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这些栩栩如生的故事戒指均出自Shannnam之手，生活中平常的场景浓缩在透明的戒指中，凝固了时间，更凝结了情感。Shannnam由来自香港的两位创意工作者Riyo和Howard共同成立。Shannnam意为山岚，飘渺不定却充满了神秘感的气息。最近，他们刚刚带着自己手制的戒指从东京设计周归来，简短的聊天，帮助我们进一步了解这对亚洲设计界的新兴组合。

Hong kong-based design duo chan oi yau riyo and kwong ho sun howard of shannnam have exhibited  ’fragmented chronicles’ at this year’s tokyo designboom mart, part of tokyo designers week 2011. The collection is composed of 100 rings, each with a landscape frozen inside. The jewelry spans different topics,  from children’s characters to nuns standing in the snow, a woman walking with a suitcase to a shepherd  with his sheep. each is a visual story invoking a reaction and stirring the imagination of the wearer.

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第一眼看到Ali Bosworth的作品，很多人都会被其中的怀旧气质所吸引，古希腊遗址、废弃的骑车、没有主人的手套、旅途中的女友……这些看似毫无关联的图像，映射了生活的种种罅隙，爱、未知、遗失、迷茫。Ali Bosworth生活在加拿大的维多利亚市，他是一名摄影师和短片导演。

Canadian born Ali Bosworth is a photographer and short film maker, he lives in Victoria, BC with his girlfriend Sinead and their cat Peaches.

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阿根廷天才画家San Poggio是一个绝对的细节控加物件控，他手持画笔化身造物主，将自己的经验和异想落实于纸上，孜孜不倦的构筑着一个个细节丰盛的世界。 古怪离奇的剧情在看似重复的场景中无声上演，像素画般的迷宫中隐藏着很多秘密等待你去发现。

Argentine artist, San Poggio’s surrealist works and realistic renderings leave little to the imagination with the bizarre scenery.

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©Roger Ballen, Shadow Chamber series

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Roger Ballen 1950年出生于纽约，至今已在南非的约翰斯内堡居住了接近30年。在形成他1990年代末的戏剧性、富有表情的摄影风格之前， Ballen作为一个地质学家，拍摄居住在南非乡村的白人和住家。他的著作包括《Boyhood, Dorps》、《Platteland, Outland》，以及由Phaidon出版社出版的《Shadow Chamber》。他的作品在Stedelijk Museum（阿姆斯特丹），the Centre Georges Pompidou （巴黎），the Victoria and Albert Museum （伦敦），以及the Museum of Modern Art （纽约）均有展出。

2007年，在《SEESAW》杂志的邀请下，诞生了这篇访问，以下是第二部分（翻译_Luke）。

ROGER BALLEN was born in New York in 1950, and has lived in Johannesburg, South Africa, for nearly thirty years. Working as a geologist, Ballen began to photograph the homes and white residents of rural South Africa before developing his more theatrical and expressive style in the late-1990s. His books include Boyhood, Dorps, Platteland, Outland and Shadow Chamber, which has just been published in paperback by Phaidon. His work is included in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), and the Museum of Modern Art (New York). A conversation with Roger Ballen (2007), by Chas Bowie. via seasaw - Part 2.

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©Roger Ballen, Shadow Chamber series

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Roger Ballen 1950年出生于纽约，至今已在南非的约翰斯内堡居住了接近30年。在形成他1990年代末的戏剧性、富有表情的摄影风格之前， Ballen作为一个地质学家，拍摄居住在南非乡村的白人和住家。他的著作包括《Boyhood, Dorps》、《Platteland, Outland》，以及由Phaidon出版社出版的《Shadow Chamber》。他的作品在Stedelijk Museum（阿姆斯特丹），the Centre Georges Pompidou （巴黎），the Victoria and Albert Museum （伦敦），以及the Museum of Modern Art （纽约）均有展出。

Chas Bowie是一位作家和艺术家，现住于美国俄勒冈州城市波特兰，《Portland Mercury》杂志的艺术编辑。他的摄影作品亦曾在多处画廊、艺术中心展出。他创建了线上杂志Your Daily Awesome，并担任主笔。

2007年，在《SEESAW》杂志的邀请下，诞生了这篇访问，以下是第一部分（翻译_Luke）。

ROGER BALLEN was born in New York in 1950, and has lived in Johannesburg, South Africa, for nearly thirty years. Working as a geologist, Ballen began to photograph the homes and white residents of rural South Africa before developing his more theatrical and expressive style in the late-1990s. His books include Boyhood, Dorps, Platteland, Outland and Shadow Chamber, which has just been published in paperback by Phaidon. His work is included in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), and the Museum of Modern Art (New York). A conversation with Roger Ballen (2007), by Chas Bowie. via seasaw - Part 1.

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摄影师Ari Seth Cohen几乎每天都端着一台相机，徜徉于纽约的大街小巷。他不是一位寻常的街拍摄影师，年轻的少男少女不是他的菜，他要拍的是时髦的老人家！在他看来，时尚不分年龄，纽约街头那些嗜美如命的耄耋老人是城市里最绚烂的风景。欢迎光临Ari Seth Cohen的博客Advanced Style！

The New York-based blogger Ari Seth Cohen is turning to a much-overlooked demographic, the over-sixties, for his fashion inspiration.

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很多人会把日本摄影师的作品统称为治愈系小品，它们 通常都具备清新、干净的特质。虽然，这只是一种形式上的浅显归纳，可是不得不否认，这股清流亦是炎夏消暑降温的良品。  日本女摄影师熊谷直子，曾前往法国学习摄影，现定居东京。她擅长将情感投射在日常事物上，街道、花丛、栅栏，或是喝水的女孩，在这座看似平和的灰色城市里兀自绽放。她以独特的女性视角，捕捉着某种细微的愉悦和孤独。

熊谷直子（Naoko Kumagai），1976年出生于日本兵库县。她广泛活跃于时尚和广告界。自幼就摆弄相机，20多岁在法国独自学习艺术的经历，更激发了她的创作欲，她将情感注入在与在日常事物的对话中，以独特的女性视角发掘某种细微的愉悦和孤独。

Naoko Kumagai born in 1976. She is a photographer who works in a wide variety of fields from fashion to advertising, developing her career based on a unique philosophy towards photography. Her life as a lone 20 year old art student in France also provided endless inspiration and occasion for producing plenty of photographs. Onto the background of an ordinary landscape of concrete buildings, roads, flowers and night inanity, Kumagai injects nuances of joy and loneliness.

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