
Oleg Dou’s photo manipulations subvert the elegance of classical still-life or mutate the subjects of his quiet portraits. The award-winning artist, hailing from Russia, has shown these creations in shows across the globe. Recent work takes the everyday table settings of the Renaissance and stirs sexualized conversations.



“In his work, the border between painting and photography disappears,” Galeria Senda says. “His work presents creatures that look like porcelain without life. Each portrait, digitally retouched, transmits a hermeticism that forces the spectator to look past the softly polished skin of his models. Lover of Japanese minimalism, Dou knows how to generate atmospheres of high visual tension.”
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Though she is known for her work in fashion photography, the fine art photography of the Madrid-based
Chewing gum has a history that spans as far back as the ancient Greeks- that's how long it's been finding its way to the bottoms of our shoes, underneath tables, and just about anywhere else it can stick to. It's not a pretty sight. However, New Jersey based photographer and print maker
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Photographing porcelain figures the moment they hit the ground, Martin Klimas injects a sense of motion and chaos into an otherwise stationary object. The artist has taken a similar approach to photographing a moment of impact with bullets zipping through vases. For the figures, Klimas says that “the porcelain statuette bursting into pieces isn't what really captures the attention; the fascination lies in the genesis of a dynamic figure that seems to stop/pause the time and make time visible itself.”