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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It’s OK

“Once a photographer has learned a few ‘tricks’, they are presented with a choice: keep chasing gimmicks or formulas, or look deeper. It’s OK to be lost. It’s OK not to know what you’re doing. It’s OK to fail. It’s absolutely fine to feel insecure about your work. In fact, all of these things are very cool because they state very loudly that a person is trying, striving, exploring and searching in a very personal sense…. call it what you will.”

Thomas Stanworth



Simon Kossoff

UK photographer Simon Kossoff.



Jules Spinatsch

The work of Swiss artist Jules Spinatsch' work feels like a scavenger hunt. It is a confusing combination of very large format imagery and detail. Makes you notice things you would not pay attention to otherwise.

His website is a piece of art on itself, I think.

Temporary Discomfort I, World Economic Forum, Davos Valley with Congress Center, January 2001, C-print 100/120cm Ed. 5 © Jules Spinatsch


Kevin Wolf

German photographer Kevin Wolf.