Elektra Kotsoni
Articles by Elektra Kotsoni
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Oscar Santos Is All About the Surface
The San Francisco-based photographer Oscar Santos isn't interested in photography in classical terms. To him, it's all about surface and light. So basically, he just likes taking photos of hot women doing drugs. Full story
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Denise Scicluna Photographs Things You Never Notice
Denise Scicluna is a young photographer from Malta whose work—unlike that of most still life photographers—doesn't make you want to slowly pluck out every single one of your eyelashes out of sheer boredom. Full story
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Photographing the Loving Gays of Vietnam
Photographer Maika Elan spent last year photographing Vietnam's gay couples in their most intimate moments for her series The Pink Choice. The collection had perfect timing considering around the same time she was shooting the collection, rumors were spreading that Vietnam's comm… Full story
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Jana Romanova Takes Photos of Sleeping Pregnant People
Jana Romanova snuck into pregnant couples' bedrooms while they were asleep and took pictures of them for a series called 'Waiting.' It's not as creepy as it sounds. Full story
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Gordon Holden's Rhode Island
It's a little hard to hype up Gordon Holden's photography. He doesn't take pictures of people on fire in warzones, heavy metal cowboys from Botswana or hulking, dilapidated post-space age architecture. But the pictures he does snare from around his home in Rhode Island are calm, Full story
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Photographing London's Little Worlds
Daniel Stier is a German photographer who's been living in London for the last 15 years and still hasn't stopped finding the portly African women in their taffetas fascinating. Inspired by them, he roamed around the city's ex-pat communities, looking for people to take photos of Full story
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The Greeks Just Won't Stop Fighting and I'm Bored
Yesterday saw yet another national strike in Greece, like so many before it. Thousands of people gathered in Syntagma Square to protest a bunch of new austerity measures, Molotov cocktails were thrown in the air, and a man died. I know that should make me angry, but I'm just so f… Full story
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Civil War, Cowabunga!
For the last three years or so, photographer Yannik Willing has been traveling back and forth between Hamburg and Sri Lanka, documenting the latter's transformation from war-ridden hellhole into a luxury holiday destination for a project called Before Tomorrow. Full story
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Budapest Is a Paradise
When I asked Budapest based photographers, Ív and Candie, for a few words describing their city to accompany these photos, all I got back was this sentence: "Budapest is buda and pest." Which isn't very informative, but I guess at least it does sort of make sense. Full story
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Old People Having Fun in the Sun
Here are a bunch of pictures that make you wish you were a bag of excess skin. The photos feature olds unashamedly strutting their stuff while on vacation in Tenerife. Full story
The Wizard of the Saddle Rides Again
The Dark Specter of History in Memphis 
Hung Like a Gastropod
The Rigors of a Snail-Genital Illustrator 
Austerity's Drug of Choice
Sisa Is Nasty Shit 
This Is What Winning Looks Like
Chaos and Corruption in Afghanistan 
The Fat Farms of Mauritania
Pack on Those Pounds, Ladies 
Jerks Are Exploiting Cambodia's Orphans
Get It Together, People 
