What Does Nike Want?
Not too long ago writer and tech enthusiast Kevin Kelly2 told us that technology is the 7th Kingdom of life, evolutionarily speaking. As many theories come to be, Kelly arrived at this one by first...
View ArticleCompeting Images
At the invitation of curator Agatha Wara, DIS went to the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard to shoot Katja Novitskova and Timur Si-Qin's exhibition. These images are a continuation of DIS's...
View ArticleArt School Class Portraits
Pratt Institute Pratt Institute MFA students: Jean Paul Gomez, Raul Hott, Macklen Mayse, Deshawn Dumas, Nick Naber, Hiba Schahbaz, Anthony Palocci Jr, Kelly McCafferty, Sheena Rae Dowling. Hunter...
View ArticleThe Sears Class Portraits by Michael Smith
The Sears Class Portraits is a ongoing photographic series I started in 1999 and continues every semester I am teaching at the University. Together with my students I go to the local Sears and sit for...
View ArticleMigrating Forms: The Gitana Xula
Romani is a mashup culture. With origins in either northern India or Egypt, the Romani people live in nearly all parts of Europe, North Africa, and some of the Arab world. Fittingly, they go by many...
View ArticleContemporary Eco Styles
Credits Project by Dora Budor + Maja Cule with Rachel De Joode Photography Rachel De Joode Digital Post/Visuals/Styling Dora Budor + Maja Cule Hair and Make-up Michelle Ceja Models Kern O. Samuel,...
View ArticleGlobal Denim Community II:Cult from the Same Cloth
What began as a simple family favorite has become a full-on global movement. Denim now inspires acts of devotion like trust-building retreats, beachfront baptisms, cross-cult co-opting espionage. What...
View ArticleWake Me When It’s Over.
The fair opened at two. Now it was three, time for a fashionably late arrival. A car service rolled us up to the vaporetto launch for twenty bucks. Ferries waited near an active helicopter pad. The...
View ArticleFit for Society
Patricia wears Kenzo top, Pologeorgis fur, Skins biking bodysuit, and Adidas sneakers. Pat wears Underarmour leggings, Adidas sports bra, Christopher Kane jacket, and Adidas SLVR shoes. Sam wears...
View Article♆ Spartan Race ♆
DIS Magazine elected a team of the finest artist-slash-athletes known to man to compete in Spartan Race, a grueling international game of endurance and danger. Meet the team and see them overcome the...
View ArticleDISability: Foot Work
The latest in a new breed of non-discriminating multimedia artists. She paints, draws, sculpts, makes videos, conceptual art, and net art all with her feet. She's not disabled; she's DISabled....
View ArticleFair Trade
Fair Trade uses the galleries and architecture of the Frieze London Art Fair as both backdrop and subject. The images, commissioned for Frieze Projects 2012, are a continuation of DIS's exploration...
View ArticleDirections
Spencer Ashby and Analisa Teachworth take to the street, literally, to conduct an inquisitive field study of car enthusiasts at the annual Woodward Dream Cruise -- an automobile show and parade which...
View ArticleReal Housewives of Art Basel Miami
Guardians of an antiquated brand of authenticity are quick to discredit things today that may appear fake or mercenary—as if these qualities have no connection to understanding truth and generosity!...
View ArticleFlow States » Boru O’Brien O’Connell » DISimages
Here are mental states of operation in which the subject is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, revelatory glow, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity. See more on...
View ArticleTissue Stock
These never-before-seen tissue studies are a survey of local tissue design as well as Gulf tissue stock imagery. In the Gulf, the formula: Hygiene = Wealth is deeply embedded aka the more "hygienic,"...
View ArticleNew Fragrance Options
CreditsNew Perfume Options from the series 'Skin That Drinks' by Dora Budor Photography Joshua Citarella Digital Post Dora Budor Styling Tatiana Valentin Makeup Kirsten Kilponen Makeup Assistant Nana...
View ArticleMer-Life
In the wake of America's favorite caffeinated mascot and TLC reality programming, Mer-culture has gone mainstream — immobilizing the daily grind and coming ashore hybridized and waterlogged. Get into...
View ArticleAn Evolving Turn
MICHAEL JONES MCKEAN In different ways, you both seem invested in discussions involving objects and images produced explicitly for our consumption – commodities that are manufactured, branded and...
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