By admin on Oct 3, 2011 in CONTRIBUTORS
Contributors – Issue #74
ALEXIA ANASTASIOU – Photographer
Every time Alexia feels suffocated by fashion, she remembers the day her childhood friend showed up in bright purple Guess jeans, beat up sneakers, and a baggy shirt falling off her shoulder, and then she falls in love all over again.
Her road to fashion was long, passing by a degree in French literature, three years in Paris and a semester of broadcast journalism to finish with a diploma in fashion merchandising. Alexia dreams of making it, looking like Jean Shrimpton, dressing like Jane Birkin, dancing like Michael Jackson, living in Europe and creating beauty in the unexpected. If you need her, you can find her with a heavy stack of fashion magazines in the corner of a bookstore.
CLOU – Guest Art Directors
Clou is a playground for creation, exploration and experimentation. It is a creative studio that faces challenges side-by-side with their clients to develop one-of-a kind creations. Clou offers strategic craft and art focused business solutions that attain client goals with the ferocity of a puma. Art, design, branding, advertising, film and interactive – choose your poison. Clou is a studio that flourishes in versatility. Clou is not a client execution tool, but rather a multi-disciplinary conduit that delivers distinct messages with artistic juice.
CONAN THAI – Photographer
Conan Thai is a portrait photographer based out of the Los Angeles area who shot Hanni El Khatib and Chip and Pepper for issue 74. Raised in Garden Grove, he graduated from UC Irvine with a degree in studio arts. In his spare time, he enjoys things that fly, explode, or go really, really fast. He’s ecstatic whenever he finds activities that includes all three.
Twitter: @okheyday
GEN HANDLEY – Writer
Gen Handley is many things – a brother, a drinker and on occasion, a writer. A very long year of teaching high school language arts inspired him to pursue his love of writing further and go into journalism. He has since contributed his words to an eclectic number of organizations and publications including Punknews.org, Metro News, 24 Hours, The Edmonton Journal, the BC government, Vue Weekly and most recently, ION. His many loves include honest music, gyoza and animals.
ALAN GANEV – Illustrator
Alan Ganev illustrated Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Born in 1986 in San Jose, Costa Rica, collage artist Alan Ganev has been calling Montreal home for several years. After ION’s collaboration, Alan is participating in a project for the Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal through the art collective En Masse, and it’s booked to do a large scale mural in New York next month in collaboration with Adam Vieira, among other interesting projects.
Alan Ganev is also the co-founder of CEASE Collective, a non-profit organization in Montreal that diffuses art through events & art initiative.
