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Since graduating from art school a year ago, Mikhael Subotzky has taken his native South Africa and the international art world by storm. The 25 year-old has exhibited across his native country, in the Netherlands and Italy and has even been invited to join Magnum Photo Agency—one of the youngest photographers to be inducted into the venerable photo institution's ranks.
So what's all the hype about? Subotzky is the real deal, part of the next generation of South African artists who are picking up where their apartheid predecessors left off, tackling the issues of a modern country in transition. From prison conditions to strongholds of racism, Subotzky treats South Africa as the work in progress that it is and somehow helps others find beauty in its imperfections.
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Boston-based photographer Claire Beckett earned a BA in Anthropology from Kenyon College and an MFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art. Her photo series — In Training: Soldiers Before War — was inspired by the two years she spent as a part of the Peace Corps Volunteers in the Republic of Benin, West Africa. We interviewed her about it. How did this...
Sarah Lüdemann is a German artist living and working in Cambridge, England. Of her work she says: "the connection point between all my pieces of work is the concept of identity. Initially I started exploring my own 'self' through traditional self portraits. But soon I started investigating the notion of the self-portrait in wider terms to find out where it starts and where it ends...
Australian photographer and designer Anthony Newman has been exploring collage art with his latest series of works: "Originally started from a few mixed media paintings, the Dangerous Diary was born out of my need to explore collage. I was also really taken by the fact that new artwork could be created by found, and usually discarded, objects in my environment—bill posters, flyers, stuff left...
Working out of Beijing, Hong Hao is known primarily for his laser scans of the ephemera accumulated in his lifetime. Each piece is an aggregation of items—passports, cosmetics, coins, Mao kitsch, all and sundry plastic knick knacks—that individually are unremarkable, but together tell the story of a person's life....
Extra Cheeese is a social upsize based in Sydney that aims to break down the distinctions between artists and designers by creating a collective melting pot through which to optimize existing relationships and practices. The project deconstructs established notions on the nature of artist/designer "social groups," examining to what extent they inform visual experience and culture. Work will be uploaded to the Extra Cheeese...
Sydney-based photographer Tristan Still shoot raw and confronting images. "I started when I was sixteen; around the same time I started skateboarding. I loved how the camera could catch and freeze any moment in time. I'm almost always trying to engage the audience in some way, to draw them in and wonder about the who, why and where of the photo." There's a full...
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