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1 month ago | 
wallpaper.com | Upasana Das
Lifting up her pale blue dress, revealing a thatch of brown hair on her vagina, a lithe blonde woman flounced across a bridge.
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2 months ago | 
wallpaper.com | Upasana Das
Arching his arms to cover his eyes, a man bends sideways. Standing on a table that transforms his posture to the statuesque, his presentation of his physicality almost reminds one of Michelangelo’s David, although here there is an essence of quiet comfort as he performs his sexuality in the photographer’s dimly lit south London studio.
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2 months ago | 
asapconnect.in | Upasana Das
Upasana Das Feb 07, 2025 Photographers have often collectively worked with a creative community to develop their practice or worked with particular groups of people to facilitate their expression. This year, the Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB) highlights the works of photographers building a community and creating work from it. Love and Light marks Sunil Gupta’s first retrospective in India—never has he exhibited such a large segment of his work in one place, he said, as we spoke over the phone.
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2 months ago | 
somethingcurated.com | Upasana Das
“I have a lot of photos with chins touching,” said Melissa Schriek over the phone from her Amsterdam home. We were going through some of the photographs from her last book, Ode: an exploration of the dynamics of female friendship. “I like that it’s almost a mouth,” she said, “It’s also very intimate when your chins are touching, because it’s so close to the lips.
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2 months ago | 
vogue.in | Upasana Das
“If you look at Louis XIV and the aristocracy wearing heels, it’s always been there,” reflected Alim Latif, “During Glam Rock men were wearing platforms. Why did it suddenly disappear?” It was a late London evening in the middle of menswear fashion week when I caught the shoe designer right before his collaboration with Harris Reed hit the runway the next week at LFW. “I’d get into trouble for telling you anything,” he laughed cheekily.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
asapconnect.in | Upasana Das
Upasana Das Jan 09, 2025 Asking artists and curators ‘Why Photograph?’, this year’s Chennai Photo Biennale (CPB) pulls us towards the basic instinct to document and respond to everything around us.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
somethingcurated.com | Upasana Das
Yellow cap paired with a blue satin shirt, Grace Jones has arrived at The Savoy. Her thumbnail has a tiny red crown stamped on it. It is 1981 and Sharon Smith is doing her rounds as a camera girl in the Midtown Manhattan club, when she approaches Grace with her Polaroid. It was not the first time she was catching Grace at one of these clubs.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
somethingcurated.com | Upasana Das
When the filmmaker Elizabeth Ai was pregnant, she found herself scouring through old family albums, looking for something from her own childhood which she could share with her daughter in a couple of years. That’s when she chanced upon photographs of her uncles and aunts in Orange County, listening to New Wave in the ‘80s and ‘90s – something she stopped hearing when she was barely a teenager. Elizabeth’s family immigrated to the US after the Fall of Saigon in 1975.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
nssmag.com | Upasana Das
Martina Lohoff, fondatrice di The Phoebe Philo Old Celine Archive, ha iniziato a comprare Celine quando era in vacanza con la sua famiglia a Firenze, dato che i suoi design la facevano sentire forte. Nato come un hobby, collezionare articoli appartenenti all'epoca in cui Philo era direttrice creativa di Celine adesso è diventato il suo lavoro. «Mi sono sempre sentita apprezzata quando riuscivo ad aiutare le persone a ottenere il capo che cercavano,» ha detto.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
nssmag.com | Upasana Das
Martina Lohoff, the founder of The Phoebe Philo Old Celine Archive, started buying Celine with her family during getaways to Florence. Philo's clothes made her feel powerful as a woman, a passion that has now turned into a business. «I always felt welcome when I was able to help people get the piece they were looking for,» she said. For her, it’s a community sharing a common love.
