UK photographer Ellen Rogers’ haunted stills bond beauty with the unknown. An obsessive collector of vintage cameras, Rogers embraces the process of creative film development, producing astonishingly unique works. In a portfolio dominated by women, she proposes a slanted exploration of the female figure, investigating their potential to allure, captivate, and dismantle. Her frame is filled with subjects that possess a mysterious and deadly gaze, living in black and white images imbued with pastel-like darkroom experimentation. All the while, they exude a hushed certainty, aware of forthcoming doom. In our discussion, Ellen goes into her introduction to photography, Carl Jung, and why even she’s fallen victim to the media propagated fixation with physical perfection.
Artem’s work is most expressive, capturing great feeling and depth. One can experience the movement of his strokes; the process in which he paints that adds a whole other dimension to his illustrations that can’t possibly be described in words.
