Alexandra Von Fuerst – [↑] Celine (2016); [↓] Test (2016)

High end fashion/commercial images with an undertone of surrealism.

Exceptionally astute use of color. I prefer Prue Stent’s outside-the-box audacity and preternatural instinct but Von Fuerst is seemingly just as interested in texture as hue. (You can actually see the skin’s grain in both images, and in the lower one you can even see the fine downy hair around the lips.

Another interesting thing is despite working in a studio setting with more less even lighting, Von Fuerst is ridiculously good at giving her images a 3D, almost sculptural effect–in her frames that aren’t close-ups, it’s as if you’re staring at a scene staged in a diorama.