Jeff Hahn

"Internationally published photographer Jeff Hahn started his career in his hometown of Hong Kong at the age of 16. His first break came when the Peninsula Hotel Group flew him out to Beijing to shoot an exclusive editorial for them..." (view more...)

http://jeff-hahn.com

Scooter LaForge

"After receiving his painting degree at the University of Arizona, Scooter LaForge became legendary in the art scene in San Francisco. Having built up an impressive painting career in San Francisco, he packed up his bags and moved to New York City.
Scooter lives and paints in his art studio in Manhattan's famous East Village. " (view more...)

luca guarini

lucaguarini.blogspot.com

josh mcney

Josh McNey grew up in Westlake Village just outside of Los Angeles. He spent seven years in the United States Marine Corps, living out his childhood dreams of shooting guns, jumping out of airplanes and scuba diving, among other things.

He later moved to New York and studied sociology at Columbia University. Josh currently lives and works in New York City where he shoots wrestlers, cowboys, friends, lovers, models and strangers. (view more...)

www.joshmcney.com

Paul Mpagi Sepuya

self portrait



Paul Mpagi Sepuya is a Brooklyn-based artist who makes photo-based portrait, zine, book, and video projects. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in New York, Los Angeles, Basel, Sydney, Toronto, Paris, and Berlin. His work has been featured and reviewed in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Interview, Capricious, V, Paper, and BUTT, among other publications.

www.paulsepuya.com

Young Sun Han

Young Sun Han is an emerging artist and curator based in Auckland, New Zealand and Chicago, United States. Born in the Chicago suburb of Skokie, Illinois, he was highly influenced by stories of survival and tragedy in this largely Jewish community. Stories of his own family's war-torn past of escaping North Korea ignited an interest in 'what could have been', usually pondered while perusing old photo albums.

www.youngsunhan.com

Linus Bill

Piss down my back and tell me it's Raining.


Linus Bill was born and raised in and around Biel/Bienne, Switzerland in 1982. He is currently studying photography at the School of Arts in Zurich

www.linusbill.com

Peter Breen

"London Based photographer/artist Peter Breen has been doing a provocative series of self portraits for years now, usually clad only in sneakers and socks, or bits of costuming Breen's objectification of his own body is both intimate and otherworldly..."(view more...)

maxime ballesteros

jon - gueule dans la benz (2009)

maxime ballesteros was born in 1984 in Lyon, France. after studying in ERBASE (fine art school of St Etienne), maxime graduated in 2007 with a DNSEP (master diploma of art) in graphic design and photography. he has participated in several group exibitions in France, Belgium and in Berlin, where he has been based since October 2007.

Benyamin Reich

Benyamin Reich bought his first professional Camera and started “framing” his life at the age of 16 when he spent a term at a photography school in Jerusalem.

Born to a rabinic family in Israel he was educated in the orthodox religious school system. at the age of 14 benyamin moved to yeshiva in U.S.A.

he returned to Israel with the intention of leaving religious learning and practice altogether. at the age of 17 feeling drawn to the world of photography Benyamin went to Paris to Ecole National Superieur des Beaux Artes.

he displayed several solo exhibitions in jerusalem tel aviv and berlin.

Benyamin lives and works in berlin.

www.benyaminreich.com

Matthew Brindle

photography by Matthew Brindle

Born in Redhill, England, Matthew Brindle left for London at fifteen. From being involved with the internet, online chatrooms and profiles from as early as twelve years old Matthew became aware of personal online profiles and the escapism they can give from a very early age. (view more)

REVOLUTION from Matthew Brindle on Vimeo.

Tomi Paasonen

Choreographer, director and multimedia artist, based in Berlin and born in Helsinki, Finland. He shares his time making pieces for KUNST-STOFF, a multimedia dance- and art production company he co-founded in San Francisco in 1998 and directing stage art, creating choreographic structures, making video installations, interactive works, photography and teaching dance in Europe where he operates under the name PAA (Public Artistic Affairs).(view more)



www.paasonen.com

Ryan Pfluger

self portrait in fall.



"25 year old photographer who just finished his MFA at the School of Visual Arts. I live and work out of Brooklyn....when im not photographing, I am often watching TV on DVD or playing with my dog Trina." (view more...)

www.ryanpfluger.com

John Giorno

Bio:
John Giorno (born 1936) is a North American poet and performance artist. He founded the artist collective Giorno Poetry Systems and coined its mass communication experiment Dial-A-Poem. He became prominent as the subject of Andy Warhol's film Sleep. He is also an AIDS activist and fundraiser.

Giorno Poetry Systems Discography/Web site

Brandon Herman

Brandon Herman was born in Hillsborough, California in 1983 to Bruce and Sue. He studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been shown both nationally and internationally, most notably in solo exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles, and in such publications as Anthem, Dazed and Confused, Eyemazing, Flaunt, Soma, Tokion, V, and Vice. While primarily focusing on photography, his projects have incorporated sculpture, video, and installation as well. His conceptual focus is with the psychology surrounding the relationship between memory, fantasy, and mainstream media. Acting, elaborate role playing, and assuming false identities are integral parts of his artistic process. Herman lives and works in Los Angeles. (view more @ 20x200)





www.brandonhermanland.com

Leon Mark

Leon Mark is a London based photographer. His work has this enduring appeal, that floats nicely on the fashion and art boundaries. Mark’s work has featured in Dazed & Confused, Dazed Japan and i-D magazines. (view more...)

www.leonmark.co.uk

Stuart Sandford

© Stuart Sandford 2010

cumfaces

Blend shoot

Stuart Sandford (UK, 1978) lives and works in London. He received his BA Fine Art, with Honours, in 2006 and since then has exhibited his photographic, video and installation works in solo and group projects in New York, London, Berlin, Basel, Rotterdam, Rome and Vienna, amongst others. His work has been featured in numerous international magazines, including BUTT, GT, Maenner, Kaiserin, attitude and Basso, and he is currently preparing for exhibitions in London and Cape Town. (view more...)

stuartsandford.co.uk

Ryan McGinley

Ryan McGinley (born October 17, 1977) is an American photographer living in New York City who began making photographs in 1998. In 2003, at the age of 25, McGinley was the youngest artist to have a solo show at the Whitney Museum of American Art. (view more)

ryanmcginley.com

Satyricon

Satyricon (Fellini Satyricon) is a 1969 Italian film by Federico Fellini. It is loosely based on Petronius's work, Satyricon, a series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. Fellini was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director.

Plot:
The film opens on a graffiti-covered wall with Encolpio lamenting the loss of his lover Gitone to Ascilto. Vowing to win him back, he learns at the Baths that Ascilto sold Gitone to the actor Vernacchio. At the theatre, he discovers Vernacchio and Gitone performing in a lewd play based on the "emperor's miracle": a slave's hand is chopped off and replaced with a gold one. Encolpio storms the stage and reclaims Giton. On their return to Encolpio's home in the Insula Felicles, a Roman tenement building, they walk through the vast Roman brothel known as the Lupanare, observing numerous sensual scenes. They fall asleep after making love at Encolpio's place. Ascilto sneaks into the room, waking Encolpio with a whiplash. Since both share the tenement room, Encolpio proposes they divide up their property and separate. Ascilto mockingly suggests they split Gitone in half. Encolpio is driven to suicidal despair, however, when Gitone decides to leave with Ascilto. At that moment, an earthquake destroys the tenement.

Ignacio Lozano

"Ignacio Lozano is a talented photographer born in Barcelona but based in New York City. His work is natural, real and sexy..." (view more on Ohlala)

www.ignacio-lozano.net

Johnny Terris

Bio:
Before creating Terfer Productions in 2004, filmmaker Johnny Terris started out doing gritty and extreme underground film in Canada in the late 80s and early 90s.

After putting filmmaking on hiatus for some 10 years, he has once again rejoined the film industry as both filmmaker and actor, delivering some of his most brutal work to date.

Heavily influenced by and often described as an underground Dario Argento by peers concerning his cinematic imagery, his films are reminiscent of the no wave punk driven Cinema of Transgression movement of the mid-80s, usually combined with a rock and roll or heavy metal soundtrack and an extreme anti-Hollywood/anti-mainstream message.

As well as starring in the films from Terfer Productions, this summer he will be starring in the feature film Silent Alarm directed by award winning cinematographer/director, Steve Ashlee and in the Jimmy O Burril sequel Chainsaw Sally 2: Bloodkin alongside gore legend Herschell Gordon Lewis and the original cast of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

In mid 2007 he will be producing and directing a full length documentary on New Wave of British Heavy Metal legends Girlschool.

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

Salò is a controversial 1975 Italian film written and directed by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini with uncredited writing contributions by Pupi Avati.[1][2] It is based on the book The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade. Because of its scenes depicting intensely graphic violence, sadism, and sexuality, the movie was extremely controversial upon its release, and remains banned in several countries to this day. It was Pasolini's last film; he was murdered shortly before Salò was released.

The film focuses on four wealthy, corrupted fascist libertines in 1944 Nazi-controlled Italy who kidnap a total of eighteen teenage boys and girls and subject them to four months of extreme violence, sadism, sexual and mental torture before finally executing them one by one. The film is noted for exploring the themes of political corruption, abuse of power, sadism, perversion, sexuality, and fascism.

Although it remains a controversial film to this day, it has been praised by various film historians and critics, and while not typically considered a horror film, Salò was named the 65th scariest film ever made by the Chicago Film Critics Association in 2006.

Johnny Boy

homopunk.blogspot.com

Slava Mogutin

Slava Mogutin is a New York-based Russian artist and author, who works across different media, including photography, video, text, performance, sculpture, and painting.

Born in Siberia, in the industrial city of Kemerovo, Mogutin moved to Moscow at age 14. He soon began working as a journalist and editor for the first independent Russian papers, publishers and radio stations. By the age of 21, he had gained both critical acclaim and official condemnation for his outspoken queer writings. Accused of “open and deliberate contempt for generally accepted moral norms”; “malicious hooliganism with exceptional cynicism and extreme insolence”; “inflaming social, national, and religious division”; “propaganda of brutal violence, psychic pathology, and sexual perversions”—he became the target of two highly publicized criminal cases, carrying a potential prison sentence of up to seven years. Forced to leave Russia, he was granted political asylum in the US with the support of Amnesty International and PEN American Center.


www.slavamogutin.com

Tarnation

Tarnation is a 2003 documentary film by Jonathan Caouette.

The film was created by Caouette from over 20 years of hundreds of hours of old Super 8 footage, VHS videotape, photographs, and answering machine messages to tell the story of his life and his relationship with his mentally ill mother Renee. It was initially made for a total budget of $218.32, using free iMovie software on a Mac. (As an early supporter, film critic Roger Ebert notes, $400,000 more was eventually spent by the distributor on sound, print, score and music/clip clearances to bring the film to theaters.[1]) The film went on to win awards including Best Documentary from the National Society of Film Critics, the Independent Spirits, the Gotham Awards, and the LA and London International Film Festivals.