“Beauty” is relative to the time in which we live.  It’s loaded with social and cultural values and ultimately it’s true meaning lies in the eye of the beholder.  In A New Kind of Beauty Phillip Toledano documents faces and bodies that have been dramatically altered by dramatic plastic surgery.  His subjects look as though they […]

In her Hyeres Festival 2012 series, Ina Jang photographs the work of ten fashion designers.  These pieces are pristine and glamorous without being self-referential.  They certainly engage with the aesthetics and conventions of the contemporary fashion editorial, but urges the audience past consumerism toward notions of identity: who are these women? Are they subjects or […]

Shanghai-born and New York photographer Shen Wei explores the vulnerability of his subjects and his own body in his series I Miss You Already and Almost Naked.  Working within the painterly tradition of the nude, the human form is exposed and captured in contemplative moments that feel meditative, sorrowful and stripped to a bare minimum. […]

There is a distinctively painterly quality about the photographs of Marc Yankus.  The landscape of New York becomes an urban collage of decay, grime, optimism, and renewal all while appearing as a blur straddling the past and the present.  Yankus went into greater detail on Saatchi Online about the source of his inspiration as being” […]

Brooklyn-based Amy Stein documented that strange holiday where children dress like their favorite animation character or superhero and go door-to-door in their neighborhoods asking for candy.  Halloween in Harlem presents a new spin on this tradition- what happens when the neighborhoods are enclaves of small business owners? In an urban environment like New York City, […]

Chris Buck documents spaces that would otherwise be innocuous, except that somewhere in the frame, unseen to the viewer is a figure of particular interest to us, a chance to become a voyeur into the private space of a celebrity.  By assigning an empty room, vacant car or abandoned storefront to pop culture figures like […]