Thomas Sing Photography

I’ve shot this self portrait yesterday using a projection of Damien Hirst’s diamond skull “For the Love of God” (2007).

Model: Suhur Osman @ TUNE Models
Styling: Chiara Padovan
Make-up & Hair: Daniela Schatz
crystal dress: IRINA by Lorand Lajos

So, here’s finally the 2nd part of this big project.
See the first part, a description and all credits HERE!

Some may know by now that I am currently featured in the May Issue of Vogue Italia in the “New Talents” section with the picture above. Those who didn’t, well they know now!

Butterflies are having quite of a hype lately, though this project was born long before and it took a lot of time from the concept to its realization. And despite its title ‘In Bloom’, it surely is no happy spring tale.

The idea came across as I was studying the mise-en-scène of fashion design in the ’90s, where the spectacle often bared an element of horror, balancing opposite extremes in a way that takes us straight back to baroque imagery. Realizing that such memento mori would no longer shock anybody today, I wanted to revive this ambiguity of beauty/decadence, life/death as something natural, if not even obvious.

I hope you’ll enjoy this first bunch of picture, I’m going to post some more in the next days.

My thanks go to the amazing crew who made this possible:

Models: Julia G., Anna H. & Richard C. (all @ TUNE Models)
Butterfly-Styling: Lorand Lajos
Make-Up&Hair: Daniela Schatz @ LJ Models & Maren Endrass
Styling: Patrick Sonberger @ TUNE Artists
Art Direction: Chiara Padovan & Thomas Sing
Supported by and shot at the THOMAS WITT FOUNDATION, Munich

And thanks again to all who supported me and my work and made this feature in Vogue Italia a dream come true!

Model: Stephen Delattre

Model: Stephen Delattre

Issue #26 of noi.se magazine (UK / Australia) just came out with these pictures that I’ve shot with Stephen Delattre at the outskirts of TIME & MOTION combining highspeed photography with long exposures.

Styling: Chiara Padovan
Clothes: mostly Lorand Lajos

As you may remember from the making-of post, I was shooting the ads for my friend Stephen Delattre’s choreography in Mainz last october.

The premiere of POETRY TAKES FORM will be on March 11, 2011 in Mainz, and I strongly recommend you to watch it. I could get a glimpse into the neoclassic and modern scenes during our shoot and it promises to be an outstanding mix of romance, tragedy, love, melancholy, harmony & provocation.

Here’s the main ad picture:

And this is one of seven scenes that they will perform:

Dancers (ballet of the Staatstheater Mainz): Cristina Ayllón, Antonin Comestaz, Stéphen Delattre, Martyn Garside, Anne Jung, Prêle Mainfroy

Get your ticket HERE!

Lee McQueen’s death in February was a devastating loss not only for the world-wide fashion community, but for everyone working in any creative field that’s somehow connected with fashion. During his rather short career as a designer, he influenced the 90′s and 2000′s with his unique aesthetics like probably no other.

To show how much his work had affected a whole generation of young creatives, Chiara and I decided to shoot a couple of homage pictures.

The 1st one was shot in my studio with Maria Justus wearing a dress that Chiara made from 40 meters of fabrics. The inspiration for the dress comes from McQueen’s S/S 1999 show. We wanted Maria to look not like an object of desire, but strong and untouchable, with certain historic references. Make-up and hairstyling by Maren Endraß.

The 2nd photograph was taken in a private chapel. Chiara is wearing a vintage Yamamoto dress that’s enlarged with additional layers of textile by Lorand Lajos (who also made the headpiece and the collar) and an Italian vintage wedding dress. Make-up by Maren Endraß.

The last one has become my new portfolio cover. I came across this fascinating dog during a walk downtown. The Xolo breed is truly controverse and altough it is based on a genetic disfunction it has been honored as sacred for thousands of years now. To me, the Xolo represents a certain kind of Otherness. Looking like a creature from culture’s unconscious depths, he seemed to embody the McQueen-principle quite well. And to bring the relation to clothing back into the picture, we decided to make him a coat from fur rejects.

Every new day some fine news at the moment!
Two of my most artistic fashion shootings are featured on The Fashion Birdcage!

The posts are not only about the pictures, Enkha asked me a lot about the concepts & the background behind these editorials. Here on my blog I usually just post the pictures without commenting them, so if you want to get a little insight about the stories behind them, here’s the opportunity… mind-fucking at times DOES work for me… that’s the truth, even if I try to hide… Enkha digged it up esp. with my LAID & WASTED editorial with which I wanted to point straight to this strange coincidence where fashion, commerce, eroticism and death are just one scintillating dizzying tautology. It’s just a vertigo I want to create with my pictures. Nothing more and nothing less. Get aroused or throw up. If you’re up to it, do both at the same time. That’s it. Full-stop.

Just click on the screenshots to visit the respective posts, and don’t miss to check Enkha’s full website with its very suitable subtitle: “where fashion & art collide”!