“A Little Darkness, In Itself, At The Time, Is Nothing. You Think No More About It And You Go On. But

audience members at Umm Kolthoum’s concert in Egypt, 1962

Katrin Koenning (German, b. 1979, Ruhrgebiet, Germany, based Melbourne, Australia) - From her Glow series, 2012-2015. Glow is a body of work focused on things that have assumed a short-lived or unexpected state of glow (things which, by nature, don’t glow). Photography

A.F. Vandevorst spring—summer 1999.

For A.F. Vandevorst a garment that has been worn, has more ‘spirit’, more ‘soul’. An opinion they assimilated in their Spring-Summer 1999 collection by proposing clothes that look as if they have been slept in. The show took place in an old dormitory, and the clothes were presented by models sleeping in iron hospital beds. Lauded by the international press and fashion world, the duo received the Venus de la Mode award for most promising designer.

Hirofumi Kurino: Having seen a fashion show too many, I sometimes feel exhausted. It all seems a big waste to me then. I presume others must have the same feeling but still, they always seem ready for another show. I am fed up with this craze, this talk about fashion, the irresponsibility of journalists just chasing news. This ‘fashion for fashion’s sake’ is quite meaningless.

But there are moments of magic. Many people will agree with me when I mention the three A.F. Vandevorst shows, in 1998 and 1999. Knowing these were their first presentations, we were more than amazed; I felt healed, saved, rescued.

Old photographs of Pomaks, the Bulgarian Muslim community, from the villages of Kornitsa and Breznitsa in the Rhodope Mountains. 

zoleikha with her handmaidens after her second dream of yousef / yousef and zoleikha united after potiphar's death, 16th c., iran

Hannah Höch with Raoul Hausmann • Self Portrait 1919

NOMAD. Collection and Art direction by @nicolabortoletto - Pictures by @evelin_peach - Model @thomasdaruos https://www.instagram.com/p/CHmsCiIMfbb/?igshid=1etaswwv9kw89

Chris Drury Covered Cairn, 1993 TICKON (Tranekær International Centre for Art and Nature), Langeland, Denmark. This was commissioned as a temporary piece and comprises a cairn of glacial boulders enclosed by a dome of woven sticks

The Choice of Evil        © Marilyn Kirsch Abstract Painting and Photography by Marilyn Kirsch

Josef Sudek, the Wind, 1918-22