art & fashion

Blow Out

During the art and design fair Zona Maco, high-end glass Mexican manufacturer Nouvel Limited showcased a collaboration with designers Héctor Esrawe and Emiliano Godoy Brian Thoreen. This is the first occasion where the three designers co-created a collection of objects. Throughout several months the designers worked hand in hand with the design team and the artisans at...

Infra Realism

In ‘Infra Realism’, Melbourne-based photographer Kate Ballis reimagines the iconic Palm Springs landscape, producing hyper-saturated images that exude other worldliness. Having already photographed the modernist architecture, vintage cars and immaculate landscaping universally associated with Palm Springs, Kate wanted to show the city in a different light — specifically, an infrared one. Using various infrared...

abandoned home

Having grown up amidst conflict, Iranian photographer Gohar Dashti draws from memory when creating her work. Her series ‘Home’, portrays the effect of war on the places once defined as home. All the abandoned houses depicted are in her work, once belonged to people who emigrated due to political and social reasons. Absent of identity, the...

above the Adriatic sea

Italian artist Olivio Barbieri, who is known for his breathtaking aerial photography – captured holiday makers on the Adriatic coastline from above, shooting in a helicopter. The small dancing bodies appear in a range of formation in the glistening blue sea, the color of which was enhanced to match the memory of summer days at the beach. Having meticulously staged the...

editing the past

Investing her interest in memory and its mechanisms into her work, Polish artist Weronika Gesicka modifies American stock photography from the 1950s and ’60s, questioning and altering the reality of each captured moment. The series has been entitled ‘Traces’, to highlight the significance of the photograph as a trace of the past whether that trace is fact or fiction is left...

stark contrast- revisited

The landscape’s horizon behaves as the limit between two spaces. Vertical lines expressed in solid geometric concrete structures are presented in a simple manner, indicating a timid balance between the full and the empty. Designed by RUIZSOLAR architects, balance between the public and the private is the concept that guides the whole project. Located in the north-central area...

Eclectic Mod glamour in Mayfair

Francis Sultana is a self-taught interior designer and actually didn’t start working as one until 2011. The move came as a natural and logical progression as Sultana is also the creative director of the David Gill Gallery in Mayfair, London. As creative director of the Gallery, he now works with current artists and designers to help them imagine the collectables...

Between Hyphen and Earth

Efi Gousi is a young Greek actress-director-photographer #overachiever, whom has found great success in each part of her professional self, tapping into emotions and reactions, but the amazing talent she has for this process shines brightest through her photography. Her images pit the passionate against the inanimate, the spirited against the broken, and the innocent against the thoroughly sinister. The result is a...

Salt Vanity Australia

Salt: Vanity, an exhibition of the most recent work by Australian photographer Murray Fredericks just wrapped up at London's Hamiltons Gallery The Vanity series is a continuation of Fredericks’ renowned Salt series. In this next cycle of the project, Fredericks introduces a mirror into the previously undisturbed landscape.

His long relationship with Lake Eyre, where his...