noomi rapace

source: trendland

Sølve Sundsbø has photographed Noomi Rapace for Dazed Digital, styled by Katie Shillingford. Rapace, the star of Ridley Scott’s latest “Prometheus”, wears, among others, Irin Van Herpen, Gareth Pugh, Maison Martin Margiela, and Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci.
You might recognize Rapace as the the punk avenger Lisbeth Salander in 2009’s film adaptations of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy. This impressive actress has managed to learn English almost fluently since she blasted to stardom over two years ago as the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. The slick, gothic editorial complete with computer animations highlights the Matrix-inspired trends from the Fall runways.
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source: artandcommerce

Sølve Sundsbø is one of the great innovators in contemporary image-making. His capacity for visual experimentation has brought him enduring respect within the industry. His advertising clients include Chanel, Cartier, Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, Hermès, Armani, Louis Vuitton, H&M and Yves Saint Laurent. Sundsbø has also created editorials for Italian Vogue, Love Magazine, Visionaire, V, Interview, i-D, The New York Times, Vogue Nippon, and W Magazine. He has directed short films for Chanel, Gucci, Biotherm and SHOWstudio. His New York Times piece “14 Actors Acting” won an Emmy Award for New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture in 2011.

Sølve Sundsbø was born and raised in Norway and has lived in London since 1995. He has had catalogues published in conjunction with his “Perroquets” exhibition and “Savage Beauty,” the Alexander McQueen retrospective at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He has also created artwork for several album covers, most notably Coldplay’s A Rush of Blood to the Head. 
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source: trendland

Solve Sundsbo is a Norwegian fashion photographer who cleverly manipulates images making them out of the ordinary.

His work incorporates everything from X-rays and 3-D scanning to hi-tech manipulation and laborious hand-painted retouching. “If I’ve got a style,” says Sundsbo, “it’s that I’ve got no style.”

Sundsbo’s portfolio is every fashionista’s dream address book – designers including Yves Saint Laurent, Dior, Gucci, Hermès, Bally and Armani. He has also branched out into short films, teaming up with Alexander McQueen to produce a piece for the Florence Biennale. “We set Eva Herzigova on fire,” he says. “She was really floating on water but it looked as if she was going up in flames.” He’s also responsible for some Dazed & Confused covers and the current issue of Pop, featuring supermodel Stephanie Seymour.

Solve is rallying against the mediocrity of fashion photography, he complains that “anybody can use a digital camera to take a picture and alter it in photoshop” and I’m all for experimentation and Sundsbo’s image manipulation gives fashion photography a complete fresh look.

To coincide with London Fashion Week, Sundsbo has launched an exhibition and Spring Studios, London – a former paint factory, now devoted fashion gallery. One of his best-known pictures on show is of the British model Karen Elson, with the contrasting colours altered to give a hard out of this world edge.

Then there are shots of Canadian model Jessica Stam smiling through vampire fangs, and designer Gareth Pugh in a knitted American football kit.