Experimental/Innovative Portrait Photography

Experimental/Innovative Portrait Photography

1. Matthieu Bourel - born 1976, Rennes, France.. He is currently living and working in Berlin. Bourel's work combines traditional cut and paste collage techniques with digital editing and animation. The artist describes his work as 'data-ism'. He had an exhibition in 2017 called Exploring Desires.

2. Cindy Sherman - (born January 19 1954). Cindy Sherman is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits. Her work breakthrough is considered to be collected, 'Untitled Film Stills', a series of black and white photographs of herself evoking typical women roles in performance media. In addition, Sherman appropiated a number of other visuals, the centerfold, fashion photography, historical portrait and soft-core sex image.

   • Untitled (Madonna), 1975
   • Dazed

3. Damien Blottiere - He lives and works in Paris. Worked first as a fashion editor until deciding of photography, devoting himself exclusively to create his own images. His interests lie in photography and the human body and his collage technique combines them both.

4. John Stezaker - born 1949. John is a British conceptual artist. John's work is surreal in tone and is often made using collage and the appropiation f pre-existing images such as postcards, film stills and publicity photographs. Solo exhibitions for Stezaker were rare for sometime, however in the mid-2000s, his work was rediscovered by the art market and he is now collected by several international collectors and museums.

5. Maurizio Anzeri - born 8 April 1969, in Loano Italy. H lives and works in London using a variety of media including photography and sculpture. He was inspired by people mending fishing nets in Italy. He combines embroidery work using thread along with photographs.IN 2010, he won the Vauxhall Collective Prize for Fine Art. He had a photography exhibition in 2019 Looking Back: About Face.

   • Giovanni, Maurizio Anzeri, 2009

6. Alexa Meade - (born 1986). Alexa Meade is an American installation artist best known for her portraits painted directly onto the human body and inanimate objects in a way that collapses depth and makes her models appear two-dimensional when photographed. In 2018, Meade painted on singer Ariana Grande for her music video God Is a Woman. In 2017, she won the Disruptive award for her innovation and creative activism.

   • Three-dimensional into two-dimensional

7. Ilona Szwarc - (born in 1984 in Warsaw) Ilona Szwarc is a Polish photographer based in Los Angeles. She explores themes of identity and transformation based on her immigrant experience. She has had recent exhibitions in LA and Warsaw and has received and award for World Press Photo Award for Observed Portraits amongst others.

   • I Am a Woman and I Feast on Memory
   • Rodeo Girls

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