CZE Magazine
Dark Issue
Featured photographs have a specific energy, closely accotiated with darkness. Something hidden, forbidden, frightening, but still well known to all of us. Many people suffer from Nyctophobia, but we all have that inner dark side. One does not simply run away from this. Issue 12 will take you deeper.
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Suggested music for the DARK ISSUE
Insulin by Crystal Castles
Dark Matter by Bjรถrk
Dark Train by Underworld
Evil by Grinderman
Forgive by Burial
Antistar by Massive Attack
Emil Kozak Big Black Nothing
An exploration of boundaries. Its basically walking until I get scared, or can’t go any further... take the photo and go back...
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Miranda Lehman
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Amanda De Vito
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Misha Koptev project by Synchrodogs
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The project is about Misha Koptev - 42 year old designer from Lugansk (Ukrainian city that is on the bottom of the rating of Ukrainian cities due to statistics about unemployment, drugs, alcohol, crimes etc.) Misha is one of those people not having any job, money, stability. He doesn’t know how to sew, he didn’t study design or fashion, he knows no fashion news from around the world, watches no TV, Internet, Magazines. In 1993 Misha Koptev created (not officially grounded by papers) Theatre of Provocative Fashion “Orchid”, since that time the entrance fee is not more than 0.6 euro for a person to come and watch the show.
All the people on the pictures have no money, they drink alcohol really hard making provocative fashion shows in some crappy local bars, working for 1 bottle of vodka and some small amount of money. Misha himself is a genius born in Ukrainian ghetto, his clothes represent Ukrainian lifestyle to some extent.
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The shooting took place partly in the flat of his mother, in one room of which he keeps his clothes. All the outfits are just on the floor mixed up with garbage, bugs, dirt, boxes, bones of dead animals he found on the street and uses for his collections. He rarely makes shows now, big part of his clothes is stolen by “models” (as some of them were imprisoned before, some are pregnant, some are sick, or just have no money to live decently). He buys clothes at flea markets, cuts some parts with the scissors, puts the crystals and strasses on, do make-up and old school body art. In his city he is a truly scandalous personality, he says “If I come to police and say I am Misha Koptev they put me into prison without explaining the crime”.
CĂŠdric Monot
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John C
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Counts
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Hudson Gardner
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Gega Chumburidze
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Interview with
TEEN WITCH
a.k.a. Andrea Sonnenberg
CZE: Do you often see other people’s blood around you? In streets, parties. etc..? TEEN WITCH: Not typically. Mostly in fights though, I do happen to see quite a few fights. CZE: So you say, San Francisco is a very peaceful town, without any hardcore parties and blood? TW: Not really. There are many fights happening in San Francisco, all the time. Just the other day I was at a baseball game and saw a really crazy fight. CZE: What is the most popular drug among you and your friends? TW: Alcohol. Cocaine. Pills. CZE: Tell us a short poem with DARK theme. (Just improvise) TW: Haha. Sure I guess.. She is a witch, a teenage witch, her hat and cape , are black as pitch. haha thats my best offer CZE: What are you up to these days? TW: I’m working right now on getting a photo printed 33 ft long and 23 ft high that I’m going to wheatpaste onto the side of a building on market street here in SF. CZE: Sounds cool. What places would you recommend to a newly arrived person in SF that is into “dark” stuff? TW: I don’t know, there are venues here that play all kinds of music, and if you’re into certain types of music, it’s easy to fall into your scene. A lot of hardcore/punk shows happen in oakland, which is a really fun place to go and fuck shit up in.
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CZE: Do you belong or ever belonged to any sub-cultural movement? If not, would you join any? TW: There are many subcultures in SF. I feel like growing up here gave me the opportunity to meet so many different people that I feel apart of a whole bunch of them. CZE: What is the scariest/creepiest thing you have ever seen? TW: Being held up at gunpoint is probably the scariest thing I’ve seen. Seeing guns is pretty scary, but as far as creepy goes, I’ve definitely seen ghosts before. I’ve had paranormal visions where I was seeing something I couldnt describe. CZE: Does your nose bleed often? I’ve seen a few pics of it. Anything paranormal? TW: Usually just from hangovers. CZE: Favorite color? TW: Black and mustard yellow CZE: Okay.. last one.. If you had to choose, how would you want to die? TW: Funny you mention, I think about death quite often. Probably gunshot wound or stabbing seems best but I think about overdose or hanging would be equally ok, not that I revel in death but I do often think about how one will go CZE: We all do, I guess. Thanks for your time, it was fun! TW: Thanks!
Gabriel Adda
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SHOW AND TELL Melissa Kagerer
Ok, so this was a rough night. I was living in Chicago at the time and on this particular night I came home from my night class to find my friends with a half gallon of whiskey goofing off in the park down the street. It was December and it had been snowing the past couple of days so there was a nice fresh layer down that we where happily destroying. There was a set of stairs and everyone started joking about how fun it would be to jump over the stairs and land in the snow... so someone actually went to go do it and did it successfully a few times. This encouraged ano58
ther friend to attempt it but instead of jumping down the stair set he jumped over the rail and landed face first on concrete, which none of us knew was there at first ‘cos it was covered in snow. So Pete lifts his head and blood just starts pouring out of his face, he had bit through his bottom lip (which he could now stick his tongue through) and broken his nose. It was the contrast of the blood against the white snow that made me take the photograph. It was violent and peaceful all at once.
Brendan J Megannety
This particular photo was taken in Vancouver at a skatepark called Leeside. Every year there is an informal Halloween jam where everyone skates costumed, there is music and lots of booze. We ended up in Vancouver (my hometown) after a 5 week road trip through the United States, and this was our last night before flying back to Toronto. I think it was a perfect end to an amazing trip!
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Nicole O’Connor
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Milica Stefanovic
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Noah Kalina
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Melchior Tersen
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Grace Denis
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Romain Brunet
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Dima Nevredimov
Sumeja Tulic
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Natalie Kaplan
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Simon Lalia Auschwitz
Auschwitz Birkenau, German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was the largest of the German concentration camps.
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Theo Cottle Bristol
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Michael Dennington
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Wouter Van de Voorde
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Ivan Fucich
Paul John Nelson
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Tom Kondrat
Sasha Kurmaz
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Jan Cieslikiewicz
Carl Heindl
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Martina Kovacevic
Tess Roby
H채re Christian
Maciek Pozoga
Helena Vieira
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Campbell Sibthorpe
Ben West
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Nicholas Pomeroy
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Ada Hamza
Sasha Mademuaselle
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Þórarinn Einarsson
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Fredrik HolmĂŠr
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Ben Mauze
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Peter Sutherland
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Ole Thomas
Levi Mandel
Ulya Kimaeva
Dimitri Karakostas
Julia Volpato
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Sandy Kim
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Will Keats-Osborn
Bogdan Slovyagin
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George Nebieridze
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Martin De Martin
Roy D Henry
Bernard LeChevre
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Juan Ignacio Zevallos
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Denisa Tkačíková
Emilien Fresson
Sara Azmy
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Oleg Mayhopar
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Manuel Ott
Matt Casey
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Bhumika Bhatia
Manuela Costalima
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Thomas van der Zaag
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Emily Vilmont
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Randall Phenning
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Jay Bing
Stephan Georg Hauptmann
Kate Kirkwood
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Pauline Magnenat
Jesse Untracht-Oakner
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John Vetrano
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Clemens Fantur
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Tamar Burduli
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AndrĂŠs Medina
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Alexis Clerc
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Andris Feldmanis
Daniel Grant
Sam Dickey
Thomas Albdorf
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Christine Karlsson
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Franck Doussot
Alessandro Ruggieri
Samuel J Stewart
Katja Kremenic
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Jake Ricker
Lado Lomitashvili
Unknown photographer
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Yi Chan
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Ian Fildes
Elisa Magnini
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Credits
(In alphabetical order) Ada Hamza adahamza.tumblr.com
Daniel Grant flickr.com/photos/theycallmemuddy
Alessandro Ruggieri flickr.com/photos/use-less-useless-words
Denisa Tkačíková denisatkacikova.cz
Alexis Clerc alexisclerc.com
Dima Nevredimov cargocollective.com/nevredima
Amanda De Vito flickr.com/photos/-dust-bunny-
Dimitri Karakostas tobehonestiexpectedmore.com
Andrés Medina andresmedina.com
Elisa Magnini elisamagnini.com
Andris Feldmanis fandris.planet.ee
Emil Kozak emilkozak.com/photography
Ben Mauze flickr.com/photos/darkmatterphoto
Emilien Fresson cargocollective.com/emilienfresson
Ben West bewe.me
Emily Vilmont emilyvilmont.com
Bernard LeChevre flickr.com/photos/sadhaus
Franck Doussot franckdoussot.com
Bhumika Bhatia bhumikab.carbonmade.com
Fredrik Holmér fredrikholmer.com
Bilge Emiroglu flickr.com/photos/34534458@N07
Gabriel Adda gabrieladda.com
Bogdan Slovyagin cargocollective.com/neonamerika
Gega Chumburidze gegachumburidze.photoshelter.com/gallery-list
Brendan J Megannety flickr.com/photos/chunkssss
Grace Denis gracegloriadenis.com
Campbell Sibthorpe campbellsibthorpe.tumblr.com
Häre Christian cargocollective.com/harechristian
Carl Heindl eroder.com
Helena Vieira cargocollective.com/helenavieira
Cédric Monot cedricmonot.com
Hudson Gardner hudsongardner.com
Christine Karlsson flickr.com/people/christinesflickr
Ian Fildes flickr.com/photos/ian-fildes
Clemens Fantur itwasalladream.tumblr.com
Ivan Fucich ivanfucich.tumblr.com
Jake Ricker jesusaintsavingshit.tumblr.com
Melchior Tersen melchiortersen.com
Jan Cieslikiewicz janciesphoto.com
Melissa Kagerer flickr.com/photos/28176379@N05
Jay Bing jaybing.co.uk
Michael Dennington flickr.com/photos/migue1ito
Jesse Untracht-Oakner juophoto.com
Milica Stefanovic milicastefanovic.com
John Counts jwcounts.com
Miranda Lehman mirandalehman.com
John Vetrano cargocollective.com/johnvetrano
Natalie Kaplan nataliekaplan.carbonmade.com
Juan Ignacio Zevallos whiskii.com.ar
Nicholas Pomeroy flickr.com/photos/pomtopolis_shoots
Julia Volpato julia-volpato.tumblr.com
Nicole O’Connor nicole-oconnor.com
Kate Kirkwood katekirkwood.com
Noah Kalina noahkalina.com
Katja Kremenic katjakremenic.4ormat.com
Ole Thomas flickr.com/photos/olethomas
Lado Lomitashvili ladolomitashvili.daportfolio.com
Oleg Mayhopar flickr.com/photos/culty
Levi Mandel levimandel.com
Paul John Nelson pauljohnnelson.com
Maciek Pozoga maciekpozoga.com
Pauline Magnenat paulinemagnenat.com
Manuel Ott flickr.com/photos/shissledissle
Peter Sutherland petersutherland.net
Manuela Costalima invisibleeye.tumblr.com
Randall Phenning cargocollective.com/randallphenning
Martin De Martin martindemartin.tumblr.com
Romain Brunet flickr.com/photos/brunetromain
Martina Kovacevic maruenak.tumblr.com
Roy D Henry respectabletrash.tumblr.com
Matt Casey flickr.com/photos/mattcasey
Sam Dickey sdphotographer.virb.com
Samuel J Stewart flickr.com/photos/samstewart
Ulya Kimaeva flickr.com/photos/47378128@N04
Sandy Kim lovebryan.com/sandy
Will Keats-Osborn novaguemalaise.tumblr.com
Sara Azmy cargocollective.com/saraazmy
Wouter Van de Voorde flickr.com/photos/woutervandevoorde
Sasha Kurmaz homer.org.ua
Yi chan yichan.carbonmade.com
Sasha Mademuaselle mademuaselle.tumblr.com Sergej Vutuc sergejvutuc.com Simon Lalia simonlalia.com
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George Nebieridze is the creator of CZE magazine, feel free to contact him at: geo_nebieridze@yahoo.com
Stephan Georg Hauptmann flickr.com/photos/stephanhauptmann Sumeja Tulic flickr.com/photos/sumeja1 Synchrodogs synchrodogs.com
Thanks to all the photographers for supporting me by sending their incredible works and to those who give me permission of featuring their art at CZE magazine.
Tamar Burduli flickr.com/photos/tburdeau TEEN WITCH a.k.a. Andrea Sonnenberg teenwitchart.blogspot.com Tess Roby tessroby.tumblr.com Theo Cottle fantasticted.tumblr.com Thomas Albdorf thomasalbdorf.com Thomas van der Zaag flickr.com/photos/thomasvanderzaag Þórarinn Einarsson flickr.com/photos/thorarinne Tom Kondrat tomkondrat.com
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CZE Magazine, Issue #12 (Dark) Released by an independent publisher George Nebieridze. Tbilisi, Georgia, November 2012