Sølve Sundsbø was born and raised in Norway and has lived in London since 1995. He has had catalogues published in conjunction with his “Perroquets” exhibition and “Savage Beauty”, the Alexander McQueen retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has also created artwork for several album covers, most notably Coldplay’s, A Rush of Blood to the Head. He is one of the great innovators in contemporary image-making.
Tag: beauty
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Greg Lotus
Photographer Greg Lotus’ work can be found regularly on the pages of Italian Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, L’Uomo Vogue, and W magazine. He draws inspiration from classical paintings and a wide array of sources and life experiences, Lotus reinterprets in his own evocative way the use of light and shadow, playing with angles and composition to enhance the graphic quality of his images. Nature is a recurrent motif in his photography, a clear echo of his childhood. Lotus often mixes high fashion with rural or wild surroundings and includes exotic animals in his compositions, using elements that link the rarefied atmosphere of the fashion industry to the organic beauty of the natural world.
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Miles Aldridge
Born in London, Aldridge studied illustration at Central St Martins, and briefly directed pop videos before moving into fashion photography in the mid 90s. His influences include film directors Derek Jarman, David Lynch and Fellini and the photographer Richard Avedon and the psychedelic graphic design of his father, Alan Aldridge. His work is highly controlled with a cinematic effect.
His work is filled with glamorous, beautiful women, whose perfect appearance and blank expression could be interpreted as passivity and ambivalence. Aldridge, however, prefers to define his women as in a state of contemplation, so that we are asked imagine their inner lives. And the technicolour dream-like worlds he creates aren’t as perfect as they seem. There is silent screaming, broken glass, a head pushed down on a bed, the blood red of ketchup against a black and white floor. It’s a dream that could just as easily turn into a nightmare. -
Ben Hassett
Ben Hassett is a photographer and filmmaker now living in NYC. He studied Fine Art in England, and began his career in landscape and art photography. His life and work have been profiled in The British Journal of Photography and Playboy Magazine. A regular contributor to Vogue magazines worldwide, Ben also shoots for W, Numero, and American Harpers Bazaar and he is best known for his striking and sometimes disturbing beauty images. German Vogue labeled him “the Penn of his generation”.
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Patrick Demarchelier
The portraits, fashion and fine art images of photographer Patrick Demarchelier. Patrick Demarchelier is a French fashion photographer, born in 1943, he was raised in the small town of La Havre, near Paris. His love of photography began aged 17 when he was given his first camera by his stepfather and began to take pictures. Aged 20, he moved to Paris and began working for a photography lab, printing newspaper photographs. He has no formal qualifications, instead he claims he has learned from his mistakes.
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Paul Cocks
Paul Cocks was born in East London and studied photography at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. After his studies he moved to Cape Town to pursue photography.