Rio Cam

"It’s only been some ten years since I started shooting professionally—mostly fashion; but I felt I had something to say. Maybe it’s about the journey. Perhaps waiting to be a great to celebrate your progress is too late. I’ve always been obsessed with a group of fashion photographers dubbed “The Terrible Three;” you know them well, I’m sure. Chris Von Wangenheim, Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton make up this group that so much inspires my work. I’m fascinated by the controversial ideas that lived in their work in the 70’s and 80’s. “How did they get away with this,” I’ve always wondered. Even today, some of these visuals would never be permitted to be published. But they were raw. And real. Before them, fashion photography was solely about absolute beauty. It was private and exclusive. This group of forward-thinking, renegade artists changed the conversation. They managed to shoot and publish visuals that showed a woman getting shot dead while driving or a nude in an uber prestigious hotel. Today access to that kind of imagery is readily available to us in real life. We live in a voyeuristic world of social media and pornography where anything is a click away; but that creative license would never be granted to be published in a maga...

RIOCAM GALLERY & FINE ART

2450 NW 2nd Ave Wynwood FL, 33127

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