Vote for the Cover of STRKNG Editors’ Selection – #49

Vote for the Cover of STRKNG Editors' Selection - #49 - Blog-Beitrag von  STRKNG / 22.01.2021 11:02

Please help us to find the next cover image for our issue »STRKNG Editors’ Selection – #49« and comment with your favorite image number.

1 »You and You« © Photographer Knas

2 »Stories of land and sea ii« © Photographer mark kinrade

3 »Portrait of Lorca« © Photographer Peyman Naderi

4 »Nude study« © Photographer Andreas Reh

5 »***« © Photographer Mecuro B Cotto

6 »white winter« © Photographer Renate Wasinger

7 »Quinn« © Photographer Mauro

8 © Photographer Ando Fuchs

9 »Myself and I« © Photographer Alexandru Crisan

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Teilnehmer: Fotograf Alexandru Crisan / Fotograf Ando Fuchs / Fotograf Andreas Reh / Fotograf Knas / Fotograf mark kinrade / Fotograf Mauro / Fotograf Mecuro B Cotto / Fotograf Peyman Naderi / Fotografin Renate Wasinger

Tierisch

Tierisch - Blog-Beitrag von Fotograf Andreas Ebner / 21.01.2021 12:18

Tierisch ernst…

…müssen Shootings nicht immer sein. Zwischen Arbeiten an inszenierten Sets finde ich es total erfrischend, spontane Gelegenheiten und die sich in der Natur bietenden Kulissen zu nutzen. Hier erzähle ich einmal, wie sich neue Shootings – und Freundschaften – ergeben können:

Ein warmer Augusttag. Nichts ist besser, als ins Wasser zu gehen. Gerade shoote ich Melisa in der Wupper, als meine Flusskulisse zu toben beginnt; Pferde scheinen das Wasser zum Kochen zu bringen und bilden plötzlich einen wundervollen Hintergrund für mein Model. Schnell ist der Kontakt zu Celine*, ihrer Mutter, den beiden Schwestern und weiteren Reiterinnen geknüpft. Aus dieser kurzen Begegnung ergeben sich eine ganze Reihe wundervoller Shootings, aus der ich hier einige Bilder insbesondere von Celine zeige.

Mittlerweile haben sie und ihre wundervollen Schwestern mein Portfolie aufgefrischt, ja, erfrischt und Celine ist eins meiner ganz wichtigen Models geworden. Wir shooten, ernsthaft, mit Spaß, halt nicht immer "tierisch ernst" – aber immer gerne.

*Bildteilnehmerin https://www.instagram.com/celine_spe/

SHAME

SHAME - Blog-Beitrag von Fotografin Sofia Dalamagka / 20.01.2021 00:49

Shame was born one late afternoon in January,2,maybe 3 years ago, in a room of a hotel in Budapest .For a long time it didn’t have any shape, even if its presence was there…

Looking back at that time, i don’t see a title or existence, as if i fell into a trap, and got out again…

Suddenly as time went by, there was a moment which sparkled the idea, there had to be a fight with reality, the camera became the connection between subconsciousness and existence…

The following pictures, are part of my own confessions, like a mirror which reflects fear, desire, phantasies, nightmares, memories…Nothing else…

In order to create this, i had to draw up my own memories or those of people close to me, i had to "borrow" their stories which i recreated from the beginning…

I tried, most of the time, through a surreal way, to express the different details of the body, the right to be angry, to be enraged, violent, sad…I met -found me, my own self on the other side, playing the role of the person being photographed or, being the photographer.

Every picture was a role-play, a real or imaginary person, a painful procedure which i had to imprint-reflect without knowing if i managed to show the war taking place inside us living in a fake, made out of paper, world, where morality and discrimination are at war with the perfection of a modern, neurotic woman who must hysterically accept and faithfully follow flawless beauty and filters on Instagram and social media…

I was influenced by photographers, painters, writers in order to create SHAME, for example Cindy Shermans work, the theatrical figures and stage persona she created inspired me to try and create a debate between these pictures so as to create* questions and not to give answers about how complicated women, as an existence, are…

De Bovouars "LE DEUXIEME SEXE I ET II" and the acceptance of her saying ""Woman is not born, you become."" made the original idea, stronger…

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Her sexual implications in her play Claudia Cahum, her search of identity, the right to be different…. >

Frida Kahlo’s surreal mood, her taut self-portraits