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Nineties Teenager

I was a teenager in the nineties. Yes I am old. It was an angsty time of oversized t-shirts, a lot of denim, and television series like My So Called Life . When I saw this photographic series by Adrienne Salinger titled Teenagers … Continue reading

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Hsiao-Ron Cheng

Hsiao-Ron Cheng is a Taiwanese digital artist and illustrator with a distinctly ‘feminine’ approach. Her predominantly pink and pastel-hued works are softly rendered, giving them an ethereal quality. I particularly liked her portraits, which I will share with you today. She … Continue reading

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In The Shadow of Freud’s Couch

My mother has worked as a clinical psychologist for the majority of my life. I vividly remember the various offices she practiced out of. As a kid, it was a place of mystery where strangers went to talk, cry and … Continue reading

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The Grace of Gray

Maybe its because I’m an old soul at heart, but I’ve always wanted to dye my hair grey or white. So you can understand why I responded to this photo essay in the tenth issue of Kinfolk Magazine. Kinfolk’s latest … Continue reading

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Kin

Pieter Hugo is one of my favourite South African photographers because of his ability to find and capture some of the most captivating and disturbing subject matter on the African continent. His work shows the diversity and beauty of Africa, … Continue reading

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Lapo

Lapo is an artist from Rio de Janeiro, who currently lives in Lisbon. Her work is influenced by the notion of automatic drawing, which was popular during the Surrealist movement, where artists try to disconnect their creative process from their … Continue reading

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Sightseer

Hello! Apologies for my absence, with work and my mother visiting from Johannesburg time to blog was scarce. Without further ado, I’d like to introduce you to a series by photographer Roger Minick titled Sightseer, which started in 1975 and ended … Continue reading

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Rayyiu Radzi

Rayyiu Radzi is a photographer from Malaysia whose flickr feed and tumblr reads as a visual travelogue of his adventures around the globe. So far he has captured the beautiful landscapes and people of Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Most recently … Continue reading

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Ye Rin Mok

Ye Rin Mok was born in Seoul, she currently works as a photographer in Los Angeles. Here are some of her captivating portraits.

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Vivian Maier

Vivian Maier (1926-2009) was an American self-taught photographer who grew up in France. Over the 40 year period she lived in Chicago she took over 100,000 photographs of street scenes, people and self-portraits. She had a great eye for interesting … Continue reading

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