Roger Weiss

Roger Weiss: “I capture fragments about the human tragedy, documenting failures and yearnings, weaknesses and strengths, pains and joys, rights violated and rights upheld. “

 gum bichromate print

Roger Weiss is a Swiss-born fashion and art photographer. "The society creates and destroys models in the interest of a few. It’s everyone’s responsibility to find or create alternatives.

Suspension explores our social fragmentation." 

Dimitris Papaioannou and Michael Theophanous

Primal Matters is a work in constant progress, a performance by Dimitris Papaioannou and Michael Theophanous. A never-ending dialogue between two bodies. One black and one white, one dressed and one naked. Spiked with humour and sarcasm, Michelangelo's models come to mind.

Elina Kountouri: "Primal Matter offers a universal language of decoding, and a shortcut to the truth - the fusion of the two bodies through optical illusions is a fusion of attitudes, of identities and a struggle between the matter and the mind, the shadow and the light, the creator and their creation."

Sarah Moon

''Very often I say to myself: I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with. For nothing to happen, something has to happen first.''  - Sarah Moon.

With her distinctive style Moon freezes drama and mood in her own unique style. According to The Independent, has “the power to bewitch”. And she does so by capturing the decisive moment and enable the viewer to be a witness of her own fantasies.

 I remember this to be the first picture by Sarah Moon to stick

                               in my mind. It still is an amazing work of art.

“I don't really like colour,” she has said. “To make it work for me, I have to mess with it. I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Colour is but a deviance.”

Sarah Moon in color and fashion here.

Atsushi Tani

I immediately thought of sculptor Hans Bellmer an Etsuko Miura.
Atsushi Tani Works and lives in Osaka, Japan. Using Photoshop to create his malformed puppet like models and collage like image, he explores the beauty of women's bodies. Dark atmosphere, tattoos, scars and flesh, all components of an artificial erotic world of unsettling beauty.

Andrew Polushkin

Self-trained artist Andrew Polushkin manipulates his pictures using Photoshop and Meta Creations Painter. Born and working in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He is an artist who works in a combination of new digital technologies and the traditional techniques of silver gelatin printing,bromoil, and toned cyanotypes.

Some more on A. Polushkin on DaaD vzw.

Artist's statement;
Silence and soundless - this is doors in eternity.
On this page you get acquainted with artworks of the Petersburg artist-visioneer Andrey Polushkin madded in traditional and digital technology.
Esoteric dreams and drug-trips, myths of dim worlds and myth'o'mading of subconscious, hallucinations experience, caught in web of attention and fixed with material reality.
-here is bases and headwaters of creative activity of A. Polushkin (sic)

Boris Charmatz

Magma by Boris Charmatz. Extract from 'UNE LENTE INTRODUCTION'. A silent movie, not just a registration of a dance piece, but a work in its own right. A mesmerizing living dance installation.

Chuck Close

Chuck Close and daguerreotype, have a look.




Working with Jerry Spagnoli, Chuck Close started to use the daguerreotype process as another step in creating portraits. The daguerreotypes were later scanned and printed digitally. The originals have deep velvety blacks and are very rich in detail. As wet plate collodion it is a process that requires a long time exposure, resulting most often in shallow depth of field.

Self-portrait, more self-portraits on DaaD-vzw blog.

Kiki Smith

Andres Serrano

Bob Holman

Cindy Sherman

Kate Moss

Lauri Anderson

Nobuyoshi Araki

20 x 24 Polaroid images by Nobuyoshi Araki. Araki works every day and by now has published over 400 books. Beginning in 1970 with Xerox Photo Albums, which was produced with the aid of a photocopy machine. Famous and controversial, his work is often challenging social taboos surrounding sex and death.
These shots were taken in 2011 in Japan using Impossible monochrome film with an original Polaroid 20 x 24. Not crossing too many boundaries here, but a lot of atmosphere. From a series of twelve shots.

More about impossible and the impossible project over here

Francesca Woodman

An American Photographer (April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981). Most of her work is in black & white, showing herself and other female models. She became an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. After failing to attract attention to her work she became depressed and committed suicide in the end.
Even at her young age and short career Francesca Woodman left an impressive body of work. It still provokes discussion and admiration worldwide. Even more astonishing, almost her complete portfolio was created as a student.

More pictures at Daad-vzw blog.