Check out these great photos by Hedi Slimane. I love Jamies Bochert androgynous look, she oozes style charme. Other than being a model Jamie is also a musician and record songs in her Brooklyn home. She plays shows around the city, and recently landed a gig playing backup for Patti Smith at a concert in Paris. Pretty awesome.. http://www.hedislimane.com/diary/
Ann-Sophie Fjelloe-Jensen
Earlier this year I shot the up-and-coming band Free Energy. They have among other things, been named by the Rolling Stone magazine as one of the best new bands in 2010. Check out their wonderful glammy Seventies-style arena jams on their debut, Stuck on Nothing. http://www.myspace.com/freeenergymusic
Ann-Sophie Fjelloe-Jensen
American artist Ryan McGinely is super cool and one of my favorites. He started photographing in 1998, and in 2003 by the age of 25, Ryan was the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is normally know for his road trips where he photographs his friends, but has also started doing some beautiful portraits in studio. Check out more of his work: http://ryanmcginley.com/
Ann-Sophie Fjelloe-Jensen
The Berlin photographer Lisa Wassmann is exhibiting at West Berlin Gallery this month. I didn’t mak it to the opening but stopped by today to check it out. I like that the photos somehow tries to immitate the classical painting.
This artist is Paul Alexander Thornton, from the UK, and he likes skulls, as you can see. He mainly uses ballpoint pens to create these very detailed drawings. Some would say that there has been a lot of skulls in art and fashion the past year, but I’m not done with that motive, especially the combination with the flowers is very nice.
The Horrors frontman and former student of St. Martins College of Art, Faris Badwan, is presenting a new exhibition of his drawings, and projections at The Book Club in London.
It’s a series of fairly intense obsessive graphic shape ink drawings with some nice figurative drawing. One of my favorites is the big evil mouse, it’s just too awesome!
The show contains one hundred original new pieces, and follows his show in Bristol last year and his first exhibition at The Bodhi Gallery on London’s Brick Lane in 2007
The exhibition runs until the 29th of August 2010 – Swing by if you’re in London!
http://www.wearetbc.com/
I meet (tattoo) artist, Minka Sicklinger at Freemanns Ally in LES the other day. She looks so extravagant with her beautiful tattoos and eccentric sense of style. See more of the work on her website & blog www.minkasicklinger.com.
For the next month Danish New York-based photographer, Ann-Sophie Fjelloe-Jensen will be the FaceForward guest blogger – witch we very much look forward to! Ann-Sophie has lived in New York for the last 5 years, working as a photographer. Among others she has shot the hyped USA band, Free Energy and Danish singer Amalie Bruun – further more she worked with photographer Peter Funch on his project Bables Tales, witch we have written about several times here on the blog. We hope, you will enjoy seeing NYC through Ann-Sophies lens as much as us!
Yesterday I went to The New Museum on The Bowery to have a look at Brazilian artist Rivane Neuenschwander exhibition “A day like to other” – the exhibition showcase the artists cross-functionally and playful approach witch includes paintings, film, photography, sculpture and installations. I quite like the colorful installation “I wish you wish” (2003) witch some of you might have hear of. It’s a hole room covered with Brazilian Wish Bracelets printed with different wishes. The idea is you pick one, write your own wish on a piece of paper and replace the bracelet on the wall with the paper – but your wish only come true if you wear someone else’s.
As New York times critic, Karen Rosenberg wrote: “To religion, Ms. Neuenschwander adds recycling and a bit of crowd-sourcing. The ribbons at the New Museum come printed with wishes from past versions of the installation, just as the wishes left behind will be used in subsequent projects. You’re meant to believe that your own wish won’t come true unless you wear someone else’s. In essence, Ms. Neuenschwander has turned private desire into collective responsibility.”
See more on newmuseum.org
Pic 1-2: The Wish Bracelets on the wall of The New Museum. Pic 3: My friend, Kath’s Wish Bracelet saying “I wish for peace in the Middleeast” – the one I chose says “I wish color, gender and religion didn’t matter”.
