Welcome to the sixth bi-monthly issue of The Garlic Bread Magazine, which indicates that a whole year has passed since the impulsive decision to start a contemporary online photography magazine of our own.

Our sixths issue signifies for us the ability to make things happen, simply because we knew it’s possible.We feel that the artists featured in this issue also entered an unknown territory when they started working on their projects, without anticipating what would become of it. Upon looking at the works presented here, we sense that each of the artists here created a symbiosis between the world as we are used to see it and their own personal perspective.

It’s the last day of February, and it feels like summer outside, let’s hope it’s the start of a brave new world.

Sasha & Yoav www.thegarlicbread.com

ALLISON GRANTwww.allisongrant.com DAISUKE YOKATAwww.daisukeyokota.net ILARIA D’ATRIwww.leslis.tumblr.com

ADELA HOLMESwww.adelaholmes.com CLYDE FUNTONAwww.skeptical-cogitationes.tumblr.com

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ALLISON GRANTUnsoiled

The photographs in my ongoing series Unsoiled are constructed scenes of idealized nature that have varying degrees of illusion and artifice. Original images are taken from familiar sources including Flickr, Wikipedia, television, print media, art posters, and screen-savers, and then reinterpreted through my addition of disposable plastics, houseplants, yard waste, and other found materials. The images and objects that I use to construct the photographs serve as relics from daily life that recall the ways in which we try to control nature, or imagine it to be.

The materials that I place in my pictures simultaneously enhance and interrupt the romanticized “natural” settings represented in the images that I work with. I use artifice as a way to question the authenticity of a common type of nature photography that can be found throughout our image culture. This imagery emphasizes the pretty and panoramic rather than the harsh and hostile aspects of the natural world.

Though I have chosen to address nature using a particular set of cultural conventions, I think of my photographs as metaphors for a broader contemporary experience of the natural world. This experience is, in practice, immeasurably complex and entwined in human affairs, but is routinely simplified and romanticized through the mass communication of idealized representations of nature. The process of diminishing natural systems to a pleasant, manufactured set of characteristics downgrades and ignores the nearly unmanageable environmental circumstances humanity is now facing. At a moment when it appears that our human-made objects and waste products may outlast nature as we know it, my work focuses on tensions between fact and facsimile, nature and artificiality, and permanence and disposability that can be applied to ongoing questions about the shifting role of humanity within the balance of nature.

DAISUKE YOKATA

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The scene I am seeing now is overwritten by my state of mind or my impression of it, and it is changing along with my experience of the world. So what I try to express in these series is the fact that my memories are also something that are constantly altered by my experiences.

ILARIA D’ATRIAsbestos Bay You can find Bagnoli’s Bay along Naples’s seacoast, shortly after stunning roman ruins, ancient villas and amazing beaches, just behind the historical is-land of Nisida. The landscape is totally fearful, the disused steel factory stands like an enormous and gloomy monster over the bay. Not everyone knows that more than 446 people, workers into that complex, have been killed by an asbes-tos overflow. Ital sider, that’s the name of the industry, is now closed, but all the buildings are still there, and the lethal gas too - just hidden under the sand. This summer children will play on this infected beach and nobody will care about it, again.

I tried to represent my feelings for this sad situation trough some photos. All the photos are matrix from polaroids 6x9 colored with watercolor.

This is Zamfira. Zamfira likes to take long walks in the forest at night. She also likes to bathe in black oceans and watch birds. Loretta and Vanilla are Zamfira’s sisters. Loretta wishes she was a Hollywood star and Vanilla wishes she had a unicorn named Shakti. This is Willie Mae the neighbor. Willie Mae always talks about the moose that appears in her backyard in the middle of the night. It freaks her out. The moose actually just wants to say hi to the family dag Uma, who actually just wants Belladonna to stop levitating. It freaks her out. Belladonna the neighborhood witch has her eyes on Shakti the unicorn as well while Shakti, completely clueless, continues his hula-hoop lessons with the hula-hoop instructor Hattie.

ADELA HOLMESHattie’s World

CLYDE FUNTONABelgian self-taught artist in the visual universe, both dark and surreal,I am inspired by rites & religions, celebrations, vivid as well as morbid, and by the intrinsic power of symbols.

Obsessed by Art and imbued by the work of Dali and Witkin. With my pictures, I humbly aspire to evoke feelings that strike us in our existence: fear, shame, guilt, just as much as joy, grace and beauty.

The garlic bread is cooked for you by:Sasha Tamarin & Yoav Peled

All rights for the images are protected and reserved to the artists. No image in this issue can be printed or used without the artist’s permission.

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back cover by Daisuke Yokotafront cover by Adela Holmes