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Art Dir & Photo: @amirjamshidiii
MUA & Hair: @dusnokiolga.sminkes
MUA & Hair: @siposreka_mua
Model: @ds.panni
Model: @greta_ivanits
Model: @szlona_luca

The other side of the scene

This project marks the beginning of photographic exploration into character — a personal

and artistic search for presence beyond performance.

The talent is ballerina from the Czech National Ballet – Haruka Iguchi, known for dancing

the role of the Swan in Swan Lake. While the shoot contains subtle allusions to her role on

stage, there was intentionally left only a trace of it – her transformed image beyond the

confines of costume and choreography. This was not about portraying the character of the

swan, but about reimagining her essence offstage – revealing the woman behind the role,

quiet in her vulnerability, tenderness, and unity of self.

Photography & Art direction & Styling Iana Vurazheris

Talent ballerina Haruka Iguchi

Makeup Darya Yermilova

Location: Kurpark Oberlaa Wien, Austria

Clothes: Humana vintage & second hand Austria

My work explores the emotional and symbolic relationship between food, the human body, and visual culture. Through photography, art direction, and design, I create staged worlds where food becomes more than sustenance—it transforms into a narrative device, a sculptural object, and a vessel for fantasy, memory, and introspection. My creative process is rooted in curiosity and play, often merging elements of product design, gastronomy, and visual arts to craft scenes that are both striking and intriguing. I use my practice to question how we consume, desire, and ritualise food, inviting viewers to explore its deeper emotional and cultural meanings.

CREDITS | Profile photo by Fiona Cristof Concept, direction, photography, prop and set design, food design: Ana Gutman Food design, food styling: Daniela Estrada Food styling assistance: Charles Buttner, Selmma Ledry Styling: Tino Portillo Hair and makeup: Pily Gutierrez Talent: Casandra Franco Agency: We Love Models Styling Assistant: Abigail Navarrete Assistants: Isa Hallivis, Pia Alcafe, Alejandro Argumedo

CONTACT hello@anagutman.com anagutman.com

Artist Gretchen Andrew

Gretchen Andrew’s Facetune Portraits: Universal Beauty

Limited series of unique oil paintings made using AI, algorithms and robotics to address today’s most pressing questions about who we are in relationship to who technology tells us we should be.

In Gretchen Andrew’s new series of Facetune Portraits, custom robotics scribe the popular AI-driven beauty filters of social media into oil paintings derived from images of quintessential beauty. Normally, on TikTok and via Zoom’s “touch up” feature, these visual modifications occur seamlessly and invisibly.  By making this process visible, Facetune Portraits reveals the messy co-existence we have with our digital selves.

​​Made up of a potential 100 Contestants from 100 different countries, Facetune Portraits: Universal Beauty looks at the homogenizing impact of this monocultural, single AI beauty standard across the faces and bodies of famously beautiful women from around the world. As this same algorithm sculpts the female form into a single, universal look, we see diversity disappear. While unaltered human faces coexist with the algorithmically ‚perfected‘ versions, a double portrait is created – a visualization of reality meeting desire. The result is a full-body portrait of tension, where each brush stroke, each smudge, each painterly contradiction is a record of disagreement between how our faces and bodies actually look and how AI says we should be.  ​

These  works outwardly portray the absurd, and too-real  scars of the hidden ‘perfections’ that lurk behind so many of the images we experience – revealing our desire not just to be beautiful, but to be like everyone else, accepted as much by the algorithms as by our peers.

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Artist | Gretchen Andrew

Artist | Gretchen Andrew

Artist | Gretchen Andrew