Anoush Abrar
Anoush Abrar, living in Switzerland, graduated from ECAL, Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne, in 2004. His work has been featured in W Magazine, French and Japanese Vogue, New York Magazine, Tokyo Magazine, Frame and Bolero. Abrar’s work features photographic studies of young women who have moved to Los Angeles from all over the world with the hope of attaining fame, glamour and fortune. In Abrar’s series, the road to stardom is not easy or immediate; he depicts breathtaking hopefuls at their day jobs as secretaries, models, exotic dancers and strippers, as well as in their apartments and at photo shoots. Desire, beauty and sexuality tantalize while at the same time alluding to the cost of glamour and fame through commercial exploitation of blatant sex appeal. Regeneration 50 photographers of tomorrow, published in 2005 by Aperture Foundation, features Abrar.
