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Apr 07, 04
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Fashion Cubed: my new photo series
Just finished the last composition...
The series will consist of 10 or 11 (haven't decided yet) cubist fashion portraits inspired by the surrealist movement, david hockney, and of course, picasso. The finished prints will be 16"x20" and will be mounted on oversized mattes. I'm going to be displaying the series in toronto for one day next week (saturday 17th) and then i'll be bringing the entire series to Vancouver on the 19th...displaying them at my first independant art show later on in the summer (more details to come later when shit is finalized with the gallery). jess.  shafer.  talia.  tree.  christina.  mimi.  kendyl.  teestan.  irina.  j.my  vanessa.  -s. 
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couple of these remind me of a 70's style acid trip gone horribly mosaic. ie: the chick in the red tracksuit.
the second one really makes me sit and wonder. the rest don't really do anything for me, but they are really well done. i'd say the last one is the best. Good job Sammy, lookin forward to future endevours.
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Apr 07, 04
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i really like the chick on the swing looks good.
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Apr 07, 04
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there is no real purpose to the series per se.
i suppose the biggest factor i took into consideration was the aesthetic qualities of the image. recently i've become more and more interested in human form and proportion...throughout this year i've been expirementing with making images that breaks proportional rules. during the holidays i expiremented with these ideas by photographing models on stilts or with fake prosthetics that would exagerate proportions of their bodies. Keeping with this idea, I decided to take my expirementation to a new level that "straight photography" wouldn't let me do. by creating images composed of multiple frames (most of the peices in the series are composed of at least 36 frames), i was able to explore human proportion more creatively. there are no real "hidden meanings" behind this collection...at least not intentional hidden meanings. I asked the models questions to find out their personalities and to find out things about them that I didn't already know...i then went out and tried to find environments or scenarios which would sort of reflect their personalities yet still maintain the surreal aesthetics i was trying to capture. I suppose the actual process taken to get to the final product could be considered expiremental as I had no real idea of what the final composite print would look like while photographing the models. Essentially, during the photoshoots, I tried to get as many angles of various body parts at different distances. I then went in and scanned in my processed negatives and just sort of played around with different compositions and combinations of each frame. -s.
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Sammy, I'm so so impressed! your work is so well thought out, beautiful and professional (as Aki mentioned), i'm really taken back :)
Keep up the good work! PS I really like the proportions in Christina, there's something so risque and chic about that photo, it's wonderful.
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wow.
super cool stuff sammy! i *heart* the one of kendyl that looks so awesome.
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Great work Sammy, I'm excited to hear that you are showing your work. Keep us updated (of course) on the show in Vancouver, you know I'll be there!
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I was gonna leave my comment at the karma level.. (i forget if I signed my name afterwards. but my msg contained the words "Beautiful" in it. twice. lol) I saw some more things in your pieces and thought I'd leave a lengthier comment.
Like I said, I really love the colors. I love the details in the photos too, like the empty spray cans at the bottom of the j.my piece whose setting is in a back allery with graffiti on the walls. That's kinda neat, being aware of the setting like that. I dont know whether that was planned or not but it looks cool. The wine glass, the blue heeled shoe on only one foot. The girl's face shot in tree on the screen behind her. How did you manage to plan that out? I think it's neat cause it seems you put a lot of thought into the details... the outfits are really great too. The compilations of different photos.. or "cubes" as you call them provide so many different levels of depth to the picture, while still managing to keep the image of the whole. it's like you place emphasis on certain aspects of the body by doing a close up a shot.. etc.. In Shafer, I love how the streets look fragmented, and in talia, how the buildings or apartments in the background have this wild distorted cubed looked. There are so many ways to look at it, and so much to look at. So is there really a swing in a back alley? Cause that'd be cool ;)
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Apr 07, 04
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despite you saying there's no purpose sammy I got a deep sense of anti-modeling here. Like every quality that would be stereotypically hot or appealing you've distorted using different sizes and whatnot.
Very very very good work!
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Apr 07, 04
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yup...again...i was trying to play around with proportion and i guess the series acts as a satire of editorial fashion. but that really wasn't the intent of the series itself (the idea of making a social or cultural comment on the state of fashion photography)...it was more an exploration of proportion. but it's really interesting you recognized or saw that in the series. thanks! i always find it really interesting hearing how people perceive any art...either mine or someone else's.
yoko...yup there actually is a swing in that alley..it's some random alley behind Queen and bathurst (...like...a 15 minute walk away from Much Music). J.My and I came across it...we think it's urban installation art cuz it was just a random swing and the alley itself was 2.5 meteres wide at most. the walls there have the most amazing peices of graff i've ever seen. -s. Last edited by Sammy Skillz; Apr 07, 04 at 11:48 AM.
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Awesome!
J.My and Talia are my favs!! :)
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Apr 07, 04
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I hadn't really thought of selling prints up until a few weeks ago when i was asked to submit work for a potential show in vancouver. i wouldn't sell them for a lot right now though. i'm thinking in the summer i might sell 8x10s for around a 100 or a 150 and then 16x20s for around 500.
thanks. yeah i always try to find beauty in awkward, uncomfortable or even disturbing scenarios. -s.
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