Drape uses vintage pin-up photographs as its source material. I sought out images, mainly from the 1960s, in which women posed in (semi) domestic sets in front of curtains or drapes. Manipulating these, I extended the curtains to partially obscure the women, re-enforcing the former’s role ...

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This new project considers the intense light seen by the very first arctic explorers. By using the photographic still life to visualize the sense of foreign light, the black and white images provide abstractions of the light and minimalist landscape foreign to human eyes. Images from this pro...

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My work contemplates memory, time and consciousness, and themes of existence—what it means to be human and how we construct our personal truths and realities. Working with digital photography and video, I contextualize still and time-based elements into symbolic conditions that parallel an ev...

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Speaking in tongues is a biblical phenomenon in which a person utters incomprehensible speech-like syllables, considered by some to be part of a sacred language. During an artist residency in Texas Hawgood searched for people who had this ability, through an advert in a local newspaper...

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In Liparo & Bombs, Efstathiadis explores the modern paranoia that exists within society. There is an underlying frustration experienced by young people in relation to the expectations and misplaced values of roles in society. Efstathiadis explains that there was a time when the riot...

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Triple Body is a study of the body for the curious, a proposal for multiple realities surrounding the topic of the human body (or the art to not choose). The starting point is the fact that the body is the foundation of our perception of the world. It's the prism through which we perceive ...

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Models serve the purpose of rendering visible established facts and knowledge for the purpose of transmission. This acquisition of ‚reality‘ by means of conserving, measuring, copying, and reproducing as well as questioning the relationship between fact and fiction, model and re...

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Last weekend, fashion designers and photographers met in Hyères, for the 28th edition of the International festival of Fashion and Photography. Ten photographers were selected. We decided to introduce. Among them, Petros Efstathiadis has been awarded The Jury Grand Prize...

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Magic. This opening of Paris Photo LA was magic. The sets of New York in the 1940's recreated in the Paramount studios were transformed into photo galleries. Three other big studios were also turned into showrooms. We reach there the real false truth of the cinema. The wo...

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The people who brought you the Grand Palais in Paris have delivered Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. When the curtain went up at Paris Photo LA, the assembled cognoscenti were simply astonished. Not only were the contemporary photographs displayed of the highest calib...

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