artistic vigilante magazine vol1..issue 3. 'THE MIDAS TOUCH''

VIGILANTE
“The Midas
Touch”
MEET OUR DISCOVERED
PHOTOGRAPHERS.

EDITOR’S NOTE
EDITOR’S NOTE
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ARTISTIC VIGILANTE MAGAZINE is an initiative with a simple objective
• To discover hard working photographers/artists who are in our view not giving
the well deserved laurels and respect they deserve.
• To artistic vigilante,Race,social status,religion and gender do not matter,as long
as its a beautiful piece of work from an upcoming artist it shall be acknowledged
here
This is our third edition ‘’THE MIDAS TOUCH’ which is a curated list of photographers
and artists we’ve found on our social media pages who we feel use
limited resources to create amazing and ground breaking art,over and over again.
with these artists it doesn’t matter what the subject is,once they delve into it they
excel;thus the midas touch
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creativity growth.
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CONTENT
ARTIST/PHOTOGRAPHER
SOCIAL MEDIA/ INSTAGRAMLINK
1. KUNAL KOHLI............................................................................................ @kunal_kohli_photography
2. NEUMANGRAHAM PHOTOGRAPHERS............................................. @neumanngraham_photographers
3. MIRU IMAGES......................................................................................... @miru_images
4. JIAMIN ZHU................................................................................................ @jajasgarden
5. ISABELLE REUN.......................................................................................... @isabelleruen
6. LUCIA PANZAVOLTA............................................................................ @Luciapanzavolta.ph
7. SPARTACUS IMAGES.................................................................................. @spartacusimages
8. ROBELLA ART............................................................................................... @robella_art_photography
9. THOMAS WOHL............................................................................................ @wohl.photography
10. SALEM MCBUNNY....................................................................................... @salemmcbunny
11. MIA MANE...................................................................................................... @mia_mane_artistries
12. BEATA POLANSKA...................................................................................... @beata_polanska_photography
13. MAGDALENA BEDNARK............................................................................@reflectiondesign
14. LOSGIDDY........................................................................................................@losgiddy
15. PEDRO BARATA........................................................................................... @Photography.by.barata
16. MICHAEL WALDAU....................................................................................... @waldauphotography
17. EVAN ABRAR.....................................................................................................@sounds_of_depression
18. JURGEN PASCH..................................................................................................@jurgen.pasch.photography
19. FABI CASCO...................................................................................................... @fabicascophotos
20. MARIAH TYES.................................................................................................... @_ratedretro
21. DAWNDRA........................................................................................................... @dawndraphoto

KUNAL

KOHLI

HOTEL FOREPLAY

Kunal is an Indian- Norwegian photographer who was born in Oslo,
Norway. He bought his first DSLR camera in 2014 and not knowing
much about cameras at the time, it was a crop- format. In the fall of 2014,
Kunal enrolled at Bilder Nordic School of Photography. As he continues
to work, Kunal is focused on creating narratives that is most true to his
vision.
Hotel Foreplay is one of those narratives
“Hotel Foreplay” is about the sensuality and beauty of a woman without
the fear of showing her true self in today’s society. The fashion and
the luxury hotel speaks about the success and power of an accomplished
woman.

”Gone With The Wind”
an editorial by
NeumannGraham Photographers

Artistic vigilante caught up with the duo NeumannGraham to see their
new editorial body of work;
This themed photo shoot, loosely based on “Gone with the Wind”… Inspired
by Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara, the characters in the iconic
and Oscar winning movie.
”We have previously worked with Jonathan, the male model. His looks
were so similar to Clark Gable that he inspired us to take this further
and plan a whole photo shoot. The amazing Grittleton House (a Manor
House originally built in 1660 and located in the Cotswold) was our
choice of location, providing the perfect stairway.”
After agreeing with the team about suitable hair styling and make-up, we
had thousands of outfits to choose from in the fantastic Bath Theatrical
Costume Hire in Frome. They have any costume you could wish for and
we are very lucky to have their support
Photography, styling & concept: NeumannGraham Photographers,
Westbury
Location: Grittleton House in Wiltshire, England
Models: Jonathan Worrall and Claudia Sampford
Hairstyling & Barbering: Hayley Derbyshire, Fore Hair Westbury
MUA: Tracy M Reid, Make-up Monkey
Costumes: Bath Theatrical Costume hire in Frome, Somerset

MIRU IM

AGES

JIAMIN ZHU

I, Jiamin Zhu had a pleasure working
with Thunyartorn, a Thai Dress designer
from NYC in the October of 2017 and
shot three of her wardrobes representing
The Ox, The Rooster, and The Silver
Goddess from Thai culture.
We did the shoot in a chilly Seattle afternoon,
and we had to shoot quickly as the
wardrobes were very elaborate and large,
but not very warm, and we had three
models while shooting outdoor. I picked
different locations in the Washington
Arboretum due to proximity that would
best fit the wardrobes and the characters
we were presenting.
When the shoot was done I spent extensive time editing the final
six images as I wanted each one to tell a story about the character.
I named the whole set “Trinity”, and the characters “The Dreamer”,
“The Guardian”, and “The Phoenix”, respectively. I mixed in a gradient
of dark tones, warm tones, and neutral tones for each character
to best supplement the colors of the wardrobe. In addition, because
some of the images were edited during winter, I added in some winter
color tones and snow effects to best reflect my editing mood at the
time of the season. At the end, I want this set to invoke fantasy and
take the viewers to a dream land of magical creatures portrayed by
these models.

ISABELLE REUN

“La résignation est un suicide quotidian”
an editorial by
LUCIA PANZAVOLTA

Lucia Panzavolta was born in Italy
in 1999.
She is a student and she spends
her time between her two main
passions: writing and taking photographs.
She also love travellind
and she links the wish to discover
the world with her passions
through Instagram and shootings.
She is the author of the book “Out
of my limits”.
I decided to do this shooting because
I had an idea to transmit,
and this idea is described in the
title “La résignation est un suicide
quotidian”, an Honoré de Balzac’s
quotation that affected me so
much.
Me and Elisa, a wonderful model
and dancer, have worked together
a lot of times and we have a sort
of feeling: immediately she always
understand what I want to represent
and I think this is our best
work.
Resignation is a bad feeling that
everyone feels at least one in his
life, is a feeling that destroys you
and devours you. You feel like
you are killed from inside.
In fact its defined as a “suicide”
which becomes daily when you
chose to let yourself be overwhelmed.
The feeling that is connected but
also opposed to resignation is
the rebirth, the renaissance of
the Spring.
From this come’s the second selection
of photographs “Rêve de
printemps”.
A new reality is represented, a
reality which is dreamy and fancy.
Spring brings flowers, colours,
light and happiness. The
girl, like Spring, has been reborn.

SPARTACUS IMAGES

We had the privileged of connecting with sparatcus
images to talk about photography and how he
does what he does.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – Why the name Spartacus
images?
SPARTACUS IMAGES – I wanted a name that
was not commonly used in the photographic
world and one in which people respect especially
the women
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE -You happen to be based
in the UK and Spain, they are lot of photographers
within these regions. How do you set yourself
apart from other photographers and maintain
your customer/client-base?
SPARTACUS IMAGES – I live 50% of my time
in UK and 50% in Spain , I find the markets very
different in the UK, models base is massive and
very competitive both for models and photographers,
Where in Spain the country is 4 times the
size of the UK the models there are more spread
out and often demand many more edits than the
UK models, I guess because they are not so busy. I
always shoot for beauty, so the requirement is the
same in both. In Spain you have to work with very
bright light so you need to be fast and competent
on your feet.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – You happen to be featured
in a lot of other publications, what steps do
you take to get your works published?
SPARTACUS IMAGES – I am afraid I am a bit
lazy and leave it generally to the models to get my
work published, however I do submit my work
to stock libraries and on line magazines such as
Vogue IT. You have to always do your top work to
get published, they want good images and equally
as good edits.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – You seem to do surrealism
and nudity. Can you explain to us your inspiration
and what it requires to get a shoot ready
behind the scenes?
SPARTACUS IMAGES – My inspiration comes-
from my dreams and looking at art in galleries. I love surrealism
and I love to mix both, not all models can do both but when you
get one its like magic things click into place. I always keep nude
work classy and totally respect models. Most of my surreal work
is done in post but need a model who can act and pretend.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – Can you explain your preferred light
set up and give us a list of things you shoot with regularly (Gear).
SPARTACUS IMAGES – My main camera is a Canon 5D MK4
and lotS of lenses but I stick to mostly 50mm F1.2, 85MM F1.2,
24 to 70 F2.8 and 70 to 200 F2.8 However I am also now running
two Fuji cameras an XT3 and XT20 with similar lenses as my
Canon stock, I am moving more to Fuji its ability to cope with
fast light changes is superior and so much lighter, but mainly
because WUSIWUG (what you see is what you get)
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – When you are doing surrealism,
where do you get your overlays from?
SPARTACUS IMAGES – I either create myself or use my son
who is a graphic artist, but generally I spend time and create
myself , I may at times ask a friend also who is a graphic artist to
give me guidance.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – What would a Spartacus image photo
shoot cost and how can you be reached?
SPARTACUS IMAGES – I try to offer 2 Free TF shoots a month
and the rest of the time if not for publishing I charge £50 ph
much more when being published, I actually get lots of work
via Instagram its seems to be a very good way to make contact
nowadays.

ROBELLA
ART

THOMAS WOHL

SALEM MCBUNNY

Artistic Vigilante came across the talented Salem
Mcbunny and we were in total awe of his
self-portraits. At first we didn’t realize they were
self portraits because each photo looked different
and more magnificent than the previous. We have
been able to get Salem for an interview to talk
more about his art.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – What is your full name
and how long have you been shooting for?
SALEM -My name is Salem McBunny and I have
been taking photographs since I was about 12
years old, however I have 5 years specializing in
the type of photography I do now and I like to
make conceptual photography.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – We noticed that a lot of
your photography work has yourself as the muse;
mostly self portraits, can you explain why that is?
SALEM – Since I started with photography I used
to take pictures of myself, I think one of the main
factors was to show my style and the simple pleasure
of doing it. Time passed and I realized that doing
self-portrait became a therapeutic way to work
my emotions and personal self-knowledge, it also
helped me to improve my self-esteem and find the
love of my life in photography
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – Your editing technique
is very unique and we notice you have a signature
highlighter effect on most of your portraits, can
you explain why and work us through the technicalities,
plugins and work flow of your process for
photographers who look up to you and want to
edit like you? Use this picture as an example.
SALEM – The editing process is one of the things
I enjoy doing the most when I’m working on a
photograph. Sometimes I have them in my mind
as of how the final result should be and other
times I love to explore in the editing. I particularly
like to change the lights that I put in the photographs
I feel that they became important to me
because I love things that shine and I realized that
when putting the illuminations into the photo, it
took a more pictorial touch and that is very fascinating.
finish with particular details, this is in general.
Sometimes I leave the photo a few days and then I
start editing it again, this is when I’m not satisfied
with the result.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – What is it like being
a photographer in Mexico? Is it Lucrative? And
what are your challenges as a photographer in
Mexico?
SALEM – I think that personally I have come
across a little of everything, however I want to
highlight the most positive. I have met with the
support of many people who have been part of
my growth as a photographer and as a person
believe that many things depend on yourself and
the effort and dedication make us achieve what we
want.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE -What is the future of
photography for you?
SALEM – I do not know what my future is exactly,
but what I want to continue doing for the rest of
the year is to continue giving workshops on conceptual
photography and photography workshops
as emotional therapy, that is currently one of the
most fulfilling things to do in my life.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – Can you end this interview
with something no one knows about you?
And Advise for photographers in mexico following
in your footsteps.
SALEM – I do not know if all the people know it
but all the time I am learning new things and not
only in relation to photography, I have also taken
some makeup courses, hairstyle classes, and even
learned how to do massages and it is curious but I
love learning everything I can. Effort and dedication
helps us get to the place where we want to be.
Whenever I start a photograph, the first steps are
usually some general corrections, from this I usually
work the skin, illuminations, eyes, colors, and

MIA MANE
‘‘The Queen Of Dark Art’’

Artistic Vigilante recently discovered a quadruple
threat of some serious talent that is Mia Mane from
Germany. She is a model,designer,makeup artist and a
photographer!
We had the privilege of interviewing Mia about her
works and her type of imagery which tilts towards
dark arts.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – How long have you been
shooting for and what would you say inspires your
type of photography?
Mia – I have not been taking pictures for such a long
time and am currently working on my fourth year as
a photographer. It started with the desire to make the
pictures, I always wanted to as a model so I tried a lot.
More and more ideas came along and finally I found
my direction and style today.
That does not mean that I am already exactly where I
wanna be, but so far I am quite satisfied with my development.Most
of my inspiration comes from movies
and my own work. Mostly, one idea entails the other.
My creativity works like an interlocking clockwork.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – What country are you
from and what are the challenges you face as a photographer
in your country?
Mia – I’m from Germany. In my work, I rarely look to
the left or right or what others do.I am very focused
on my own work and always face my own challenges.
With every shoot you can always find things that you
could have done better. My challenge is to make things
better next time, and to be closer to my own creative
goal. However, I believe that I will never really arrive
at my destination.
It would be boring (laugh).
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – We noticed that a lot of
your pictures are gothic and dark beauty, can you talk
more on this?
Mia – Well, after I had tried out everything into the
first years, from concert photography to landscape
photography to fashion shots, I gradually found more
and more skills and techniques that allowed me to live
out my ideas in the Dark Art area.
These works live from the corresponding image
processing and it took me some time until I mastered
the editing program so far that I was satisfied with the
respective edits.
I have always been fascinated by the dark arts,
demons, witches, warriors etc.
There’s nothing more fun like watching a “normal”
girl become a black lady or an angry demon.
I do not want to take pictures the others like to
see. I want to take pictures that I like to see. Who
inspire me and cast a spell on me.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – You seem to also
personally make the props and costumes for the
photo shoots,why is that?
Mia – My art lives from every detail. A Madonna,
evil queen or a warrior in jeans with
nice hairstyle just does not work. Costumes and
accessories are just part of it.
Since I have very precise ideas of what I have to
implement and what my picture has to look like I
initially looked for the corresponding accessories
for the Internet.
Either I did not find anything that came close to
my idea or it was prohibitively expensive.
Since I already designed and sewed parts for costumes
and accessories in my work as a videographer
(I’m actually from the field of videography
before I began to take pictures), it was obvious
in photography to expand on this and make my
own accessories according to my wishes.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – Can you tell us a bit
about your preferred gear and the technicalities
involved in taking a portrait the way you do?
Also explain your light setups.
Mia – Well, I own a mid-range camera and have
always worked with Canon.
I prefer working with a beauty dish and prefer
little light and a lot of shade in my pictures
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – What does the future
hold for you as a photographer and what are the
things we should expect from you in the coming
years?
Mia – Well, I hope that the name Mia Mane become
known in the dark art area and my pictures
will be seen.
My goal is to become one of the best and most
creative Dark Artist in the world. I work hard on
that. And I will continue to work on this in the
future and expand my creativity and to an absolute
maximum.

BEATA POLANSKA

ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – Kindly tell us where
you are from and how did you get started with
photography?
Beata Polanska – I come from a picturesque
town in the south of Poland but I am a Traveler, I
still look for new places and faces to take photos
in order to be able to fully realize my ideas and
projects. I often move, I came from Poznań, where
I lived for a year and a half to Krakow, where I
live for just two weeks and I hope to live a little bit
more, I do not like sitting in one place, because
then I feel like a butterfly tightly closed in a jar.
Photography, well it’s my great passion. Not the
only one, because I am passionate about many
things, so one day for me it is far too little to be
able to realize all this Photography I would call
my work photo-painting, occupies a special place
in my life, because in this field I include painting,
which I love so much, theatre, opera music, designing
and creating styles, parapsychology and
of course the very processing of photos. I used to
draw and paint a lot of pictures and I decided to
find a way to combine all these interests. I was inspired
to express all these forms, colors, emotions
and everything I like to do through artistic photography.
I followed that thought and I did what I
did.I took pictures of it.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – Your technique of portraits
has what appears to look like Dolls in them,
can you explain what this form of portraiture is
and your inspiration?
Beata Polanska – Yes! The doll appears very
often in my work. I also gave her the name of
Celtic origin – Isleen. I’ve always been fascinated
by the art of Japanese artists. Japanese puppet
theatre Bunraku, beautiful kimona and old Russian
costumes and headgear. The doll has made all this
wealth of epochs of different countries surround
me. it helps me to move into distant trends of art,
at the same time it is my Model to realize painting
and styling visions. Styling and preparing a doll for
a photo sessions is a great pleasure for me. There
are emotions, feelings in her. . . I revive her. . . I experiment
artistically. I rest from people in this way.
I close myself off in my own world of creation.
ARTISTIC VIGILANTE – What are your preferred
choices of equipment and can you explain
how you set up for portrait works?
Beata polanska – When it comes to photographic
equipment, I appreciate Canon very much. My first
body was bought from this company and others as
well, but these are only my individual feelings and
preferences. In most of my projects I work outdoors,
because I love nature and charming places, so I care
to limit to the maximum the amount and weight of
equipment that I take with me. Most often I limit myself
to taking away not only the camera and lenses, but
also the blend. . . I do not use artificial light or lamps
to create nature,any imperfections, skin retouching,
color saturation, I correct in Photoshop, trying to
show in the natural way is most important in my pictures.
Artistic Vigilante – Are you a fulltime photographer
and, how do you charge clients?
Beata Polanska – I am not a full-time photographer,
I work in a completely different industry, but photography
is my great passion, almost my whole life,
so I hope quietly that soon I will be able to realize my
professional plans only in this direction.
Artistic Vigilante – What are the things you are putting
in place to make you stand out from all the other
photographers in your country?
Beata Polanska – The most important thing is to be oneself and
here in my imaginary world I am, everything that inspires and
intrigues me to create, that is painting, music, creating styles
and many others.it is in me and with me no matter where I am.
I think that every one is unique in their own way and has some
outstanding qualities, but they are not always able to see or
express them, but I have my own vision of it and I try to show it
in my works, alternately, the Doll with a Living Model, the whole
specificity and creation of this doll, reviving it,creating and at the
same time showing my some what surreal world, where so much
is happening. There is expression, the ethereal character, the
motif of time, magic, beauty and ugliness.I close my works with
a soul that sees and feels clearly. Everything here has its deeply
hidden meaning, which in turn forces the viewer to reflect.
Artistic Vigilante – What would you say in your own thinking is
the future for art and photography as a whole?
Beata Polanski – Both in art and in photography, which is also
art in itself, I can highlight the fact that photography is becoming
more diverse, functional and therapeutic. In this world there is a
place for everyone who wants to express or communicate something
important to the world.The creators over take each other
in their projects, the way they are implemented, their concepts.
Here, the technical industry is very supportive of today’s artist. I
personally enjoy this variety of forms and colours of self-expression,
you can see that thanks to it neither man nor art remain
in the same place. As many ideas as people in the world, so who
knows where it will take us.-

REFLECTION DESIGN

LOSGIDDY

www.losgiddy.com

PEDRO BARATA

MICHAEL

WALDAU

EVAN ABRAR

JURGEN PASCH

FABI CASCO

MARIAH TYES

DAWNDRA