Photography by Yumiko Utsu

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Yumiko Utsu" border="0" height="338" hspace="8" src="http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/6849/yumikoutsu.jpg" width="425" /></div><div align="left">Combining the intricate techniques of food photography with the anthropomorphic tendencies of manga, <a href="http://utsuyumiko.com/" target="_blank">Yumiko Utsu</a> has an affinity for kitsch shared by British photographer Martin Parr. But instead of taking a strictly documentary approach to the Japanese relationship with food and the natural world, she uses fruit, vegetables, and seafood to construct surreal fantasies populated by kittens with octopus eyes, pineapples full of owls, and phallic carrots. Several contemporary Japanese artists - perhaps the most famous of whom is Takashi Murakami - reference manga, with its wide-eyed cartoon characters and anthropomorphized objects, in order to subvert modern Japanese culture. But by using the visceral, perishable products of nature to reinvent such imagery Utsu goes further, undermining the antiseptic values of the genre, pricking its glossy surface with a shudder of amused repulsion. By exposing the strangeness of manga’s visual strategies she also reveals our complex relationship to the natural world and to our own bodies - at once sensual and comic, tinged by eroticism, disgust, and desire. </div><a name="more"></a><br /><center> <script type="text/javascript"><!--google_ad_client = "pub-8429290713386535";/* 336x280, created 2/26/11 */google_ad_slot = "0683073266";google_ad_width = 336;google_ad_height = 280;//--></script> <script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </center> <br /><div align="left">Utsu has stated that her favourite artist is Czech animator Jan Švankmajer, whose surrealist short film Food (1992) revels in the disturbing, humorous, and erotic responses we have to the culinary arts. Likewise, Utsu’s photographic series suggest stills from an animated film, and portray similarly comic but unsettling scenarios: a puppy in a volcanic landscape seems to erupt in a fountain of chocolate; a head of Romanesco broccoli is transformed into an alpine landscape; and a wide-eyed tomato gradually decomposes into a pulpy mass. By extracting individual moments from these imagined situations Utsu allows us to luxuriate in the pure visual pleasure of her creations, while giving us time to reflect on the significance of her surreal humour. As William Burroughs said when explaining the name of his famous novel: “The title means exactly what the words say: naked lunch, a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork”.<br /><br /></div><div align="left"><strong>Yumiko Utsu</strong> was born in Tokyo in 1978. She has had solo exhibitions in Japan and Hungary and her work has been collected by Charles Saatchi. This extensive exhibition at Michael Hoppen Gallery demonstrates both the consistency of Utsu’s creative vision and the rich variety of her imagination. Images of naive innocence, scatological humour and frank sexuality make this introduction to Utsu’s world a disturbingly seductive experience.</div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Yumiko Utsu2" border="0" height="340" hspace="8" src="http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/695/yumikoutsu2.jpg" width="425" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Yumiko Utsu3" border="0" height="530" hspace="8" src="http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/1061/yumikoutsu3.jpg" width="425" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Yumiko Utsu4" border="0" height="340" hspace="8" src="http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5111/yumikoutsu4.jpg" width="425" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Yumiko Utsu5" border="0" height="349" hspace="8" src="http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/9830/yumikoutsu5.jpg" width="425" /></div></div>

Photography by Yumiko Utsu

Combining the intricate techniques of food photography with the anthropomorphic tendencies of manga, Yumiko Utsu has an affinity for kitsch...

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Photography by Orlando Estrada

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Orlando Estrada" border="0" height="326" hspace="8" src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/5040/orlandoestrada.jpg" width="500" /></div><br />Beautiful photography by <a href="http://www.orlandoestrada.com/">Orlando Estrada</a>, professional photographer, who was born in Puerto Rico, in 1986...Orlando currently based in Florida and work as photographer.<br /><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><center><script type="text/javascript"><!--google_ad_client = "pub-8429290713386535";/* 336x280, created 2/26/11 */google_ad_slot = "0683073266";google_ad_width = 336;google_ad_height = 280;//--></script><br /><script type="text/javascript"src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></center><br /><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Orlando Estrada2" border="0" height="527" hspace="8" src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/2123/orlandoestrada2.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Orlando Estrada3" border="0" height="508" hspace="8" src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/4568/orlandoestrada3.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Orlando Estrada4" border="0" height="516" hspace="8" src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6793/orlandoestrada4.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Orlando Estrada5" border="0" height="502" hspace="8" src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8619/orlandoestrada5.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Orlando Estrada6" border="0" height="496" hspace="8" src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/387/orlandoestrada6.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Orlando Estrada7" border="0" height="399" hspace="8" src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/840/orlandoestrada7.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Orlando Estrada8" border="0" height="507" hspace="8" src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/4632/orlandoestrada8.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Orlando Estrada9" border="0" height="521" hspace="8" src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/917/orlandoestrada9.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Orlando Estrada10" border="0" height="514" hspace="8" src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/6874/orlandoestrada10.jpg" width="500" /></div></div>

Photography by Orlando Estrada

Beautiful photography by Orlando Estrada , professional photographer, who was born in Puerto Rico, in 1986...Orlando currently based in Flor...

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Photography by Jerry Hsu

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jerry Hsu" border="0" height="333" hspace="8" src="http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/2062/jerryhsu.jpg" width="500" /></div><br /><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2043/2187197040_7059a5781e.jpg" target="_blank">Jerry Hsu</a> is a 29 year old photographer who lives and works in San Jose, CA. He has exhibited in New York, London, Berlin, Milan, Tokyo and Stockholm. He is also a professional skateboarder.<br /><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><center><script type="text/javascript"><!--google_ad_client = "pub-8429290713386535";/* 336x280, created 2/26/11 */google_ad_slot = "0683073266";google_ad_width = 336;google_ad_height = 280;//--></script><br /><script type="text/javascript"src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></center><br /><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jerry Hsu2" border="0" height="333" hspace="8" src="http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/5371/jerryhsu2.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jerry Hsu3" border="0" height="326" hspace="8" src="http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/6871/jerryhsu3.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jerry Hsu4" border="0" height="326" hspace="8" src="http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/7254/jerryhsu4.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jerry Hsu5" border="0" height="326" hspace="8" src="http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/4041/jerryhsu5.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jerry Hsu6" border="0" height="326" hspace="8" src="http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/7131/jerryhsu6.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jerry Hsu7" border="0" height="326" hspace="8" src="http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/4720/jerryhsu7.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jerry Hsu8" border="0" height="326" hspace="8" src="http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/6643/jerryhsu8.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jerry Hsu9" border="0" height="325" hspace="8" src="http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/9736/jerryhsu9.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jerry Hsu10" border="0" height="375" hspace="8" src="http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/8136/jerryhsu10.jpg" width="500" /></div></div>

Photography by Jerry Hsu

Jerry Hsu is a 29 year old photographer who lives and works in San Jose, CA. He has exhibited in New York, London, Berlin, Milan, Tokyo and...

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Photography by Jackson Eaton

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jackson Eaton" border="0" height="338" hspace="8" src="http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/4379/jacksoneaton.jpg" width="500" /></div><br /><a href="http://www.jacksoneaton.com/" target="_blank">Jackson Eaton</a> starting taking photos when he moved to South Korea in 2006. There he met a girl and made a lot of work about being with her. Now he is back in Australia he makes a lot of work about being alone. He has held four solo exhibitions and been featured in numerous local and international group exhibitions and print publications.<br /><br /><a name="more"></a><br /><center><script type="text/javascript"><!--google_ad_client = "pub-8429290713386535";/* 336x280, created 2/26/11 */google_ad_slot = "0683073266";google_ad_width = 336;google_ad_height = 280;//--></script><br /><script type="text/javascript"src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></center><br /><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jackson Eaton2" border="0" height="377" hspace="8" src="http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/600/jacksoneaton2.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jackson Eaton3" border="0" height="369" hspace="8" src="http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/4904/jacksoneaton3.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jackson Eaton4" border="0" height="652" hspace="8" src="http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/5648/jacksoneaton4.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jackson Eaton5" border="0" height="741" hspace="8" src="http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/6473/jacksoneaton5.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jackson Eaton6" border="0" height="710" hspace="8" src="http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/5550/jacksoneaton6.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jackson Eaton7" border="0" height="662" hspace="8" src="http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/3179/jacksoneaton7.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jackson Eaton8" border="0" height="338" hspace="8" src="http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/7411/jacksoneaton8.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jackson Eaton9" border="0" height="342" hspace="8" src="http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/791/jacksoneaton9.jpg" width="500" /></div><div align="center"><img align="center" alt="Jackson Eaton10" border="0" height="377" hspace="8" src="http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/9381/jacksoneaton10.jpg" width="500" /></div></div>

Photography by Jackson Eaton

Jackson Eaton starting taking photos when he moved to South Korea in 2006. There he met a girl and made a lot of work about being with her....

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