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17 Aug

Photographer Landyn Pan’s joyful work celebrates freedom of identity

Photographer Landyn Pan’s joyful work celebrates freedom of identity
From digital artists to photographers, body sculptors and hair stylists to make-up and nail artists, in our Spotlight series, we profile the creatives tearing up the rulebook in their respective industries. The first time photographer and artist Landyn Pan fully understood the importance of their Naked Paint Party shoots was when a trans teen messaged them to say how affirming and refreshing it was to see so many non-binary stories being told. An intimate, joyful series, the naked paint parties document celebratory gatherings where trans and gender nonconforming people get naked and paint each other. It’s a process that sees the attendees open up emotionally, as well as physically, sharing vulnerable conversations with each other around identity and their relationships to their bodies. Trans...
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9 May

Photographer Shoog McDaniel celebrates fatness in all its glory

Photographer Shoog McDaniel celebrates fatness in all its glory
The Florida-based photographer and artist talks through their creative process, self-acceptance, and overcoming Instagram’s anti-nude algorithm Shoog McDaniel’s photographs of fat, often queer, persons are undoubtedly amongst probably the most striking pieces of art to be found throughout the world of fat liberation. The Florida-based photographer and artist has shot fat bodies covered in glitter, fat bodies surrounded by flowers, fat bodies rolling hefty spliffs, fat couples pressed up against each other in soft, squishy magic, and fat bodies underwater. They even photograph whole groups of fat babes embracing each other – their figures, every inch of them, laid wholly bare in togetherness.  Considered one of the primary Shoog McDaniel images I stumbled upon...
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1 Dec

Daddy issues: Julia Fox and photographer Luisa Opalesky in

Daddy issues: Julia Fox and photographer Luisa Opalesky in
Following her recent show, Latest York-based photographer Opalesky sat with close friend and collaborator Julia Fox to debate their history, ‘seizing the fucking day’ and complicated father-daughter dynamics For the reason that late Nineteen Seventies, Downtown Manhattan has been an incubator for each upcoming and established artists, photographers, musicians, writers and creatives. For multiple generations, the town’s hub has given Generations of native Latest Yorkers and transplants an area to search out their creative perspective and community. For photographer, Luisa Opalesky her move to the town in 2010 opened her world to the chaos and creativity of Downtown Latest York. Born in Philadelphia, to a Croatian father and Venezuelan mother, Opalesky first moved to...
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13 Jun

Italian Photographer Paolo Di Paolo Dies at 98

Italian Photographer Paolo Di Paolo Dies at 98
MILAN — The well-respected Italian photographer Paolo Di Paolo died Monday at age 98 in his hometown of Larino, within the country’s central region of Molise. His daughter Silvia confirmed that he “has arrived at the tip of his extraordinary life and left us this morning.” Further details on the explanation for death weren't disclosed. The municipality of Larino shared a commemorative message on Facebook defining him as a “maestro,” an illustrious citizen of the town and “a precious a part of the history of Italian photography.” The statement read that a farewell function might be hosted Tuesday morning at the town’s San Francesco church. Born in 1925, Di Paolo moved to Rome at an early age and shortly became one in every of...
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