nd fine art photographer of the year 2018
Kako Abraham united kingdom
title
Drag Me
The brain tries to pigeonhole the images in a binary way.
If you have a beard you must be a man. If you wear dress and makeup, you must be a woman.
But it's not like that.
Ambiguity, rupture.
The tyranny of the genre breaks with each portrait.
Two options that become a spectrum full of colors, brightness and shapes.
And of liberation.
Transgression, ecstasy.
The stereotypes of the feminine and the masculine are exacerbated to irony.
The playful handling of sexuality leads to a universe of fun.
Without rules.
Drag Me by Kako Abraham is a photographic series starring five drag queens from the United States.
These are real artistic characters, created to attract, entertain and shock on a stage.
Drag Me is then his maximum performance: one that must remain forever immortalized in the here and now.
In 2013, he began studying photography. First he took several courses in Montevideo and then, in 2014, he moved to New York City and studied fashion photography, advertising photography, lighting workshop and studio lighting at the School of Visual Arts. That same year, he returned to Uruguay, co-founded the production company Madhouse and started working as a photographer and retoucher.
Nowadays, he works for fashion brands, advertising companies and media outlets taking pictures of models, celebrities and products according to their needs. He also produces fine art photography. Some of his images has been published in Vogue (Italy), Dark Beauty Magazine (USA), Beautiful Savage (USA), El Observador (Uruguay) and El País (Uruguay).
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entry description
Bewilderment, discomfort.The brain tries to pigeonhole the images in a binary way.
If you have a beard you must be a man. If you wear dress and makeup, you must be a woman.
But it's not like that.
Ambiguity, rupture.
The tyranny of the genre breaks with each portrait.
Two options that become a spectrum full of colors, brightness and shapes.
And of liberation.
Transgression, ecstasy.
The stereotypes of the feminine and the masculine are exacerbated to irony.
The playful handling of sexuality leads to a universe of fun.
Without rules.
Drag Me by Kako Abraham is a photographic series starring five drag queens from the United States.
These are real artistic characters, created to attract, entertain and shock on a stage.
Drag Me is then his maximum performance: one that must remain forever immortalized in the here and now.
about the photographer
After studying graphic and web design at Universidad ORT Uruguay, in 2006 he started a career in both fields as a freelancer. He worked for clients from New York, Madrid, Barcelona, Santiago de Chile and Montevideo, with companies, music bands and organizations such as Coca-Cola, Buitres and the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture, respectively.In 2013, he began studying photography. First he took several courses in Montevideo and then, in 2014, he moved to New York City and studied fashion photography, advertising photography, lighting workshop and studio lighting at the School of Visual Arts. That same year, he returned to Uruguay, co-founded the production company Madhouse and started working as a photographer and retoucher.
Nowadays, he works for fashion brands, advertising companies and media outlets taking pictures of models, celebrities and products according to their needs. He also produces fine art photography. Some of his images has been published in Vogue (Italy), Dark Beauty Magazine (USA), Beautiful Savage (USA), El Observador (Uruguay) and El País (Uruguay).
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