Category: Photography

In the monograph ‘One Sun, One Shadow’, Shane Lavalette recalls his relationship with the American South and its musical heritage. His photographs are an extension of the series displayed in the earlier exhibition ‘Picturing the South’ at the High Museum of Art, in Atlanta.

The photographer’s memories of the South are primarily associated with music and sounds of a bygone era. Acting as an examination of beautified melancholia, ‘One Sun, One Shadow’ documents not just people and places, but also music. The serene images seize the stillness of city streets, bars and nature while showing the pensive portraits of Southerns going about their daily lives. With his personal chronicle, Lavalette gives the vague old-school nostalgia to this musically rich area. Describing the photographer’s first monograph, the artist and poet Tim Davis writes, “They are quiet pictures that build to a boisterous whole. They speak from the endlessly renewed place of the photographic expeditioner who loves the world and knows it’s a well that never runs dry.”

Working and living in Madrid, Spain, photographer Emilio Jiménez shows through his works the subtle beauty of the female body.

In a series of black and white photographs Jiménez captures the many nuances of the physical beauty. However, he also shows the incredible play of light and shadows, almost painting the floral motifs on models’ bodies. The project, called ‘Anatomía natural, salvaje‘, was originally inspired by the great Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado’s quote: “For eight years I had time to see, and to understand the most important thing: that I am as nature as a tortoise, as a tree, as a stone.” By these tender, delicate captures of the human body against the shadows of the plant, Jiménez wanted to convey the idea of our integrity with nature.

Known for his clean, awe-inspiring minimalist designs, architect Alberto Campo Baeza has filled an outstanding residence in Monterrey, Mexico with golden light.

“I did my utmost to ensure that this house would be the most beautiful in the world.”
“For a Spanish architect, to build a house in Mexico is a privilege. To build a house in Monterrey is a gift,” says the architect about ‘Domus Aurea‘, a house finished in 2016. In this project, Baeza’s admiration to the prolific Mexican architect Luis Barragán is seen even more than in his previous project. The all-white, minimalist residence is not only filled with daylight – it’s flooded with “the golden light of Barragán,” as Baeza describes. This was possible thanks to the introduction of a high vertical wall, on which the southern light falls and then fills the space with the golden hue. This serene villa has its public areas on the ground floor, while the upper level features bedrooms and living spaces. At the top, there are private rooms and the stunning swimming pool, overlooking the area. The continuity to the garden was achieved through verandas and shaded areas. “I did my utmost to ensure that this house would be the most beautiful in the world. That is my stated intent with every new project that falls into my hands,” states the architect.

Tokyo-based design studio nendo released two new lamps for FLOS that can be adjusted to suit your own needs. The two black lamps, named the Gaku and the Sawaru, can be change in composition remaining in different looks.

Gaku is a modular box and a lamp that can be altered with the addition of various accessories. When positioned within the box, the pendant can be adjusted to different heights. There is also a matching spot light that can be moved around within the square, while a directional light features a magnet and can be pointed anywhere. Additional magnetic accessories that can be added include bowls, vases, a tray, mirror, as well as bookends. Sawaru is a minimalist table lamp that consists of two cylinders that are leaned against each other. One part features the light while the other functions as a base that holds the light up at three different angles of 25 degrees, 40 degrees, and 60 degrees.

British architecture studio Ström Architects recently released a series of photo-realistic renderings for a duo of timber-clad villas to be built on the Swedish island of Lidingö.

Created by 3D visualisation studio nu.ma, the imagery showcases the designs for “Pyrus 9” and “Pyrus 10”, two villas which share the same structure and floor plan, but will be distinguished by the design of their interiors and the color of their exteriors: one in a black stain, the other in an ash grey. Planned to be constructed on a steep hillside, the villas balance sweeping view with privacy considerations. “The roof [allows] fantastic views across the treetops and over the beautiful archipelago,” explain the architects.

With his exhibition named “Audition”, Los Angeles based artist Kristian Burford explores the emotional possibilities of illusion, using mirror plane glass.

Exhibited in the NYE + Brown Gallery on La Cienega Boulevard, the installation shows two life-size, fluorescent, beige office cubicles, each inhabited by a sculpture of a similarly beige-hued female nude, appearing bored and frightened. The first scene titled “In Love” exhibits the sculpture leaning against a desk, while the second scene titled “Love Object” shows a further sculpture resting on a partition. Each cage-like diorama is walled with two-way mirrors, visually multiplying the cubicles and nudes ad infinitum and from all vantage points. Kristian Burford deals with the unsettling dream in which you were naked in a classroom or in the office. This is the psychological situation Kristian Burford discusses in his life size installation of empty office cubicles with life-size sculptures of naked women. The beholder feels like spying on window-display mannequins in the middle of the night, not only to discover that they have secret lives, but also that these mannequin-like creatures have spirits and souls.