Photography: Michal Pudelka's kitsch photographs of girls are tinged with irony

Date
18 September 2013

There’s nothing like a photographer with an instantly recognisable style for a dose of mid-week inspiration, and Czech Republic-based photographer Michal Pudelka has just that. His very beautiful, almost eerily perfect shots have more than a hint of Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides about them, with their subjects dressed in matching outfits and posed in girlband-esque stances – look too long and you get the impression that he might have dumped a whole bottle of irony in with the developing fluid in his darkroom.

Michal has more than enough experience to account for the subtext which underlies his images, too; he studied art and fashion in France and Slovakia and has even founded his own fashion magazine, Anonym, so the sinister edge to his images is founded in a thorough knowledge of the fashion industry. We think it’s just the dose of kitsch humour and hazy colour that Vogue needs, don’t you?

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Maisie Skidmore

Maisie joined It’s Nice That fresh out of university in the summer of 2013 as an intern before joining full time as an Assistant Editor. Maisie left It’s Nice That in July 2015.

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