Liberatum will hold it’s first Hong Kong International Festival & Summit from 27th-29th April 2012. Liberatum Hong Kong will bring together international cultural icons, creative leaders and acclaimed artistic minds to Hong Kong to connect them with their counterparts in Asia through an original and captivating programme. Liberatum aims to celebrate contemporary Hong Kong culture and the modern face of the city. After the great success of Liberatum festivals in Read More ...
Tuscan photographer Pier Nicola Bruno moved to New York this past September to continue his passion and develop his already established career in fashion photography. He discovered photography at 20 while still in University in Italy studying Geology. He transferred shortly after to R. Bauer in Milan to study a specialized form of artistic photography and also began collaborating one some top fashion editorials at Conde Nast, Mondadori ,etc. Inspired by the Read More ...
I met Kamee Abrahamian at her colorful and psychedelic mixed media collection, Kaleiderie, debut at the Monocle Order pop up on the Bowery. Tonight she will perform her Blood Ballet Cabaret at the Monocle Order so make sure to rsvp and check it out. The multi talented artist grew up in Canada, Egypt, Armenia, and kind of all over the place. Her parents met in theatre and she was trained Read More ...
This timely and unique publication is the first of its kind, showcasing the work of 30 leading contemporary artists from across the Middle East and North Africa. Editors Rose Issa and Michket Krifa are the leading experts in art and photography from the region today, and present a wide range of styles, themes and techniques – including portraiture, photo-journalism, and art photography. With informative essays by the editors and insightful Read More ...
Rasha Kahil (born 1980) is a visual artist living and working in London, originally from Beirut, Lebanon. She completed an MA in Communication Art & Design at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2009. Her projects take the form of photography, text, video and installation. She has exhibited solo and in group shows internationally, including in London, Istanbul, Zurich, Beirut and Paris (at the SLICK art fair). Rasha is Read More ...
I fell in love with Tomas Loewy’s Burning Man photography last year and had a hard time choosing my favorite images from his collection this year. Greatest inspirations or influences? America. the concept of America. Freedom to be whoever you want to be. the ideals of America (not the day to day realities, which would be very shackling and diminishing), but the thought of incorporating the ‘pursuit of happiness’ in Read More ...
After many years of experience working at the highest level of fashion photography and advertising, photographers Salim Langatta and Edoardo De Ruggiero decided to collaborate and combine their vision under the name of Billy Nava. They are dedicated to creating images for the visual industry in different mediums including photography, digital, video and collage. In 2009 Vladimir Restoin Roitfield collaborated with Louis Vuitton to curate a successful exhibition for Read More ...
Austrian American photographer Marco Walker was born in London but studied photography in L.A under Paul Jasmin. He assisted on celebrity portraiture a plenty for the likes of Vanity Fair and Universal before moving to San Francisco. It was here he really had the time to develop his talent with up and coming artists in the music industry, and this portfolio that led him to his first show in NY Read More ...
I first found out about photographer Julia Pogodina last year when I did a post on my favorite Halloween costumes (she was a very real Lichtenstein painting). I then saw her work and ever since have wanted to do a post about her visual eye. This summer Julia went to Burning Man and I just fell in love with the candid photos she took there. Even though photographed with an iPhone the results are true Read More ...
