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| © Alexandra Catiere |
| From a fashion shoot by Catiere for 2Magazine. Click photo for more images. |
Age: 29
Location: New York City
Website: alexandracatiere.com
"We wanted to make the images timeless and sensual like 19th-century portraits," Catiere says.
Alexandra Catiere made her way to New York from her home town of Minsk, Belarus, with the help of Moscow-born artist Yuri Kuper in 2003. Two years later, she was assisting for the grandfather of high-art fashion photography, Irving Penn. So it is no wonder that her fashion work for publications such as The New Yorker, Le Monde, Deutsch Magazine, and Madam Figaro has that indefinable quality that takes it far beyond the bounds of fashion photography.
The photographs shown here, from a story that appeared in 2Magazine, were created with stylist Donald Lawrence. "We had jeans for the story, and we wanted to make them look timeless and sensual like 19th-century portraits," Catiere says.
Now 29 years old, Catiere has completed several personal projects that share this "timeless" quality, often achieved with scratches and patinas added to her prints. Catiere's Behind the Glass series captures riders on the public buses in Minsk, all in grainy black and white and through foggy or rainy windows.
"The texture of the window itself framed the face, taking it out of the real life context," she explains. In another series taken at New York's Coney Island, pairs on boardwalk benches are observed from behind, often throwing their arms around each other's shoulders like the girls in Catiere's fashion images.
"Photography is a tool for me to make pictures," Catiere says. "There is no difference to me between [shooting for] an assignment or personal work."
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