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Editor in Chief :: Lola Devere Photo Editor :: Sid St Vincent Layouts :: Jamie Hughes Copy Editor :: Eleanor Chandler
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Issue one features..
Lauren Withrow .....................................................................................................page 6
Scott Morgan............................................................................................................page 18
Phlegm.......................................................................................................................page 30
image23......................................................................................................................page 42
Midnight Digital interview......................................................................................page 54
Agostino Arrivabene......................................................................................page 62
Tina Sosna..............................................................................................................page 80
Eugeina Kirikova......................................................................................................page 94
Lauren Withrow
Lauren Withrow is a 19 year old photographer from Texas. Her work has a maturity of style that is way beyond her years. Her work often combines muted colour with dark & mysterious themes to create images which fall elegantly between fashion and fantasy. www.laurenwithrow.com
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Scott is a Bristol-born photographer now living in Taunton. He frequently uses beautiful landscapes and abandoned buildings as locations in his images, evoking a fine art sensibility and creating a kind of desolate hope. www.scottmorganphotography.co.uk
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Phlegm Phlegm is an illustrative fine artist from Sheffield Uk. He uses traditional mediums to create exquisitely detailed images of other worldly characters going about their own parculiar dramas. He produces these as printed comic books, handmade screen prints and huge 50ft murials on the sides of buildings. He’s got a new book coming out soon which will be available from his blog.. www.phlegmcomicnews.blogspot.co.uk
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www.image23.co.uk
image23 is a fashion and fine art photographer working in East London. This shoot was a colaboration with talented designer Ley Lau to illustrate her latest range of bespoke handmade clothes.
Clothes by ley lau Hair Myo Myint MUA Gia Mills Models Madison & Elena
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Midnight Digital
Christophe Dessaigne is a French artist who lives in the south of France. His creations are open doors to fantastic and dreamy horizons where digital photography serves the fanciful imagery of surrealist photomontages. His universes are desolate, vast and insubstantial. Gigantic scaled structures rule the landscapes, dwarfing human beings to the size of ants. His post-apocalyptic kingdoms, equally poetic and terrifying, are visions of the end of the world. His work has appeared in cover art book and CD covers in Europe, and has recently been featured in Advanced Creations and PSD Phoshop Magazine.
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Who or what influenced you to become a photographer? I’ve always been attracted by images. When I worked as a journalist for a local newspaper I used to work with photographers. It was probably my first contact with this media. I think I’m doing photography because I like to create stories and atmosphere.
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I love the awesome sense of desolation and loneliness in your images. Was there anything that you can think of that inspired this, or were you just naturally drawn to creating this type of image? I remember when I was kid, I watched Planet of The Apes, the first movie. At the end of the film there’s this cult scene : Charlton Heston is riding a horse on the vast deserted beach, the camera’s slowly moving backward revealing the Statue of Liberty ~ wrecked and
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If you have a good location then you have 80% of the final image. The rest is “only” a matter of patience and skills. Finding the location is the most difficult part of the job. But it’s also very exciting. I spend a lot of time scouting good locations. It can be very frustrating when you’re back home after one day on the road without anything on your memory card. Your images have a fantastic ‘other world’ quality; can you talk a little about how you achieve this? For example, do you use a lot of post production and composite images or is it more about finding the right location and doing most of the work in camera? Actually it’s all of these. Sometimes people think some of my pictures are heavily processed, but they’re wrong.
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And sometimes some of my pictures which look more simple are in fact far more complex than they look. Basically I try to take good pictures. Well exposed and framed. Then I try to move the image into something “unreal” with photo editing software. I always work with music on. It’s very important to me. Without the music I can’t do anything. I also try to not have the full control of the image. I know where I want to go, I figure out -more or less- what will be the final result or at least the mood I want to create but I like sometimes to get lost in my creation. The image has it’s own life and mystery. Your work is very creative, and I would say in the realms of fine art photography. Is this something you find you can earn a living from and if so how do you make that possible? For example, do you sell prints and books, do commissioned work or something entirely different?
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Why is Photography important to you? Well, it brings me money! More seriously, photography (like painting, drawing or whatever) is a creative media and it’s something that is necessary in my life as a form of expression. Living without any artistic expression would be something so boring. What are you interests outside of photography? A lot of things. I’m a real geek. I love cinema, reading sci-fi/horror novels. I collect rock CD’s (I have more than 2000 CD’s at home). I’m also into 80’s pop culture. I like to watch documentaries. Scouting and exploring abandoned places. I love to play boardgames with my friends. I live in a country where sea and mountain are very close, so I like hiking in the woods and mountainside. Could you tell us a little about your lifestyle; what is your average week like? I spend my whole week checking the weather reports to see how the weekend will be to take pictures outside! Actually I live in a very sunny country where it could be difficult to have a cloudy sky. I’m cursed! Besides this, I am plotting evil plans to raise the Great Elder Ones from their dark lair where they dwell for ages. Full time job. A common problem now is image theft on the internet. Do you ever have problems with this and, if so, how do you deal with it? Unfortunately yes, I know this problem. Actually I’m more intolerant with people who are trying to copy some of my images or use them on Facebook or whatever. There’s not so much I can do. It’s part of the game. And finally, any advice for people just starting out? Do not try to fit in, always try to be yourself. It might be the most difficult task in a modern society, but you never know where it might lead you. Art can take any shape you want, as long as it touches somebody’s soul.
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Agostino Arrivabene Agostino is an artist based in Italy. He has been exhibited many times since 1994, both in Europe and the US. His work, spanning many different mediums, conveys strange and often mystical subjects. Rich in symbolism and imagination, his work is celebrated internationally. Look on to see why! www.agostinoarrivabene.it
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Tina Sosna
Tina is a young and inspiring photographer from Germany with a beautiful style which seems to sit somewhere between dream and reality. She describes herself as a ‘19 year old redhead,full of nature, dreams and love’. Her photographs that are editorial in style, beautifully weaving a somewhat whimsical quality with sensitive and often nostalgia evoking scenes. www.flickr.com/photos/worteinbildern/ worteinbildern.blogspot.de
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Eugenia Kirikova Eugenia is a Russian photographer based in Moscow. She has had her work exhibited in Italy and been published by TASCHEN in The New Erotic Photography Vol. 2. She also has a couple of books available through blurb. Check out her website for more.... kirikova.finegallery.net
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Thank you for reading Issue One of Fiche Magazine. We would like to take this opportunity to praise all of our contributing artists and photographers and thank them for the beautiful work that they submitted. Fiche is a new magazine, which we hope will be in print before too long. We will continue to strive to feature amazing imagery with each issue and hope that you will enjoy the content. If you would like to submit your work to Fiche please go to www.fichemagazine.com/ submissions for guidelines.
Jamie Hughes Editor in Chief Eleanor Chandler Co-Editor
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