Olivier Dubois

picture by; François Stemmer. 

It stirs up quite some controversy "Tragédie" by Olivier Dubois. Nine naked men and nine naked women take to the stage in an exploration of the human condition and body movement. As they exhaust themselves they reach a tribal dance like climax. Olivier Dubois is  a French choreographer.

And yes, Tragédie is provocative, but hypnotising. 

Teaser Tragedie from Tommy Pascal on Vimeo.

Marcos López

Photographer Marcos López is an expert is large, staged and colorful images. Born in Argentina and self-taught. There is a lot going on in his bright pictures. Criticizing mainly the Argentinian society, he incorporates a lot of humor, irony and symbolism in his art work. 

A photo shoot with Marcos López here.

Jody Ake

Jody Ake creates portraits and 
landscape images using the wet collodion process, coating a glass plate with collodion and exposing the plate while it is still wet. The end results are ambrotypes, appearing on glass in the form of a negative until backed by black velvet, thus rendering the positive image.

He was born and raised in America, now living and working in Portland, Oregon.
Ake about his portraits; “I believe the portrait discloses more about the subject than what is found on the surface. The subject, either willingly or subconsciously, shows us more then they intends. The camera can see more than the naked eye, moving past our persona and catching a glimpse of who we really are.”

Eric Kellerman

Kellerman considers his work to be distant, abstract, melancholic, ‘unerotic’, despite its subject matter. He emphasises line, geometrical form, texture, implicit movement, and above all, chiaroscuro. (sic)
'The Box' is a long running series from Kellerman. Young women pose in a 1 metre square box which is 50 cm deep. He is looking for pictorial typology and basic actions; hanging, croutching, balancing, twisting...

Liu Zheng

Diao Chang - four beauties series

Liu Zheng was born in 1969 in a Chinese mining village, now he lives and works in Beijing. He has an impressive portfolio that is quite different in style and content. He worked as a photojournalist for Workers’ Daily. His eight year travel throughout China resulted in his most renowned series "the Chinese"

Three country stripper - the Chinese series

An old man in a mosque - the Chinese series

"The four Beauties" shows a more matured  Liu Zheng portraying the Chinese history and tradition. He created these big photographs in a traditional Chinese style. Transforming four staged tableaux of historical drama into photographic images.

 Wang Zhaojun - four beauties series

Yang Guifi - four beauties series

Using ordinary people dressed up as opera players, and adding nudity to this cornerstone of Chinese culture he chocked China. " In my opinion Peking Opera has too many oppressing elements, too many rules musts and must-nots, which in some sense is like Chinese culture," Liu Zheng " nudity, on the other hand, breaks up these rules and challenges the traditional mindset."

Beating the princess -  Peking Opera series

Muke city -  Peking Opera series

The web cave -  Peking Opera series