Baudouin: Serial Photographer

An up and coming French photographer talks his way into subjects' homes for striking eccentric portraits

A once aspiring Jazz bassist, Baudouin has found his calling as a photographer. His portraits are all of strangely familiar French characters and he has gained notoriety by creating ironic collections like “Friends,” “Unknown But Nice” and the “The Parisian Ladies.” I recently spoke with Baudouin to get some insight on his process—he confessed to having a systematic, almost ritualistic method, following a strict set …

Louviere + Vanessa

A visceral look at humanity in prints made from blood and wax

A designer friend recently tipped us off about a husband-and-wife photography duo in New Orleans whose fine art creations blend state-of-the-art innovations with old world crafts by developing monochromatic film on Gampi—paper texturized with a mixture of wax and blood is just one example. Grotesque? Hardly. Louviere + Vanessa’s images are visceral in a good way. The artists proclaim to harness the amoral eros and …

Players

Tina Barney's new photo book beautifully blurs the line between art and reality

At 98 pages, Tina Barney’s newly-published collection of photographs is comparably miniscule to the increasingly mammoth tomes featuring artist’s work—but it’s no less powerful for it. “Players,” with its diversity of images, far from lacking in range, is a surprising compendium of mostly-never-before-seen photographs of Barney’s subjects. The New York-born photographer is best-known for casting her lens on both the intimacy and distance coexisting within …