Art + Commerce - Artists - Creative Directors - M/M (Paris) Portfolios Karen Mirzoyan - The Unrecognized Islands Of Caucasus Gervasio Sanchez Angela Woods :: Photographer's agent Eurasism by Fabrice Fouillet Moving a capital city is an important decision. In 1998, Kazakhstan unveiled its new capital and Almaty lost its status to Astana, located 1300 kilometers up North. As the world’s most recent capital city after Pyinmana (Myanmar), Astana is also the symbol of a new start, a unique initiative in the Post-Soviet region. Fabrice Fouillet’s project ‘Eurasism’ depicts a landscape coined by old Soviet architecture and new developing modern buildings. The new official buildings are sometimes colossal, bordering on disproportion, the skeletons of ill-assorted buildings rise from this suburban-like area, which vacillates between authenticity and artifice, between materiality and imagination tinged with utopia. Aiming at a brighter future for migrants, these buildings showcase the State as a viable sociability frame. All images © Fabrice Fouillet
daniel berehulak - photojournalist Alexandra Leese on how her dual heritage influences her photography Alexandra Leese now lives and works in London, but there’s a second city thousand of miles away which the photographer calls home. “I am half-Chinese half-English: born and raised in Hong Kong until I was 11 when I came to the UK with my sister for school,” she tells us. “I ended up staying in the UK after school and applying for a fine art degree at Chelsea College of Art. I did my foundation year there with the intention of being a portrait painter.” Up until to that point, Alex hadn’t considered photography as an avenue for creativity. Having changed her degree, Alexandra went to LCF to study fashion photography. “I still go back regularly to Hong Kong and to see my family,” Alex says. As for work she can talk freely about, Alex tells us that she “really loved the i-D shoot I did for Hong Kong brand Yat Pit.
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