Prue Stent

Prue Stent is a 21-year-old photographer based in Melbourne, Australia that has blown us away with her playful depictions of texture, illusion and life. Her work touches upon themes such as femininity and female identity.

Her ‘Pink’ series visually communicates the social constructs of colour and gender to address issues of perfection by depicting the female body, adorned with non-conventional materials in non-conventional positions. Whether her photographs show breasts or hands dripping with a cotton-candy liquid, or diaphanous material floating in the wind, an extension of the body itself, movement is intermingled with a tactile sensuality creating a viewing space of new imagined realities.

Maria Aparicio Puentes

Using black and white photography as a backdrop for geometrical shapes with colourful threads, Maria Aparicio Puentes makes embroidery edgy and cool. Taking inspiration from the architecture that she studied and was surrounded by, she brings to her compositions a true awareness and sensitivity of space, hence the theme running throughout her work: people and their relationships to their environments.  Threads superimposed onto photographs are like our own memories we superimpose onto reality itself. The strangest thing to inspire a piece of work for Puentes: “The strangest thing... ruining a big job, after weeks of work, by knocking a bottle of water on it. It was a strange feeling, of loss and of infinite sadness.”

Zack Seckler

Zack Seckler’s aerial images of Botswana wildlife exceed our expectation of the normal reportage in essence of ‘National Geographic’ terms. Salvadore Dali once said that his paintings are more of self-coloured photographs, here we see the opposite as the artist describes his experience: ‘Being above the ground at such low elevations, and having the ability to precisely manoeuvre, was like gliding over an enormous painting and being able to create brushstrokes at will.’

To tend towards a monochromatic palette, gives each piece a focus, but doesn’t limit our eye to drop and fix to a singular point. Each time we review it, our perspective changes, sometimes more on the animals, vegetations, or to gaze longingly on the ripples against these salt ponds. It questions you, as if it is a state of mind.

Nadia Wicker

When someone has a clear vision and is in control of the whole production of the image, everything just seems more complete, with an apparent style. Nadia Wicker is a French artist who combines her photography abilities and makeup talent, to create great stories through the extension of a portrait. Those who willingly participate in her creative practice, become the lucky few that have the chance to experience the meticulous process of producing something higher. Her works are no longer viewed as fashion, as each piece speaks more than merely a product.

Images are from Wicker's 'Ursides' series.