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Karis Benjamin

Discipline:

Multidisciplinary Artist

Location:

LONDON, UK

ABOUT:

I'm an artist from north London, with a love for printmaking, and a keen interest in ceramics; I have produced lettering - a lot of (custom Script) hand lettering, with a little sign writing - and I also enjoy calligraphy.
I am an experienced illustrator (mainly hand-drawn, some digital), have worked as a tattoo artist, and have a BA (Hons) in Illustration.
I also was awarded a 1st for my dissertation; "The renowned work of Corinne Day is acclaimed as arguably some of the world’s most influential fashion photography. Day’s intimate, atmospheric and even challenging approach to portraiture and fashion photography was received as extremely unconventional in the early 1990s. The style of her infamous magazine editorial work that featured supermodel Kate Moss, was accused of glamorizing anorexia, drug-use and even paedophilia – and was coined by the media as ‘Heroin Chic’. Was Day’s early work a compelling, ‘new-wave’ style of fashion photography sensationalized by the media, or did Day’s work in photography purely exploit and glamorize drug addiction and the under-class? ”, on BA Illustration. As a diploma student at London College of Fashion, my Final Piece was selected for accessories exhibition for handbag design called ‘The Big Bag Show’, in 2005.
With long-term interest and experimentation in music production and DJing, I started my journey with producing music. I have been playing the electric bass guitar for over a decade and learning how to play the acoustic guitar, drumming, and how to sound engineer.

WORKS:

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