Do not lose the mischief and self-irony – this is the best elixir of youth!
Image/Art Direction by: Uldus Bakhtiozina
“Born in USSR in 1986 in Leningrad city (Saint-Petersburg), photographer Uldus Bakhtiozina has long been impacted by her Russian heritage. Working on a new book that explores the fairytales of pagan Russia, Bakhtiozina looks for the stories behind the image… Currently specialising in photo-based-art, fashion photoshoots and music videos, she has been published in Vogue Italy, exhibited work internationally and was the first Russian speaker at TED… “I aim to record the central ideologies and characteristics of a person. There is always a long story behind each of my photographs and my models bring their own ideas to the conversation. There are way too many bland, cold and boring fashion images out there. My works try to express something deeper than today’s average trendy photo formula. I make an active effort to get away from that. I want to learn or feel something when I look at an image – so I try to create the same experience with my my art and my life. I want to shoot stories that existed before the photograph was taken and that draw the audience to think about what will happen next.”
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“My models are my muses. I like to capture people that I find interesting in life. Though they do not always have ‘the perfect feature’, they fascinate me – they are normal people yet whimsical” Xiangyu Liu says. The Chinese photographer moved to Russia to study fine arts before turning to photography. There, he discovered another…
‘René Magritte’s cerebral, enigmatic paintings and prints helped define the imagery and philosophy of the Surrealist movement. His most famous works, including The Treachery of Images (1929) and The Son of Man (1946), explore the illusory power of art and juxtapose mundane and fantastical iconography. Magritte was born in Belgium. After a stint at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels…
“I never saw anyone that looked like me in movies or on the covers of fashion magazines. I also didn’t see Asian photographers shooting for the magazines I looked at, which made me question if I could even make it as a photographer” – Peter Ash Lee. Xiao Wen Ju graces the pages of Vogue…
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