Photographer #091: Alexei Vassiliev

Alexei Vassiliev, Russia, 1959, is a photographer with a unique style. His photographs are almost always unsharp and blurry or they contain movement. He uses his photographic technique to create images that often feel like paintings. Vassiliev started with photography in 1995, after being two years in France. In Russia he had worked in television, radio, various factories and construction sites. The following images come from the series Troubled Moments, Quo Vaditis ? and Z-31(10/12).

Website: www.vassiliev.fr

Photographer #085: Julia Fullerton-Batten

Julia Fullerton-Batten, Germany / UK, 1970, has worked for several years on a single project. It is a project on teenage girls that consists of three parts. The first is Teenage Stories, where the girls are placed in settings where they dwarf their surroundings. The second is School Play, where Julia compares Asian and Caucasian schoolgirls. The third is In Between, where the girls are floating in their surroundings. Read the biography on her website to find out what her thoughts behind this project are. The following images come from the three parts of her project.

Website: www.juliafullerton-batten.com

Photographer #083: Jean-François Lepage

Jean-François Lepage, France, 1960, is a fashion photographer with thirty years of experience in the business. In his photography he often makes use of extra elements such as texts and graphics. Something else that is remarkable in Lepage' photography is his use of lighting. Often one can see the flash in the middle of his images, close to the portrayed. In 2009 Lepage got free rein to interpret the vision of the ANDAM fashion awards winners. This resulted in the book Modernes. The following images come from his portfolio and from the book Modernes.

Website: www.two-eyes.com

Photographer #078: Wang Qingsong

Wang Qingsong, China, 1966, makes large, staged images that are printed in enormous sizes. His photograph China Mansion stretches to the length of 12 meters. Qingsong is sometimes described as the 'enfant terrible of Chinese art photography'. He often uses themes as China's consumer culture and materialism. He has described his work as "kitschy, but powerful ... contradictory, but critical." Apart from photography he also works with video. The following images are Safe Milk, Dormitory, China Mansion and Follow Me.

Website: www.wangqingsong.com

Photographer #074: Sabine Pigalle

Sabine Pigalle, France, 1963, first studied French literature before becoming a photo stylist. She has not studied photography but has worked several years for Helmut Newton. These steps in Pigalle's life seem to have been the foundations of the photography she makes today. In 1998 she decided to show her work to the public, this was the start of her photographic carreer. The following images come from the series Ecce Homo, Homo Phobiens and Black Light.

Website: www.sabinepigalle.com

Photographer #060: Jeff Bark

Photographer Jeff Bark, USA, 1963, makes his images look like paintings. In his series Woodpecker he build a scene including a pond in his studio. The photographs a romantic scenes filled with symbolism. In his series Flesh Rainbow we see male and female nudes combined with still-lifes in bizarre positions with items covering their faces. Dark, sometimes comic and sometimes fetishistic. The following photographs come from the series Flesh Rainbow, Woodpecker and Abandon.

Website: www.jeffbark.com

Photographer #059: Lori Nix

Lori Nix, USA, 1969, is a photographer who uses miniatures and models to achieve her images. A recurring theme in nearly all of her photographs is disaster. In her series Accidentally Kansas Nix is playing with truth and illusion using themes as natural and accidental disasters. In more recent work she still plays with disaster, but it has shifted towards a more psychological disaster and it leaves the viewer wondering what has happened and what might still happen. The following photographs are from her series: The City, Lost and Accidentally Kansas.

Website: www.lorinix.net

Photographer #043: Jan von Holleben

When opening the website of German photographer Jan von Holleben, 1977, a sentence by someone greets you, one of them is: "What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it" by Mark Twain. This phrase symbolises the body of work by von Holleben. Throughout his photographs we see a joy of life, a personal approach and a fascination for the imagination. The following photographs come from the series Dreams of Flying, Snowbed and Cyborg Pets.

Website: www.janvonholleben.com

Photographer #039: Taisuke Koyama

Japanese photographer Taisuke Koyama, 1978, zooms in on the city of Tokyo. With his macro lens he makes photographs of organic abstractions. The images may look like graphic objects at first glance, but when one looks closer you will see overlooked transformations of the city. These photographs come from the series Entropix that he is still working on today, but was also released as a publication in 2008.

Currently he is working on a series called Rainbow Form. He states: "At a glance, these photographs look like graphic design due to its flatness. On the contrary, In reality, this image is composed with more layers; printing dots that compose a image of rainbow, dust of paper, surface condensation, scratch and adheres on the invisible plastic board which exists in the front of the paper, and the shadows on the paper caused by those."

Website: www.tiskkym.com
(Video in Japanese)

Photographer #034: Maleonn

Ma Liang, better known as Maleonn, 1972, is a Chinese photographer. His photography can best be defined as theatrical and fantastical. He has gotten international acclaim for the images made with props, actors and fable like sets. The following pictures come from the series: White on White, Little Flagman and Leaves of Grass.

Website: www.maleonn.com

Photographer #032: Levi van Veluw

Dutch photographer Levi van Veluw, 1985, finished the Artez institute of the arts in Arnhem, NL in 2007. Since then he has had numerous publications and exhibitions around the world. He often photographs his own head, but not as a normal self-portrait. He uses different materials to experiment. These experiments result in amazing images as seen below. The following images come from the series Landscapes, Light and Natural Transfers.

Website: www.levivanveluw.nl

Photographer #020: Yeondoo Jung

Korean photographer Yeondoo Jung, 1969, creates fantasy worlds by building stages and photographing them. Even though you sence that something is wrong, it takes a little while before you discover the secret. These photographs come from the series Locations.

In the series Wonderland, he has taken childrens' drawings and recreated them with real people and props. The results are impossible worlds of childrens' imagination.

Website: www.yeondoojung.com

Photographer #019: Cara Barer

Cara Barer, USA, 1956, is a photographer that changes the appearance of books and other items made of paper. Through experimentation Cara has found various ways to transform the items into stylish objects that hold a deeper layer. She hopes to raise questions about the changes in the ways we research and find our daily information.

Website: www.carabarer.com

Photographer #015: Frederik Heyman

Frederik Heyman, 1984, Belgium, has both a masters degree in photography aswell as in graphic and illustration design. This is very clear when looking at his photographic works. He combines illustration and graphic design in his photography. He creates new worlds that look impossible, but he doesn't hide the way it's done. His pictures are like little fairy tales. The following photographs are from various personal and editorial projects.

Website: www.frederikheyman.com