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Illustrators

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John Lee www.mervsplace.com

John Lee is a freelance illustrator living and working Kansas City; he recieved his BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2007. He is 23 years old and an Aquarius-Pisces cusp. He has libertarian leanings and loves Dim Sum stereotypically; favorite beverages include Coca-Cola, and sweet tea (he is originally from down South). He went into art school wanting to draw, and despite the educational system's best efforts, came out still drawing. He is of short stature, thanks to a complex genetic makeup aimed at reducing overall vertical growth (Chinese and Filipino). In his dreams (if you consider this kind of information relevent to the creative process), he is riding a Joernsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Cyclone racer through a flooded financial district, protecting the Sarajevo Haggadah from the clammy clutches of the undead. Running over the decaying hands reaching up towards him and racing towards certain undeath, his face is lined with a solemnity normally reserved for resigning statesmen who, finally bending to the frenzied masses, quietly begins to read his farewell speech with the steadily increasing rhythm of a work horse setting in against the plough.

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Keigo Mohri www.magnetism.jp

Keigo Mohri graduated Tokyo University. He works in Tokyo and does graphics, drawings and illustrations. Since 2003 he has presented his creation on his website under the name of “Magnetism”. He also contributes illustrations to the fashion label Tokyo Ripper (www.ellain.co.jp), which participates in Tokyo Collection. Designs interiors of their shops, too. He has started his own fashion brand “Thesis”. His main business is being the editor of web design magazine.

illustrators / Keigo Mohri

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illustrators / Keigo Mohri

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How did you spend your summer? Working and fishing. What is your art about? My works don’t show my personality. They are about modern mythology, lack of individuality and panoramic view of social world. What gave you the first impulse to go into illustration? Stress, anger and grief from social life.

Tell us more about your own fashion brand “Thesis”. “Thesis” is my personal fashion brand. T-shirts that prints the conceptual picture drawn as I think. Three collections - featured Japanese novelist Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Mother Teresa, and prince Shotoku have been developed so far.

How do you prefer to spend your free time? I like to read the Japanese cartoon “Manga”. I am always deep into and reading comic. There are hundreds of comics in my house.

And tell us about your art process. How do you create your pictures? Mainly, I am drawing with a pen or pencil. But it doesn’t stick to the tool. Sometimes scan to PC, and adjust the color. I draw little by little every day, it often takes complete several weeks.

What music does help you in your art work? Sorry... I don’t listen to music so much.

What do you see on your work table every day? Much paper and trasing table.

illustrators / Keigo Mohri

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Dmitriy Ligay d-planshet.livejournal.com

Dmitriy Ligay was born in 1986 in Tashkent. He began to paint since early childhood although he’s never studied in an art school. He painted copies of famous comics and created his own. During painting of the comics stories he experienced a lot of development of topic in a picture, reproduction of hero’s mood and emotions. Now he lives and works in Tashkent. “For me, illustrations are nothing more than a source of income - “art for order”. And they don`t have any mental or esthetic value. The only thing that is valuable in them is a wasted time. But you have to deal with illustrations very seriously. I try to follow this principle but I don`t succeed in it well. I live when I paint for myself. And even if I don`t understand what I am painting, I think that it is normal, because a human is only a guide. I never paint sketches to my illustrations and author works due to belief of primary role of improvisation. The school is an imprescriptible part in art. I consider modern art as a carnival of soap bubbles of design. It doesn`t attract and excite me. My own experiments are run in several stages because I think that they should be formed first.”

illustrators / Dmitriy Ligay

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illustrators / Dmitriy Ligay

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illustrators / Dmitriy Ligay

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Ana Bagayan www.anabagayan.com

Ana Bagayan was born in the capital of Armenia; Yerevan, and moved to the United States when she was six years old. In Burbank California, she frolicked amongst tall grasses and dancing bears until she entered Art Center College of Design in Pasadena where she earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Illustration. Anaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work has been received internationally and has been featured in such publications as Rolling Stone, Spin, GQ and various others. She currently resides in Venice beach with her boyfriend and their Yoranian puppy named Sushi.

illustrators / Ana Bagayan

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Ed Carosia mi-bulin.blogspot.com

illustrators / Ed Carosia

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illustrators / Ed Carosia

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Ee Venn Soh www.behance.net/vennsoh

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am the person behind the creative identity of EIII. I work completely on my own, without any formal trainings. But it just happens to be something that I am good at. Currently I am studying computer science in University of Auckland, New Zealand. Now, I am under an international student exchange program with Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. I will be focusing on image processing and computer graphics in later stages. My works are the saturated mixed media of colours balance, shapes, 3D perspective, drawings, airbrushing and photo manipulation. The candour and openness in designs with regards to my life as a whole have made me someone who truly appreciates arts today. I have never been to an art or design school. The only training would be the late night experiments and tutorials. To prevent myself to be a victim in the inundated repetition with all the brimming of uninspired works. I participate actively in the international art scene mostly those in the US, UK and European countries while keeping a close watch on the market leading inspiring creatives.â&#x20AC;?

illustrators / Ee Venn Soh

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illustrators / Ee Venn Soh

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illustrators / Ee Venn Soh

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Mikel A Telleria www.mikelatelleria.com

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illustrators / Mikel A Telleria

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Stefanie Haslberger www.casiegraphics.com

“My earliest Inspiration comes from my grandfather, he is an Artist of Modern Abstract Art and i discovered my passion to art and drawing very early. In the early 90’s I was really fascinated from graffiti movement and I started as a graffiti writer. Now I’m doing hand-made collages and drawings mostly without my computer. I got all my inspiration from animals and nature. I’m going a lot in nature historic museums and collect old natural science books, and I love to experiment with different materials and techniques.”

illustrators / Stefanie Haslberger

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illustrators / Stefanie Haslberger

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illustrators / Stefanie Haslberger

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Clayton Brothers www.claytonbrothers.com

The Clayton Brothers grew up in a small suburb in Colorado. Rob Clayton was born in 1963 and Christian Clayton was born in 1967. Both graduated from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California in 1988 and 1991, respectively. They now serve on the faculty at Art Center College of Design. Rob and Christianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drawings, paintings and installations have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide. The brothers currently share a storefront studio in La Crescenta California. Rob and Christian combined forces in 1996 to execute and collaborate on their shared visions of life beneath the superficial glaze of suburban culture. Their approach to art-making is a collaborative process: one brother begins a painting, then hands it off to the other, then back again, and so on. Using a universal, visual vernacular of superstition, institutional irony, story telling and urban legends, and combining stories from the lives they have witnessed, their paintings and installations hint at past worlds fleetingly glimpsed from train windows and interstate highways. Worlds where souls have crossed paths and stories have been abandoned. The Clayton Brothers are driven by unknown narratives. Their paintings are created to tell these overlooked stories and to ultimately reveal their own.

illustrators / Clayton Brothers

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illustrators / Clayton Brothers

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illustrators / Clayton Brothers

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Kate Andreas www.flickr.com/photos/absorb

“If I was asked what I am afraid of, I would say that I am afraid to die. But had I got a second chance - the life after death- I would have died immediately. To stop being afraid and to get more freedom. If I was asked to ask a question, I would ask: ‘’So what prevents you from doing something you really want in your life?” In my view, there is nothing more important than a dream and sincere aspiration to become better. If you believe in your objective, vanity cannot stop you. A dream makes us closer to eternity. A dream is a purity. I did not start drawing straight away. For the whole year I was worried that I was not able to do it. I was just afraid to begin. The most important is to begin not to be afraid of. I often paint with children, I take albums to the yard and paint. We sit down together, get to know each other and paint. Having in front of them my colourful rainbows and no drawing schemes, children ask me what I am painting and I explain, that I am painting my mood. It is true. Emotions are very important to me. I am indiffrent to what is going on with me, with the world around. I am also willing to transmit my moods in a constellation of sounds. A sound embodies millions of combinations, nuances, vibrations and play.”

illustrators / Kate Andreas

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illustrators / Kate Andreas

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Photographers

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Elo Vazquez www.helloelo.net

Elo Vazquez was born in 1983 in Sevilla, Spain, but she is currently living in Reykjavik. In 2005 she graduated with a B.A. in English language and literature and now she is taking a master’s degree in teaching Spanish as a foreign language. “I’m an English philologist (a weird word that comes from Latin that means ‘language lover’). But I’ve always felt more like a ‘image lover’. I started taking pictures in my elementary school trips and since then I’ve always had some camera around. My work is about finding and collecting those hidden moments that make life a little bit brighter.”

photographers / Elo Vazquez

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photographers / Elo Vazquez

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photographers / Elo Vazquez

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Mark McKnight www.tinyvices.com/Mark_McKnight

Mark McKnight was born in 1984 in Los Angeles, CA. He received his BFA in 2007 from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, CA. The recipient of a Fulbright grant, Mark is currently living and working on an upcoming project in Oulu, Finland and Lapland through 2009.

photographers / Mark McKnight

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How did it all begin — meaning the photography? I began making pictures at the end of High School. I was 17 years old and required to take a fine art course in order to graduate. I reluctantly took the course, expecting to fulfill a requirement and move on with my life and ended up really falling in love with the medium. I didn’t necessarily know why or what I was doing but I spent most of my free weekend’s on the train to and from downtown Los Angeles making the kinds of pictures that sheltered suburban kids make. I’d like to think I’ve moved on to more interesting subject matter but looking back at that work... though I may have been young or naive, reflects a pretty keen interest in a variety of subject matter and a variety of ways I wanted to approach it. I think that still exists in my work.

photographers / Mark McKnight

What camera do you mainly use? The only pictures I’ve ever really exhibited (online or in galleries) has been made with the same camera: a Toyo 4x5 field camera. It’s incredibly simple. I like to work easily and though having a large format camera can slow me down (for better or worse), the result is usually a picture that is much more considered. I’ve got an immense admiration for people who can move and work quickly... Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s in my nature. It’s also nice to work with the sharpness and good detail that a large negative provides.

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photographers / Mark McKnight

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What is your favorite theme for photography? My favorite “theme”? If you mean the kind of work I like to look at, then I would have to say that the New Topographic folks and all that early color stuff has really always been pretty near and dear to me. Eggleston, Shore, Sternfeld. I like photographers who look more then photographers who talk. In your opinion what is necessary for being a good photographer? A really genuine and sincere interest in picture-making is always important but not necessarily a necessity for being a good photographer. For example, I have this painter friend who makes incredible pictures. She has this inherent ability to make really beautiful images but doesn’t care for something like photography as much as she does painting. I also went to school with a lot of incredibly talented photographers who have since sort of put photography on the back-burner for other pursuits. Have you got another passion besides photography? Several. Most importantly, music. Whisky. Traveling (this sort of coincides with the pictures I’m usually making).

photographers / Mark McKnight

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photographers / Mark McKnight

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How do you concern to criticism? I think art criticism is incredibly important and I welcome a good discussion when it presents itself. I went to to a fine arts school on the west coast and we did a good bit of talking about work... sometimes to great effect and sometimes to the point of frustration. Talking about art can be really dangerous or really incredible. Personally, I have to be in the right mood. For the most part, I prefer to appreciate work on a visceral level and accept it for what it is. I usually have a difficult time appreciating work (photographic or otherwise) that necessitates an elaborate statement in order for it to be “understood” or even appreciated. Obviously, there are exceptions but in general I feel that more recently, artists (this includes, but is not limited to photographers) have used statements about the “conceptual framework” for what they’ve done as a crutch and talked their work to death in order to achieve some form of validation. At time’s it becomes kind of a smokescreen and undermines the actual beauty and intelligence of the work they’ve made. Tell us about your proximate plans for the future. My future plans… I’ve just moved to Finland where I’ll be living through May of 2009. I might try to get to France for a bit afterwards. It’s hard to see too far past that but I do know that when I get back to the US around June, I’m planning to go straight to North Carolina for a week long beach party with some of my closest friends before I start to seriously edit, print, and make sense of the work I’ve made here. We’ll see…

photographers / Mark McKnight

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photographers / Mark McKnight

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Sergey Komarov prelost.livejournal.com

Sergey Komarov is a Moscow photographer, who is studing as a movies producer. He started to take photos a few years ago thanks to a Zenit camera given to him by his girlfriend as a gift. Then he’s used a great variety of different cameras. Sergey likes to take pictures on film but doesn’t like the digital formats. He does different projects, shoots a documentary film as the author and an operator. Recently he visited the prison “The White Swan”, where he took the portraits of the convicted for life people. He hope that this project will turn into the exhibition soon. “I was influenced deeply by the culture and art of the eighties and the nineties, street art, street culture of megalopolises, modern European architecture, movies of independent American and European studios, musical culture from indie and rap to electronic...I like to take pictures of men, girls are more difficult to photograph.”

photographers / Sergey Komarov

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photographers / Sergey Komarov

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photographers / Sergey Komarov

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photographers / Sergey Komarov

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photographers / Sergey Komarov

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photographers / Sergey Komarov

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Jamie Campbell www.jamiecampbellphotography.com

Jamie Campbell was born in Niagara Falls Canada, in 1983. He has received a B.F.A from Ryerson Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Image Arts Photography program and will begin his M.F.A this September at Concordia University in Montreal. His work has been exhibited in both Canada and the U.S.A. Jamie Campbellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photographic direction, or exploration, is centralized in the area of constructed dilemmas and fabricated scenarios emphasizing both the internal and external struggle of the human condition. Focusing within the realm of ambiguity arising from specific gesture, gaze, and interaction with location, his work creates fictional narratives that display introverted moments of vulnerability and the exhaustion wrought by defeat. photographers / Jamie Campbell

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photographers / Jamie Campbell

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photographers / Jamie Campbell

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photographers / Jamie Campbell

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photographers / Jamie Campbell

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Grant Willing www.grantwilling.com

Grant Willing was born in 1987 and grew up in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado, USA. He is currently in his fourth year studying photography at Parsons School of Design in New York City. He has exhibited his photographs internationally, most recently at the Australian Center for Photography in Brisbane, Australia and at Higher Pictures Gallery in New York City. His work has also been featured in publications such as Hijacked, A Field Guide to the North American Family, and the forthcoming issue of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This Is A Magazine.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;

photographers / Grant Willing

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photographers / Grant Willing

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photographers / Grant Willing

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photographers / Grant Willing

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photographers / Grant Willing

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Marie Ek

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Marie Ek is from Stockholm, Sweden, originally from Vasteras, just north of the capital. She was born in 1979. Nowadays she is a film student at The Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm. â&#x20AC;&#x153;IÂ´m passionate about film and photography, and love the stories that photos possess. Just as there are layers in movies I like the power of photos, how one picture can inspire to so many feelings, emotions and tell so many stories. Different stories to different beholders... I mainly use an old Hasselblad and an SX-70 camera.â&#x20AC;?

photographers / Marie Ek

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photographers / Marie Ek

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photographers / Marie Ek

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photographers / Marie Ek

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photographers / Marie Ek

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Patrick Millard www.patrickmillard.com

Patrick Millard is an artist who originated from the small Western Michigan town of Lamont. Working in photography, painting, mixed media, and installation has resulted in a diversified portfolio of work that addresses ideas about the culture of technology and the interactions that human beings have within their own synthetic environment. His work has been exhibited both locally and nationally and continues to gain recognition. Recent collaborative art exhibitions and installations include the international art happening ‘Blow the City’ in Ghent, Belgium as well as ‘A Million Little Pictures’ at Art House in Decatur, GA. Patrick received his MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. He is currently adjunct professor of photography in Michigan at Grand Valley State University. photographers / Patrick Millard

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Formatting Gaia The cycle between human beings and the natural world has been transformed into a new formation that inspires intricate modes of transmitting and receiving information. Through the development of modern technologies human beings have begun to unfold the possibilities of telematic and cybernetic systems of communication. Earth is no longer a simple exchange of biological entities, but a more complex system that employs digital signal to mediate our existence within it. Human beings, technology, and nature are now all part of a congruous system of existence that is becoming more and more visible in our landscape. Formatting Gaia depicts this world, where there is a physical connection between the three and all work in unison with one another. These images explore an alternate version of the human existence than what we have known it to be in our short history. As opposed to being what we at times feel to be independent of nature and technology, the images show the necessity we have for them, as well as how we have used technology to steer our own genetic makeup. Photographic investigations into this world leaves one with a visual depiction of the possibilities that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already begun to travel towards along our evolutionary path.

photographers / Patrick Millard

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photographers / Patrick Millard

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photographers / Patrick Millard

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photographers / Patrick Millard

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Tamara Rosenblum www.tamararosenblum.com

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am a photographer in the tradition of street photographers. Helen Levitt and Weegee are some of my heroes. My photos are about the collision of public and private in urban environments and about immigrant communities in New York. I shoot film except for when I am commissioned by a newspaper or PR agency.â&#x20AC;?