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ISSUE 43 APRIL 2015
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IN THE ISSUE 4 AMANDA IQBAL - FRACTURED 14 ANDREA PEIPE - LITTLE RED 24 DENNIS OSTERMANN - ANATOMY 36 ELVIS PIEDRA - SINFUL BEAUTY 48 JEAN SWEET - PLUCKING BEAUTY 60 LORI CICCHINI - SHE FELL FROM THE STARS 74 LORI CICCHINI - FRONTLINER 82 MICHELLE ENGBERG - LEVITATE 94 NICO NORDSTRÖM - PRISTINE BEAUTY 108 SAM KACZUR - WHISPER
FROM THE EDITOR
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Dearest Dark Beauties, What does April bring to Dark Beauty, amazing! This issue is so gorgeous and eye-gasmic. I have watched Dark Beauty grow into this amazing creature that is feeding itself and showing up in ways beyond my hopes and expectations. I am so happy with where we have come and what we are up to. Cover Credits: Photographer Lori Cicchini
Each month we spend hours looking at work from around the globe
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This issue will be one of those issues without doubt. I am so excited
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that we feel will inspire anyone who has the chance to gaze upon it. that we have created such opportunities for our fans, followers, readers and contributors to understand the goal of Dark Beauty and become such an important lifeline to this publication. Online and in print. Thank you for celebrating with us, we think you will be proud of this issue. The world needs more story in it to allow us to have that break from the hardness of reality at times, and the daily struggle a lot of us face as artists. This body of work will ignite imaginations without fail. Editor-and-Chief Topher Adam
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Project Director, Hair and MU, Fashion Stylist - Amanda Iqbal Photographer and Edits - Slav Zinger Creative Edits - Topher Adam Assistant to Stylist - Raquel Devience Clothing Designer - Erykah Ortiz, Zitroe
About the Designer: Eryka Ortiz began her career by sewing a Ramones patch to an old hoodie; it was then she knew she was destined to be a fashion designer. In high school she created and retailed a line of embroidered t-shirts. Ortiz then attended The Illinois Institute of ArtChicago, acquiring a Bachelor in Fine Arts specializing in fashion design. During college she worked and interned with various fashion designers as well as showcasing her own designs in local fashion shows. Ortiz now works as a design freelancer and continues her work under her own Zitroe label; a women’s wear luxe brand that is feminine and whimsy with a creative edge. Ortiz’s designs can be found at www.zitroe.com. Q&A With Amanda Iqbal What inspires you for a shoot? Why? I need texture and emotion to inspire me artistically. The emotion from peoples lives and their stories are the best way to be taken deep into any project. Watching movies based on past legendary artists and visiting local museums allow me to get “light bulb” inspirations. I need the texture of fabrics, metals and wood and visual shapes to pull it together and to help reflect the emotion into a project. I see in shapes and would be considered both visual and a hands on type of artist. I need to get into it with my hands to get the texture I need to be fulfilled. I am fun like that. Do you plan the entire shoot concept, or have help? So far I have been the artistic leader of my projects. As the project evolves my team will usually put in their “light bulb” inspiration. I will not stand in the way if their ideas flow with the original concept. Who do you look up to in the industry? Why? 4
I have chosen so many different mentors, there is so much available at our fingertips via the web and I continuously search for my inspirations. I like abstract along with historical golden and dark times. That seems to be my theme. Are you self taught, educate? College, online classes, tutorials, Self Taught? What steps did you take to learn your craft? I have always been self taught, I follow the try it first and only read the instructions if necessary. Because I am a visual artist I prefer the hands on approach because it challenges me. I did not like school when I was young and I did not plan out my education like my peers. I was fortunate that my family enrolled me into beauty school while I attended high school. The hair industry allowed my natural artistic instincts to be put to work. I have thirty some years under my belt in the industry. Who would you like to shoot? Celebrities, model, designer? Why? I would be most happy to have Coco Rocha or Kate Moss in front of my camera! With their natural instincts and undetermined “look” I could create anything. If you left a time capsule of your work, what would you leave in it? Would it be digital or physical paper? What would it consist? I would choose the work that I felt really captured my emotional sense of being. Only to be determined after leaving my day to day work grind. Work gets in the way of ones true being even if you are passionate about it. Physical paper for sure, with a digital back up of course! What caused you to become a photographer/fashion
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Andrea Peipe is a 34-year old self-taught fine art and creative portrait photographer based in Munich, Germany. After working as a translator for several years, she quit her job in 2010 to become a full-time photographer in Munich in 2011. Photography had been a big passion of hers since her teenager years when she got her first camera as a birthday present. She devotes herself to digital photography and the possibilities of digital post-processing. In her photos, she loves to create a world that often only exists in her head using props or beautiful clothes which are often vintage. With her surreal, emotional and sometimes whimsical photos, she aims to move the viewer emotionally, tell a story and inspire his or her fantasy. At the same time, photography is a possibility for her to bring emotions to life, to freeze time, and by that to hold on to a short fragile moment, or to create a dream-like vision. In order to achieve this, she enjoys taking use of the almost unlimited possibilities of digital post-processing. Her creative process often includes sketching her concepts and ideas before a shoot, looking for the perfect location and the perfect model that fits the idea in her head. For her current series “My Secret Garden” she made all the props and some of the clothes herself (some of them together with the help of her latest intern Andreas Sichel). Her ongoing new series “My Secret Garden” is inspired by several different fairytales including “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Thumbelina” and books like “Alice in Wonderland” and “Through the looking glass”. The series is a mixture of fashion and what she likes most of all – telling a story. The series will have different sub-series but also contain strong individual images. It will be an ongoing series for which Andrea has already sketched several more ideas and planned several shootings. For this series, she enjoys very much working with a team of creative people. Her make-up artist and assistant is Andreas Sichel who just did his master in photography in Milan. Her hair stylist is Antonio Gonzales who only moved to Munich from New York a few months ago and has been labeled by Vogue as “…a rising star”. For this series, she likes working with young designers from the ESMOD School using their beautiful clothes in her photos or designing some of the clothes herself. The editorial submitted here is called “Little Red” and is partly inspired by Little Red Riding Hood but with a different twist. The continuous element of this editorial is the color red. In the past few years, Andrea has participated in several exhibitions and art fair here in Munich, including ARTMUC and BassArt and already has exhibition spots in STORKE Urban Art Fair 2015 and ARTMUC Art Fair 2015. Furthermore, one of her GIFs was part of the Motion Photography 14
Prize Exhibition in the Saatchi Gallery in London in 2014. What is your style? Describe it. I love shooting in nature and almost never shoot in a studio. It suits me to incorporate the mood of the landscape I am shooting in, the natural light and the season of the year. I prefer darker photos to lighter ones because I find them more interesting and expressive. I enjoy using vintage dresses but also recent designs with a lot of fabric. What I enjoy most is telling a story with my images. I don’t want to shoot “normal” portraits but instead tell a story with my images – sometimes these can be more quiet stories and sometimes louder, more obvious ones. I love creating a world that often only exists in my head using props or special clothes. I aim to move the viewer emotionally and inspire his or her fantasy. What is your process? Describe your treatments. There are different ways in which I approach a project. Sometimes, I sketch before finding a model and garments, sometimes it is the other way around. But I will always have sketches of the concepts I want to turn into photos. I normally make extensive lists so that I know which garment, make-up and hairstyle belongs to which concept. If I don’t have a model yet, then I will look for one in various Facebook groups or on pages like Model Mayhem. But often I already have a list of models I want to work with in the upcoming future and I can ask somebody from that list. If I don’t have the dresses I want to use at home (I have a large amount of vintage dresses I bought over the years), I will go choose them at e.g. a fashion school and pick them up if they are available. What inspires you for a shoot? Why? Anything can be inspiring to me – a story, the line of a song, a film, a conversation, a landscape, clothes or even only a reflection on the ground. I cannot explain how my head produces ideas but often, when I see, hear or read something, I just see a concept in my head. I also trigger ideas by thinking about a combination of things – e.g. an object, a location and a mood or whatever combination works – and let that lead to a concept. In the case of my “My Secret Garden” series, I knew that I wanted to use several different flowers. And I wanted them to be BIG or lots and lots of them – I wanted them to be different. So in the case of this editorial “Little Red”, I thought about different kinds of flowers at first and then decided on using poppies. I have always loved poppies – they are so vibrant and beautiful but once you pick them up, you realize how delicate they are and they quickly fall apart. So my intern and I made poppies from paper. Literally hundreds of them. For weeks all we seemed to do was make poppies. We even made them one weekend on
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Little Red Name of the series: Little Red Photographer & Post Production: Andrea Peipe Model: Marie Bruns MUA: Andreas Sichel Hair: Antonio Gonzales Assistants: Andreas Sichel, Anne Puhlmann Designers:Â Theresa WeĂ&#x;becher (red dress) Laura Goergens (red short coat) Anne Koppmann (black dress) Andrea Peipe (cloak and skirt)
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Photographer: DENNIS OSTERMANN Fashion-collection SS 2015 by Bibian Blue. Models: Kseniya Arhangelova, Veronika Kashirskaya & Sana Guillera
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Sinful Beauty Photographer: Elvis Piedra Photographer Assistants: Manuela Monta単ez Guerra and Nuwayphotography Model: Anna Victoria Moore Makeup Artist: Lewina David Hair Stylist: Shawnese McDaniel Wigologist: Bobbie Riot Wardrobe Designer: Van Miller International
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Photography: Jean Sweet Hair: Jean Sweet Fashion Design & Styling: Constance McCardle Makeup: Unwana Rose
Jean Sweet is a passionate photographer who combines artistic imagination with her skill as a makeup artist/hairstylist to art direct each phase of a photo session project from concept to completion. The subject matter of Jean Sweet’s art depicts people with stylized fashion and visual enhancement, influenced by history, culture and/or fantasy. The expression of beauty is Sweet’s consistent goal for every image she creates. Her artistic process begins with the preparation of hair, makeup and wardrobe for the models and continues with the method of lighting she chooses while capturing each shot with her camera. For most of her projects, Jean Sweet works with a team of talented makeup artists and fashion stylists, and either personally executes or directs the hairstyling. Every image is processed and retouched by Jean as she manipulates the resulting photograph that is a reflection of her personal aesthetic captured through the interplay of human expression with the outward appearance manipulated by costume, hair and makeup. 49
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She Fell From the Stars Photography – Lori Cicchini Model – Anoush Anou & Antonio Barbaro Gown Designer – Tarese Klemens Head Pieces –(Crown) Rockstars & Royalty, (Blue piece) BM Designs Headwear, (Gold crown) – Tarese Klemens HMUA – Pro Makeup by Lauren Cataldo Assistants – Matt Bailey & Kerrie Brewer
Lori Cicchini is a Creative Portrait and Fashion Photographer based in Australia. After leaving an established career in sales with a background in fashion and marketing, Lori embarked in full time studies gaining a Bachelor in Photography with honors from the Institute and Australian National University for academic achievement. Her work is often described as dark art. Whether it’s portraiture or fashion there seems to be an underlying thread of something mysterious going on, often inviting the viewer to look further into the images. Lori’s interests clearly lie in creating storytelling portraiture whilst infusing it with fashion. Lori also has an obsession with the water both in and out, a world she describes as “serene and ethereal” photographing her subjects in remote and beautiful landscapes. The last few months have proved to be a snowball sequence of events exposing her work both nationally and international on a grand scale, to audiences both in fashion and art in general. Lori’s work has been seen at numerous group shows as well as her first solo exhibition late last year. Lori describes her journey in photography as “uncharted waters, I know I have only scraped the surface of where I want to go with my work, I hope there are enough years left in me to see them happen”. 60
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Frontliner Photographer – Lori Cicchini Model – Jane Capel-Stanley Designer – Dissonance, (Milinery Hair) Sovata, (Head Piece) Indigo Rose Design Wardrobe pieces by Designers – Tarese Klemens & Karen Lee HMUA – Pro Makeup By Lauren Cataldo
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Levitate Photographer and Editor Michelle Engberg Hair: Veronica Saenz Designer: Kathleen Tinker-Tinker Eveningwear Nail Tech/ Assistant to Photographer: Stacy/ Pamper Me Pink Mobile Spa BTS Documentary Video and Photos By Serna Productions
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Pristine Beauty Models: Tyler Chesson, Gabriella Pawelek, and Carly Adams Photography: Nico Nordstrรถm Designer: Chasity Sereal Art Directors: Kayla Hurt and Nico Nordstrรถm Makeup Artists: Morgan Horres and Sophia Jacqueline Hair: Jarad Reed Assistance: Ryan Pramik, Ulrich Von Dran IV, Paris Warren, Khris Weaver, and Rachael Patton Location: The Historic Ashton Villa
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Models: Chris Champagne, Mic McTavish, Brittany Oakes, Lillian Liu Photography: Sam Kaczur Art Director: Sam Kaczur Make up artist/ Bodypaint: Sam Kaczur Assistance: Chris Champagne
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