Category: Photography

Award-winning photographer Cody Bratt lives in San Francisco but tours the world for his photo shoots. He specializes in working with a diverse combination of digital, film and instant film cameras.

The picture series “Love We Leave Behind“ consists of two interwoven strands. Not only the motifs but also the process of taking these pictures diverge. On the one hand, he depicted landscapes during a long trip through the wide natural areas of California and Nevada. On the other hand, he portrayed models within just a few hours in limited spaces.

„I wanted to ask two questions: As we build places into the land and pass through them, what sorts of marks do our interior emotional lives leave behind and, as those places age and disappear, does that emotional residue continue to persist in a detectable fashion?“, so explains Bratt his motivation behind the pictures. In his works Bratt rediscovers things that used to be precious but now seemingly fell into oblivion.

Built in 1954 by a prolific modernist architect E. Stewart Williams, ‘The Edris House‘ became an immediate phenomenon. Today, the property stays true to its original design, offering a journey back in time.

Located in an exclusive neighborhood in Palm Springs, California, the house has been commissioned by Marjorie and William Edris, Williams’s neighbors and friends. In 2000, the property was bought by its current owner, author J.R. Roberts. Soon after that, he started a one-year renovation project in consultation with Williams. As a result, the house is exactly as it was in the 50s, incorporating the architect’s main idea – to serve as a home first. Overlooking the rocky landscape, it also blends into the indigenous surrounding with its organic materials, such as local stone and Douglas fir.

Amsterdam based photographer Anne Barlinckhoff is one of the freshest emerging talents and best known for her women’s photography. Barlinckhoff’s focus lies on the exploration of the female body, in which she creates intimate and intense portraits that come from a process of trust with the women she depicts.

To cross her own lines, the artist becomes acquainted with the subjects she captures, resulting in unforced, sexy and fun looking photo shoots. “You won’t know until you fucking try” “You won’t know until you fucking try” she says about her motivation to work. After living in South Africa her awareness for humans and nature increased more and more. Inspired by love, life and loss, and the beautiful nature of South Africa, her images are characterized by a high visual and narrative contrast, as well as a newfound vulnerability. Through her photography, Anne is able to create her own paradise to escape from a world of cruelty and violence. She feels free to drift into a colourful paradise, a dreaming state in which peace and beauty are synonymous with happiness.

“There is profound magic in paper’s potential to become anything you imagine,” say Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen, the duo behind the Vancouver-based design and production studio molo.

Through the investigations of paper, the designers found inspiration in illuminated manuscripts and gilded books. Honoring the tradition of applying a thin layer of gold on to the paper’s edge, molo has gilded a special edition of soft-seating fanning stool. Through a centuries-old process, the edges of the natural brown kraft paper are coated with a 24 karat gold leaf. The pieces, created as a celebration s the paper’s significance to molo designs, can be used not only as stools, but also side tables or even sculpture. Their unique quality of catching the light that shifts with the viewing angle makes them the perfect addition to the artistic-sensible interior.

All images © courtesy of molo

Located on a northern slanted plot in the Prague’s district Kyje, ‘House in an Orchard‘ stands out from the other buildings in the neighborhood, catching the eye with its unique appearance.

The house, situated among several trees, is supposed to incorporate into the garden. Designed by the Czech architecture practice Šépka Architects as a compact shelter for a family, it has an attractive view to the surrounding landscape. While from the living room it overlooks the Brook Rokytka valley, the other rooms are orientated to the east and south. The building’s ground plan started from the circle, which then changes into the form of two squares on the south side. There, the architects placed the bedrooms, the kitchen and the social facilities. Although the house is finished with reinforced-concrete, it has a wooden construction, which can be seen throughout the interior.

Exploring the uniqueness and diversity in each of her subjects, Russian photographer Alena Zhandarova continually pushes the borders of her perception by trying something new.

“I am inspired by the idea of combining incompatible, creating something out of nothing.”
“I am fascinated by the opportunity to try myself as a storyteller with my own protagonists,” she says. Using the chance to transform her feelings and experience into distinctive visual language, Zhandarova breaks the found context and finds her own way to communicate with the found space. The series of portraits called ‘Puree With A Taste Of Triangles‘ is as bizarre as its name, breaking the convention of traditional portrait photography. The girls in Zhandarova’s images usually have their faces covered, blending with numerous patterns and colors and thus becoming a part of the background themselves. The photographer explains: “I am inspired by the idea of combining incompatible, creating something out of nothing, finding an amazing coincidence, which then develops into a unique story.”

In her latest work at the historic Le Bon Marché department store in Paris, Chiharu Shiota provides the visitors with an immersive experience, poetically inviting them to “sail towards a fresh start.”

“I have no answers, only questions. These questions are the foundations of my work.”
Known for her monumental art installations, Shiota has suspended 150 sculptural boats from the store’s central glass roof, using nearly 300,000 yards of yarn. A part of the ‘Where are we going?’ exhibition, it also includes the work ‘Memory of the Ocean’, a multi-sensory mesh wave evoking the impression of walking under the big water. Asking rhetorically: ‘Where are we going?’, the artist refers to the mysterious destinations that shape our lives. She says: “The creation of this indecipherable mesh and its plasticity are a mystery, just like our brain, the universe, and of course, life. I have no answers, only questions. These questions are the foundations of my work.” The exhibition will be displayed at Le Bon Marché until February 18, 2017.

Standing ten meters above the ground in the middle of the Swedish forest, ‘The 7th Room‘ responds to the everlasting need of spending the holiday among the unspoiled nature.

“The design of the hotel aims to bring people and nature closer together.”
A new addition to the recognized ‘Treehotel‘, ‘The 7th Room’ offers a unique touristic experience. Hovering among the pine trees, its floor-to-ceiling wide windows provide the spectacular views, overlooking the Lule River. The hotel, which accommodates up to five people, was designed by Norwegian architecture studio Snøhetta. Built as a traditional Nordic cabin, it is carried by twelve columns and is clad with pine boards. The hotel’s design, while being exceptionally modern, blurs the boundaries of indoor and outdoor, letting the building blend into the surrounding landscape. Featuring a netted terrace suspended above the forest floor and a tree stretching up through the cabin, ‘The 7th Room’ becomes a part of the forest. “The design of The 7th room aims to bring people and nature closer together, extending the cabin’s social spaces to the outside and further,” say the architects.