Beautiful images from Kyrgystan:

[Flaxbee]

More at link:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/evelyne-politanoff/cooper-and-gorfer-my-quie_b_1095017.html?ref=arts

Cooper & Gorfer consists of the two artists Sarah Cooper (USA, 1974) and Nina Gorfer (Austria, 1979). With their backgrounds in art, architecture, graphic design and photography, they began their collaboration in 2006. Their work belongs to a narrative tradition within photography existing at the intersection of contemporary photography and 18th and 19th century painting. Place and story are the catalysts of their work, transforming narrative and memories into images that are digitally processed to create painterly collages.

For their exhibition My Quiet of Gold, Cooper and Gorfer traveled to the rural areas of Kyrgyzstan to collect sagas and stories in conversations and interviews with local inhabitants. Out of these tales, the duo created striking photographic portraits that go far beyond mere documentation to tell and visually interpret romantic-melancholy stories of love, sorrow, and betrayal in a completely new and non-linear ways.

[snagglepuss]

1. Wonderful work. Thanks for posting.

[Flaxbee]

3. they really caught my eye, too

:hi:

[XemaSab]

7. Pun intended?

Check out the chick's eyes.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. surreal quality.

[Flaxbee]

4. and of course, with kitty-cat

;)

:hi: Tuesday!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

5. yeah, the juxtaposition -- very nice

:hi:

[emilyg]

6. ty