Erwin Olaf

Dutch | 1959 – 2023 | Photography / Film

Created meticulously staged, cinematic photographs exploring beauty, identity, sexuality, and societal norms through elaborately constructed tableaux with dramatic lighting and surrealist undertones.

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ERWIN OLAF | RAIN, THE HAIRDRESSER, 2004
Erwin olaf windmills photography
Erwin Olad staged photography

Aspen Mays

American | 1980 – present | Photography

Creates photograms in complete darkness without a camera, working by touch to produce ethereal images exploring astronomy, scientific observation, and embodied experience.

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Aspen Mays - photogram created in complete darkness by touch
Aspen Mays - photogram created in complete darkness by touch
Aspen Mays - photogram created in complete darkness by touch

Carolina Baldomá

Carolina Baldomá – Argentinian – Alternative Process Photography.

Uses alternative processes like cyanotype and plant-based printing to create photographs where the landscape literally becomes part of the image—leaves, flowers, and organic matter forming the prints themselves.

Carolina Baldomá - cyanotypes in collage like composition of landscape
Carolina Baldomá - cyanotypes in collage like composition of landscape
Carolina Baldomá - cyanotypes in collage like composition of landscape
Carolina Baldomá - cyanotypes in portait of a girl
Carolina Baldomá - cyanotypes in collage like composition of landscape

Sander Coers

Dutch | 1997 – present | Photography

Creates cinematic, dream-like photographs that blur documentary and fiction, exploring masculinity, memory, and coming-of-age through vivid colors and staged narratives.

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Sander Coers - narrative photography
Sander Coers - narrative photography