Four Emerging Photographers

Fashion shutterbugs on technique, inspiration, and the violent nature of their chosen medium

Inspired by budding French fashion photographer Sandrine Castellan’s passion for oddly composed photos, CH asked the up-and-comer who currently inspires her work. While the three that top her list reflect her interest in unusual poses and unconventional settings, each photographer has their own distinct style and compelling way of visually crafting a story. We caught up with each of them to get a fuller understanding …

Tomás Saraceno: 14 Billions

Spiderweb-inspired art draws on science and architecture for a creepily abstract installation

In a triumph of art, science and architecture, Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno‘s site-specific exhibit “14 Billion” scales a Black Widow’s web up to magnificent proportions. Currently on display at Stockholm’s Bonniers Konsthall, 14 Billion is an extension of the work he showed at the 2009 Venice Biennale called “Galaxy Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web.” The Frankfurt-based artist worked …

Le Book NYC 2010

Robert Mapplethorpe photographs grace this year's cover of creative reference Le Book

Adding to Le Book‘s already impressive roster of artistic superstars, this year the New York edition of the influential publication tapped the work of late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe to “dress” their covers. For a resource widely serving as the media maker’s yellow pages, the inspirational choice draws on the instrumental role that the native New Yorker’s highly technical images of nudes played in elevating photography …