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The Manifest of the
Functional Illiterate

He was nervous, he felt like a new student standing in front of a new class. Now he was sitting there, surrounded by painters, copywriters, photographers, graphic and fashion designers. On this evening, the creatives wanted to hear from him, how it was back then when he worked as an editor and what he thought […]

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Anastasiya Lazurenko — Zhenya

I dare you to ask Anastasiya Lazurenko about her work. You will be dismissed with her invariable “Fuck, what am I supposed to say?”. Lazurenko’s work is not about an “artistic statement” — it’s about the moment. The most memorable of them come about by accident. The shoot with Zhenya was one of such occasions, […]

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Divchata N°3: Mai’Yah

Gabby Bass, 18, who also goes by the name Mai’Yah, studies documentary photography at Parsons and lives in Staten Island, NYC. I met her at International Center of Photography classes and she struck me with her gorgeous look.

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ORACLE WITH ANYA

Kristina Podobed is the only one photographer who will tell you the truth: her project has been born out of boredom. Podobed’s ongoing series depicts her long-time bestie Anya, an eccentric self-mocking Ukrainian blonde with gap teeth who loves flooding Instagram with oceans of tears and lines of mad love for her boyfriend Maxim.

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Divchata N°2: Devin Cronin

I met Devin, 20, on Instagram. She is a tattoo artist, studying in Vermont, originally from NYC, Stuyvesant Town. I immediately fell in love with her Irish beauty. She is my modern-day tough Juliet. How can you not grow up tough being from a project town? I identify with her as well, being from a […]

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aesthetik01: Alexander Binder — Kristall ohne Liebe

Right after the end of the lovely DOM exhibition, Berlin’s project space aesthetik01 already takes the viewer on the next journey into a mystical parallel world. For Kristall ohne Liebe (English: Crystal Without Love) Stuttgart-based artist Alexander Binder links digital and analogue photography by using modern SLR cameras with old and self-built lenses. With the […]

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