Commercial Photographer Cal Redback from Paris is showing a new photo series that is shocking and disturbing and informative, all at once. Called “Tree Beards”, he digitally mixed botanical and other plant matters with portraits of everyday people, to question how much we have alienated ourselves from Mother Nature and to remind us of our connection to the natural world in this day and age. See more on his 500px profile: https://500px.com/calredback .
Photographer Jamie Diamond became a Reborner after discovering the community on Ebay. She wanted a fuller understanding of what drove these women to spend sometimes more than $10,000 on a life-like but utterly lifeless infant. Hence, her photo series “Mother Love”, which involved traveling across the US photographing the subculture that has grown up around Reborn dolls. Her work explores the murky waters of reality mixed with artifice, where Reborners create relationships with inanimate objects — an art form born of fantasy. See more on her website.
Portland-based photographer Robbie Augspurger has captured the essence of portraits from that not so distant time period in his “Glamour & Headshots” photo series. The collection imitates the prop-heavy, hair-heavy style of the 80’s odd mall portraits. See more here.
Controversial photographer Jill Greenberg has compiled all her work into a book entitled End Times – the cover showing a piece from her infamous shoot of crying children – apparently she gives them candy and then takes it away. It doesn’t get anymore real than this. We think it’s brave, what do you think? Feel free to comment below…
James Obando 