BETWEEN COMEDY, CARNIVAL AND ILLUSION Ransom & Mitchell is a still + motion creative team in San Francisco featuring the combined talents of photographer Jason Mitchell and set designer and digital artist Stacey Ransom: “Together we create highly-detailed and visually-lush photographic-based digital art scenarios and portraits. Our work is narrative in nature and draws upon […]
A MULTI-LAYERED IMAGERY Sayaka Maruyama’s practice traverses the mediums of photography, film, drawings, collages, on classical Japanese references and surrealist motifs. Her work explores contradictory contemporary understandings of Japanese notions of beauty, from both Western and Eastern perspectives. Maruyama primarily gained notoriety for her Japan Avant-Garde series, in which the artist intertwined digitally manipulated images […]
PANIC ATTACK! Through this series of portraits, the artist Josephine Cardin tries to express the very uncomfortable feelings during a panic attack. Made with several techniques combining photography, charcoal, pencil and pen, this series explores the symptoms of fear associated with panic disorder. Each portrait depict a distinct symptom, such as fear and the feeling […]
A CREATIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER Elena Zanotti a.k.a. Cunene: “I grew up in a little city near Pavia, Italy, in which I live today. Since my childhood, I tried out different ways to follow my passion: drawing, painting, polymer clay manipulating and sewing. I think I really have some kind of a creative-compulsive disorder! I’ve got a […]
A VIEW UNDER APNEA Giuseppe Gradella deeply believes in two things, in memories and dreams. Everything is stratified over time, in the heart, memory and eventually finds a way, words, an image to return to the light, to reveal itself; the condition that best represents the modus operandi of Giuseppe is that of apnea, waiting […]
TRANSFORMING REALITY Spanish-based photographer, graphic/web designer and editor, Rocio Montoya creates surreal collages that speak about the human body in close relation to nature. The female figure and a loss of identity are here conceptual basis. The resulting works are a mixture of graphic elements collected from magazines and vintage botanical illustrations with photographic portraits […]
