Carmen de Vos

Camisole

2018

'Tales of Bitter Moon #25', Edition of 7, 30x30cm, 2018 digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid mounted on Dibond - gloss coating, hand signed & numbered by artist on the back. Please ...

#Girl Manoeuvres - 01 from the series Dunderwear - 2007 26x20cm edition of 7 . Archival C-print based on the Polaroid , on beautiful on Fine art bright white by Hahnemuhle framed in a shadow Frame (white oiled wood) Hand signed & numbered by the artist. Carmen De Vos - Artist Statement Flying Freelance Portrayer. Purveyor of Exquisite Photographic Peculiarities. Chroniqueur and Archiver. Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the late TicKL-Magazine. The Belgian artist Carmen De Vos is a slow photographer. She registers, portrays and thinks up odd stories. She shoots Polaroids to frame these mental escapades, they get so easily out of hand. She enormously longs for what she’s afraid to loose: real human contact, the slowness of being and creating, the tangibility of materials. Almost without exception she uses old Polaroid camera’s, long time expired film and self-made filters. Her tools and methods - such as film bleaching and deliberate film obstruction - are not precise and are not even geared towards a perfect representation. They often yield results - such as colorisation, deformation, unsharpness - which she could never have predicted on forehand with any certainty, because their flaws do not allow for calculation. She’s not in control. She fights the material. She plans, stages and directs but the decayed chemistry and off-focus lenses add their magic. All by themselves. Which merrily surprises her. Or ruins her image. This battle attracts her as much as it frustrates her. She loves to create within these limitations, to try to produce the best possible image within the narrow circumstances given. Luckily, she’s a sucker for imperfections. Once upon a time she found herself guilty of home-crafted mischiefs for TicKL, her English art porn Polaroid magazine. She never really got cured from naughtiness. She can’t help but traveling back to these blessed times of free-love photography...

'Tales of Bitter Doom #14' by Carmen De Vos, Edition of 7, 30x30cm, 2018 digital c-print, based on a Polaroid mounted on Dibond - gloss coating, hand sign...

Lourdes [From the series Odd Stories], 87x66cm digital print based on an original Polaroid photograph mounted on Dibond - matt coating Hand signed & numbered by artist edition 2014, ...

The photography of Carla van de Puttelaar allows the eye to touch the skin on many different levels. Through her lens, she makes the viewer aware of the sensitivity and the sensualit...

Photography, edition 2/20.

Karla HIRALDO VOLEAU (*1992, French-Dominican) Juin, 2022 Inkjet print face-mounted to Diasec 126 x 98 cm (49 5/8 x 38 5/8 in.) Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof Print only Signed b...

Patrick Chelli invents collections of photographs from different points of view, looking at the viewer at the back. In his new series, spectators are captured in galleries as they wa...