Ideas of asexual reproduction, sexual identity and youth are pervasive in the digital photographs of artist Margi Geerlinks. Humanity is examined in her work through the themes of birth and time. While all of her images are digitally manipulated, Geerlinks’ photos remain mostly unaltered, confronting the viewer with the realistically absurd. The Dutch artist lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She is a graduate of[…..]
Photographer Chris Scarborough creates hyper-real portraits of his family and friends. The artist alters the digital photos, leaving the subject exaggerated and the viewer asking whether the image is even real. Each subject is modeled from the principle of ideal beauty found in Manga and other Japanese animation. Scarborough alters each piece pixel by pixel, fabricating a reality that exists in between fact and fiction.[…..]
Using the framework of children’s drawings, Korean artist Yeondoo Jung has created a series of photos titled “Wonderland.” In this series, the artist takes a literal approach in translating information between actual children’s drawings and staged photographs. Space and distance are distorted as the artist’s photographs offer a mix of reality and fantasy in the interpretation of a child’s view of the world. Yeondoo Jung[…..]
“True Fiction Two” is a new photographic series by artist Sandy Skoglund. The original series” True Fiction” was created in 1986 but the edition was never officially finished due to discontinued photo chemicals needed for production. Now updated digitally the artist has created a new series, maintaining the emotion of her once elaborate room-sized installations depicting absurd domestic scenarios. Skoglund received her MFA from the[…..]
Hatred is the subject of investigation for Australian artist Fiona Foley. Through several bodies of work, Foley has diligently explored the idea of hate as it penetrates race through politics, science and culture. Through dark humor the artist has created a series of photos title “HHH (Hedonistic Honky Haters).” These faux anthropological photos have an obvious reference to the Klu Klux Klan, and this connection[…..]
Photographer, sculptor and video artist Anthony Goicolea acts as the main character in the fictitious settings of his work. In his early “Fairy Tales” series, the artist posed as 26 different characters each from a different fable. The artist states “I investigate social constructions of age and gender and I allude to taboos of gender role play, adult and childhood fantasies and conventional ideas of[…..]
Photographer Bill Henson often portrays young figures shrouded in an ambiguous nightscape. The landscapes are usually non-descript, but seem to reference the abandonment that exists outside of most urban areas. The figures found in Henson’s photos are equally ambiguous often consisting of androgynous adolescent girls. Henson is one of Australia’s most distinguished photographers and his career spans over three decades. In 2005 his career was[…..]
