vienna AUSTRIA
vienna based advertising agency staudinger + franke, founded by robert STAUDINGER and andrea FRANKE, uses strange juxtapositions to create interesting and creative images. like a magritte painting, one image shows a cow’s spots transformed into the landscape behind it, while another shows a bear trap where the safety belt should be on a car seat. they have worked for clients in vienna, milan, zurich, london, new york, and more.
ogaki JAPAN
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
macoto MURAYAMA: i research botanical illustration and plant’s photography, as well as other two-dimensional media that are peripherally related to botanical illustration. botanical illustration is an image/form that possesses both scientific precision and aesthetic value. different from fine arts such as painting, it has a unique charm in which the “scientific” and the “artistic” coexist.
michael BODIAM: the featured images were never really conceived as a project as such, they’re more a compilation of images from other projects put together for the obvious reason that they are all photographed at night - in terms of the scale of the subject, it can range from a small area in someone’s back garden all the way to an extensive vista across a sprawling city and anything in between. each different scale appeals to me for different reasons.
dazed & confused: monster fashion took over the current dazed october issue, and inspired by alexander mcqueen’s comment on throwaway materials and rodarte’s a/w 09 frankenstein collection, the franken-fashion mask project was born. thirteen designers delved into their studio scraps and created new ways of concealment and performance and dazed digital have extended interviews with eleven of the designers to find out more about their monster creations.
the images here, shot by daniel JACKSON and styled by karen LANGLEY were also were also exhibited at the red bull fashion factory for the duration of london fashion week.
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
christian FLATSCHER: actually, the ‘urlaub’ series wasn’t really an intended project, it is more a personal collection of my favorite pictures, which i took on vacation in california and nevada last august/ september. there’s no connective motive or central theme. it is more an impartial and intuitional work.
irek KIELCZYK: lady midday is a series of photographs, taken on the hot summer days in the mysterious land of mazovia, in the heart of poland, where i am lucky to live. i wanted to create painterly images rather than classic photographs. the use of long exposures and camera manipulation made the pictures look surreal.
the winners of nikon’s annual microscopic photography competition have been announced and the range of images include circuit boards, embryos, diatoms, beer bubbles, raindrops on butterly wings, and of course green hydra on the surfce of spotted salamander egg masses. vibrant colors, surprising forms, and beautiful patterns emerge from these microscopic networks and objects.
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
guy SARGENT: the project what lies beneath the surface began in june 2006, it examines both landscape & architecture and is constantly evolving. i have no idea how long it will run as i can’t see an end to it at the moment. as it has progressed it has become obvious that it is influenced and informed primarily by history and it’s affect on my life. there is a timeline through it all where moments in history start to link up.
guardian uk: no new cloud type has been officially classified since 1951 but gavin PRETOR-PINNEY who runs the cloud appreciation society believes that there is a new cloud that deserves international recognition. he calls it asperatus, which means rough in latin, and he is working with the royal meteorological society to have it officially classified by the world meteorological organisation in geneva
photograph: merrick DAVIES
cologneGERMANY
suckerPUNCH: describe your project.
LICHTFAKTOR: the members of lichtfaktor use light to give expression to their creativity. they take advantage of a variety of light sources to produce photos and videos in cities by night. the cologne artists’ collective, consisting of vj $ehvermögen (photographer and vj), vj beat.surfers (programmer und vj) and jiar (communications designer and graffiti artist), experiments with the possibilities yielded by bulb (long-term) exposure and painting. their aim is to explore all aspects of “lightwriting” and to develop it further.
