Picture Interview
Claudio Parentela
My name is Claudio Parentela. I’m an Italian visual artist. I create my crazy artworks since a lot of years. I love to play with my natural madness, fashion, underground comics. My life is a giant collage. I love to mix it in my photos too and my photos in my life, clear not?
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Marja de Sanctis
My subjects are inspired by human stories, my everyday, podcasts and lyrics that I seek to represent through the use of metaphor, symbolism and a bit of humour whenever is possible. Marja de Sanctis
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Shannon Novak
Shannon Novak uses geometric forms to render his understanding of the plurality and tensions of gay desire, muddy and morph, purity and idealism.
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Aoi Yao
In celebration of our to-be-triple-digits let me introduce to you today, the magical and dynamic photographer, Aoi Yao from Taiwan, Formosa.
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Ralph Solly
Ralph Solly is a UK based graphic designer and illustrator, he tells Kollektiv: "The picture interview was very challenging, so my process of coming up with ideas took a lot of work and research with preliminary sketches to start with. I use mixed mediums, with combination of illustration, photocopying, painting, Photoshop and Illustrator. I’m proud of my family history, so some of this was a ‘base’ for inspiration for creating my visual responses. I constantly surround myself with inspiration with a huge variety of vinyl / art / design / typography / architecture, books etc. I’ve never classed myself as a ‘proper creative’, as I studied graphic design and illustration, so I’ve never felt I fitted into one box."
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Hana Pera Aoake
Hana Pera Aoake is an artist, writer and curator based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa who primarily works within the Fresh and Fruity collective. Her work explores female pain, digitality, social class, mental illness, sex work, colonisation, aliens, cyborgs, and humour. Hana used to make lots of performance, video and photographic work, but is now quite jaded and prefers instead to take lots of screenshots of alien sightings, cyborgs like Kim Kardashian and sharks. She also writes about her feelings online through twitter and google docs.
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Martín Carri
Martín Carri is a collage artist based in Buenos Aires. He is part surrealist and part social commentator, questioning social structures with visual encounters. He's also a teacher of graphic design in the University of Buenos Aires.
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Jack Veale
I am privileged, institutionalised, pessimistic, observing, solipsistic, indecisive, spiteful.
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Michael Whelan
Primarily I am interested in collective behavioural patterns, and the impact that innovations have on our planet and societies within it.
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Ramón Maiden
Ramón tells Kollektiv, "My work it's a mix between a necessity to express what I feel and how to make a living with it. The interview was fun! The magazines and blogs tend to make the same kind of questions, so it was something new and refreshing."
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