Troyt Coburn
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Super Glamour photos from Troyt Coburn.

Super Glamour photos from Troyt Coburn.

Kristian Schuller pictures immortalize not just a multiethnic society, but also one of culturally rich, multipurpose social groups. All the ordinary people who surround us are transformed into hyperexpressive faces. Poems between pictures are making a “chain” for a better comprehension. The exhibition probably has a match for your world too, and perhaps even for yourself.

Daniel Sannwald drawing from illusions and dreams, Daniel’s photography often features unusual narratives that challenge the typical notions of Glamour. With a clear nod to German expressionism, his images are dark, concept driven and quietly atmospheric.Daniel is a fashion photographer born and brought up in Germany who has a taste for black humour and tongue-in cheek drama.Given their grotesque appeal, they oscillate between art and fashion in a quirky yet very intelligent way. Daniel’s unique style was honoured with a nomination by the Photomuseum Winterhur in Switzerland and a Lead Award nomination in Germany.

Vincent Dixon for over 15 years has produced award winning images and helped to create many memorable advertising campaigns. He was born in Kilkenny, Ireland and, despite earning a PHD in molecular biology, he eventually found his true calling behind the lens. Vincent started his professional career in Paris and quickly was awarded some of the top campaigns in Europe such as Absolut Europe and Perrier. Those highly visible campaigns, among others, quickly gained him notoriety throughout both Europe and North America. In 1998, Vincent relocated to New York City, where he currently resides with his wife and their four children.

Ross Feighery is an editorial and advertising photographer based in Chicago, IL and specializing in portraiture.

Melvin Sokolsky was born and raised in Manhattan’s Lower East Side during the lean years of the prewar era. Here he witnessed the entire spectrum of the human condition played out across a tough and tight-knit community. This experience was countered by a universe of visual riches found in the museums and books he regularly devoured. Melvin spent his days framing and logging precise mental and emotional images long before he had a camera to capture them. At age ten he began taking pictures using a box camera, though he was frustrated by his inability to create prints that had the “nice pearly finish” of his father’s old photos. “It was then that I realized the importance of the emulsion of the day,” he recalls. Never satisfied, always questioning, and fiercely creative, young Melvin Sokolsky began to live from one private epiphany to the next.

Clayton Cubitt, (aka “Siege”) has his photographic finger stuck in many pots. His highly stylized editorial work has appeared in Surface, Rolling Stone, and The FADER, among other publications. Meanwhile, on the web, he chronicles his personal and professional life in photograph and words on his weblog The Daily Siege. His work is, more often than not, relentlessly sensual, saturated in deep colours, infused with an explicitness that lays its subject as bare as possible. Working within his own philosophy that inspires him to shoot with no holds barred, Cubitt’s lens lingers over muses ranging from the mid-coital form of his fiancée in bed with another woman to a dead baby bird set before him.
His indulgences, it seems, are women, fashion, and sex. There is little distinction for him, it appears, between the personal and the professional. As a photographer, he has crossed the proverbial line, including himself - as voyeur and participant - in an on-camera life that utterly obliterates the distinction between object and subject, rendering objectivity an archaic term. With his rock star dalliances and a desire to marry high-art style and low-brow subjects, Cubitt sits at the photographic edge.