Kat O'Neill Figurative Photography

"Queen of Spades" - 2016 - C Print on Fuji Pearl, 50x38x2 inches Edition 1 of 7 Custom white box frame Kathleen Wilke blurs the lines of poetry and fiction through her underwater photography...

Muschi Guerilla #03, 2008/2018 [From the series Goldenbogen & Zouzou] 20x20cm, Edition of 7. Iced image - archival art print based on a Carmen De Vo...

"Shannon", Edition 1/10, 20x30cm, 2017, digital Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. Published in Tao Ruspoli's Mon...

Altstadt Rêveries #06, 2008 [From the series Goldenbogen & Zouzou] Digital color print based on original Polaroid on beautiful PHOTO RAG ULTRA SMOOTH 305gsm - 100% cotton by HAHNEMÜHLE, Hand signed & numbered by the artist, edition of 7 - nr 02 Unmounted. 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...

'Melody' (Bombay Beach), Edition 1/10, 30x20cm, 2018, C-Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate. About Tao Ruspoli (bor...

Balancing Act 2019, Edition 1/10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 20x25cm, Digital Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper. Signature label and certificate. Not mounte...

"Queen of Diamonds" - 2016 - C Print on Fuji Pearl, 50x38x2 inches Edition 1 of 7 Custom white box frame Kathleen Wilke blurs the lines of poetry ...

Gesture of Kindness 2019, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 20x25cm, Digital Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper. Signature label and certificate. Not...

Coming into Focus 2019, Edition 1/10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 20x25cm, Digital Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemühle photo rag paper. Signature label and certificate. Not mo...

Portal 2019, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 20x25cm, Digital C-Print based on a mixed-media collage of an original Polaroid and silver foil on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper. Signat...

Stefan the Cat and Susanna the Human - 2015 Edition of 10, 30x20cm, Digital Print, printed on Velvet Watercolor, 310gsm, Bright White, Acid Free, Signature label and Certificate....

'A Likeness' from the Dwell Series, 2017, Edition 1/10 plus 2 Artist Proof, 20x24cm. Art Print based on an original Polaroid on Hahnemuhle photo rag paper, not mounted. Signature lab...