Amsterdam Witzenhausen Gallery

Mi Matties & Kristal

Photographer Paul Blanca is back

photos from the opening 7 Jun 2008

Mi MattiesThe portrait series Mi Matties (Amsterdam street

slang for 'my friends') originated during Blanca’s wanderings

through Amsterdam. Throughout the city, Blanca contacted

members of street gangs and managed to coax the tough

street kids to his studio to model for him. The result is an

exciting serie of black and white portraits. The Mi Matties

exhibition consists of twenty-five photographs,

some of which are printed in a life-size format.

Paul Blanca also created a box of photographs depicting

women as candy, named Kristal. The nude models

were doused in chocolate, sugar glaze or powdered sugar,

but you would not call them 'sweet'. The box contains

19 largely erotic photographs and a poem composed by

Joost Zwagerman especially for this serie.

The Kristal box is available in a print run of 30 copies.
more info www.witzenhausengallery.nl