Bernadinism Issue 1

BERNADINISM

ISSUE 1

BERNADINISM Photography Portfolio

Alva Bernadine

www.alvabernadine.com

LONDON

Alva Bernadine’s photographic signature is unique. His

work combines elements of surrealism and erotic photography with humour. These photographs — be they in color or in black and white – are meant to astounding, provoke and compel.

Specialising in location portraiture, fashion and illustrative photography. Broad themes of narrative the utilisation of icons and fetishes, ranging through religious symbols, shoes and various trivia of modern life. These are blended with positional confrontation, surrealism and vivid colour to produce events, though recognisable are anything but conventional.

Clients: Attitude, Ariola BMG, Company, DJ, Elle, Elle Decoration, EMI, Emma Hope Shoes, FHM, FX, GQ, Kadu Sportswear, Kodak Pathé, Light, Mixmag, New Scientist, She, Sunday Times Magazines, Tatler, Telegraph Magazine,Vogue.

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S h o e fetishism, alsoknownas retifism(after Nicolas-Edme RĂŠtif), involves being irrationally or abnormally fixated on the shoe or other footwear to the extent it may interfere with sexualexpression.

Although shoes carry sexual connotations in mainstream culture, this is not generally considered to be shoe fetishism, although it may qualify as a form of partialism.

Winner of the Vogue/Sotheby’s Cecil Beaton Award

The Shrine

The Two Towers

The Dream of the Masturbator

Umbral Spectre at Eventide

Umbral Spectre: Hand and Knife Expressing the Sentiment of Love are Metamorphosed into a Sundial Illumined by the Light of the Moon, Whilst the Shade of Allesando Valente Sings Non Piangere Lui from Turandot by Puccini

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Eucharistic Altar

When a visitor comes seeking to know something of this great complex, it is to the historic centre that his steps will be directed. For it is the Houses of Parliament, the Tower, the great galleries and museums which symbolise London in the imaginations of those who come from abroad and afar.

Hence the tongues of many nations which can make a native feel a stranger in Trafalgar Square.

For many there will be the memory of some the great tourist attractions, Westminster, Saint Paul’s, the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London. For all, one thinks, there will be the recollection of London’s characteristic ‘street-scape’, of the massive red buses against the dignified stone facade of Whitehall, of flights of pigeons around Nelson’s Column and the National Gallery. London is not as other cities.

View towards Waterloo Bridge

View towards Waterloo Bridge

View towards Waterloo Bridge

The Serpentine, Hyde Park

Saint James’s Park

View from Black Friars Bridge

Royal Festival Hall Gardens

BERNADINISM Issue 1

Alva

BERNADINE

alva@alvabernadine.com www.alvabernadine.com