ALEXANDFELIX

Alex Gretchen and Felix Meier, both born in Switzerland, work as a team. Under the name AlexandFelix the create imaginary and surreal worlds in which they pose their models. It is all man made, backgrounds, surroundings every little detail.
welcome to the bizarre and intriguing world of AlexandFelix, "13 Queens" flamboyantly dressed rulers over an unfamiliar world filled with magical ornaments.

How they do it, see the making of "13 Queens".

Dominic Rouse

Contemporary photographer Dominic Rouse, born in England, creates monochrome digital compositions. After a short career as a press photographer, he returned to college studying commercial and advertising photography.
By deconstructing and reconstructing the human form he creates interesting, fantasy images with a bit  of a baroque feel.
Dominic; "It’s really a waste of time for me to spend hours meticulously lighting and composing each shot, because I have so much more control in the computer." (sic)
In his statement Dominic Rouse says; "Morality is a disease peculiar to humans and at its worst human life is not tragic but unmeaning."

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.

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."

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.

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