Bharat Sikka
Diametrically opposed to my previous post, Bharat Sikka’s Indian Men is a series that well…focuses on Indian men. While the palette is decisively darker (shades of Edward Hopper), the sitters’ colorful personalities shine through. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Indian Men“)…
Siyeon Park
Siyeon Park’s series reminds one of August Sander’s portraits of the People of the 20th Century, a typological look at school-going girls in Korea. The girls bear an eerie resemblance to each other, blank stares fixated on their faces. Su-yeon…
Flanegan Bainon
Anima, according to Jungian psychology, refers to the inner self that is in touch with the unconscious. Flanegan Bainon from Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia had been working earnestly on his portraiture series, Anima, since last year. TOP TO BOTTOM, from…
Jinnine Pak
Based in Brooklyn, young photographer Jinnine Pak’s series on women has got some interesting images [NSFW]. She focused her energies on creating unapologetic sentimental feminine images of women. In a world filled with Photoshopped women and plastic surgery, this real…
Future
This is a series of portraitures that seeks to explore the individual’s reaction to life’s many uncertainties. Faced with an infinite number of choices daily, how does one progress from the Present to the Future? How does one make sense…
Muge
Muge from Chengdu, China has some amazing portraits of strangers taken in the streets in his series, Silent. Set against the background of rapidly growing China, most of the images possess a melancholic feel; individuals lost in their seas of…
Ye Rin Mok
I first saw Ye Rink Mok’s work in Hard Candy years ago. I was wondering at the point of time how a pedophiliac photographer could produce such breathtaking images. But of course, that was just a movie plot and the…
Ohm Phanphiroj
TOP TO BOTTOM, © Ohm Phanphiroj Ohm Phanphiroj is a well-regarded art and fashion photographer from Thailand. His portraits are highly charged with intimacy and tension. I visited Whitespace Gallery where his Identity Crisis: Transsexual Series was on show. It…
Hei Ming
I find Hei Ming’s portraits striking. top to bottom, Common People © Hei Ming top to bottom, Monks © Hei Ming However, I think the pictures of the monks are less interesting than the common folk. The people just appear…
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