We first wrote about illustrator Janne Livonen’s work earlier this year and he has kept himself busy with a steady stream of commissions, all of which reiterate his skill for on-point references and nostalgia. With their Tintin haircuts, muted colour palettes and jiggle marks, Janne’s drawings could easily be straight out of an illustration archive from anywhere between 1950 and the 70s if it wasn’t for the modern-day escapades of his characters.
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Charles-Henry Bédué’s alternative reportage of international fashion sets
Charles-Henry Bédué started taking his unusual reportage shots at society parties and fashion events whilst working in Shanghai and then Beijing. L’Habit Fait Le Moine (or The Clothes Make The Man) began as a way for the French photographer to find some satisfaction in a job he didn’t enjoy. After being pleasantly surprised by an accidental picture taken during one of these jobs – the kind that was no use to anyone else – he started to see things differently. Taking a fly-on-the-wall approach and shooting from every unexpected angle, he turned his lens away from unfamiliar faces and zoomed in on the textures and folds of their clothes and the movements of gesticulating limbs. “I started to not see a difference between the job and the art, realising that if I could continue to evolve freely as a reporter, every subject could bring me meaningful pictures for my work,” he explains.
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