Prada SS 2014 campaign

Prada spring summer 2014 campaign shot by photographer Steven Meisel.

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats

Ever wondered what's on family dinner tables around the globe? 

I discover this amazing project at Łódź Design Festival 2013.

Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio traveled the world documenting that most basic of human behaviors — what we eat. Their project, “Hungry Planet,” depicts everything that an average family consumes in a given week–and what it costs — laid out in thought provoking detail.


Hungry Planet: What the World Eats 
30 Families, 24 Countries, 600 Meals

In Hungry Planet, Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio present a photographic study of families from around the world, revealing what people eat during the course of one week. Each family's profile includes a detailed description of their weekly food purchases; photographs of the family at home, at market, and in their community; and a portrait of the entire family surrounded by a week's worth of groceries.
To assemble this remarkable comparison, Menzel and D'Aluisio traveled to twenty-four countries and visited thirty families from Bhutan and Bosnia to Mexico and Mongolia. Accompanied by an insightful foreword by Marion Nestle, and provocative essays from Alfred W. Crosby, Francine R. Kaufman, Corby Kummer, Charles C. Mann, Michael Pollan, and Carl Safina, the result of this journey is a 30-course documentary feast: captivating, infuriating, and altogether fascinating.

http://www.menzelphoto.com

WHITE at The Nederlands Fotomuseum

WHITE
Photography, Art, Design, Fashion, Film

From 14 September 2013 to 5 January 2014, the Nederlands Fotomuseum presents the exhibition WHITE!
This exhibition displays existing and new work by national and international talent, by established and promising artists such as
Guy Bourdin, Erwin Olaf, Ed van der Elsken, Petra Lunenburg, Maison Martin Margiela, Nanine Linning & Les Deux Garçons, Fleur Goedendorp, Comme des Garçons, Anton Corbijn, Luc Tuymans, Marlene Dumas, Lidewij Edelkoort, Bibi van der Velden, Katinka Lampe, Inez van Lamsweerde, Aziz Bekkaoui, Mattijs van Bergen, Pierre et Gilles, Bertjan Pot, Iris van Herpen and Isaïe Bloch, Claudy Jongstra, Lonneke van der Palen and many more.

White stands for a fresh start, a blank page. White forms is the starting point of this  multidisciplinary exhibition that presents documentary, portrait and landscape photography, as well as art, fashion, design, architecture, film, video and more.
WHITE has been compiled by Anne van der Zwaag, curator and publicist in the domain of art, design, fashion, photography and colour!

The exhibition is part of the long-term programme entitled BLACK&WHITE, which has been made possible by a generous contribution from the Wertheimer Fund. For more information, please see www.zwartwit.nu.

 http://nederlandsfotomuseum.nl

Instagram Polaroid Socialmatic Camera

The Polaroid Socialmatic Camera Coming In 2014

As social networking continues to permanently settle into the lives of millions, companies are making it hard to ignore. There are a thousands of apps and products that can be used to maintain social networking sites and Polaroid is ready to jump in and conquer the market again.
They are getting ready for the release of Instagram Socialmatic Camera at the beginning of the 2014.
I am not a gadget person but this is really exciting. I am really curious to see in which direction this will develop.
For more information: http://www.social-matic.com/site/

ASPIRE short film at Berlin Fashion Film Festival

FASHIONCLASH film by Strictua 'ASPIRE' will be part of Berlin Fashion Film Festival 2013. It will be presented at the Young Guns screening on the 3rd of july. If you're in Berlin make sure to be there. More information about the festival: http://berlinfashionfilmfestival.net/

A Final Affair - by Atelier Milada and Kris Micallef

Atelier Milada by Ann Boogaerts in collaboration with Kris Micallef

Atelier Milada by Ann Boogaerts is debuting at Amsterdam Fashion Week on January 24th 2012. She is showing her fall 2013 collection 'Brouillard Blue'.
In September 2012 she showed at Runway Malta on behalf of F.A.B (Fashion Across Borders) and there she worked with Kris Micallef. Together they created this beautiful shoot in the streets of Valletta.
The collection is inspired by a lady in her late 60's. Lady with a fantastic character that could easily come out of a Tolstoy novel.The lady travelled all around the world by herself, and during the journeys, she collected small souvenirs from the places she visited and the interesting people she met in Russia, France and Japan. The souvenirs meant so much to her that she integrated them in her clothing. That is what we see in this collection and the backdrop of Valletta seems as a perfect place for this shoot.

Ann Boogaerts graduated from Artez Academy in 2009 and with her graduation collection she has won the prestigious G-Star Raw Award 'Lichting 2009'.
Stay tuned for her new collection this week, but for now enjoy this stunning story.

Diane Arbus at Foam

What an amazing experience to see the iconic work of Diane Arbus at the exhibition in Amsterdam. 

Hurry up! 

Diane Arbus can be seen from 26 October 2012 - 13 January 2013 at Foam. 

http://www.foam.org

Diane Arbus (1923-1971) revolutionized the art she practiced. Her bold subject matter and photographic approach produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as they are. Her gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar, and for uncovering the familiar within the exotic, enlarges our understanding of ourselves.

MOAM & Foam

Queuing for Moam & Foam opening

Last night I attended the opening of MOAM in &Foam in Amsterdam. The exhibition is a huge success. Its support resulted in overcrowded space and a long queue for the opening and that is well deserved!

MOAM is an exhibition where fiftheen contemporary photographers work together with fifteen designers.
MOAM has selected one iconic image from three reputable Dutch photographers, Anton Corbijn, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin and Erwin Olaf and asked fifteen other talented photographers to translate these three images. As a result, five different interpretations on the occasion of the same photo. Inspiring and creative combinations that shine a new light on existing iconical photos.

three iconic images

In addition, each photographer is linked to a Dutch designer. This gives an innovative look at the iconic images. An interesting collaboration between the most successful names and the promising newcomers from the Dutch fashion and photography scene.














Participants
Alique & SPR+
Blommers/Schumm & Mattijs van Bergen
Carmen Kemmink & Borre Akkersdijk
Dennis Swiatkowski & Frans Molenaar
Jasper Abels & Avelon
Jolijn Snijders & Claes Iversen
Maarten Alexander & Sjaak Hullekes
Marc de Groot & Yvonne Kwok
Martien Mulder & Peet Dullaert
Paul Bellaart & Jan Taminiau
Philippe Vogelenzang & Winde Rienstra
Robin de Puy & Francisco van Benthum
Sanja Marušić & Hellen van Rees
Sophie van der Perre & G-Star
Valentina Vos & Nisha Rabiee

MOAM is an initiative of curator and event creative director Martijn Nekoui. This is his second project after the successful debut last year with the MOAM exhibition; fashion exhibition where twelve young contemporary talents gave reinterpretation to twelve Dutch fashion historic highlights.
http://www.martijnnekoui.com/

Impressions of the opening

Paul Bellaart & Jan Taminiau

'Man-made Animals' textile by Renée de Brock

I discoverd some interesting textile design at the Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show 2012.
One of them is the work of Renée de Brock.Renee de Brock’s Man-Made Animals is a collection of imaginary animal skins of treated leathers and furs. Using the BBC series Planet Earth as inspiration, Renee has created three new categories of animals for her samples: the green primal animals, the orange amphibios and the blue peltbios, complete with fur and scales.
The presentation goes along with great photography by Lonneke van der Palen and Guus Kaandorp.

Happy Birthday Tessa and Lisa

Happy Birthday Tessa and Lisa
Congrats to All Things Disorderly Attached

Designer Tessa Koot and photographer Lisa Klappe showcased their mutual love for the unanted and the useless during DDW2012.
Stating everything is designed; 'Happy Birthday Tessa and Lisa' celebrates the birth of a dysfunctional family of overlooked objects and hand-on design.

http://www.lisaklappe.com/
http://tessakoot.nl/

Julian Vassallo

This time at Runway Malta there was a nice little exhibition with photography and illustrations. The photography of Julian Vassallo caught my attention.
Check out his page for more work:
http://julianvassallo.4ormat.com/

Infinite Symmetry by David Joosten

Graduation Project by David Joosten

Camera, Edit & Set design: David Joosten
Styling: Manouk Hasebos
Make-up & Hair: Hanny van Snippenberg
Models: Sarah van den Brink at ELVIS Models, Lucas Sloot at 77 Models & Felix Schellekens Clothes by (in order of appearance): You Wie, Hellen van Rees, Walter Van Beirendonck, Manouk Hasebos and Bastian Visch

http://davidjoosten.com/

Kyle Thompson Photography

Kyle Thompson is a young photographer from Chicago, Illinois. He specializes in fine art photography, creating his own surreal realities in still images.
Here is just a small selection of just of his beautiful work. Have a look at his site for more.

All images © Kyle Thompson
http://kylethompsonphotography.com

Anne Peeters Photography

Anne Peeters is one of the 2012 graduates from ABK Maastricht
http://www.annepeeters.com/

Katy Strange

Karin Loopik, is the name behind Katy Strange.
I descovered her work at the ABK Maastricht 2012 graduation.

789 graduation project by Katy Strange
"I photographed all the people who slept in my bed for the last 2 years (789 days to be exact). These photographs are all short “bed-stories”, because this is how I experienced my student life. I use photography to tell my own personal stories.
 Throughout four years of study at the art academy I constantly tried to capture my experiences in photographs. Unfortunately I didn’t pay enough attention (photography-wise) to my friends in the beginning. Especially in hard times I often realize how much influence they have on me. They are part of who I am today. I show you my friends and you tell me who I am. Additionally I also made 100 self portraits. My student life has been unpredictably random sometimes and these 100 portraits of myself hopefully convey some of that randomness. They are shown in a timeline. So both my “Bed-stories” and the “100 days timeline” show me as an art student and the importance of the people around me, my friends."
 http://www.katy-photography.com

Fabian Landewee Photography

This year at ABK Maastricht graduation expo I found some nice projects at the Viscom department. One of the projects is this one of Fabian Landewee. Intimate portraits and beautiful photography.
http://www.fabianlandewee.com/

Robbert Jacobs Photography

"It does not have anything to do with calculation and geometry", the graduation project by Robbert Jacobs.

He just graduated with this stunning photography project from ABK Maastricht (Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht).
More work and info: http://www.robbertjacobsphotography.com/

Underwater Love by Kris Micallef

Kris Micallef presented a collection of sensual and timeless beauty in the FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2012 exhibition.
http://www.krismicallef.com/ 

Portrait of a sleeve by Lonneke van der Palen

Lonneke van der Palen in FASHIONCLASH Maastricht 2012 exhibition
For more: http://www.lonnekevanderpalen.com/projects/portrait-of-a-sleeve/

Promising photographers at OpenSpace-Talent

During this Pinksterweekend 2012 there is a lot to do in Maastricht. One of the refreshing presentations is OpenSpace-Talent.
OpenSpace-Talent is an exhibition with work from six upcoming photographers: Anton Kusters, Arjen Schmitz, Lonneke van der Palen, Maarten Kuypers, Noël Loozen and Valentina Vos.

OpenSpace is an initiative from design studio
Ontwerpbureau B2B.
http://www.open-space.nu