Me Kissing Vinoodh (Passionately) 1999 Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin

Removing Vinoodh from the picture on the computer afterwards showed how I would be destroyed emotionally without him. For us, the big moment is when we are at a screen, manipulating the image. That feeling of seeing that it works and has emotional value is very exciting. - Inez van Lamsweerde

This picture shows how scary it is to lose your husband or lover. Without another person in the picture, the kiss isn't complete and empty.

Unseen - AM projects

Different Photographers, different views. AM primarily means 'After Midnight', but it can also refer to 'a.m' (ante meridiem or before midday). 

Paolo Roversi - fashion photography

UNSEEN - photo fair Amsterdam

Blommers&Schumm

Their work is about people: focus is on the individual, something that is rarely done in the fashion world. They throw the viewers' expectations of the viewer off balance, playing with perspective and proportions. In each photograph, the viewer is hit with a big surprise, but always one that is beautiful and exactly on the mark. 

Maurice Scheltens & Liesbeth Abbenes

Their work is a laborious process, in which they continuously move things around, painstakingly join pieces together and adjust little details. Scheltens&Abbenes take absolute liberty with their objects. Instead of presenting the objects as plain sellable products, they often manipulate and utilize them as building blocks for new compositions. 

Ahmet Polat

He uses his work do document ways in which people seek their identity through daily ritual, traditions and interaction. 

Tanyth Berkeley - Ariel

Blythe Bohnen - Self portrait

Michal Rovner - Outside

Bastienne Schmidt - Two boys with a box of their grandmother's bones, Bogota, Colombia

Zofia Baniecka - Poland from the series Rescuers of the Holocaust Gay Block

VENICE BEACH

sober - drunk

"In New York. you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car." - Ethan Hawke

Anna Blume - Kitchen Frenzy

The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights since 1980, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2007, p. 65

The Blumes have been collaborating since 1980 on a "lifelong photo-novel" that involves staging themselves in scenes of German middle-class life gone frantically out of control. As artists who studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in the 1960s when Joseph Beuys began teaching there, the Blumes are of a generation steeped in the tradition of performance art, which was often documented by photography.

Kitchen Frenzy, starring Anna Blume in the guise of a stereotypical housewife, is marked by an ironic sense of humor that is part surreal and part burlesque. The sequence shows a domestic interior run amok, with potatoes flying of their own volition at all angles. The title, which is a pun on the condition known as "prison frenzy"—the insanity that sets in when inmates are imprisoned for long periods of time—wryly plays with the daily rituals of traditional suburban life. The absurd and humorous quality of the Blumes' work stems largely from their original staging of scenarios that, rendered with the blur of motion, slyly undermine certainties about human reason and social order.

Merry Alpern

Boris Mikhailov

The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Highlights, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, revised 2004 originally published 1999, p.357

The demise of the Soviet Union in 1991 spelled disaster for many citizens of Mikhailov's native Kharkov, in Ukraine. As the state apparatus collapsed, bleak predictability rapidly gave way to chaos and want. The photographer, whose earlier work includes sympathetic records of communal pastimes, responded with a bitter series that starkly evokes the squalor of desperation, drink, and despair. In the same years, but in another photographic mode altogether, he experimented with flagrantly staged political and sexual satires.

A decade later, as a few made millions, the least fortunate Ukrainians were more desperate still. This untitled work belongs to Mikhailov's bold and risky series Case History, for which he paid Kharkov's outcasts to pose and perform. The best of his new photographs improbably blend the opposing poles of his art. No-nonsense realism and impromptu playacting seamlessly conspire in a persuasive theater of wrenching misery.

The Study of Perspective

When I was in MoMa I saw a couple of pictures of Ai WeiWei from the serie 'The Study of Perspective ' (1995-2003) and he inspired me. At first I had to laugh because of the middle finger to the world. But it is more than that, Ai shows his middle finger to some of the world's most notable man-made landmarks, from the White House to the painting of Mona Lisa. But there is also a powerful protestation behind the gesture, a rejection of the power held  by culture and politics and a rebellion against authority.