“My generation is not as familiar with Bible stories or ancient mythology but they all watched TV. So I can paint these modern characters and make a reference to historical painting, I can make a reference to a TV show and people either get it or they don’t get it…”

Isabel Samaras‘ paintings…

Golden silence, 2002

Virginie Barre at Galerie Loevenbruck.

The teenage stories series, by Julia Fullerton-Batten…

Bike accident, 2005

I do photography because… I need to produce the images which are provocative but not exploitative that I would enjoy looking at.

Nazif Topçuoğlu, photographer.

Disco inferno, by Christoph Steinmeyer.

Toshio Saeki: master of Japanese erotic illustration.
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