All posts tagged: Natalia Vodianova

Ryan McGinley, Bearer of Light

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Ryan McGinley is an american photographer living in New York who depicts the pleasure-seeking ways of the contemporary youth culture. Although the photos have a background of violence and drugs, they have a lightness, a freedom and a velocity in the movements of the subjects. Since his childhood he was interested in the marginal elements of society and used to hang out with musicians, artists and skateboarders. In 1995 he joined the Parsons School of Design in New York to study graphic design. The fine art community took notice of his work when he printed a book entitled “The Kids Are Alright” in 1999. His large-format color photographs soon graced the walls of the Whitney Museum of American Art where he was the youngest person to be given a solo exhibition. Then he started doing ad projects and assignments for Vice magazine, New York Times, US Olympic Sports Team and Levi’s. In 2007 he received the title of the “Young Photographer of the Year” at the International Center of Photography Infinity Awards. Sea inside heart, Ryan …

Ulyana Sergeenko, the Tsar’s Bride

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Halfway between East and West, Yuliana Sergeenko symbolizes this russian generation proud to highlight their roots, the richness of their History, and this specific and subtle duet between the attachment to the slavonic values and an aspiration to the european codes. At the same time designer, photographer, blogger, and ocasionally model, Yuliana Sergeenko doll-like unique beauty just taken from a nineteen century russian novel endowed with a hollywood post-war touch of glamour is a perfect blend between a Tolstoï and a Mankiewicz heroin. After finishing her studies of Philology in Saint Petersburg, she started working as a photographer for several fashion magazines. Married to russian insurance billionaire Danil Khachaturov, mother of two children, she recently started her own fashion brand full with her spirit and love for fine fabrics and russian craftmanship. Move away from the perception of Russian women as eager consumers craving for luxury brands, she proves that tastes, aspirations and motivations have changed for moscow elite who wishes to put Russia on the fashion forefront. Yuliana Sergeenko puts forward russian women appeals for a classic, feminine and coquettish cups, shapes and patterns, …