Creep Machine Magazine – Contemporary Art & Culture

Category: photography

  • Physics #1. Time dilation by Andrzej Dragan

    Physics #1. Time dilation by Andrzej Dragan

    Photographer and filmmaker Andrzej Dragan, is not only an amazing artist, but also a quantum physicist, receiving his Phd in 2005. His immense knowledge of Quantum theory in Curved Spacetimes (teleportation vs black holes, etc), has no doubt influenced his photography/film as you can see in his short films.

    Recently his short entitled “Physics #1. Time Dilation”, won the Creative Review’s Annual 2014 – Best in Show. The video has received millions of hits on Youtube and Vimeo. Take a look at the view, and then heck out his Vimeo profile for more:

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  • The Photography of Old Hag

    The Photography of Old Hag

    It’s been a few years since I discovered the photography of Old Hag via JL Schnabel’s Instagram. Her real name is Darby Lahger, and is anything but old. Her haunting photos of her home in Sweden are incredibly alluring and powerful. She also boasts some impressive facial tattoos making her self-portraits quite powerful. She’s a very private person; the interest in her work both humbles and enthrals her. Take a look at her photos below. Bonus: Tom Bagshaw included a stunning portrait of her in his Black Lodge painting series, also below.

    You can purchase prints of Old Hag’s work on her Twenty20 Site.

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    Hlin by Tom Bagshaw for the Black Lodge Series

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  • The Conjurer: JL Schnabel’s Mystical Collaboration

    The Conjurer: JL Schnabel’s Mystical Collaboration

    Many of you know Ms. JL Schnabel for the writing she does for Hi Fructose Magazine. She has a great eye for art and writes beautifully. In her other life, which you may also be aware of, she creates fascinating jewelry in a line she calls Blood Milk, the elements of which are crystals, claws, feathers, bones, planchets and other mystical symbols and objects.

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    In alchemical fashion, this fall she teamed up with photographer Christina Brown and artist Paul Romano to create Blood Milk‘s first look book. The result, a collection of beautifully designed graphic work and photographs entitled The Conjurer is mysterious and filled with witchery.

    Note that the text in the images below are a bit out of sequence from the narrative in the book. You can see the whole thing (and download it as a pdf) on the new Blood Milk website here. You can also purchase limited edition prints of some of the images and pieces from her jewelry line from the Bloodmilk Etsy shop. And don’t forget to read the wonderful interview about JL Schnabel’s creative spirit on Ghosts in the Garden.

    I’m very excited to have recently purchased one of her Crystal Tomb necklaces! I am convinced that it will have mystical powers.

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  • David Hochbaum Offering Limited Edition Book Sets

    David Hochbaum Offering Limited Edition Book Sets

    New York artist David Hochbaum‘s alchemical works, based around his personal twists of antique myths, are simultaneously unsettling and consoling. David’s photo collages are rife with repeating symbols that are weighty, almost anthropomorphic with personalities of their own, and arranged with highly skilled stagecraft. They are deceivingly easy to lock onto; to sympathize with what story unfolds on his picture-planes.

    David recently began offering a limited edition book set that showcases three separate bodies of his recent photo collage work: Creatures of the Sea and Sky, Kaiden Shu, and Large Format Polaroids. In addition to images of his artworks, these precious 5″x7″ books each contain one limited edition, 5″ x 7″ silkscreen mystery print on watercolor paper, all contained within a numbered, handmade, custom-printed sleeve.

    These sets are available only through the artist directly. You can find more information about David’s artwork and the box set on his website. To inquire about purchasing, you can email him directly.

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  • “Astronaut Suicides” by Neil Dacosta

    Regardless of whether or not you were a fan of the space program, the fact the US no longer is funding the NASA program like it used to, and the fact that we recently found flowing water on Mars, the idea of space travel is a hot topic right now. With artists like Jeremy Geddes creating amazing astronaut paintings, those fans of space travel can now look to the art of Neil Dacosta. A photographer based out of Portland, OR, Neil worked on a series of photos entitled “Astronaut Suicides”. In 2010 Barack Obama stated that “I understand that some believe that we should return to the surface of the moon but I have to say this bluntly, we have been there before”, (source). So for all those with dreams of space travel, and those young at heart that wanted nothing more than to be an astronaut, check out the series below and see that others feel the sharp twinge of an era now passed.

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  • Profiles: Ruadh DeLone

    Ruadh DeLone is a photographer out of Rheden, Netherlands. He started out drawing as a child and then moved to photography in 2007. His work focuses on portraiture with a bit of surrealism. DeLone has quite a few series of works; one inspired by his inspiration from Dutch Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer, and another series entitled “Vergänglichkeiten” which I believe means ‘transiency.’ This series features figures with the face slightly obscured by plastic, and a ghostly image of skulls and bones overlaid on the face. Check out his homepage and Behance portfolio for more work.

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  • Profiles: Phillip Toledano

    Phillip Toledano is a photographer out of London. His work has appeared in the pages of the New York Times, Vanity Fair, Esquire, Interview Magazine and more. He states that “photographs should be like unfinished sentences. There should always be space for questions.” His website ha series of works he has done, from portraits of video gamers, phone sex operators, a series of ‘new beauty’ pics featuring models with noticeable plastic surgery, and a Hope and Fear series which focuses on desires and paranoia.

    Visit his site here: Phillip Toledano



  • Artist Profiles: Erin Mulvehill

    I have been meaning to add some more photography posts to the site, and am happy to show the work of Erin Mulvehill to kick it off. Currently living in New York, Erin is a graduate of Syracuse University and holds a B.S. in Photography. She states that “my work aims to explore the human connections and subtle nuances that whisper into the ear of our every day.” She has a few series of works on her site, along with some external projects she is working on such as The Camera Project. It was her “underwater” series that really got me hooked on her photography. Each one of these photos is captivating and haunting, you don’t get a clear image of the figures but the emotion they display is very clear.

    Head on over to her site to see the full series and the rest of her work: Erin Mulvehill Photography

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