Mark Tucker is an American photographer who is doing an indredible work through a series called “mothers” and where he is using wet plate collodion. This early photographic process was introduced in the 1850s and it requires the photographic material to be coated, sensitized, exposed and developed within the span of about fifteen minutes, necessitating a portable darkroom for use in the field.
Yiorgos Kordakis is a Greek photographer who have some intimate relation with the sea. His series of large format Polaroid called “Global Summer” particularly stuck in my mind since 2008. Fascinated by summer holidays, Yiorgos Kordakis wanted to compare the way people enjoy the summer in very different places like the USA, Romania, Greece or India. Always distant from the subject, he looks for some abstract shapes and lights, using tilt-shift and overexposure. Represented by Karsten Greve Gallery (Paris) and M+B Gallery (Los Angeles).
Olivia Bolles, better known as Olivia Bee, is a 18 years old American photographer from Portland, Oregon, who focuses on capturing the moments of teenage life. She photographs herself, friends, family and surroundings with a spontaneous and positive style and much experiment.
At the age of 11, she picked up her first serious camera and At 14, her work was featured in an advertising campaign for Converse.
Olivia Bee cites Ryan McGinley, Annie Leibovitz and Nan Goldin as influences, and she is inspired by the relationships between people, their places of life, personnal objects and culture… She wants to evoke nostalgia in everyone by capturing everyday life with the eyes of a young girl and celebrate the aesthetic beauty in teenagedom. “I focuse on the confusion and chaos of high school life”. For more information watch olivia Bee’s Youtube channel where she answers lots of questions about her life, work and inspiration, really interesting.
Among her clients are : Fiat USA, The New York Times, Hermès Paris, Nike 6.0, Converse, Vice Magazine, VSA Partners, Rookie Magazine, Subaru, 72 and Sunny, Levi’s, Le Monde, Furni, Zeit Magazin, Wieden + Kennedy, North, Little Brown and Company, Impatto, Ecco Publishing, Far, Der Speigel, Simon & Schuster, Subbacultcha Magazine, Harper Collins, &Samhoud, TeenNick. Olivia Bee is represented by Candace Gelman & Associates.
Sarah Aubel is a young photographer based in Paris. She started with portraiture with a very sensible style and is now experimenting different new things with a great curiosity. From personal projects or diaries to commissionned work, from underground art to fashion industry she draws her course with much talent. In “Eden’s children”, a project about the new face of naturism that is also a study about nudity, she offers an original watch on the human nature. Sarah Aubel’s just updated her portfolio.
Mihaela Ivanova is a Bulgarian photographer with some great simple conceptual shots and black and white series.
Zim and Zou is a young French collective who’ve just released a great series of vintage electronics all made by hand with colorful paper. Zim and Zou are featuring in « Paper Art trends » our free iPhone and iPad app. Here is a short interview to learn a bit more about them…
We are Zim&Zou, a graphic design studio held by Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann. We did our studies together (graphic design/print/advertising) and then we started our studio two years ago.
Lucie’s grand parents used to work in a paper factory, so this material naturally came to us! We’ve always loved handcrafting, maybe a nostalgia of our childhood.
We try not to focus on a particular style but to explore the numerous possibilities of paper. We try to be as thorough as possible and never neglecting any detail. Usually there is very little work on computer after the product is finished, it is important to us that the image stays as close as possible to reality.
Fragile, malleable and authentic.
Start working on a new universe, the elements appear gradually to form a harmonious whole.
Hot. Or at least it is by dint of torture!
Karine Laval is a famous French photographer currently living and working in New York City. She has alternated commissions with an artistic practice, wherein she combines portraiture with images of geographical locations (France, Norway, Cuba, Argentina, etc.) and visual narratives. Karine Laval’s work is beautifully exploring the friction between the real and the imaginary. She’s been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe as well.
Caroline Keî is a French photographer, inspired by her own trips around France and Europe. After studying foreign languages, she attended a photography course. Now playing with the multiple possibilities of film exposure, she creates photographic frames drenched with light and imaginary tones. She mixes aquatic and spacy blue shades with bright touches of poetry. Caroline Keî develops her personal sensibility and style with beautiful endless mixes.
Emily Shur is a photographer from New York City. She attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University with a major in Photography and graduated in 1998 with academic honors along with the Artist Award for Creative Excellence. Emily has lectured about her work several times in universities around USA. In 2005, she was selected as a winner in The ADC Young Guns global competition. She currently has an image in the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Clients list include: The New York Times Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair, Esquire, GQ, Interview, Wired, Elle Magazine, America Online, Yahoo!, MTV Networks… Represented by Creative 24, Beverly Hills.
Laurent Nivalle is a French photographer working for the very creative Citroen Design Center. His passion for cars is quite obvious but check this amazing portfolio mixing futuristic pictures and really cool vintages. Cars are great but his portraits or travel photos are interesting too. Laurent Nivalle also creates computer generated pictures. Lire cet article en Français.
