Photographer #424: RES

Raúl Eduardo Stolkiner, better known as RES, 1957, Argentina, is a conceptual and fine-art photographer based in Buenos Aires. He studied photography at the Spilimbergo Art School and at Casa del Lago, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His series Conatus was produced in collaboration with Constanza Piaggio. The photographs are recreations of iconic paintings by artists as da Vinci and Picasso. The images are not exact copies, RES made alterations to the original works that reinterpret and recontextualize the subject through contemporary perspectives on philosophy, politics and spirituality. One of his first bodies of work, Donde están e imanes, was the result of his return to Argentina after he had been exiled in 1978 to Mexico. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions worldwide and has been published in a vast amount of publications. In the past nine years he also released his work in four different monographs. The following images come from the series Conatus, Plantas Vestidas and Donde están e imanes.

Website: www.resh.com.ar

Photographer #304: Federico Cabrera

Federico Cabrera, 1981, Argentina, is a fashion photographer and designer who works and lives in Helsinki. He left Argentina at age 18 and is based in Finland since 2005 and has been doing various projects ever since. In the last two years he has focused mainly on his own works amongst which is a project called Sect et Sept, building a conceptual fashion house, collaborating with other creatives and using fabrics and trash. The clothes featured in the shoots are build from scratch and they cannot be bought. Gilles et Dada is one of his other projects including photography and graphic design aswell as Who Said We Can't, an online art gallery for young upcoming photographers. He "cut and pastes" within his pictures creating bizarre and fantastical effects. The following images come from The Emperors Black Rose, We Will All Burn / Sect et Sept and The Infamous Infant Prodigy / GD.

Website: www.federicocabrera.com

Photographer #290: Diego Levy

Diego Levy, 1973, Argentina, is a documentary photographer. In his series Choques, he photographed crashed cars. His intention was not to sensationalize the crash itself, but to show the violence and intensity of these impacts caused by negligence, lack of driver skills and the lack of respect for life of themselves and others. The cars that become broken sculptures in Buenos Aires function as a metaphor of the widespread violence. The images in his series Sangres, taken in Argentine, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico show gritty scenes of violence. The photographs of injuries and deaths show the reality of what has become almost a daily scenario for the inhabitants of these cities. Sangres was released as a book in 2006. Golpes is a series of portraits accompanied by a video production of old boxers that have given their lives to the sport. The faces show the scars from the beatings, referring to their dark past and the sacrifices they have made. The following images come from the series Choques, Sangres and Golpes.

Website: www.diegolevy.com

Photographer #132: Seba Kurtis

Seba Kurtis, 1974, Argentina, studied journalism and became a political activist. He grew up under the dictatorship regime. In 2001, during the political and econimocal crisis in Argentina, he left for Europe. He spend over 5 years in Spain as an illegal immigrant. This experience have been the founding blocks of his work today. Seba has focused on the immigration of Mexicans in the USA, Egyptians coming to Italy and Africans going to the Canary Islands. The following images come from the series 700 Miles, A Few Days More and Drowned.

Website: www.sebakurtis.com

Photographer #125: Marcos López

Marcos López, 1958, is a photographer from Argentina. López is an expert is large, staged photographs. His images are bright in color and very narrative. He has been working on a long-term series called Sub Realismo Criollo. The pictures are iconic aswell as humorous and symbolise and critisize the Argentinian society. Marcos is a self-taught photographer who won several awards and has exhibited around the world. The first two rows of images come from Sub Realismo Criollo and the last two rows are from the series Pop Latino.

Website: www.marcoslopez.com
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Photographer #062: Alejandro Chaskielberg

Alejandro Chaskielberg, Argentina, 1977, started as a photojournalist. After completing his photographic studies he worked on various documentaries as a director for television. By using fictional scenarios and playing with sharpness he has developed his own style in photography. He searches for the limits of documentary photography and water is a recurring theme in his projects. The following photographs come from the projects The High Tide, Nocturama and Borders.

Website: www.chaskielberg.com