Category: profiles

ANDREW JACOBS [EAST]

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Wanda - profiles

ANDREW JACOBS

CUBA, WSJ.

Based in New York, photographer Andrew Jacobs creates fashion imagery imbued with the powerful simplicity of colour and light.

CUBA, WSJ.

Spending his childhood in South Africa, Andrew moved to the USA as a teenager and earned a degree in journalism before choosing to pursue photography.

BODE CAMPAIGN

GARAGE

HOOPS & HOLES

Andrew began photographing his friends in his social group, before moving on to work for independent fashion brands. He now boasts an impressive client list including J.Crew, Mansur Gavriel, Net a Porter, Noah, SSENSE, Uniqlo and Vince.

NUMERO TOKYO

TOTOKAELO

Inspired deeply by colour theory his creative process focuses on core technical components of composition, light and mood. “I love interaction, laughter and movement – photography is really fun for me and I want that to be evident in the pictures.”

SANDOR EARTH

HOOPS & HOLES

WSJ.

RAG & BONE

Alongside his commissions, Andrew particularly enjoys the rewarding experience of travelling for personal work, exploring his long term interest in documentary photography. “With fashion, you have ultimate control, documentary is the opposite. It forces you out of your comfort zone all day, every day. It has taught me a lot and I’m excited to share this work and keep doing it.”

CLASH 111

V MAN

NEW BALANCE X AIMÉ LEON DORE

AWAY LUGGAGE CHALET

LOUIS VUITTON SPECIAL for HERCULES UNIVERSAL

Andrew collaborates with magazines such as American Vogue and Document Journal. Working also on assignments for T Magazine and WSJ Magazine marks a satisfying return to his journalistic roots. In 2018, Andrew’s work was included in Red Hook Labs’ New Artists exhibition.

JIL SANDER X DOCUMENT

LOUIS VUITTON SPECIAL for HERCULES UNIVERSAL

MOROCCO

HOOPS & HOLES

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EAST

[EAST New York] [EAST London]

PHILIPPE JARRIGEON [TOTAL MANAGEMENT]

Posted on September 23, 2020 by Wanda - profiles

PHILIPPE JARRIGEON

[TOTAL MANAGEMENT]

SWISS DESIGN AWARDS

Philippe Jarrigeon is a Paris based photographer known for his still life and fashion photography, inspired by a singular and creative vision of styles and fashion.

DAZED

CHANEL X CINEMA

VOGUE

He graduated from the ECAL-Switzerland in photography in 2006 where he is now a professor.
His work has been exhibited at La Galerie des Galeries, Paris, the Fotomuseum Winterthur and at the International Festival of Fashion and Photography in Hyères.

SNOOP DOG for KLARNA

BUFFALO ZINE

VOGUE PARIS

CHANEL X CINEMA

Philippe creates fascinating, fanciful and often funny series of photographs, where objects are as important as people.

PIN-UP

TIFFANY

INTERVIEW

DOUBLE

He has been commissioned by fashion designers and brands including Chanel, Dior, Hermès, Salvatore Ferragamo, Cartier, Chloe, Kenzo, Tiffany, Roger Vivier and Louis Vuitton.

VOGUE

BUFFALO ZINE

DAZED

PROENZA SHOULER, ARIZONA

INTERVIEW

He collaborates with publications such as Dazed, Interview, Double, Purple, Pin-Up, Vogue Paris, Vogue US, W & M le Monde.

MAGAZINE

BUFFALO ZINE

VOGUE PARIS

SWISS DESIGN AWARDS

VOGUE PARIS

Philippe also works with music artists such as Katy Perry, Pharrell William or Snoop Dogg for whom he did the artwork of his album Bush.

VOGUE PARIS

MAC MAKE-UP

VOGUE PARIS

SNOOP DOG

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TOTAL MANAGEMENT

[TOTAL New York] [TOTAL Paris] [TOTAL London] [TOTAL Berlin]

AZIM H [QUADRIGA]

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Wanda - profiles

AZIM H

[QUADRIGA]

T MAGAZINE, THE BRIGHT SIDE

Azim H. is a New York based photographer who was born in Afghanistan and grew up in San Francisco. Azim has always been curious about what was going on in other worlds and would think: “It can’t only be this.”

T MAGAZIN, THE BRIGHT SIDE

T MAGAZINE, THE BRIGHT SIDE

CHOCO

T MAGAZINE

He approaches his work as if they were films. Through writing and directing, he emphasizes the process of storytelling, giving context to the character, their environment, and the relationship they create.

GQ CHINA

VOGUE UKRAINE

HERBERT

STEPHANE & SACHIHIRO

ZARA

SOUFIAN

“As long as an image is alive, I’m happy, and I think right now we have to be open to possibilities and surprises. We have to be adaptable to deal with what’s coming.”

INNOCENT

WASH YOUR HANDS

JUMPING INTO LIFE

F MAGAZINE

STYLIST MAGAZINE

THE TRAPPED SOUL, SHOT DURING QUARANTINE

His editorial work has been published in magazines such as T magazine, Numéro, Vogue China, Vogue Homme International and Vogue Ukraine.

STYLIST MAGAZINE

CUBA

T MAGAZINE

BELLA

NUMERO

His personal work allows him to create narratives from his own life and experiences, which greatly influences his practice in all aspects.

THE FLAMINGOS

UNCLE JOHN

PERCE

LEA & ALIX

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QUADRIGA

[QUADRIGA new york] [QUADRIGA paris] [QUADRIGA london]

VALERIO SPADA {home}

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Wanda - profiles

VALERIO SPADA

{home}

I AM NOTHING

Valerio Spada is an italian documantary and fashion photographer living between New York and Milan. His work is exhibited, collected, and published internationally.

REPLICA

MUSE

Born in Milan and raised between Geneva, Bari and Rome, Valerio Spada spent a nomadic upbringing taking a polaroid camera everywhere he went. “My parents introduced me to the concept of ‘errance’, as the French say.”

i-D

VOGUE ITALIA

His editorial and commercial work has appeared in publications such as Vogue Italia , i-D, Replica, Muse and Mixte among others.

HOBO

He has shot campaigns for brands including Gap and directed videos for music artists such as Vinicio Capossel.

GAP

VINICIO CAPOSSELA “SIGNORA LUNA”, shot in Super16 mm

His award-winning photobook, GOMORRAH GIRL, won universal acclaim for telling the story of Annalisa Durante, who, aged 14, was shot and killed by a bullet aimed at a boss from the Camorra Mafia in Naples.

GOMORRAH GIRL

Valerio was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in support of his work exposing the hardships of those living in the impoverished parts of Italy.

GOMORRAH GIRL

With his latest series I AM NOTHING, Valerio Spada continues his exploration of the Mafia phenomenon in Italy, this time focusing on the Sicilian Mafia and the impact that organized crime has on the fabric of the society.

I AM NOTHING

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HOME AGENCY

{HOME AGENCY new york} {HOME AGENCY paris}

OSMAN ÖZEL [SHOTVIEW]

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Wanda - profiles

OSMAN ÖZEL

[SHOTVIEW]

OPEN YOUR EYES FOR TOMORROW

Osman Özel is one of the most talented contemporary photographer and filmmaker born in Turkey.

OPEN YOUR EYES FOR TOMORROW

AZI, UZBEKISTAN 19

OZGUR MASUR SIGNATURE COUTURE BOOK

Looking for inspiration in all things related to ancient history and cultures around the world, he started his career in Istanbul – a perfect place to synthesize and to explore the mix of modernity and orientalism through his photos and videos.

OZGUR MASUR SIGNATURE COUTURE BOOK

VOGUE TURKEY

VOGUE TURKEY, JESS COLE

REPLICAMAN, BELLY DANCER

VOGUE TURKEY FOR VOGUE GLOBAL PORTFOLIO

When he is not behind the camera and lenses, he creates art installations merging multiple disciplines with dance figures. He is always searching for interesting projects around the globe.

VOGUE TURKEY, IKILEM

VOGUE TURKEY, SAHNE BIZIM

VOGUE TURKEY, DÜŞEŞ

Osman’s most compelling quality is the ability to colour his images with strong elements of fantasy and a hint of darkness.

VOGUE TURKEY, MAJA

Osman collaborates with magazines and brands including Dazed, Revue, Replica man, Antidote, Numero Homme Berlin, Carven and Vogue Turkey.

VOGUE TURKEY, DÜŞEŞ

DAZED, ALTERED STATES

VOGUE TURKEY

CARVEN, ISTANBUL

Home: Leaving One For Another. A collaboration with photographer Olgaç Bozalp and stylist Raphael Hirsch. “As an immigrant, you’re always being tested outside of your comfort zone”.

HOME

QUARANTINE. Osman Özel spent, who spent 14 days under government-mandated isolation, looks back at his time at a 3300-people capacity dorm-turned-quarantine center with a poignant short.

QUARANTINE

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SHOTVIEW

[S HOTVIEW PARIS] [SHOTVIEW BERLIN]

ALIQUE [ANNE DU BOUCHERON]

Posted on August 25, 2020 by Wanda - profiles

ALIQUE

[ANNE DU BOUCHERON]

CHRISTY TURLINGTON FOR VOGUE MEXICO

Alique is a photographer and artist based in New York. She has built her career photographing women.

ADWOA ABOAH FOR VOGUE GERMANY

GEORGIA O’KEEFE FOR VOGUE GERMANY

SASKIA DE BRAUW, WOMEN, AN INTRODUCTION EXHIBITION

Born and raised in the Netherlands, this is where she developed her technical agility after graduating from the Art Academy in The Hague.

GEORGINA GRENVILLE FOR VOGUE PARIS

SASHA PIVAROVA FOR VOGUE GREECE

GRACE ELIZABETH FOR MASSIMO DUTY

ELLE MACPHERSON FOR VOGUE PARIS

Alique moved to New York in 2016 and started working with some of the world’s most influential magazines, and most prestigious brands.

DOUTZEN KROES, ARCHIVE

ANOUK LEPERE, ARCHIVE

TASHA TILBERG FOR VOGUE GERMANY

BEAUTIFUL BY NATURE, VOGUE GERMANY

Her work is a study of femininity in all its beauty and complexity. exploring the delicate balance of sense and sensuality. « As a woman and as an artist, female beauty and empowerment is always a guiding force.”

AMBER VALLETTA FOR VOGUE MEXICO

ALTYN ISABELLA FOR VOGUE PARIS

ALTYN ISABELLA FOR VOGUE PARIS BIEN-ETRE

ADWOA ABOAH FOR VOGUE GERMANY

To look at an Alique image is to get to know intimately the women she has chosen to engage with through her camera lens, to connect with their true beauty and essence.

BIRGIT KOS FOR VOGUE NETHERLANDS

AMBER VALLETTA FOR VOGUE MEXICO

A STUDY OF SELF, VOGUE GERMANY BEAUTY

VERONIKA KUNZ FOR VOGUE GERMANY

Her imagery always beholds a certain desire, a sharp control and balance in a set frame to create unique visuals with an iconic value.

SILJE LORENTZEN FOR VOGUE GERMANY

BEAUTIFUL BY NATURE, VOGUE GERMANY

JENNIFER ANISTON FOR INTERVIEW

Alique is a regular collaborator to French Vogue, German Vogue, Interview Magazine, and Vogue Mexico and has lensed campaigns for Estee Lauder, Dior and Massimo Dutti amongst others.

A STUDY OF SELF, VOGUE GERMANY BEAUTY

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ANNE DU BOUCHERON

[ANNE DU BOUCHERON NEW YORK]

JON EMMONY [D+V MANAGEMENT]

Posted on August 18, 2020 by Wanda - profiles

JON EMMONY

[D&V MANAGEMENT]

GRIMES, SUPERNATURAL

Digital artist Jon Emmony works with 3D & CGI technology to create moving & still imagery that explores the digital landscape. He works across the fields of fashion, art, music & advertising.

ARTWORK, JUNIPERS PSYCHIATRIC I. C.

DAZED BEAUTY, KATE MOSS REANIMATED

DIGITAL STILL LIFE

Also an experienced photographer/director, Jon fuses traditional photographic techniques with digital technology that allows for a combination of real-life & the imagined.

DAZED BEAUTY, SUPERNATURAL

MAN ABOUT TOWN, WITH DANIEL SANNWALD

DAZED BEAUTY

BALENCIAGA, OVERLOAD

He has collaborated with clients including Balenciaga, The 1975, Selfridges&Co, Nike & Dazed Beauty.
He was appointed Digital Art Director at Nick Knight’s fashion film platform SHOWstudio between 2011 & 2016, he won a New Wave Creatives award at the Fashion Awards in 2019.

CHARLI XOX

SELFRIDGES & CO

NIKE SPORTSWEAR, BAD GYAL

Jon describes his work as one that involves an infinite amount of possibility; “there’s really no limit to what can be done,” he adds, “which can be a blessing and a curse.”

WIRED

TIKTOK

SILVIA WEIDENBACH, VISUAL FEAST AT VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM

Much of what Jon produces is derived from a concept, before realised into an expansion of ‘real-life’ – a process that he refers to as “world-building”. “My most effective projects, I think, walk the line between the real and digital – the mid-zone that is a little uncomfortable.”

SYNTOPIA, IRIS VAN HERPEN

SILVIA WEIDENBACH,

BEETLE

PERSONAL WORK

Jon questions the polarising effects of the digital world. He recently worked on a music video for British pop rock band The 1975, co-directed with Ben Ditto. Titled The Birthday Party, the video sees a new world where tech has risen above all else. Evaluating topics of narcissism and loneliness, its avatar protagonists enter into a ‘digital detox’ programme.

THE 1975, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY

Jon has installed a five-storey augmented reality experience, called Digital Falls, in the atrium of Selfridges department store in London. The AR artwork saw the five-storey atrium at Selfridges transformed into a column of water inhabited by pulsing, sculptural shapes that were inspired by bioluminescent creatures. It was described by its creators as “Europe’s largest AR experience”.

SELFRIDGES & CO, DIGITAL FALLS

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D&V MANAGEMENT

[D&V MANAGEMENT new york]
[D&V MANAGEMENT london]

KRISTIN-LEE MOOLMAN [MANAGEMENT + ARTISTS]

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Wanda - profiles

KRISTIN-LEE MOOLMAN

[MANAGEMENT + ARTISTS]

DOCUMENT JOURNAL

Kristin-Lee Moolman is a South African born photographer and filmmaker. Having grown up during the political transition between Apartheid and Nelson Mandela’s new South Africa has had a profound and long lasting impact on the narrative of her work.

” SOFT CRIMINAL SHOW”

BALOJI

THE LEOPARD

With an eye for creativity and innovation, she is driven by the need to produce evocative images.
Her gender bending photographs validate the humanising power of art. It stands as a celebration of the integrity with which minorities express their identity and desires.

DOCUMENT JOURNAL

‘2026 SHOW’

DOUBLE

FANZINE

NATAAL

Her work explores the ever-changing social and political landscape of Africa through portraits marked by contrasting realities – promoting powerful new identities that provide counter-narratives to current stereotyped, idealized imagery.

INTERVIEW

DAZED

DOUBLE

BALOJI

T MAGAZINE

Through themes such as sexuality, violence and black magic, her colorful, pop imagery is “a celebration of people and a utopian approach to the future.”

i-D

EDUN

BURBERRY

DAZED BEAUTY

She places her gender-nonconforming subjects in mundane suburban landscapes, using a sun-bleached pastel aesthetic to tweak the everyday into the realms of the surreal. In short, Kristin-Lee is pushing to make the alternative the norm – and that in itself contests uniformity.

THE LAST MAGAZINE

ANOTHER MAN

i-D

BURBERRY

Recent exhibitions and collaborations include “Items, Is Fashion Modern” at the MomA, NY. “Being There: South Africa, A Contemporary Art Scene “ at Fondation Louis Vuitton, PA. “ Soft Criminal “ at Red Hook Labs, NY . 2026 as a part of “Utopian Voices” at Somerset House, LDN. & 2026 at Cf Hill, Stockholm.

‘ITEMS, IS FASHION MODERN?’ MOMA EXHIBITION

RE-EDITION

BRITISH VOGUE

Clients Include: British Vogue, Dazed, Double, i-D, M Le Monde, Nataal, Burberry, HBA, Nike.
In march, the Norton Museum of Art awarded the 2020 Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers to Kristen-Lee Moolman.

” SOFT CRIMINAL SHOW”

CANDY

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MANAGEMENT + ARTISTS

[M+A new york] [M+A paris] [M+A london] [M+A milan]

MARGHERITA CHIARVA [OPENSPACEPARIS]

Posted on August 4, 2020 by Wanda - profiles

MARGHERITA CHIARVa

[OPENSPACEPARIS]

NUDES

Margherita Chiarva has always done things differently.
Originally from the Piedmont, the photographer was born in and is still a resident of Milan, dividing her life between her home city and Ibiza.

FLOWERS

PASTEL

MISSONI

L’UOMO VOGUE

Margherita has always been drawn to the subtle stories in pictures and had this intuition of wanting to tell stories. She enrolled into cinematography at Milan University and eventually realised she preferred to work alone, which led her to do her Masters in Photography at Central Saint Martins in London.

7 STEPS

L’UOMO VOGUE

PASTEL

LAMPOON

Margherita’s photographic journey is based mainly on her investigation of manual techniques and a personal revelation through images.

LAMPOON

PERSONAL WORK

SERGIO ROSSI

PERSONAL WORK

She uses experimental analogue printing techniques, working with rare type of papers, chemicals and support.
She conceives an organic photography, whose ally is the subject-object of the photographic process.

CHEMIGRAM

L’UOMO VOGUE

PERSONAL WORK

PASTEL

“Thats why I’ve been working on abstract forms, creating new realities that will guide the mind to imagine rather than being manipulated with half-truths and shameless fictions that we often encounter in this digital era.”

LAMPOON

JOHN, PORTRAIT

INDIAN DIARIES

MIKE, PORTRAIT

She has exhibited in fairs, group shows and galleries in Rome, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Istambul and London.
“The Space in Between”, like an oracle for a transcendental path, closes an evolutionary circle opened towards the end of the 19th century by British pioneer Anna Atkins.

THE SPACE IN BETWEEN

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OPENSPACEPARIS

[OPENSPACEPARIS]

JAIR LANES [JR & ASSOCIÉE]

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Wanda - profiles

JAIR LANES

[JR & ASSOCIÉE]

PIGEONS, CANAL DE L’OURCQ, PARIS

Born in Brazil, Jair Lanes started his carreer as a photographer’s assistant in Paris. A few years later, he openend a black & white photo lab in Sao Paulo and worked in photo-journalism, before moving back to Paris where is is based since 2012.

OPERA GARNIER, PARIS

HORSE, PARIS

‘SOLITUDE’ SERIES

A picture, a story. this Brazilian artist redefines space-time with timeless pictures. The viewer travels, discovers and wanders.

CLIP

AIRPORT PORTRAIT, PARIS

RETROSPECTIVE LOUIS MALLE, PARIS

FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON, PARIS

Jair’s work shows poetic and sensory images encrypted by light and silence. Some stills are images as we often perceive them when we wake up: our eyes are neither completely open nor completely closed.

SHADOWS

RUE DE PARADIS

‘SOLITUDE’ SERIES

WILLEM DAFOE

‘VIDA’ SERIES, BRASIL

He is guided by emotions linked to games of constructions, silence, colors, movements, shadows and lights, troubled by the loss of the usual concept of space.

PELÉ

SENEGAL SERIES

PALOMA & NEBULOSO

HERMES

N MAGAZINE 3

A BOY AND THE BAOBAB, SENEGAL SERIES

Jair collaborates with many agencies, newspapers and magazines as Publicis Brasil, Young & Rubicam, Agency Mazarine, Loducca, Mcann Erickson, JWT, Marcel Agency, Neogama BBH and DPZ/Taterka.

SUBWAY, PARIS

BRASIL

GARE SAINT-LAZARE, PARIS

PALAIS DE TOKYO, PARIS

With exhibitions in different museums around the world, his photos are part of some private and public collections as Museum of Photography/Houston, Fondation Hèrmes/Paris, MAM/Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, Pirelli Collection, MASP/Museum of Art/São Paulo and MIS/Museum of Image and Sound/São Paulo.

‘VIDA’ SERIES