Cathleen Naundorf: Noah’s Ark

Noah’s Ark, Naundorf’s latest body of work, is largely unseen and features a series of taxidermy animals alongside unique haute couture pieces by leading fashion designers including Dior, Chanel, Valentino, Gaultier, Elie Saab and Stephane Rolland. These elaborate sets embody a sense of extravagance - the dresses, headpieces and models...

PhotoBiography: Martin Roemers

Martin Roemers s (b. 1962) studied at the AKI Academy of Fine Arts in Enschede, the Netherlands. For many years, he has worked on long-term projects that result in exhibitions and books such as Relics of the Cold War and The Eyes of War. His current project is Metropolis, an...

Robin Schwartz: Amelia & The Animals

Amelia is fourteen years old. In many ways, she is your average American teenager: since she was three years old, she has been her mother’s muse and the subject of her photographs. However, not every mom is a world-class photographer with a predilection for photographing animals. And it’s not every...

Julie de Waroquier: DOPPELGÄNGER

The “imaginary friend” syndrome is an overactive imagination disorder. It consists in creating a reassuring mental companion in order to cope with a troubling situation. This friend is a fictional projection and only exists in the mind’s person: the inner life gets the upper hand on the external world. Frequent...

Russia Before the Revolution (1907-1915)

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863–1944) became photographically renowned in Russia for a color portrait of Leo Tolstoy. It was this fame that, in 1909, brought him to the attention of Tsar Nicholas II. Prokudin-Gorsky's subsequent meeting with the tsar and the tsar's family was to be the pivotal moment in his life:...

Interview with Nude photographer Martin Wieland

Martin Wieland was born in 1970, studied at the Graphic Arts in Vienna. At the age of 14 he decided to follow in his fathers footsteps to become a professional photographer as well. Since 1997 specialized in nude and erotic photography. His strength lies in the communication with the model,...

Abbas: Between Myth and Ideology

The Iranian-French photographer Abbas (*1944) took religion as his main concern. He shot the Iranian Revolution, documented Islam as a gobal phenomenon, including militant Islamism. To be able to document the everyday life of Muslims, he travelled from Xinjiang to Morocco, from London to Timbuktu, New York and Mecca. He...

Gail Albert Halaban: Vis à Vis

Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new photographs by Gail Albert Halaban (American, b. 1970). Albert-Halaban's new series, Vis à Vis, is set in Paris, where she peers through and photographs what's behind the windows in the French city's apartments and courtyards. Instead of being the...

PhotoBiography: Corey Arnold

Corey Arnold is a photographer and commercial fisherman by trade. Working as a deckhand in Alaska since 1995, he spent seven years aboard the Bering Sea crabbing vessel f/v Rollo. He now captains a wild sockeye salmon fishing operation based out of an abandoned cannery complex called Graveyard Point. His...