Spanish photographer and art director PACO PEREGRIN is one of the best photographers whose art I admire a lot, thanks to Schöngeist for making me remember him. Prior to photography Peregrin interested in painting, theatre and design. His works can be seen as well as famous magazines like Glamour, Zink, Vanity Fair and more alternative ones. But he is not e creating these masterpieces all alone, stylist Kattaca has a big role too. Kattaca, which is consisted of two talented stylists Carol Gamarra and Mario Ville along with PacoPeregrin created one of the most creative and strong teams in fashion imaging. His work generally combines old and the latest style trends, they are mysterious, futurustic and sometimes even perturbating.(like the "bloody show" which reminds me Mark Ryden's illustrations) .Peregrin likes futurustic and edgy images in his black&white photos, while prefers fairytales and surrealism in the colorful ones. When colors are used such beautifully, I favor those:)

ALIEN DOLLS

THE BLOOD SHOW

L'ESPIRILES VOLATILES

NONSENSE IN THE DARK

Neo2 Için IN MY ROOM

SERGE LUTENS is a French fashion photographer, but also a filmmaker, a perfume expert , a make up artist and a fashion designer! With his legendary creativity, we know LUTENS most with his SHISEIDO ad campaign in 80s where he photographed and art directed(and awarded many times with these ads). His photographs where he turns women into pieces of art are incredible.

Worked for VOGUE in 1960s, he also collaborated as an art director with names like Richard Avedon, Bob Richardson and Irving Penn. He created CHRISTIAN DIOR's make-up line. His photography is effectd from geishas, poker decks and ancient Greece. You can se more of his work from here .

1959 Colombia born RUVEN AFANADOR is one of the photographers I admire the most, I especially like his fashion photography, and of course he is one of the leading names in fashion. In his career which began in New York and Milan, we’ve seen his photographs on many covers such as ELLE, VOGUE, TATLER; and many ad campaigns like NORDSTORM, DIOR, ARISTA, J.MENDEL. But I most of all adore his editorials for VOGUE, NY TIMES and VANITY FAIR. He has the Best Photographer award of Trophee de la Mode and in 2001 he presented a fantastic book named TORERO which has taken its place on many collectioner’s shelves, I suggest you take a look at that book.

There we see a darkness in AFANODOR’s photographs, to me it reminds of Edgar Allen Poe’s, but he says he inspires from the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, his hero, and the darkness is coming from his childhood. His photos are mostly surreal or as mixed and colorful as Colombia; masquerades, ornaments, superficial symbols, pageant images stand out.

He’s especially fond of couture, says he like the couture shootings most, and he likes DIOR and GAULTIER’s theatrical collection most of all.

AFANADOR himself admires IRVING PENN passionately , thinks he is an irreplaceable master in photography.

Besides his art on photography, AFANADOR has 3 videos, Rock&Roll is Dead and Circos(by Lenny Cravitz) are the best knowns. He likes to work alone as a photographer, but one name he likes to work with is Ruben Toledo and his incredible art. (I think of preparing a post about this amazing couple Isabel and Ruben Toledo very soon)