December 2010

Olaf Breuning is a Swiss-born multimedia artist working with photography, installation, sculpture, film and drawing. He lives and works in New York. In 2010 alone his work he has been shown in the following solo exhibitions: Nicola von Senger Gallery, Zürich, CH; Art in The Park VI, Baur au Lac Park, Zürich, CH; Centre d’Art Contemporain, La Chapelle du Geneteil, FR; Nils Staerk Gallery, DK and Yes? No?, KunstMuseum Luzern, Luzern, CH. T-shirts and accessories are sold through his highly entertaining website.

Baudouin’s most improbable dreams saw him as a bassist in a New York jazz band circa 1970. However, born in France in 1977 and unable to carry off an afro hairstyle, he decided to become a photographer. Baudouin took his first photos in Ireland. He tried and tested different formats, got to grips with light, mastered black and white photography and worked on framing his subject. He studied the work of his mentors, immersing himself in their universe and techniques, his bedroom walls lined with compositions by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martin Parr’s color photography and witty images by Elliott Erwitt. Baudouin honed his style; on returning to Paris, he began specializing in color portraits. This work is from his series, ‘I am a parisian lady.’

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‘Pahnl‘, a street artist from the UK, has been stenciling since 2003 and actively putting work up on the street since 2006. ‘I take huge influence from comics and street signage but I add my own subversive twist. I aim to make my work interact with it’s environment. In the end though, all I want to do is make people smile’, writes ‘Pahnl’. The stop motion animation, ‘Nowhere Near Here’, uses a combination of light with stencils and long exposure photography to tell the story of a dog running around the city at night, doing whatever a dog does. The animation was first exhibited at the The Herbert, on the 7th October 2010 and features music by the Norwegian electronic music duo, Royksopp.  Of this film he writes,’With well over 300 hours in the making, more than 200 stencils involved and too many cold nights spent outside on my knees getting the shots, I am very happy (and relieved) to finally share this with you. Through the course of shooting ‘Nowhere Near Here’, I have dealt with curious drunks, a dog almost peeing on the camera (the irony is not lost on me, haha), the endlessly suspicious police and even someone nearly running off with a tripod’. Prints and stills from the film are available on Pahnl’s website.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1976, Nathan Harger received his B.F.A. in photography from the Cleveland Institute of Art. He completed his M.F.A. in photography at Parsons the New School for Design in 2008. His exhibition debut in New York City was in the critically acclaimed exhibition, Contradictions in Black and White, an exhibition that placed his work alongside Irving Penn, Walker Evans and Ray K. Metzker in 2009. His first solo show opened at Hasted Kraeutler in 2010 and is on view through January 29, 2011. Harger has been honored as one of PDN’s ‘30 Under 30′, and has been nominated for the 2009 Santa Fe Prize for photography and the 2010 Prix Pictet. Harger lives and works in New York and is represented exclusively in the United States by Hasted Kraeutler.

Jim Kazanjian received his MFA from the Art Center College of Design in ‘92. His BFA was completed at the Kansas City Art Institute in ‘90. He has worked professionally as a commercial CGI artist for the past 18 years in television and game production. Various clients he has collaborated with include: Nike, Adidas, NBC, CBS, HBO, NASA, HP, Intel and others. He is currently the art director at The Logic Factory, a computer game developer. Read more about Kazanjian’s process in theHub Magazine.

Richard Selesnick and Nicholas Kahn have been collaborating as Kahn/Selesnick since 1988 on a series of complex narrative photo-novellas and sculptural installations. Their work has evolved into a series of projects involving fictional attributions, narratives, and sculpture. Their staged photography features 360 degree panoramas that create a cinematic sense of place. Placed with their costumes, props, and choice of color, their photographers alter the sense of time. Kahn & Selesnick have held artist residencies at Addison Gallery of American Art in Massachusetts, the Djerrasi Artist Program in California, and Toni Morrison’s Atelier Program at Princeton University. Their solo exhibitions include Schottensumpfkunftig, The REC, Past-Future, Scotlandfuturebog, City of Salt, The Apollo Prophecies, Eisbergfreistadt, and more. The two artists met at the Washington University in St. Louis where both studied photography; they currently reside in New York. Nicholas Kahn lives in a converted wooden Dutch church overlooking the Hudson River, and Richard Selesnick lives in a well-gardened townhouse in Brooklyn built atop a former bog. They are represented by Bernstein & Andriulli.

Greasy Christmas by award-winning photographer Alan Powdrill focuses on the quintessential workman’s cafe that’s been supplying the all day fry up since the invention of the frying pan. At Christmas time the ‘greasy spoon’ cafe really comes into it’s own as garish seasonal decorations compete with the often neglected interiors and over saturated food on offer. Shot over one month in and around London, Alan has added his unique look and humour to a subject that will become ever more popular as we all struggle with economic woes.

Jenny Van Sommers is an award winning still life photographer based in London. She was awarded The Golden Lion at Cannes for her work with Stella Artois among other awards. Her still life advertising clients include Audi, VW, Mercedes, Nike, The Gap and Apple. Her editorial clients include French Vogue, V Magazine, Another Magazine, 10 and Ponystep.

Markel Redondo is a freelance photographer based in Bilbao, Spain. He studied photography in the United Kingdom and China where he started working as a freelance photographer for various international news agencies, newspapers and magazines. In 2008 he moved back to his hometown, Bilbao, where works on commissions and on personal projects. Some of his clients include, Time, The Times, Le Monde, Le Figaro Magazine, The New York Times, Monocle, Greenpeace, The Wall Street Journal, Internazionale and The Sunday Telegraph. This work is from the series, ‘Chinese Tourism: China’s new cultural revolution’.