Lucia Holm

Photographer Lucia Holm (also known as Miss Lulu & The Teaspoon Shortage on Flickr) is renowned for taking breathtaking self-portraits. With perfect platinum blond hair and deadpan look, she resembles a retro bombshell that never takes herself too seriously. Each photo stands on its own as a unique piece of art with subtle layers of vintage-inspired textures. 

With degrees from both the Rhode Island School of Design and the New York Academy of Art, her skill with lighting, composition and retouching is immediately evident. 

What more could you could you ask for? This girl has impeccable looks, major style and can shoot a captivating photo.

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Roger Ballen Show

Nemo’s photo team took a little field trip yesterday to the opening of the Roger Ballen show, at Quality Pictures. A PhD in Geology led him to South Africa, where he began taking photographs of rural disenfranchised Afrikaners.  His work is beautiful, disturbing, darkly humorous, and sad. I think good art makes you feel…happy, sad, uncomfortable, etc. In Ballen’s work discomfort is a primary emotion. You can’t escape the looming question of exploitation and ethics, which in a way, makes his art even more engaging. Does his work spur awareness and action, or is it art for art’s sake- we look, feel and look away? 

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