Ben Davis (@bpdavis)
Ben Davis is a recent graduate from Rochester Institute of Technology. Growing up in a small town, he learned to view simple, minimal scenes as a wider, complex image, which is something he replicates through photographs that counter the seemingly mundane. Davis’s works focus on recognisable setttings as a playground through which to re-write expected viewpoints. Each subject whether natural or manmade, offer a portrait of life rather than creating a static composition.The works seek to show objects from an alternative perspective, giving a new meaning to everyday items and offering a sense of anthropomorphic personalities to recognisable objects.
Andria Darius Pancrazi (@pancrazi)
Andria Darius Pancrazi is a PhD researcher in English Literature at Oxford University, specialising in Victorian poetry and teaching French translation. For him, photography and visual arts are an extension of poetry; he creates dreamscapes, that are often accompanied with bits of text, either his, or quotes from classical texts. Pancrazi thrives on suggestion and innuendo, and his bold, summery vignettes reflect this ethos; each image leaves just enough room for the viewer to impose their own references through the sub-textual lines of minimalism and the ethereal everyday. Pancrazi’s works often focus on hazy, in-between spaces, playing between light and darkness through mesmerising pastel skylines. The photographs look towards a sense of mystery through the temporal mode of twilight, a stage in the day that can grow further into night, or burst into day.
Marietta Varga (@mattivarga)
Marietta Varga is a Hungarian photographer based in London. With a practice based upon spatial context, symbolism and affective colour schemes, she offers intimate and uncanny compositions that follow a clean and simplistic aesthetic, contrasted with a detailed sense of the surreal. Her Raw Hill series utilises the brutalist architecture of London-based structures, such as the Barbican estate, as a playground through which to explore institutionalisation and post-war culture. Building upon the sprawling, grey concrete, the images evoke a sense of the monumental reduced through poetic bathos. Varga asserts her own artistic identity, offering a particular sense of beauty through parallelism and co-ordination, tropes that bring out sculptural elements of the structures.
Jean Baptiste Courtier (@jeanbaptistecourtier)
Jean Baptiste Courtier lives between London and Paris, where he takes influence from the worlds of film and music to create rhythmic and poetic compositions. He populates scenery with a sense of seduction, luring viewers into a slightly enhanced world. Courtier’s a photographer that revels in whimsical worlds, where bodies are upturned and seemingly mundane landscapes take unexpected avenues to reveal uncanny, surreal and unnerving narratives. Each image has a neutralised palette that uses nostalgia as a lens through which to create originality. Scattered legs, groomed lawns and home decor are seen through an energetic filter.
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Credits:
1. Ben Davis, Untitled.
2. Andria Darius Pancrazi, Untitled.
3. Marietta Varga, from the Raw Hill series.
4. Jean Baptiste Courtier, from Jardin.