Cruz C Valdez
“My obsession with fashion motivated me to move to New York City and pursue photography. It was through the support of my close friends and creative community in New York that I began shooting models in my apartment to build a foundation for my practice. I’m inspired to create images that feel as exciting to me as reading a fashion magazine felt growing up. I try to apply this principle across all modes of my photography…“I’m inspired to create images that feel as exciting to me as reading a fashion magazine felt growing up”
– Cruz Valdez
‘As any other Azeri family we had carpets everywhere – on the floor, on the walls, in each room. I had a carpet in my room, too. I was always playing with the patterns of the carpet imagining there were roads, trees, dragons etc. One day when my parents left for countryside, I decided to…
“In my work I try to capture the impossible the swirling mist of a dreamers mind, as artists we are day dreamers and our business is capturing the impossible, holding on to it and showing it to the world. But even as we think we have a firm grip, the dream shifts and changes due…
“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…
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