Innholdsfortegnelse for June 2021 i Lens Magazine

It's a great pleasure to feature an exclusive interview with Flora Borsi, 1st Place Winner at the International Competition | PHOTOGRAPHY, a special collaboration of the Florence Biennale, Art Market Magazine, and Lens Magazine. Flora uses photo manipulation to create self-portraits and has exhibited worldwide from China to LA and the Louvre. Her work was the key visual of Photoshop in 2014 and Adobe's Creative Cloud in 2019. She's on US Forbes' 30 under 30 lists and Hasseblad's Heroine of 2021. Featured by: VICE, The Guardian, BBC, and many more. Flora is a young fine art photographer from Hungary. She uses exquisite photo manipulation to create surreal images that are thematically focused on identity, relationships, emotions, and dreams. Her immaculate technique and subtle conceptual ideas create beautiful evocations of universal…

/pǝ’f ↄ:m(ǝ)ns/ This series represents a silent story told, a statement, a performance. To lessen misunderstandings in this sensitive subject, let's invoke the book of words, for, beyond words' immediate denotations, they have connotative powers. The Process: Performance (Oxford Dictionary Online): 1. 'An act of presenting a play, concert, or other forms of entertainment; performances are with physical movements but also with spoken words, sounds, noise, this in stark contrast with the contemplative silence of a photograph. Interesting to visualize this tension. Silenced: In general, we women are educated, we learn not to speak our minds ODO 2.1 'A task or operation seen in terms of how successfully it is performed.' But, if we do speak our minds, it is often classified as ODO 1.2' A display of exaggerated behavior…

“Marcio Pilot is a gifted artist who has the ability to create photographic compositions with a unique freshness. His use of lights and colors, his perspective, often surprising and always bewitching, his inspiration allows us to enjoy the beauty represented in his works in various forms, be they those of femininity or nature. His gaze gives us a precious experience in both cases, highlighting the splendor of life with strength and creativity". Giovanni Cordoni, Florence Biennale Event Manager and Member of the Curatorial Board “Marcio is an actor! An actor that photographs other actors while interacting with them, and that's a rare, very rare thing".Gerald Thomas – Opera & Theatre playwright – NYC – 2014 Born in Campinas (SP) - Brazil, Marcio Pilot is a fine art photographer best known…

“My photos are often staged and focus on physicality, emotion, or expression. They look for physical and psychological vulnerability. I create the whole image as a photographer, stylist, and set designer. My photography is theatrical. But 'theatricality' is an elastic concept and also has many negative connotations: bombastic, exaggerated, false, or artificial."- Barbara Vandendriessche “With my pictures and sculptures, I seek for the beauty in the tragical."-- Barbara Vandendriessche I worked for 20 years as a director and set designer at the theater. But more and more, photography, which I initially regarded as a sideline, invaded my professional path. I discovered how my experience within the theater influenced the language of my photography and experienced a sense of "back to basics", of re-sourcing. In order to be able to clarify…

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"Often the term "magic" is applied to my photos. And there is. I create my own magical world! As a person who grew up in the usual gray and ugly city near Moscow, I always tried to get into a fairy tale. In those fairy tales that I read in my childhood. My work features hobbits, Moomin trolls, Alice in Wonderland, The Silmarillion, fairy tales by Russian authors like Max Fry and others in the fantasy genre, etc. With age, the perception of fairy tales and the tales themselves changed. With travels to my fairy tales, the national flavor of those countries I visit or read about has been added. For example, in a project with flowing fabrics, I most recently spotted an Asian flavor. There are girls with fabrics…

“My series Vision stands for the development of our being. The desire for complete freedom in love and respect. I favor us constantly reinventing ourselves and acting out this, multi-faceted, colorful, and self-determined. Art is free and makes the invisible visible, the total fulfillment. VISION | BIRDS OF PARADISE “My photographic version stands for the freedom of art. It marks my work. Through this, fantasies arise, which are spread out and become part of the story. Art is free. This also means that I don't block myself, to give me full freedom to express myself through my art. I love what I am doing, and it gives me a lot of satisfaction. Feelings are the key to my photography work. No matter which feeling, if one is involved, the picture…

"Proud Woman of the Omo Valley" “This project ("Proud Woman of the Omo Valley") was taken inside a Suri tribe in the Omo Valley in Southern Ethiopia. The models were not dressed, simply recorded as is. No artificial lighting was used. The pictures were taken within a dark tent with the light coming in from the entrance of the tent. “It took three days of travel from Addis Ababa to reach the Omo. First, we flew to Jimma, and from there, we continued by car. Moving from cities to towns, to villages, to…nowhere. On the final day of driving, we soon saw the last of paved roads. We chugged along on improvised dirt paths, obstructed by cowherds and muddy river streams. Our destination? Deep in the jungle with the Suri…

"Living with mental illness due to P.T.S.D. can make you vulnerable to many other things like depression, eating disorders, and O.C.D. The danger is that your fragile self makes you fall into what is comfortable, like Stockholm syndrome, where you become accustomed to abuse because you lost self-love and respect, you become anxious, and can not live with how you get hurt or hurt others."- Vava Venezia 2021 Vava Venezia was born in Puerto Rico; she graduated from the University of Saint Leo of Florida with an Associates in Liberal Art. Her studies included psychology and political science. She also graduated from Graham Webb Academy with a master's in color and haircutting. She is now pursuing a bachelor's degree in cybersecurity at Thomas Edison State University. For the past eight…

"I am, above all, a photographer who tries to interpret inner sensations through art, which translate them justly into something deep in my visceral. Photography was - and is - an overwhelming passion that I had since I was a child, but unfortunately, I have never developed it thoughtfully in my youngest years. However, my profession constantly pushes me forward in continuous research, and above all, allows me to describe what I do with a natural predisposition to openness and purity of language. I could never express my work with detachment or with an impersonal attitude. On the contrary, it would be impossible for me to talk about photography without getting excited or going into a deeper understanding that photography itself has represented and represents emotions. It is a cure…

My work is related to the human body; more specifically, I explore the notion of a portrait in a broad sense, inquiring into the details of the body and its relationship with objects of diverse origins. Regarding the technical decisions, I work with digital photography, lending special attention to the assembly of the scene, emphasizing the theatrical dimension of the object/subject photographed as to the different stages of postproduction. I am currently deepening in "producing" portraits that have a cross of looks, between the spectator and the portrayed, strong looks or even the denial of the look towards the spectator, imagining scenes that overcome the notion of "the real" in a sense strict. I am interested in the evocative power of the gesture, the provocation of the gaze, and the…

Tal-Shir seduces the viewer into a world of fantasy, of transgressing into historical periods, but which are tinted with the awareness of present times. The portraits are captured, not solely to depict her subject, but to add a plus value to the whole scene, often by transference to the photographer's identity or her inner world, upon the subject, and by doing so, she creates a piece of art that is more than just a mere portrait. Erika Tal-Shir (born 1966 Antwerp, Belgium) is a portrait and fine art photographer who, in recent years, lives and works in Ra'anana, Israel, with her family. She tries to apply a poetical and often metaphorical language in her work, and by doing so, Tal-Shir seduces the viewer into a world of fantasy, of transgressing…

“My art activity is beyond the physical object and directly reaches the human body through touch, taste, and other senses. Therefore, the observation of the process is, from my point of view, the most essential part of my art journey. In my works, I'm turning on the process of crystallization, rotting, growing, dying, destruction, drying, breaking, racking, smelling. Objects, which I'm creating, are breaking very often, and the audience can participate in this process through touch, formation, deformation, or just by observing the changes. It is a vital part for me to pay attention to the simple art activity. The whole journey is essential, not only the final stage of the process but also the creation time, not just the object. I'm inspired by unknown areas, crossing borders, getting satisfaction…