Desire and Disgust

A few weeks ago iskm founder, Zev Jonas, attended an undergraduate class titled Still-Life: Objects of Desire and Disgust at the School of Visual Arts in NY. The class was made up of thirteen students, mostly juniors and seniors - although there were two sophomores and one exchange student from France. The group was diverse in content and style with approximately half exploring commercial, fashion and editorial photography.

Taught by Keren Moscovitch - of Photographer Series #3 fame - the course broke down the genre of still life into multiple sub-genres like 'Death and the Grotesque', 'Commerce, Consumption and Wealth' and 'Portraiture, Landscape and the Body'. This was done in order to explore the entire classification of 'Still Life' art while starting to evaluate work from the perspective of its qualities and how it functions.

As part of the final project each student was asked, under the auspices of an assignment titled Transformation, to create images for www.ishotekatemoss.com. The discussions in class as to the role of still life, the project and kate specifically were active, informed and insightful.

To do honor to the students and their work, it was felt that each participant deserved their imagery to be highlighted. So over the coming weeks, in addition to each student's work being added to the iskm collage, they will have their submitted images shown right here dear reader.

So for your viewing pleasure, lets start with Ella Sophie, who utilized kate in collaboration with - amongst other influences - photographs from her Distorted Fishnet series:

Ella's series and her other work can be seen at: www.ellasophiefoto.com and on her photo blog.

And just like SVA students ... Observe. Slow Down. Shoot. Submit. 

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