RESTLESS
My nights have been filled with these sorts of visions — epic, lavish, monumental and gaudily hued, which is why photographer Merkley???’s series makes me feel like I’m having a waking dream. “I was raised Mormon in Utah,” he says. “Went on a Mormon mission to Brazil. Masturbated the whole time.”
He also blogs in a style similar to that of his frenetic photography, which may have been instilled by his family life. “I have eighteen siblings and my parents have both been married three times each,” he says.
“My great-great grandfather was Joseph Smith’s bodyguard. Now I photograph nude women.” Thank God. — Will Doig
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For more photography from Merkley???, visit his website: www.threequestionmarks.com
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BIRTHDAY GIRLS
We received these photos from Portland-based photographer Isaac White. Then we called Malice, one of the girls pictured, to ask what was going on. — Will Doig
What are we looking at here?
My thirty-first birthday party. It took place on April 15 at 10pm.
Who are these people?
Some of them are girls I work with, but they’re all friends. I’m a stripper in Portland, Oregon. Two of the girls who were there I only knew through MySpace. It was the first time we met in real life.
How many people in all?
About twenty, not counting Isaac. It was all girls, although there were a couple of girls there who consider themselves transsexual.
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EUROPEAN UNION
Marcel Theodore Anthony Bosch’s photographs remind me of that summer overseas, back before the E.U. existed and Americans were still considered cool by young Europeans.
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