The House of Love2021-02-10T16:23:33+01:00

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by Leo Adef

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LOVE OF THE MONTH

#NARCISSISM

EACH SHOOT HOLDS A MEMORY

Shane Reynolds is a photographer based in New York City. He began taking photos at 17, using his grandmas garage as a “studio”. After attending Ithaca College he spent the past few years living in New York and London. Shane now works primarily with film, which all of these pictures are on. And we are completely in love.

YOUNG AND RENEGADE

We're in love with the work of Zeno Spyropoulos, a Berlin-based photographer, who has just published his first photography book, YOUNG AND RENEGADE. "Showing raw moments of intimacy, and creative or sexual expression as they naturally occur, pictures that normalise a culture of sexual and bodily freedom, regardless of sexuality and background."

ROOM TAIPEI

Jaihang is a photographer and graphic designer, born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and now living in Taipei. His photos are a mix of self portraits and depictions of couples in every day life. His longterm project ROOM TAIPEI, shot over a period of eight years between Taipei and Shenzhen, was published as a book in early 2021.

IN A FRAGILE SPACE

What is inspiration? Mexican American photographer Agustin Hernandez answer to that question was "I like travelling and spending time in new cities to find inspiration. But a lot of my inspiration comes from my childhood and my catholic mother." Agustin, we love your inspiration. And we like to visit you in your fragile space.

#LOVESTORIES

FUTURE WORLD

Armando Terrero, a fashion photographer from the Dominican Republic but living in Barcelona, studied and worked in advertising, graphic design and the illustration industry and it shows in the concepts, compositions and simplicity of his photography. In his sessions he combines analog and digital photography.

CODE BLUE

Leo Maki is a photographer and video maker based in Warsaw, Poland, with an eye for colorful light and beautiful portraits. Lucky Container, there's a series with its favorite color: CODE BLUE. The series is about a phrase used in hospitals in exceptional situations when the patient needs immediate attention and help - because his heart has stopped.

THE JOURNEY OF FARADA AKLUM

There is always a story behind the pictures. This one is about a long journey through the desert, about hardships, danger and persecution. But it is also about pride and strength, about pioneering spirit, about challenges and arriving. Photographer Yarden Amsalem from Tel Aviv takes us on this journey into the desert and tells us that story. The name of the project is THE JOURNEY OF FARADA AKLUM. So, how might this story end?

SUMMER SUN AND A TOUCH OF HOPE

Steve Marais, photographer living between Berlin and Bern, has opened his archive for us and allows us to enjoy some summer memories. This year is coming to an end. A year full of limitations and changes, losses and restarts, disappointments and successes. We are happy to share Steve's archive with you. And we're counting down the days until New Year's Eve and can't wait to start the new year with new intentions, some summer sun and a touch of hope.

MAKE US FEEL SAFE, JACOPO

The golden rule: find a way to communicate with the people in front of your lens. Show them as they really are. Be authentic. Make us sad or make us happy or make us think. Make us feel something... Jacopo Paglione, a photographer from Rome, understands how to communicate. And the results are beautiful snapshots full of trust, intimacy and respect.

REWRITING THE RULES

Birk Thomassen's latest series CORNUCOPIA is part of a wider project called LIGHTROOM - a gay adult movie, which we will talk about in more detail soon. Birk followed the project with his camera and his unmistakable style and allows us to dive into the world of lust, desire, freedom and experimentation. His pictures reflect the energy that reigned during the shooting and behind the scenes.

#PAINTEDLOVE

I PAINT TO NEVER DIE

Born in Abarán, Murcia (Spain), Bran Sólo defines himself as a “Good person, painter, illustrator, designer and photographer, as well as many other things I never wanted to be“. In 2012 he decided to abandon his work as a computer scientist and lifestyle to devote himself fully to drawing and enrolled in the Murcia School of Art.

I PAINT BOYS

Wojciech Woś is a visual artist from Poland / based in Berlin, who shares with us not only his work, but also his personal diary – with the art of painting. Capturing emotions through portraits and telling stories of feelings and intimacy – that's Wojciech's work and aesthetic, and we love it.

CURATING MOMENTS OF DAILY LIFE

Santiago Mora is a Mexican visual artist and art director who defines his work as a curatorship of everyday life moments. He captures ephemeral energy, exploring the possibilities of the pictorial medium through the use of technologies such as digital images that he uses as a reference. His work reflects about contemporaneity, addressing issues such as communication, identity, consumerism, and sexuality.

#TALKABOUTLOVE

NORMALISING REALNESS

"I photograph the unposed, the raw. Flaws and all. All walks of life’’ – photographer Zeno Spyropoulos catches the sacred moments of intimacy like no one else does. In conversation with the Berlin-based photographer, he told us about his recently released photobook, the thin red line between seeking love and seeking acceptance and why we are hiding from reality on both sides of the camera.

YOU DO YOU AND I DO ME

We're in love with the work of Warsaw based photographer and video maker Leo Maki. So we asked for more – and Leo delivered. He sent us an exclusive selection from his GUYS N STUFF series. And if that isn't enough for you, we also had a lovely chat with him about his work, his style, inspiration in Corona times and about NARCISSISM, our LOVE OF THE MONTH. 

LOVE IS A DRUG THAT CAN MAKE OR BREAK US

We are completely in love with the work of New York based photographer Shane Reynolds. We already featured a beautiful selection of his works. But we wanted more! So we had a lovely little chat with him about his work and his inspiration, about narcissism, our LOVE OF THE MONTH, and of course about love.

#LOVEBRANDS

A DEPARTURE FROM THE EVERYDAY

We're in love with the designs and silhouettes of MAX THOMAS SANDERSON, dedicated to contemporary, artisanal tailoring for all genders. Each garment bears a distinctive signature resulting from formal training in bespoke tailoring, and is designed, cut and made in-house. We had a little chat with Max Thomas Sanderson about creativity, inspiration, and of course love.

WITH GREAT ATTENTION TO DETAIL

FRAU TONIS PARFUM stands for high-quality manufactured perfumes and has been letting fragrances speak for themselves since 2011 - without sex sells campaigns, gender bias or decorative celebrities. 36 niche perfumes from green to floral, citric or oriental open the olfactory memory of their wearers and bring magical memories back to the present. We had a little chat with founder Stefanie Hanssen.

DESIGN IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL SPORT

FLORIAN B. MÁTHÉ is a Berlin-based designer and performer specializing in latex as a medium of unapologetically queer and artistic expression. His goal is to combine performance art, fetish and high fashion. With his desire to question the concepts of beauty, the body and aesthetics as his main motivation, he aims to convey vibrancy, simplicity and emotion in the context of fashion.

PLAY BY YOUR OWN RULES

Play by your own rules and look damn good doing it. Sounds great, right? Skin care that adapts to our lifestyle, not the other way around. SWYPE Cosmetics believes that we don't have to choose between flawless skin and a fast-paced lifestyle. The brand's mission is to provide the best beauty care that allows us to do whatever we want. And we want it all.

DECONSTRUCT THE CONCEPT OF MINORITY

KIDS OF THE DIASPORA is a poetic fashion movement that invites everyone to embrace themselves and not to compromise their personality and appearance. It is a safe haven for all who are in search of identity and gives people the freedom to belong to a community of like-minded people. Regardless of gender, sexual interest, heritage and color.

LOVE IS A CALMNESS

Sonja Litichevskaya is a fashion designer from Berlin, who works on the border between art and fashion. With her unisex label LITICHEVSKAYA she is taking inspiration from the Russian avant-garde, Perestroika art and Soviet space exploration. The collections are dominated by geometric forms and symbols of revolution and slogans featuring elements such as 80s cuts, application and prints.

#PRINTEDLOVE

BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! GOES MAGAZINE

BOYS! BOYS! BOYS! goes magazine. And we love it! We had a little chat with founder and director Ghislain Pascal from THE LITTLE BLACK GALLERY and asked him to tell us a little more about the project. Get a first glimpse at the magazine here. And then go get it! 

THE QUIET NEXT TO THE LOUD

If you google the keyword honesty, it describes a quality of always telling the truth. Or in other words, not telling the untruth in any form. One who shows us how to capture this quality and what it feels like to be true and not hide is photographer Spyros Rennt. We had a little interview with him and talked about his new book LUST SURRENDER.

THE CITY IS A CHOREOGRAPHY

Everything is in constant motion. Things do not remain for eternity. People come and go. Buildings come and go. Cities come and go. Change is good - mostly. Amsterdam based photographer Melissa Schriek has faced this constant change. In her book THE CITY IS A CHOREOGRAPHY she explores the city and the relationship to their residents.

NEW QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY

NEW QUEER PHOTOGRAPHY is a new book edited by Benjamin Wolbergs and published by Verlag Kettler. It presents a contemporary collection of queer and gay photography and features more than 40 queer and gay photographers from all over the world.

THE ALL-AMERICAN BOOK

Andrew Kung, born in San Francisco and based in Brooklyn, NY, is a photographer who, through his images, aims to portray and celebrate Asian American beauty as a normalized beauty. In his first fashion, narrative photo book, THE ALL-AMERICAN, he aimed to redefine what it meant to be masculine and American in the context of the desexualized Asian man.

MAYBE WITH A BIT OF POETRY

Chloe Rosser is a photographer living in London. In her series FORM & FUNCTION, Chloe transforms the body into fleshy sculptures that allow her and us to look at the human body differently. We had a few questions about the project and about Chloe's work in general.

#SAFESPACE

DON’T TELL ANYONE I WAS HERE

Ian M is a photographer currently based in Barcelona working in both film and digital photography. His exclusive series DON'T TELL ANYONE I WAS HERE explores the ideas of voyeurism and pleasure by exploring the border between loving to be observed and forgetting that someone is looking at us.

BOY COMFORT ZOOM

Yan Yufeng, born and raised in Chengdu, China, is an artist based in Milan and Shanghai. In his ongoing long-term project BOY COMFORT ZOOM, observing and exploring modern masculinity, he portraits boys and men from all over the world in places familiar to them - the models themselves pick the location for the shoot.

ALMOST NAKED

The Shanghai-born, New York-based photographer Shen Wei created the series ALMOST NAKED by taking portraits of strangers in America.

#CHOSENFAMILY

GENDER ROLES ARE DEAD

Anne-Sophie Guillet, Brussels based photographer, shows what it means to make gender roles fluid, or better: to make gender roles obsolete. In fashion editorials and photo series for magazines she claims that the age of stereotypes is over. It‘s all about what‘s in between.

SERES / BEINGS

Today we celebrate the LGBTQ+ community with Arden and their wonderful photo series, SERES / BEINGS. It's about the visibility and the beauty of each individual and the diversity that God has brought to this earth… or some other wacky alien.

CHOSEN FAMILY

Welcome to Daurismo – the world of Daura, a freelance film and instant film photographer. Their greatest passion is the conjugation of documentary and portrait photography to represent contrasting realities, the different paths of womanhood and the ever-expanding gender spectrum. CHOSEN FAMILY, Container Love’s main theme this autumn and title of this wonderful story.

#SUMMEROFLOVE

SUMMER HOLIDAY

Asaf Einy is a photographer and video artist based in Tel-aviv. We invited him to celebrate our Summer of Love with us. Absolutely perfect for the times when not everyone has the chance to just get on the plane and fly to the beach.

CALIFORNIA DREAMING

The Summer of Love continues with Kostis Fokas' latest feature on our website, CALIFORNIA DREAMING. The series was shot in California in 2019. Celebrate the sun, the colors and the California sky with us. And then let's all get naked and jump into that swimming pool together! 

KISS ME I’M GOLDEN PT. 2

The Summer of Love continues with Pt. 2 of this lovely series by Annika Weertz. She joined the band Pacific Swell on their summer tour through the Basque Country, creating an authentic portrayal of a band. Jump on the tour bus with them and join the ride!

#PASTEXHIBITIONS

INTERZUM POP-UP GALLERY 2019

When it comes to sustainability, individualization and personalized interactions, we are definitely on board – that was our first thought when we were invited to Interzum 2019, the world's largest trade fair for furniture production and interior design.

EXHIBITION AT REEPERBAHN FESTIVAL

Container Love Art project at Reeperbahn festival 2017. Four days surrounded by wonderful artworks of powerful artists. Four days of love and diversity. And four days of fantastic singer-songwriter music, framed by artist talks, a book presentation, a movie demonstration and an amazing reading.

THE RIVER ISSUE

For this fabulous event, the Container Love 4 left its container at the MS Dockville area, which was its comfortable home for more than three years, and hacked the night at Riverkasematten next to Hamburg’s infamous Reeperbahn.

#FROMTHEARCHIVES

FAIR DAYS WITH ADEY

AdeY’s naked models seem to be perfectly choreographed for the perfect picture – frozen in a movement. His work is featured in several magazines in Europe and the US.

HELLO SHERMAN

Christopher Sherman is a photographer and creative director living in Toronto and New York. We thank God that she created the Internet to bring Christopher's work to us. We have shown some of his analog works at the Container Love exhibition at the Reeperbahn festival 2017 in Hamburg.

THE XXY GENERATION

Rainer Torrado is a photographer & art director who is living and working between Paris, Hong Kong, and Madrid. He regularly contributes to international fashion magazines, but this time he shares his stunning project THE XXY GENERATION with us.

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