Venn Project

showslow:

“Coming back to Africa always fills me with joy and melancholy. It feels like coming home, but at the same time I will never fully be part of it, too…”

‘Flamboya’ documents Viviane Sassen ’s modern taken on African portraiture often times partly obscuring her subjects.

alecshao:

Ashkan Honarvar - Faces, 2009 - pen on photograph

“Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. It occurs in places you least expect, revealing its art in the human body, but also cruelly absent in the presence of deformation and scars. Honarvar depicts an undeniable, unavoidable beauty by accepting the darker sides of human nature.”

Ronan Guillou - ‘American Series’

darksilenceinsuburbia:

Collier Schorr.

Lilly Pads #2, 2006.

Die Blaumann-Akademie (Cornelius), 2008.

 

After her masculine portraits of wrestlers and young men in military uniforms, American photographer COLLIER SCHORR worked on a project called Forests and Fields, where she documented life (real and imagined) in the small German town of Schwäbisch Gmünd. When she started making flower pictures she wanted to make portraits of something that escaped nationality and identity, but that kept an idea of the “pose” and a kind of struggle between the subject and the photographer – so she uprooted the flowers and transported them to another location, tied them and watched them die.

all images courtesy the artist

artruby:

A favorite of ours from Hong Kong Art Fair. 

Installation that tracks wind patterns - for the Randal museum