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It would take a bold and confident photographer to work with Ms Grace Jones – she of the panther like qualities and iconic outlandish style! Andrea Klarin seems to have created not only a working relationship with Ms Jones but also a truly collaborative experience with startling results. Ms Jones prowls across the studio space commanding your attention with her dramatic poses and facial expressions. 

With a series of masks and headwear upon which to reveal herself or hide (who really knows with Ms Jones) the look is couture dominatrix!  Yugoslavian born Klarin (now based in Paris) brings a highly stylised and extravagant approach to this shoot showcasing his ability to think big and think imaginatively allowing the muse to create the interest and not be distracted by a setting or location.“I don't try to represent the reality but I try to filter it and through the imaginary world with some elegance and glitter!” 

Klarin’s pedigree is finely tuned and credits his abilities to working with highly talented teams. He has worked with couture houses, commercial brands, high end glossy magazines alike with clients like Valentino, Lanvin, Rochas, L’Oreal, Vogue, Harpers, Instyle and Nike to name a few. - Kate Vandermeer.

The ability to capture a personality on film is no easy task. Few photographers are able to delve that bit deeper with their model and convey the theme of the shoot as well as the model's unique attributes.  Photographer Yu Tsai (based in New York and LA) is one such photographer. 

His celebrity profiles for magazines like Arena, Harpers Bazaar and Flaunt,  portray a refreshingly new perspective of each star. There is something tangible, raw and honest about these shoots that strips away the celebrity status and makes the voyeur relate in an appreciative manner. 

Working with the new breed of celebrity that favour a slightly anti-Hollywood lifestyle, Tsai has managed to shoot Sienna Miller, Bijou Phillips, Cat Deely, Topher Grace, Ewan McGregor and Ryan Gosling to name a few. It seems the creative pursuit of portraying movement as well as still photography are equally as successful for Tsai. 

He cut his teeth at the Art Centre College of Design in Pasadena which is where he discovered his passion for pursuing a creative concept to reality. He also directs commercials and films alongside his advertising work with Avon, Samsung, Puma and Neiman Marcus and can switch between black and white high octane fashion with Chanel's Paris Collections and colour saturated old style glamour with Guess. - Kate Vandermeer

The master of lighting, Australian-born Justin Cooper produces fashion photography “as a representation of desire”. His ability to transform women’s faces into modern workings of art is punctuated with irreverent post producttion. Referencing iconic imagery from eras gone by, Cooper always surprises with his slick, highly stylized photos, often working in black and white. 

He canvases the skin, like a cinematographer longingly frames a landscape; with inquiry, narration and an anthropological viewpoint.

Coined “the most famous non-famous photographer in the world” is quite a title but Tony Duran truly does live up to this. The chameleon of the fashion & celebrity photography world, Duran moves seamlessly between commercial glossy magazine covers to obscure S&M inspired editorial.

With sensuality and an obsessive eye for flesh, Duran confronts gender roles and challenges stereotypes of what is considered sexually explicit and high art without a trace of vulgarity.

Working with GQ, Glamour, Flaunt, Rolling Stone and Curve, the human form is arched, entangled and moulded in a variety of intoxicating images creating a visual feast to set the hormones racing!   Kate Vandermeer