Alex and Felix

THE 13 QUEENS.
Alex and Felix are two amazing photographers. These pictures are from the serie 13 Queens. Characteristic for their work is the staging that precedes their actual shooting. Based on divers objects and materials alexandfelix are crafting backdrops for the pictures, creating imaginative, often somewhat absurd and surreal worlds. It is their conscious decision to build their sceneries in real terms and not on a computer screen. Thanks to the realistic backgrounds, the pictures never give the impression of being artificial but look vibrant and playful.

Photography Talent: YAEL TEMMINCK

Yael Temmink is a young 17 year old photographer. He studies Photography in Utrecht, The Netherlands. With some school assignments and freelance work he has a portfolio some 17 year olds could only dream of. He can really capture the feminine and still give a bad ass feeling to it.  I'm excited to work together with such a great talent in the future. Check out his website: http://www.yaeltemminck.com

Photography Talent: MYLOU OORD

I was surfing on the web and I came across this photographer Mylou Oord, who used  her friend Aynouk Tan as a muse for her photography. Mylou is a self taught photographer and isn't really interested in fashion photography. Her work mostly consists out of portraits because she likes working with real people rather than models without an interesting story. Her work was published in various exhibitions and magazines such as Blend and Mykromag. There are many photographers that work with people so why do I like Mylou Oord? I think it's because her photos are raw, real and personal and she's telling a true story through her photographs. 

Alessandro Bavari

A friend of mine recommended this website of an artist named Alessandro Bavari. Not so strange because we both love weird, dark, unrealistic photography with a psychedelic touch. I really enjoy the way Alessandro Bavari uses digital manipulation and creates the kind of fantasy world we sometimes dream of but are afraid to remember. It's unreal but familiar. Using different human and animal matters, objects and architecture, pictures and landscapes, fossils and materials, which join his mental museum, also strongly influenced by indo-european cultural myths and allegories as well as 14th and 15th century artists.

He studied scenography, photography, history of art and various other topics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Developing different techniques of oil, watercolors and engraving, experimenting with glue, industrial paint and exploring photographic printing techniques. Since 1993 he's been adding digital manipulation to his art, developping a personal artistic language using industrial and organic products from nature before incorporating photographic process, then computer digitalization, which leads to "a kind of contamination among the arts dissolving the boundaries which distinguish them".