Jc Candanedo | London Issue Eight cover artist

October 2019

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I'm a London-based photographic artist, and in my work, I deal with the social issues that matter the most to me like Human Rights, Mental Health an...

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My father is an artist. He paints and makes sculptures, but he never made a living out of it. When I was a kid, I grew up in a house that was one big gallery of canvasses. My father never pushed me into art, bu...

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I’m an interdisciplinary artist working mostly in fiber and installation, though I’ve recently incorporated photography and performance into my practice as well. I grew up in the Driftless Area of U.S., which...

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I went to art school in Savannah, GA with an interest in Cel Animation and Graphic Design.

What set you off as an artist?

I'm a sucker for the golden hours of dusk & dawn. Negative compositional space is a beaut...

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I’m a self taught Artist born in London to Iraqi and French parents. I did go to art school for a month but was told on more than one occasion that painting was dead so I thought it was obvious I wasn’t wanted...

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My parents migrated to the UK from the West indies. I am the second child of four

daughters, we were a very private low key family. We are of mixed heritage and

consequently did not fit into any particular commu...

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Born and raised in Arizona, I studied at Arizona State University where I received my BFA in Photography and also received a minor and certificate in Design and Marketing. Growing up in the harsh heat and soft...

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I am an Iranian artist, born and raised in Tehran. After middle school, I decided to go to

vocational school and study art; A decision that can be traced back to my childhood interest. I remember that there were...

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I am a multidisciplinary artist currently working and living in Los Angeles, CA, and an MFA candidate at the California Institute of the Arts. I had a transient upbringing—within the first six years of my lif...

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I’m a multidisciplinary artist and commercial photographer living and working in Brisbane, Australia. Before studying a degree of photography with honours in fine art at Queensland Collage of Art, my creativ...

I’ve been driven to make art all my life; topaint, draw, knit, sew, write and document. I gave up creative pursuits other than bad po-etry in middle school, and turned my focus to my burgeoning drug career instead. I returned full-heartedly to art-making 4 or 5 years a...

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we are two artists who have been working in collaboration for about a year. we were based in brooklyn, but have relocated to l.a. we are both queer latinx punx. we are interested in exploring relationships an...

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I was born in Shandong, China. I started to learn traditional Chinese painting when I was 12. Then I began my practice of art in the system of the academy and conventional art school for ten years. During my years i...

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I didn't have a good time at art school. I studied for my BA at Norwich, starting out absolutely in love with art and painting. I left demoralised and disillusioned. I think I associated the creative process w...

Christine Carr

October 2019

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I grew up in Virginia and didn’t stumble upon photography until my late twenties. I always enjoyed exploring and around that time I took a photo I liked, so I read magazine articles f...