Photo Projects

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Transfigurations

These images are the result of a collaboration between the painter Silvia Willkens and the American photographer, Richard Bram, who lives in New York today. This series of photographs was produced in 2001–2002 in the studio of Willkens, using her small, Early Renaissance-inspired paintings as a sort of mask. The intention is to merge the flesh-and-blood model with the painted image.  In this way a photographic work arises, that moves forward and back through time and through the picture plane, between a real and an imagined persona. All the work was done by photo camera, without digital manipulation.

Demoiselles

These photos were taken in summer 2011 by Silvia Willkens in the studio of Sam Sandsbury in Gioveto. For a couple of weeks he let her use his space, located in a peaceful Umbrian village. In this period she was already working on numerous drawings and colour sketches, persuing a personal interpretation of Picasso’s “Demoiselles d’Avignon”. These photos here are a selection from a spontaneous and jovial photo shooting with five lovely women, a playful variation on this theme.