Fashion Photographed by Katerina Jebb
(All images courtesy of the artist found at her tumblr account )
About Katerina Jebb was born in England in 1962. After studying drama at St Anne’s College, she moved to California to study photography. Her first works were photomontages which she created inside the camera, originating from repeated exposure of a single roll of film.
In 1989 Jebb relocated to Paris and worked for the French newspaper Liberation. In 1991 she was involved in a car accident which paralyzed her right arm. To resolve the inability to hold a camera, Jebb began to employ machines to make life-size images, primarily self-portraits lying herself down on a high resolution scanning machine. Progressively, she diversified, posing subjects and objects, exploring the medium in parallel with the expanding possibilities in digital technology. Jebb proceeded to remove parts of the scanner to facilitate maximum extension of the subject. The duration of each passage of the scanner echoed early photographic principles, being seven minutes long, therefore demanding of the sitter to lie motionless for 28 minutes.
The resulting images, suspended and life like were embraced as a new visual medium and began to appear in Museums and Galleries, notably The Whitney Museum as part of The Warhol Look (1998), a world touring retrospective. Her early work was published in Life Magazine, The Times and Vogue. Jebb’s work has flourished from its photographic origins, proceeding to disrupt the boundaries between mediums. Her photography has made way for video art, installations and sculpture. In her work, Jebb considers the human conditon with arrant sensitivity, offering the viewer a depiction of women that rejects the normalized, commercial female role. Her most recent series, Simulacrum and Hyperbole (2009-2011) offers a critique of women’s representation in television and advertising through parodic videos featuring renowned female icons. These works simultaneously evoke laughter and pathos in their observance of the irrationality of popular expectations of women.About Katerina Jebb is an artist working in several mediums.
She lives and works in paris. Dividing her time between art and commerce, her work can be seen in museums, galleries, magazines and advertising campaigns.
Her output consists of various disciplines ; video, installation,human photocopy and photomontage . Jebb has devised a system whereby she employs domestic scanning machines to document objects, painstakingly rendering multiple digital files to create a faithful rendition of the original .
Her latest video works and installations comment on advertising and illusion, parodying contemporary consumerist practice .
Recent works have been commissioned by Comme des Garçons and HERMES. (via and read more at katerinajebb.com)