Flickr Fetishist of the Week: Jake and Jonnie
Years ago when I first logged onto Flickr I found this crazy shot of two British guys in a shower. No doubt the tag spamming had a lot to do with it. I found the whole photo stream to be very intriguing. They show a world of bored teenagers drinking and doing drugs. Everything about these drab and depressing pictures is foreign to me. The pictures are so amateur, that they look like a styled photo shoot. I like the unpolished. Real = Art.
This week I am not really featuring a fetishist per say but someone who takes amazing photos in the same style. However they professional photographers. The surreal world of Jake Dow Smith and Jonnie Craig of Hello Television in England who takes the strangest most surreal photos. Some of their work has been featured in Vice Magazine. Again, everything in his photos is different from the color, the poses, the objects. They all combine to create something original. When Wes Anderson put his retro-dressing characters in a house filled with the latest technology… from 1963 he is essentially trying to create the same illusion. Jake and Jonnie seem to spend everyday in that retro-futuristic world.
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