Michael Redmond

9 (Reproduction)

Reproduction of Recent Things

Bag by Celine, rocket shoes by Prada, platform by Nina Ricci.

what will spring summer bring us?

– About yourself (including age, occupation)

I am a 24 year old fashion photographer based in London. Currently I am a student and I am doing a Business Law course and also working on many creative art projects.

– What made you want to start your own magazine? What is the idea behind the magazine?

My friend Mona and I decided to make a magazine where we would be able to show everything that we like! We wanted for it to be like a visual diary, without much text, where we could share our digital and analog experiments and where other young artists would have an opportunity to exhibit their work online. We wanted to focus on photography, fashion and art, but the main concept was freedom of art. We also wanted for it to be an international magazine which would include contributors from around the world without the limitation of a language barrier.

– Which magazine or books were you inspired by when you started Vrag? Role model?


There were many magazines that I read and admired which each had an influence on the layout & style of VRAG.

– How many people work together? any part (photo, design, editing)

Our team consists of me, Masha Mel (editor-in-chief), Joseph Race (web master), Ulian Goldman (art editor) and Tess Yopp (fashion stylist).

At the moment we don’t have any commercial income, we are trying to develop more and we hope to produce a printed edition this year.


We have many contributors from around the world and we also have regular interviews and features on artists/photoraphers in our blog.

– Any particularly nice memories about certain shootings you did?

I am originally from Russia and it is always nice to work with Russian beauties from agencies. They are young and funny. I love to create something with my hands – props, decorations – to use in a shoot or desperately running around London the day before, trying to find a particular item such as a flamingo toy or an Indian nose ring. Haha – that happened many times!

I am inspired by books, magazines, films and creative people. Tumblr is also a good inspirational source.

Being a woman in the fashion photography industry [which I gotta say is mostly male-dominated], do you find you have a different perspective? How do you deal with this?

I think if you are talented and hardworking it doesn’t really matter if you are a woman or a man. I like bright colors and girly things in fashion photography. The way that women photographers work with female models is very different to men, it is more soft and playful. It is probably how we depict ourselves in their poses, clothes and mood.

– Best editorial? (please send the images too)

One of my best editorials is called ‘Russian Dacha’, which I did for VRAG. We shot it last April near Moscow. This is a typical Russian country house. I decided to depict the calm mood and the midday sun of this amazing place.

– Artist, Photographer, Stylist, whoever are in creative industry you would like to work with?

There are so many people I would like to work with in fashion photography.

– Your dream magazine is going to be like the ______ (ex. vogue Paris,Lula, etc.)

I want my magazine to be different from every other magazine!

– What would be some advice for somebody young and starting out magazine publishing?

Look at what’s our there, get inspired! Come up with a great name and find some amazing work to publish!

Vrag Interview in ELLE girl Korea ♥

Mulberry collection was full of rainbow pastel colours, animal prints and leather jackets.

Tess Yopp

Mulberry SS12

Alexandra Gordienko

11 (The Body)

The Cupboard

Lovely lovely LCF graduates spotted by Tess Yopp.

V&A show

Masha Mel

Ulian Goldman

4 (Russia)

Mermaid and the Lion

A nice evening at home but the weather is dreadful outside… Welcome to London. All I want to do is run to the shop across the street to buy some chocolate and sparkly water before settling down to watch a film. HAHA. Not so easy. Obsessed with ideas of chocolate and crisps ideas I start quickly to sort out my pyjama pants and try to make myself look ok to be seen outside. First I hide my stupid pyjama pants under a long skirt, but there is a bit of a problem when trying to find suitable shoes, definitely not the pointy ones! Using all my creativity and styling skills I eventually manage to make myself look like a cabbage with a thousand layers on, and I am ready to run. Just as I am about to walk out of the door, my friend shouts, “Don’t forget the £5, it is on the table.”

White coat, leans shorts and purple top – all by

The same as above*(White coat, leans shorts and purple top- all by 

12 (Coffee Table)

£5 on the table

Alena Jascanka

Becky Baik

Joanna Banach

Takanori Yamaguchi

Red Room

5 (Landscape)

Shadows

Valeriia and Claudia wear silk dresses by 

Valeriia and Claudia wear coats and pants all by 

Valeriia wears coat, shirt, belt- all by 

Valeriia wears knit sweater and dress by 

Pace Chen

6 (Community)

Sisters

Kristen Blow

Canadian Polaroids

Hiroyuki Koshikawa is from Japan and he lives in Berlin since 2011.
And then started taking photographs.
His photographs feature Berlin daily life, Gypsies’ life in abandoned buildings, and Eastern Europe captured during his travels.

I have been interested in documenting something like a drug problem, or gang story since I was a teenager.
And I was always thinking that I want to go and see the world that I do not know sometime.
So that was the beginning into documentary photography.

My dream is to become a great photographer of course and to see all over the world sometime.

I would like to go Abkhazia in Caucasus for my next travel. And a small town in Russia.
I am curious about Eastern Europe basically.”

Hiroyuki Koshikawa

13 (Trip)

Here and there

Kit Shyrixina

Kate’s Laboratory

Isolde Woudstra

Every Forest Has Its Shadow

To Barcelona for Inspiration

New Breed Interview with Masha Mel

Karen Walker made a name for herself at the age of 18 and has brought her brand to international eyes. With fans like Claire Danes,Sienna Miller and Liv Tyler and cult-eyewear the tongue-in-cheek designer works closely with fellow-Australian, stylist Heathermary Jackson. They managed to stage a dreamy show during New York fashion week, explaining that the inspiration was the positivity in the late 1950s and looking with conviction towards the future.
The pre-space age sentiments were present in her Jetson-esque galactic prints and the innocent penny-loafers belonging to a girl of a simpler time. Of course, Karen had to slap a bit of frivolous wit in there, candy-colored brights suggesting that the whole nostalgia thing was more of a modern satire than an honest homage.The feminine show had all the markings of her tomboyish edge, a balance of masculine and feminine that she and Jackson often employ in her work – their joint effort made for a well-received wonder.

Maggie Duffy

Karen Walker Spring / Summer 2013 New York

Studded pants worn as a vest by Asger Juel Larsen

Striped dress by Aqua , silver shoes topshop

Dress D by Anna Piercy , millie cockton top , vest, glasses by Topshop

Vest by Millie Cockton and topshop sunglasses

studded pants worn as a vest by Asger Juel Larsen, black worn as a dress by Millie Cockton and knee high socks, shoes Topshop

Chanel jumper from SICK, t-shirt from Urban Outfitters

‘R’ top by Anna Piercy and choker by Millie Cockton.

‘R’ top by Anna Piercy, jeans by Millie Cockton

‘D’ dress by Anna Piercy , vest & top by Millie Cockton, glasses by Topshop.

Kenny Leung

Home Alone

Leonid Alexeev is one of the main designers of Russian menswear. He defines his style as a bohemian chic with an aristocratic flavor and a bit of humor. For the brand’s originality and achievements in menswear in October 2009 the brand won the “Designer of the year” award by GQ magazine.

Daydreaming

These pictures were taken in a really small mountainous village called Mionica, in western Serbia, so small that you can only find it on really detailed maps. Mionica is now, but wasn’t the case before, a very lonely and neglected place, where you can only occasionally run into a shepherd or some old stubborn farmers and folks who have fascinating narrative skills. A house we stayed in belonged to my boyfriend’s grandparents, an acknowledged climber and a passionate photographer and his wife, who had the sweetest tea & coffee sets. The house looks as they left it, full of necessary and unnecessary things, and as you go deeper into the house, you find yourself more and more trapped.

Once we walked to a nearby waterfall called ‘Grasshoppers’, when translated. Surrounded by high rocks, we got the feeling we were in a well.

At night we played dominoes, watched the moon and wood with binoculars and enjoyed the cool air away from the city heat.

Tamara Šuškić is a poet, a playwright and a photographer. She has published two books of poetry and two plays. Tamara is now writing two books of poetry, one in Serbian called Welcome to Palms and the other in English Road and Family Songs. She lives and works in Belgrade.

Tatjana Šuškić is an English and Spanish teacher and a photographer. She is now working on her first book of photographs. Lives and works in Belgrade.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28772124@N02/

Tamara Suskic

Tatjana Suskic

Endless Summer

CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS –  AW12 MA FASHION SHOW

“The Geffrye Museum depicts the quintessential style of English middle-class living rooms. Its collections of furniture, textiles, paintings and decorative arts are displayed in a series of period rooms from 1600 to the present day.

The displays lead the visitor on a walk through time, from the 17th century with oak furniture and panelling, past the refined splendour of the Georgian period and the high style of the Victorians, to 20th century modernity as seen in a 1930s flat, a mid-century room in ‘contemporary style’ and a late-20th century living space in a converted warehouse.

The museum is set in elegant 18th century almshouses with a contemporary wing surrounded by attractive gardens, which include an award-winning walled herb garden and a series of period gardens.”

The Geffrye Museum

I wanted to do a shoot with animals a long time ago. I called the pet agency and was told that to rent a dog would cost £250 per hour plus travel expenses. Amazing! I even considered buying a dog and opening my own agency. As we all know dreams come true in Moscow. Even though I thought that all the animals in the Moscow zoo died a long time ago, leaving only smell, it wasn’t true. My friend Mona got into the zoo for free by pretending to be a school child and I had to pay £4 to get in. We met many cute animals which made our day.

Going to the Zoo

My pictures are a sensual psychoanalysis of emotion. I work in mixed-media using oil, watercolors, pencils and any other stuff that possibly can leave an impact on the canvas.

Mani Vertigo

Nasir Mazhar SS 2012 presentation

Massive hair, colourful make up and wearable clothes with lots of knitwear, draped dresses and fabulous tailoring!

Vivienne Westwood Red Label SS12

Look at these beautiful creations! The classy bag with a vintage flair is a spring/summer trend. Together they form a rainbow parade of coloured leathers and different tones of satin. Unique shapes decorated with floral patchwork, roses and leather ornaments. This is a feminine, sensual collection introduced by Miu Miu for Spring/Summer 2012.

miu miu or meow meow

Coffee Break

Beautiful Spring 2012 collaboration between a London-based womenswear designer Mary Katrantzou with Longchamp. There are number of totes available with the beautiful mixture of architectural and flower prints.

Mary Katrantzou for Longchamp

High tea of Highgate is a cute cafe located on the hill in Highgate Village. The cafe offers a large selection of interesting and unique teas: from almond tea to lavender with rosemary. Also on the menu, one can find a selection of freshly baked cakes and scones. The interior has that classic country kitchen style, and is filled with interesting items for sale including beautiful cups, colorful warm woolen throws and birthday candles.

 50 Highgate High St,
Highgate Village
London, N6 5HX,
020 8348 3162

High Tea of Highgate

Cooking with Vrag #2

This series is a par of collaboration with young Ukrainian fashion designer RCR Khomenko. This is my first joint project. I don’t love the world of fashion photography, but in this work I was curious to test myself. I tried to create a story in which clothing serves as a background. Basic emphasis is on the romantic plot where sense and feelings are more important.

 Sasha Kurmaz.
All clothing by RCR Khomenko.


Sasha Kurmaz

8 (Baroque)

Whisper

Matthew Tammaro is a talented photographer from Toronto, Canada, who shoots fashion models and musicians, friends and strangers. He can be called “a poet” for his ability to create a poetic story in his works, especially in his sexual and intimate nudes. Vrag talked to Matthew about his university experience and choice of models.

What brought you into photography and what means photography for you?

 I always studied art in school, and it seemed to fit really well with me (or so I thought), and I liked photographs. They’re realness had a more potent impact on me than drawing or painting. So I gave those up, and started photographing in earnest.

You received a BFA in Photography. Tell us about your university experience and how did it help you as a photographer?

My university experience was good and bad. I think I expected more out of the curriculum. We had really old equipment, and most of the professors were out of the loop when it came to contemporary work. That said, there were maybe three or four professors that were so brilliant, and as a group we sort of propelled ourselves more – so than if we were to be in that “ideal” situation. So if anything, school was an immediate connection between you and others and their ideas.

What equipment do you usually use for shooting?

 Hmm, I go through moods. Sometimes you know what a photo needs, and others the camera directs how the shoot will turn out. I have a contax 139 quartz…a nice little 35mm. A hasselblad. A fuji GW670III. A Nagaoka field 4×5, and a polaroid land camera.

What should a person have to attract your attention, to make you shoot him/her?

That’s a good question, and hard to answer! I think I’m attracted to beauty first and foremost…that being said, everyone really is beautiful in one way or another. Some evoke certain emotions and moods, and so you’ll want them for those specific traits. A lot of my personal work are people I’m close with, and whether I ask to photograph them or they are part of a moment already is all part of the creating of the photograph.

I would like to direct more of my work towards fashion and start shooting that seriously. Also my personal work was waning a bit throughout the summer, but it’s given me a bit more of a steady vision for how I’d like to treat colours, so a bit of a change of aesthetic in my new work.

Kristina Voytovich

Matthew Tammaro

AN INTERVIEW WITH Matthew Tammaro

Today I discovered these great colourful tents on the Selfridges website. FieldCandy is an exciting design-lend brand of tents which collaborates with different designers to create these unique pieces of art. It could be a great tent for festivals which would certainly attract attention & be easy to find when you are drunk… though, at these prices, you would not want to risk damaging it! Or you might find some uninvited guests when camping in the wild. This tent ain’t cheap but is definitely striking!

FIELD CANDY

INVISIBLE ODYSSEYS. TIME-SPACE INTEGRALS.

My talented friend Kit made an amazing magazine which is based on the series of the different investigations of spaces and time.

http://www.kitshyrixina.com/1173975/INVISIBLE-ODYSSEYS-TIME-SPACE-INTEGRALS

o time-spaces!

Christopher Kane resort 2011

Marili Andre

Sans Titre

Andre Derain – Bathers, c.1908 vs Juergen Teller – Malgosia Bela on Sigmund Freud’s couch, 2006

Juergen Teller – Malgosia Bela on Sigmund Freud’s couch, 2006 vs Frida Kahlo- Nude drawing

Egon Schiele – Reclining Female Nude with Legs Spread, 1914 vs Helmut Newton – Sun Hee, Monte Carlo 1993

Mariacarla Boscono by Jurgen Teller, 2008 vs Rene Magritte -Rape, 1934

Marc Chagall -Red Nude Sitting Up, 1908 vs Juergen Teller – Malgosia Bela on Sigmund Freud’s couch, 2006

Mariacarla Boscono by Jurgen Teller, 2008 vs Gwen John – Nude girl, 1910

Mariacarla Boscono by Jurgen Teller, 2008 vs Gustave Courbet – The Origin of the World, 1866

Mikhail Larionov – A nude with a cat, 1909 vs Lily Cole by Juergen Teller, 2007

Amedeo Modigliani – Reclining Nude from the Back, 1917 vs Kate Moss in 1993 Calvin Klein ad

Lily Coe by Juergen Teller, 2007 vs mikhail Larionov – Venus and Mikhail, 1912

Lily Cole by Juergen Teller, 2007 vs Rene Magritte – The philosophy in the bedroom, 1962

Lily Cole by Juergen Teller, 2007 vs Frederic Leightonthe – Actaea, Nymph of the Shore,1853

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Capelli Rossi (Red Hair), 1914 vs Kristen McMenamy by Juergen Teller

Amadeo Modigliani – Lying Nude, 1917 vs Terry Richardson – Paz De La Huerta, 2012

Naomi Campbell (Unknown) vs Paul Gauguin – Annah the Javanese, 1893

Walter Richard Sickert – La Maigre Adeline, 1906 vs Juergen Teller – Malgosia Bela on Sigmund Freud’s couch, 2006

Naomi Campbell by Peter Lindbergh, 1992 vs Paul Gauguin – Spirit of the Dead Watching, 1892

Paul Klee – A woman for Gods, 1938 vs Juergen Teller – Malgosia Bela on Sigmund Freud’s couch, 2006

Olya Avstreyh

The Shaped Collages

My friend Ulian is an illustrator and co-founder of Vrag Mag. Her dreamy paintings are absolutely beautiful. The variety of colours and brush techniques make these pictures so unique that i can’t take my eyes from them. Ulian has a great imagination and i just love the titles of her paintings.