There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
— Montaigne
As most of my work has often been described as “with a quirky sense of humour”, I sincerely hope you will find pleasure in the photos, as I take the greatest pleasure in creating them.
I Studied combined Philosophy and German at King’s College, London, and Photography in Paris at L.E.F.E.T (Ecole privee de communication visuelle), S.P.E.O.S (under Anna Strickland) , privately under Philippe Bachelier and Sozial/Portraitfotografie at Medienkulturzentrum, Dresden under Christine Starke.
I use a fifty-year-old Leica M3 to take photos, then develop the film and hand-prints myself on double-weight baryta paper and very rarely crop before scanning them to upload on the internet. The process is the classical approach with tremendous time and expense involved, which is why original hand-prints tend to be on the seemingly dear side.
To purchase original hand-prints and signed by myself with some limited editions of 15 with very few left, please see my portfolio at AbsoluteArts.com. For a wider range of digital prints (including my obsession with hydrants and sprinklers), please visit my online gallery at ArtistRising.com. Accessible Giclee prints are available on (US and Europe) at . For further information about the significance of the bra, please see interview.
Brits, beware! Some of the giggly bras are coming out as postcards very soon!
CONSTRUCTIVE criticsm is very welcome. Thanks.
* Associate Member of ACAVA
* Certificate of Excellence and Originality , Palm d’Or Award
* Affiliate Member of Masters of Photography
©2008 Marjan Zahed-Kindersley. All rights reserved.
