health risks of this lifestyle, however, disappear from view. At the same time, one also regularly finds photographs on these sites that the trained eye can recognize as having been manipulated”

Posted on November 19th, 2009 by marica zottino
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Horacio Salinas‘ stunning portfolio…

P.S: this goes out to all those who read both my blogs… I know I’m spotting the same photographer  on the same day and I usually don’t do this at all…but this time I found images so brilliant that i decided I could make an exception!

babycakes

Hans Christian Andersen series – The emperor clothes

Year in ideas – 3 -

Posted on August 19th, 2009 by marica zottino
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What about fairytales and happy endings? What if  the dear, beloved  princesses we used to know were just ordinary, contemporary women?

In her brilliant fallen princesses series the photographer Dina Goldstein shows her vision of the most famous Disney princesses set up in their ordinary, daily and even troublesome lives…

SnowWhite

Cinderella

Jasmine

Belle

Posted on July 15th, 2009 by marica zottino
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The Killing Time series by Daniela Edburg…

Killing Time, 2008

Little girl, 2008

Spinster, 2008

Posted on May 10th, 2009 by marica zottino
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Tim Mintiens‘ photography…

Concept & Creatie – Je bent Jezelf – puppets family

Concept & Creatie – Je bent Jezelf – puppets pieta

Concept & Creatie – Je bent Jezelf – puppets improver

Posted on May 3rd, 2009 by marica zottino
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I fell in love with the figure studies by Bill Durgin: fascinating, enchanting, poetical even though a little disturbing…

figure studies series

figure studies series

figure studies series

figures & wares series

figures & wares series

figures & wares series

Posted on December 12th, 2008 by marica zottino
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Surreal, dreamlike yet vivid, Olivia Wright’s photography…

Posted on November 28th, 2008 by marica zottino
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The sensuos, powerful, fascinating social tattos by Kim Joon…

“I am interested in tattoo as a metaphor for hidden desire or a kind of compulsion engraved into human consciousness. I see the skin, or in some cases the monitor, as an extension of a canvas. My earlier tattoo paintings were 3 dimensional canvases in the form of lumps of flesh or parts of a body, such as a muscular arm. Tattoos can reflect individual and collective reality or displaced desire. ”

Posted on November 6th, 2008 by marica zottino
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The stunning Songe de Robes photoshoots by Raphael Dallaporta for Stiletto Magazine…

(via fashionation)

Giorgio ASrmani Privé

Maurizio Galante

Givenchy Haute Couture

Chanel Haute  Couture

Christian Lacroix Haute Couture

Posted on July 31st, 2008 by marica zottino
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The work of Ritta Päiväläinen, a perfectr mixture of art, photography, research, reflection…

“The main theme and primary driving force of my work is my interest in old clothing. In my photographs, I use discarded clothes from second-hand shops and flea markets. I am interested in old garments, because they carry silent, unknown stories and histories. The unavoidable fact that I will never know the actual stories and personal histories connected with the clothes arouses my curiosity. The clothes remain silent withholding their secrets. Little by little, personal histories are absorbed into the collective history…

…For me, a piece of clothing represents, above all, its former wearer. It tells you that somebody has been present. However, the person who wore it is now gone. The faded colours and tears in the fabric show the signs of the time passed. By freezing the garment or letting the wind fill it with air, I am able to create a sculptural space, which reminds me of its former user. This “Imaginary Meeting” represents, for me, the subtle distinction between absence and presence. “

Posted on May 28th, 2008 by marica zottino
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The fascinating, melancholic, gloomy photographic works by Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison….

“Working in an artistic conceit that dates back into the early history of photography, Robert ParkeHarrison poses in his own photographs, not as a subject for self-portraiture but as an anonymous Everyman figure struggling heroicaly but futilely with the forces of nature in a  drear world. Incorporating aspects of theater,performance art, sculpture, and painting, ParkeHarrison’s haunting, disturbing images trancend the familiar world of conventional photographic representation into surreality and resonate with the force of myth” (read more here)

the passing

low tide 

Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by marica zottino
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“Who hasn’t dreamt of diving in thick chocolate mousse?

… of digging a hide-out in a piece of cheese or fruit…

of skiing down a slope of whipped Chantilly cream?”

Minimiam, by Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle…

Posted on April 21st, 2008 by marica zottino
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Carl Warner’s photographic landcapes… Things aren’t always what they seem to be…

Posted on February 15th, 2008 by marica zottino
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I was struck Beatrice Morabito’s intense and sensuous photograps of Sybarites, the amazing high-fashion dolls created by Charles Fegen & Desmond Lingard…

“…I’m a Doll, I’m a very special doll ’cause I’m a sYbarite, but I’m a woman too…but the doll and the woman are linked and confused one inside the other…as in a game of Projections and Identifications ( thank you Sigmund Freud). So, is the doll a woman ( that the “real” woman loves ) or is the woman a doll ( that the “real” doll loves)? All the pictures of the “Dolls” have been taken by the Woman, have been taken by Me…

I’m a doll, I’m the woman behind the doll…”

(Beatrice’s picturetrail page and myspace)

Posted on January 23rd, 2008 by marica zottino
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I’m finally back… with the charming Angel series by Cui Xiuwen…

Angel N.8, C print, 2006

Angel N.11, C print, 2006

Posted on January 7th, 2008 by marica zottino
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