SENSUAL NEWS

One of the most controversial but also artistic editorial of the Fall 2008 season was Sebastian Faena's "Nun Head" series for POP Magazine. We are reinstalling it here on sensuality news as a Classic, because of its special relevance as an aggressive statement against the Vatican that predates the flood of sex abuse cases that broke all over Europe.

http://sebastianfaena.org/

NGA

 

Jehad Nga, a photographer working for The New York Times in Iraq, sought to capture the flow of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims some waving colorful banners, others clad in traditional black – streaming toward Karbala for Arbaeen. They were marching to the Shiite holy city to commemorate the martyrdom in A.D. 680 of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and one of the most revered early figures in Shiite Islam.

book: Photographers Journal

UNREAL PLACES

Series of portraits -photo montage where the author  Michal Giedrojc puts people in unreal places. Situation presented in photographs have never happened and were only created by imagination and dreams. Person is isolated from reality with the imaginary world around him. Michal Giedrojcfreely transposes a person between two different worlds as if one tried to adapt to them.

http://www.giedrojcmichal.com/

DIGITAL CHARCOAL

Noticed Marta Orlowska recently in a second hand bookstore, she designs a lot of book covers. She has had a keen interest in Art for many years using different mediums such as pencil, charcoal, acrylics, oil, mosaics and more to express her unique artistic vision. Now using the camera and Photoshop as the next tools, she exploits them to evoke her feelings and mood. Using a photographic medium she creates a different world from everyday reality by capturing moments of others and her surroudings and by placing them in her own creative world.

http://abduzeedo.com/very-stylish-photos-marta-orlowska 

TWIGG

Launched as ‘The Face of 1966’ by the Daily Express thanks to a famous haircut by Leonard and photographs by Barry Lategan, the teenage model then went on to be the most iconic face of swinging London and today remains as one of Britain’s most well-recognised celebrities. Twiggy, the iconic face of the 60s and M&S model du jour, was featured in a free exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery. Twiggy: A Life in Photographs coincides with the model’s 60th birthday and a new photographic biography.

http://www.barrylategan.com/

NUDI

For over 35 years, Paolo Roversi, born in Ravenna, Italy, in 1947, has been working and living in Paris. The exhibition of around 50 photographs will show, beyond the series Guinivere and Nudi, pictures of the studio of the artist in Paris, portraits, as well as works of his lightpaintings. Owing to the well-balanced quality of colors and the clear composition of the photographs of the artist as well as the particular charm and grace of his models, the observer of these photographs is often tempted to study them more as paintings. This effect is also a result of the technique of the artist.

http://www.paoloroversi.com/pages/01.html

THE VIOLET ISLE

This multi-layered portrait of “the violet isle” a little-known name for Cuba inspired by the rich color of the soil there presents an engaging, at times unsettling document of a vibrant and vulnerable land. It combines two separate photographic visions: Alex Webb’s exploration of street life, with his attuned and complex attention to detail, and Rebecca Norris Webb’s fascination with the unique, quixotic collections of animals she discovered there, from tiny zoos and pigeon societies to hand-painted natural history displays and quirky personal menageries. The result is an insightful and intriguing blend of two different aesthetics inspired by Cuba’s existence over the last fifty years in an economic, political, cultural and ecological bubble virtually untouched by the rest of the world, and unlikely to remain that way for much longer. 

book: The Violet Isle, Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris