Circa announces the debut monograph on Belgian photographer Ifa Brand
The roll call of successful models turned photographer is long and distinguished – from Lee Miller to Ellen von Unwerth. Ifa Brand’s journey from model to photographer and self-portraitist was prompted by her growing frustrations with the modelling world, and the desire to seize artistic control of her own image. Inspired by pioneers of fetish style, such as Charles Guyette and Gene Bilbrew, and 1950s’ pin-ups, Bettie Page and Jayne Mansfield, she has created her own distinctive fusion of old-school glamour and fetish art. Since 2017, when she bought her first camera, she has worked exclusively with Polaroid – a medium whose graininess and technical limitations she happily exploits. The result is a series of atmospheric portraits that convey her personal explorations of sensuality and eroticism. Boudoir, her first book, will be published in the autumn.
‘I have always been drawn to women with an edge. Women who ooze sexual power. Women who are unapologetically themselves, in all their eccentricity.’ – Ifa Brand
Boudoir
Ifa Brand’s journey from model to photographer and self-portraitist was prompted by her growing frustrations with the modelling world, and the desire to seize artistic control of her own image. Inspired by pioneers of fetish style, such as Charles Guyette and Gene Bilbrew, and 1950s’ pin-ups, Bettie Page and Jayne Mansfield, she has created her own distinctive fusion of old-school glamour and fetish art. From the beginning, she chose to work exclusively with Polaroid – a medium whose graininess and technical limitations she exploits. The result is a series of atmospheric portraits that convey her personal explorations of sensuality and eroticism.
‘I have always been drawn to women with an edge. Women who ooze sexual power. Women who are unapologetically themselves, in all their eccentricity.’ – Ifa Brand
Nora Kobrenik is Editor-In-Chief and Founder of Tartarus Magazine, and a photographer, model, stylist, designer and artist. Born and raised in the former USSR, she combines Russian opulence, hardness, elegance and class with American traditions, independence and innovation. She is the patron saint of the scandalous, outrageous and monstrous, and Tartarus Magazine serves as her church and forum. She divides her time between Connecticut and New York City.
Photographer Ifa Brand
Introduction Nora Kobrenik
Designer Jean-Michel Dentand
1 October 2021
Hardcover
25 × 20cm
10 × 8 in
128pp
70 colour illustrations
£40 | $60
ISBN 978-1-911422-31-0