According to Spanish curator Octavio Zaya, who wrote the introduction to Kooi’s survey exhibition at the Casa Encendid, Madrid, last year: “Kooi shows us a world in which the ordinary silently slips towards fantasy.” With her large-scale panoramic views shot predominantly in the Netherlands, interest in Kooi has been growing over the past few years, both in her native country and abroad. With exhibitions in Paris, New York and Spain (to name a few) she is emerging as one of the most successful Dutch photographers working today.
With a background in dance and theatre photography, Kooi has developed a highly personal...

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Anderson for the first time in Europe. Her new series High Glitz: The Surreal World of Child Beauty Pageants will be on show at the gallery from the 29th of January through the 21st February 2009.

High Glitz is a documentary portrait series that looks into the US subculture of child beauty pageants and, more particularly, into the ‘High Glitz’ genre, which name refers to the young competitors’ couture costumes embellished with glitter. The ‘glitzy’ appearance of the girls is further perfected with a broad array of cosmetic preparations that go from glamour makeup to lacquered hairstyle and flipp...

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Since graduating from the Parsons School of Design in 1996, Toronto-born photographer David Drebin has made a name for himself as a visionary ad creator, editorial artist and fashion photographer. Based in New York, Drebin’s independent work has been broadly exhibited in Europe and the United States at venues such as the Fahey Gallery in LA, Camerawork in Berlin and Young Gallery in Brussels. His portfolio includes celebrity portraits as diverse as Charlize Theron, Fergie, and 50 Cent to Ad campaigns for Conde Nast Fashion Rocks, MTV, Mercedes and Adidas.

Drebin’s world is lush and glamorous. His latest compilation of i...

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