The drugs were rampant, abandoned buildings were everywhere, it was hard to get jobs, and I was capturing an immigrant society who was trying to cope and survive in a new location that was often unwelcoming and sometimes hostile.
Most of my pictures are representative of my dreams, hence the surrealism touch. The rest are all my fears or obsessions…
I’ve always been a water baby, and even in the beginning of my career I can see it coming out a lot in my work.
I come from a very Catholic country where images of wounded saints and the ideas of punishment and suffering are prevalent.
I have always thought that angels were watching over me throughout my life. They have saved me during the dark times and have lifted me when I needed it.
I am a separate person, but, at the same time, an integral part of the single, huge organism that is the universe.
For Jim Lee, fashion photography was always about his models rather than the clothes. On publishing his memoir, this provocateur of the 1960s and 1970s reflects on his work with Ossie Clark and Anna Wintour – and where the likes of ‘Vogue’ have gone wrong
This ain’t your mother’s street art. It’s your grandmother’s.
As for sensuality, most humans think of sex every few minutes, so artworks that play with all that come out naturally.
“Winter Sun is a dose of man-made sun in the dark of winter.”
No wonder we are drawn to art that reveals some of these universal lessons, such as the compelling fractal geometries seen in the intricate ceramic forms made by Irish sculptor Nuala O’Donovan.
‘Beacon’ is a sculptural geodesic dome made from both fiber optic and PET bottles, illuminated from within.
