Chadwick
Tyler, 1975, USA, is a fashion / fine-art photographer based in
Brooklyn, New York. His work career started in art direction and
corporate advertising. In 2005 he began focusing on photography,
learning the basic technical competence under the guidance of
still-life photographer Larry Wittek. In 2009 he had his first solo
exhibition entilted Tiberius. The large exhibition was filled
with beautiful female characters in black and white photographs. He
played with the themes of ecstasy, hysteria, confusion, lethargy,
exhaustion and more expressive emotions. He used 52 models to realise
all the images for the show, often in strange positions and showing
expressive faces. The result was a strong, refreshing, raw yet classy
and brain triggering set of images that challenges contemporary
notions of beauty. His photography has been featured in numerous
magazines as Dazed and Confused, Grey and AnOther.
Chadwick
Tyler is a photographer who likes to get down and dirty. The New
York-based snapper has a signature gritty aesthetic, often literally
using dirt to achieve his dark and grimy images. In his series Bodies
of Water, Tyler takes the usual suspects (beautiful, ethereal ladies)
and sticks them in a swamp, lying on the river bank and walking into
the water as if in a trance. Apart from looking striking, the series
reminds us of old medieval myths where maidens are lured to their
death by an ancient curse. Or something.
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