Maleonn

Maleonn was born in Shanghai, China, where he studied and still lives. It is said he took portraits of around 200.000 people. He loaded up a truck with props and clothes and took to the roads to create a unique album called 'Studio Mobile'. It took seven months preparing before taking the first picture, and another ten months completing the project that took him all over China.
The start of his epic journey was his eviction from the studio in an artist community by the government. Studio Mobile shows people from different life styles and origin in a staged setting, dressed up in Maleonn's outfits or costumes they brought.

Mobile Studio

Sebastiao Salgado

People all over the world have seen Sebastiao Salgado's images. Breathtaking, high quality images of often unbearable human suffering, the destruction of nature, and tribal live. Sebastiao Salgado's work, life and ideas are at the centre of 'The Salt of the Earth' by Wim Wenders.


TEDtalks with Sebastiao Salgado

Fredrik Ödman

'Bent stories' it's all about a banana. You might wonder how many stories a banana can tell, but every new image makes you smile again. Fredrik Ödman from Ängelsholm, Sweden, a photographer with a keen interest in photoshop. A photo manipulator if you like. Besides photography, Fredrik has a background in painting.
"Fredrik Ödmans images explore and uncover an enchanted world. The pictures take the viewer on an extraordinary journey into the borderland between dream and reality. The meeting point of logic, imagination and madness."

Palani Mohan

 
Palani Mohan is a fine art documentary photographer. International, as he is born in India, moved to Australia and is now based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Working mainly on the Asian continent, documenting events and lifestyles in a unique and wonderful style. His images have been shown by National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, Geo, New York Times and Stern.
These images are from "Hunting with Eagles". In the remote region bordering Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and China, the last remaining eagle hunters roam the land with their golden eagles, but as times change they are forced to settle.

Jee Young Lee

Somewhere in Seoul, in the tiny little space of her 3 by 6 metre studio, Jee Young Lee materializes fantasy worlds over and over again. Everything is handmade, filling the room can take weeks, even months. All these weird universes are born from a fantasy without boundaries.
"Whereas traditional photography submits extracts of reality to our eyes, the artist offers excerpts from her heart, her memory, or her dreams. Restrained by the inherent limits of the conventional
photographic medium, she adds plastic creativity and theatrical performance to it, in order to blow life into her immense needs of expression, and interrogation."
Jee Young Lee's work is as much installation as it is photography. A self-portrait in a strange universe, her quest for an identity,  her desires and a frame of mind.