Michael Donovan’s images navigate an exploration into consumer culture, advertising and the emotions separating art and fashion photography. What do we expect of these mediums and how do we expect them to make us feel?
“Combining the beautiful with the bizarre, the controlled with the chaotic, Donovan´s photography attempts to destabilise the highly polished images expected of today´s consumer culture through the use of the psychedelic, androgyny, comedy, eroticism, surrealism, fantasy, Pop Art, cinema, fetishism and historical nuance.”
The glossy texture presupposes a level of glamour which is intentionally omitted, replaced with a dreamlike numbness, or vacant sexuality creating a space for us to question what defines art and fashion photography in contemporary culture – “this is an exploration of sex, death, and the psychedelic. I am simply a conduit.”
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