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//From the Editors Issue 6 of dpi magazine brings about bright colours and mediums from all over the world. Biro, iphone art, watercolour and vegan make-up, showcased in an eclectic and visually diverse volume. We are proud to present dpi magazine, V6.
front cover: Adam Rabinowitz | www.rabinowitz-photography.com inside cover: Tiago Brissos
6// A DA M R A B I N O W I T Z // Z A 14 // EL I C I A E D I JA N TO // I D N 22 // J U PH OTO G R A PH Y //AU 3 0// T I AG O B R I S S OS //AU 4 0// M I U V ER M I L L I O N // U S A 4 8// ER I N M CG E A N //C A N 5 4 // S H ER R Y A K R A M I // I R N 62 // EL L EN TAY LO R //AU 6 8// S I T ZO N E A R T // P O L 76// B I G C I T Y //AU 82 // S A R A H A L L EG R A A R T S I T R Y // U S A 92 // D O N AT EL L A PA R I S I N I //AU
Showcasing imaginative and artistically innovative photography, film and art
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ADAM RABINOWITZ - @colourcurated -
www.rabinowitz-photography.com I am a South African born photographer in love with travel and story telling through my images. My travels are funded through the sale of my limited edition prints from around the world. Before I started @colorcurated I was unaware how much of my photography focused on colour‌ in fact I have been able to post every theme on my Instagram account simply by delving into my image library. I haven’t had to deliberately take a single photograph. After a year of travelling I will be returning to South Africa to tell the stories of human rights abuses on the African continent. Two separate projects both with colour at their core will have me meeting and photographing people throughout sub-Saharan Africa. I love telling anecdotes from my travels, but this time around I would like to share something that is more meaningful to me.
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ELICIA EDIJANTO - a collection -
www.eliciaedijanto.com I live and work in Indonesia. Nature inspires me a lot. I try to create a unique relationship between human and nature with simple black and white watercolour to emphasize the mood of the scene. My art depicts small, vulnerable children alongside creatures of the wild like elephants, wolves and bears. Besides to remind people of how beautiful the relationships of human and nature are supposed to be, I also want people to feel the tranquillity while looking at my paintings. My subjects are often children and animals because they are honest, sincere, unprejudiced and unpretentious. It will be easier for people to feel the emotions. Art prints are available for orders at www.lumarte.eu
// Warriors watercolor on paper, 2015.
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JU PHOTOGRAPHY - in too deep -
www.juphotography.com.au model: Kylie Alexandra
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TIAGO BRISSOS - Oporto -
Porto, or Oporto if you prefer, is the second largest city in Portugal after Lisbon in the south. Set along the Douro river estuary, Porto is filled with the romance of bygone eras and as you walk it’s streets you could easily be fooled into thinking you’ve stepped back in time. No one could blame you though, Porto is one of Europes oldest cities and you can find evidence of its past in the city’s architecture, from Roman times to the Middle Ages, the baroque, the gothic and the elegant 19th century. Amongst its main attractions you can find the Sé Cathedral do Porto, with its impressive thousand year history, the beautiful Dom Luis bridge, designed by Goustave Eifel, the Bullhão Market, old charming and filled with staunchly proud Portuenses (people from Porto!) selling and yelling out their goods, and of course Port Wine. Named after the city, Port Wine is one of Portugals biggest and best known exports and no trip to Porto is complete without spending at least an afternoon visiting the old cellars and drinking the strong sweet wine. Visiting Porto as a photographer was wonderfully rewarding, the city, the architecture, the people, the river, take your pick, I could have spent weeks there “Cartier Bressoning “ my way through its streets!
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// The Spring
MIU VERMILLION - a collection -
www.miuvermillion.com
// Sorority Trinity
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ERIN MCGEAN - a collection -
www.erinmcgean.com Erin is a practicing artist with a BFA from York University where she majored in painting and drawing. She currently resides in Oakville, Ontario, Canada teaching high school Visual Arts while raising her family. A peaceful serenity overcomes you when taking in Erin McGean’s photography. Describing herself as a photo editor, she takes inspiration from nature & surrealism. Using only an iPhone and various apps Erin creates images in a fluid way to achieve some diverse effects. Quiet, lonely, blue and serene...her artwork tends to blend images seamlessly with soothing effects on the eyes. Anything in her day to day life might be used as subject matter; her local roads, her children’s silhouettes or even the design of a good chair. Each image has a sense of dreaminess that brings out the zen qualities that are so powerful in nature.
Portrait Blends Using my iPhone, two photos and a blending app, I create double exposure effects of people in my life from my kids, to my students and even myself.
left page, middle left: // Noah Model: Noah Yager
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SHERRY AKRAMI - a collection -
I am Iranian and I was born in Bangkok, Thailand in 1975. I lived 5 years of my childhood in Madrid, Spain and later on moved back to Tehran, Iran where I am currently residing. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Photography and a Master’s degree in Animation both from the Art University of Tehran. After finishing my university studies I have been mainly active in the field of Animation, but I always had a passion for photography and in the past two years I have had the chance to again pursue photography more seriously. My preferred photography styles are Creative Editing and Conceptual, which started after first being introduced to Jerry Uelsmann’s works. I do all my post processing with Photoshop and having worked in the dark room, I do appreciate the advantages that Photoshop offers for the creative process. I get my inspirations from the fantasy books that I enjoy reading, the places I visit and the pictures that I shoot. I prefer processing my work in monochrome as I think it enhances the elements of fantasy.
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E L L E N TAY L O R - from nothing comes everything -
www.ellentaylor.com.au Ellen’s work draws inspiration from imagined, manmade, and natural phenomena to celebrate form and space. Appearing light and heavy, soft and solid her works are a marriage between a love of drawing and sculpture. The rock motif, which is reincarnated throughout Ellen’s work, is a nod to the creative process. It mimics traditional artists materials whilst echoing the obsessive nature of making. In this way, these forms celebrate both the birthplace of ideas, and the artist as creator. Eventually, this says nothing about photography and technique, but more about the great masters of that gone era, they were able to be as realistic and accurate as possible with brush and paint the world in all its reality… That’s the great contradiction in my work, I’m leaving the visible reality of our current time, and bringing the invisible realism of the past forward in my work. As a result of this, I pull away present time from its structure and then time appears to be just a definition, which slowly fades away, when current and past becomes interwoven with each other.
// The First Silence biro on watercolour paper, 2016
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// From Nothing Comes Everything 63 biro on watercolour paper, 2016
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SIT ZONE ART - a collection -
// My Body is a Cage model: Sit Zone Art
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actor: CJ Fortuna
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actor: Gurvinda Atwal
‘Big City’ is a short film about making a friend on the ride home. We follow Vijay (Gurvinder Atwal) a lonely taxi driver and new Melbournian, whose shitty night is turned around when he’s befriended by a drunken stranger, Chris (CJ Fortuna), who teaches him how to have fun in the city. Directed by Jordan Bond & Lachlan Ryan and produced by Jarrod Theodore at DPI Productions, with pictures by DPI big-wig Gerard Warrener. The screenplay was selected by Open Channel as part of the Raw Nerve 2015 short film competition and funded in part by Screen Australia. ‘Big City’ is having its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival (#MIFF2016) on the 6th and 8th of August as part of the Accelerator 1 shorts program so come on down clown. Until then you can satisfy your desires with this exclusive interview.
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// Don’t Feed Me Scraps From Your Bed model: Veronica Ricci
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SARAH ALLEGRA - a collection -
www.sarahallegra.com prop and wardrobe, hair and make-up, concept and styling: Sarah Allegra
Sarah Allegra is a fine art photographer and self-portrait artist. She specializes in uncommon, conceptual imagery. Each image is a piece of visual poetry, and an entire world unto itself. Though she has myalgic encephalomyelitis, she does not let that hinder her photography, from location scouting, costume and prop making, physically draining shoots, to editing. It is important to her to be involved in every part of the photographic process, and as such, all of her elaborate props and many of the costumes she uses are hand-made on a very small budget. Sarah sees the world in a mythic, symbolic way. Things are rarely what, or all, they appear to be. There are hidden meanings in every shadow. Her photos offer the viewer a portal to this other world; an ethereal, dream-filled realm where the impossible becomes possible.
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model: Elle May Smith headpiece: Louise Lassay www.louiselassaydesign.com.au
// Eupholus Browni model: Mollie Hannigan
D O N AT E L L A PA R I S I N I - beetle mania -
www.donatella.com.au creative director, make-up, hair, graphics : Elvis Schmoulianoff www.elvisschmoulianoff.com
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