February 2012
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The Tenants: Yoshi Kametami slips into daily life...
“I have always looked at my time in Muirhouse as a project. But the more time I spent there the more the relationship had changed between my subjects and myself. The boundaries between photographer and subject started blurring into a friendship.”
-Yoshi Kametani
Yoshi Kametani has a particular form of bravery that I often encounter in photographers. This bravery forms out of an...
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Sister Sinner: The Fashionable Faces of Andrea...
As women, we know what it’s like to perform. A dab of lipstick here, a pair of high-heels there, a lit cigarette and boom! Your story ends and another begins. So goes the transformation for artist Andrea Mary Marshall, whose work explores femininity through an evolving language of archetype and exaggeration. Andrea uses tried and true feminist fodder to her advantage. Blood?...
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Gemma Kahng: Modern Romanticism
The ever-radiant designer, Gemma Kahng celebrated her New York Fashion Week show last night with a champagne-topped party at Double Seven in the meatpacking district. With her long, charcoal hair, and all white ensemble, it was easy to trace her gorgeous designs to her own personal style.
Initially, Kahng first came on to the scene in the 90s. Her romantic, yet edgy designs were...
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Spiritual Presence: The Paintings of Emily Cheng
One of the beautiful things about living in New York is the ever impressive trough of talented people residing in the city. During the Gemma Kahng after-party, Ana Lola Roman and I had the pleasure of meeting Emily Cheng, an accomplished painter.
Looking through her paintings I recalled a passage in psychologist Carl Jung’s autobiography, Dreams, Memories, and...
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Watch FASHION IN SPACE: PHOTOSYNTH PRESENTS “SAMILIGHT”
Emma Lundgren’s fashion film for her newest collection entitled “Samilight” directed by Javier Barcala takes a cheeky approach to the all too often over-wrought fashion film genre. In this gem, the model dances bond-girl style to a cool 60s track, sporting Lundgren’s newest designs in a sparkly space-land....
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WOODKID: “IRON”
Yoann Lemoine has churned out some truly gorgeous videos in the recent past, including Lana del Rey’s newest video for her single “Born to Die.” Not only is Lemoine a talented filmmaker, but he’s also a gifted musician. His music video,”Iron” showcases his musical chops while simultaneously illustrating his particular photographic...
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BEAUTIFUL SACRILEGE: NAMSA LEUBA RE-CONTEXTUALIZES...
It was important for me to this work because it enabled me to be more aware of the intricacy and the existence of a parallel world, that of spirits.
Namsa Leuba is an African-European photographer born in Switzerland. Her work explores the construction and deconstruction of the body, ideas of ceremony and ritual and the relationship between the sacred and the profane. Here she...