Christina Kruse's self-portraits.
Christina Kruse has transitioned from being a supermodel in front of the camera, to being, well, a photographer...still in front of the camera.
Some of Kruse's more haunting images.
Using herself as her own subject, Kruse has been creating stylized self-portraits for a couple of years now. Her part Warhol, part Sherman pics are actually quite intriguing. Rather than a beautiful girl's documentation of her own navel-gazing, the portraits serve more to obscure and play with her pretty face. They are creepy and unsettling.
Recently she's been commissioned by Interview Magazine to showcase a couple of trends, and she's even staged a gallery exhibition of her work, and bound her photos and accompanying sketches into travel journal-like books titled, Reisebuch 1-5.
An image from Kruse's publication, Reisebuch 1-5
Kruse has taken control of the shutter, and therefore her image, in a way that few models ever dare to try. The results are quirky and self-obsessed in an entirely watchable way.
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