Madonna: MDNA

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Rise and Shine

In honor of the Chinese New Year i-D Magazine collaborated with  Chen Man and MAC’s UK director of make-up, Terry Barber, to create these 12 covers for the Spring issue. These portraits are works of art that celebrate the diversity of Chinese beauty in a very avant-garde fashion.

Les Femmes Heretiques

Les Femmes Hérétiques / AWARD: IPA Los Angeles, LICC London Intl. Creative Competition

Recently, a group of archeologists in Israel found a mural representing Jesus as a woman, with a crown of flowers, pearls around her neck and red painted lips. It could be the not only symbolical confirmation, of God feminine nature, as in the past many heretics declared among them Wilhelmina the Bohemian. 

The hypothesis is fascinating and, if true, would change immediately the bone structure of the contemporary society, frozen in a hard to kill paternalism. Our "femmes", not at all aiming to be divine, represent all sacrifices and suffering that women had to bear along history, and that allowed them to evolve into the so called “women century” - the nineteen hundreds -, and which we should never forget and always keep mind as far as conquests and emancipation. [Winkler + Noah]

Exhibited in Milan (2010).

For Winkler+Noah, photography was the most fitting point of arrival for an artistic itinerary that they began instinctively from childhood, exploring all the forms of expression that they encountered — painting, drawing and sculpture — amalgamating them and trying out blends between different media.

 

This creative need for self-expression matured over the years, first becoming curiosity and then a strong will to create and to photograph. After a professional detour as an illustrator and graphic designer, Noah met Winkler and this acted as a detonator, producing a mixture fusing traditional photography with experimentation.

What their pictures reveal is a sensation of hyper-reality: the protagonists of their portraits appear in a real context, but they stand out from it as if highlighted by reality itself. They are stark, intense photos because each single picture encloses an idea and conveys powerful emotions to the observer. The artists deal personally with post-production so that the creative process joins up with itself like a circle.[The Magenta Links]

Winkler + Noah, the brand name of Milan photographers Romina Raffaelli and Stefano Marini,

NOH8

NOH8 is a photo campaign that was started in response to the passage of Proposition 8 in California back in 2008.

Kaki West

Prop 8 is a ban on same-sex marriages, and it pissed off a lot of same-sex couples and famous people who know same-sex couples and just people in general who think you shouldn’t be denied rights just for being yourself.

Photographer Adam Bouska and his partner Jeff Parshley started taking pictures of people, famous and not, who don’t like Prop 8 — and they’re still doing it today.

Ida Ljungquist

Tila Tequila

NOH8 Campaign

Coco Pop

Coco Rocha by Alix Malka Coco Pop - Numero Tokyo Issue 19

Revenge: Ellen Von Unwerth

Ellen Von Unwerth’s “Revenge” images trace the erotic journey of three young women arriving at a rural manor for a delightful getaway. The Baroness has a more erotically charged experience in mind, one that seduces the three jeune filles into titillating but never demeaning S&M power play.