Vogue India

Japanese contemporary artist Natsumi Hayashi focuses her practice on navigating the intricate boundaries of time, gravity, and human existence. Working online under the pseudonym “Yowayowa Camera Woman”—derived from a Japanese term meaning weak or feeble—she adopted the moniker to playfully acknowledge the physical toll of carrying heavy professional photography gear. Her philosophical foundations are tied…

Tina Berning’s practice articulates a resistance to the corrective mechanisms of the digital age. Central to her methodology is the acceptance of the irreversible mark; she notes that the absence of an “undo” function in watercolor and ink necessitates a state of heightened immediacy. Rather than dominating her medium, Berning describes the ink as a…

Captured in 1952 by German photographer Herbert List, this monochrome composition documents a local shepherd framed within the mouth of Orcus—a 16th-century sculpture located in the Sacro Bosco (Sacred Grove) in Bomarzo, Italy. List’s artistic practice was defined by a framework he termed “fotografia metafisica” (metaphysical photography). Influenced by Surrealism and the psychological dualities of…