Photography

Quand les photographes suisses se mêlent à la scène underground londonienne.

FACT 45: L’excentricité et la créativité sont à Londres, ce que la pluie est à la Grande-Bretagne. 

Dans le cadre de leur dernier numéro  » Is East London dead?« , le magazine Dazed&Confused a fait appel au talent helvétique en la personne de Walter Pfeiffer, photographe de renommée, basé à Zürich. L’éditorial met en scène dix figures créatives de l’est de la capitale britannique.

Nul besoin de m’éterniser sur le fait que (1) l’équation photographe suisse + éditorial Dazed&Confused me réjouit de toute évidence à mort, mais aussi que (2), en ce qui me concerne, East London est loin d’être « out », parce que – fait incontestable – l’excentricité et la créativité sont à Londres, ce que la pluie est à la Grande-Bretagne. 

Vidéo et photographie: Walter Pfeiffer

Is East London Dead?

THEO-MASS LEXILEICTOUS, PERFORMANCE ARTIST

JOSH QUINTON, DJ, FILMMAKER AND VINTAGE SELLER

YASMINA DEXTER, DJ

« I’m a DJ and I moved to London in ’91. I suppose my first outing in east London was approx ’94, Dalston Tyson Street for an underground techno party. I remember lots of abandoned and run-down buildings, therefore a lot of squatting. As time goes by the amount of people multiplies and the city needs to expand, natural progress of development in the area is inevitable. It was just matter of time. I don’t think east London is dead. Why would it be? Nothing can be truly exciting non-stop, that would make it die. » YASMINA DEXTER

CLAIRE BARROW, FASHION ARTIST

EDWARD MALER

« I study fashion but I’ve been on a year out interning and stuff. I don’t really remember my first impressions of east London but everytime I leave my house I see something/someone exciting and I never feel lonely here. I don’t know if things have changed greatly – I only notice the little changes like, ‘Oh they painted that pub a different colour.’ There aren’t enough fun places to go and dance though. » EDWARD MARLER

Sources: The fashionspot.com, Dazed&Confused

Colourbug Printed Shirts and Rainbow Dye.

An amazing mix and match of all this summer’s biggest trends – minus the pink hair maybe. I thought we’d all come to an agreement on that one back in 2010. Clearly not.

Anyways, we might not all be pulling this one off, but you can always pick out the one trend you want to channel. Or if you just hate it, thanks to me you now know what you won’t be wearing. I know, amazing right.

Styled by Grace Cobb and photography by Elena Rendina for Wonderland Magazine December 2011. Model: Charlotte Free.

Source: Trendland.net

Vivid Colors.

It had been a while already that Patrick Nicolet and I were in discussion about a shooting of this sort.

He wanted something bright and colorful, something in motion. This, of course, suited me perfectly!

So here you have the first pick out of a very vivid series! More coming up soon :)

Photographe: Patrick Nicolet @ A-FOCUS Make-up: Malika Hairdresser: Jeff Gala

Skinny trousers: Topshop, Blouse: H&M, Cardigan: Second Hand-Portobello Market, Necklace: Primark, Scarf: Second Hand, Shoes: Office

Electric Kool-Aid Acid.

A clearly less sexy yet way cooler version of Crazy Horse, model Ilva Hetmann stars in this ‘Electric Kool-Aid Acid’ editorial for the first ever issue of Interview Germany. Projecting patterns and light all over the body giving the illusion of painting or covering parts… As I said, just like with the Crazy Horse beauties, but this time around, with clothing.

Shot by Markus Pritzi

Photos: Trendland.net