Emily from Victims & Avengers
Rashidja from Victims & Avengers
Jocelyn #2 from Victims & Avengers
Wednesday from Victims & Avengers
While I don't think that I would want my work to be as heavy handed in the dark imagery, I've just got to say that Chris Anthony's work is. Bad. Ass. I hope I'm allowed to say that in my blog. Anthony is an award winning artist garnering attention from PDN, American Photo, and Hasselblaad Masters. He has also held numerous solo exhibitions in addition to being included in a wealth of group shows.
From Haute Macabre:
The women and children [...] are pictured in the aftermath of revenge. Anthony, who describes himself as growing up as a witness to domestic violence in his own home, says he imagines his subjects as victims of extended abuse who have finally struck back at their abusers, captured in “the moment of release, like the calm after the storm.”
Part of the allure of Anthony's imagery is how constructed it is in nature, the images are less photographic than they are digital paintings of fantasy encounters and reactions to an unseen menace.
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