Mario Zanaria

With "Pianosequenza" Mario Zanaria pays homage to the contact sheet, a utility well known by analogue photographers. From the contact sheet, the photographer makes a selection, some images will never become public. In "Pianosequenza" the opposite happens, Mario Zanaria; "the individual photographs lose their original function as standalone images, and become the building blocks of a greater whole, making them barely significant (if not indeed pointless) without each other. At the same time, the contact sheet goes from being a mere container of frames to be selected, to being the central character, the essential element required for the final image to be revealed."

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 Nobuyoshi Araki

I loved the Polaroid instant cameras, and it is nice that Fuji still produces some of the instant medium.
Nobuyoshi Araki used it quite often, in his own slightly erotic and controversial way that is. He did a Polaroid bondage shoot of Lady Gaga for Vogue Homme Japan, but the older work is much better.
Nobuyoshi was born in 1940, Tokyo, Japan. He is a legendary contemporary photographer with over 350 book titles to his name. And now for some Polaroid bondage and fun images....

Kristamas Klousch

She don't want call herself a photographer, this Canadian artist, although she uses one. Kristamas Klousch describes herself as a 'caricature artist with a camera'. She is obviously influenced by Sarah Moon and Franscesca Woodman. Her self portraits are mysterious, dark, sensual and dashed with a bit of humour.
Self-portraiture is on the way up again, but Kristamas Klousch keeps you interested as her work is very intense and diversified.
Being her one model has more to do with her being a loner, she says. Showing her emotions and thoughts this way has become a part of her life, and it enables you to work whenever you want or feel like it.

Alva Bernadine

"Inappropriate Images"
Can porn ever be art?. If it is good porn do we rename it erotica to elevate it so we can usher it into polite society? ; Alva Bernadine wonders. Alva is a British photographer, his work is provocative to say the least. Saturated colors and surrealism are part of his overall work.
In the series "Inappropriate Images" he poses the question if pornography as art is possible, where do we draw the line between art and erotica? Alva Bernadine; "An explicit close-up of female genitals in a men’s magazine might be regarded as porn, while the same picture in a medical textbook would not." As times change, so does our perception of the nude in art and in our daily live. And Alva states; "Just like you can bring an everyday object into a museum and call it art, you can bring a pornographic image into a museum and call it art also.  The context in which it is placed gives it artistic virtue, so does that mean it is no longer pornography? Does it now become erotica, a polite and perhaps apologist word for the porn of yesteryear?"

Paul von Borax

By experiment, trial and error, self-taught photographer Paul von Borax created his own photographic language. What started out as a hobby, soon became a passion. He has a rather chaotic and irrational approach, and loves to be surprised by the result or the way a photo session works out.
His series and the stories behind them are interesting at least. Paul takes us into his sensual world, often spiked with a bit of humour.
These images are from the 'Sauvage Blanche' series. Paul von Borax uses different techniques, take a look at his other series as well. He is from Paris, France.