PHOTOGRAPHY
Christopher Makos
Christopher Makos was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, grew up in California, and moved to Paris to study architecture and work as an apprentice to Man Ray. Andy Warhol called Makos "the most modern photographer in America". His photographs have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums internationally.
Paul Solberg
Paul studied Anthropology and photography in Cape Town, South Africa. Bloom, Paul's first published book, explores the flower as object and as sculpture. Bloom is published by Glitterati. The Hilton Brothers, Solberg's second identity shared with Christopher Makos, is a response to popular culture and the exploration of the third idea in diptych.
Raffael Waldner
Raffael Waldner, 1972 born in Basel, Switzerland. He studied in Academy of Visual Arts, Leipzig, Germany from 1995-1999, graduated in School of Art and Design, Zurich, Switzerland 2002. He exhibited in many countries such as: 2005 Swiss Art Awards Art Basel, Basel; 2008 New Frontiers Morrison Gallery, Berlin, Deutschland.
Marianne Engel
Born in Wettingen, Switzerland, 1972, lives and works in Mandach and Zurich, represented by Rotwand, Zurich. She studies art history at University of Zurich from 1994 to 1995, graduated in biochemistry at University of Zurich in 2001. Her selected solo exhibitions: 2009 Marks Blond Project, Bern; Robert Mondavi Art Prize, Rotwand, Zurich. She won Robert Mondavi Art Prize in 2008.
Lukas Wassmann
Lukas Wassmann, born in Zürich, 1980, apprenticeship as a carpenter in Zurich from 1996-1999, employment as a carpenter in Zürich and Graubünden from 1999-2000, finished his Diploma course in Berlin at the FAS Photography School in 2003, studied at the University of Art and Design Zurich Photography Department from 2003-2006.
Pancho Tolchinsky
Pancho Tolchinsky Born in Mexico, raised in Israel and from an Argentine family, he is a traveller that collects imaginary corners around the world. Each picture captures a bit of essence of our daily surrounding and penetrates through our eyes to play with our memories. Tolchinsky is also a researcher in Artificial Intelligence at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.
Aylin Onel
She was born 1976 in Izmir, Turkey, studied graphic design in Boston, U.S.A. She worked as a freelance graphic designer for various clients and agencies for 8 years from Istanbul/Turkey. She got various awards, named 'One to Watch' by Creative Review and was published in 'Contemporary Graphic Design' by Taschen. She founded Studio Dosis with partner Ferm n Zelada Garc a-Durn in 2008.
刘韧（Liu Ren）
Liu Ren, 1980 born in Hebei Province, China, recieved her MA of Photography and Digital Media, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. Currently lives in Beijing. Her selected Solo Exhibition: 2008 "Between the real and the surreal", VIPS International Art Galleries, Rotterdam, Nederland. She also has participated in many group exhibitions.
雷本本（Lei BenBen）
Lei Benben, 1977 born in Jiangxi Province, China. She graduated in photography class Beijing Film Academy in 2006. Her main exhibition includes: 2008 "My camera and me", Lianzhou international photo festival; 2008 Invisible youth, Watergate gallery, Seoul Korea etc. Her works are collected by Pierre Huber, Chinese Contemporary Art News, Shanghai Art Museum.
张巍（Zhang Wei）
Zhang Wei was born 1977 in Shangluo of Shaanxi Provience. He studied in Xi'an Fine Art Academy of Painting department in 1997, and studied in Beijing Film Academy in 2002. Now he works and lives in Beijing. Selected Exhibition: 2009 The 3rd Guangzhou International Photography Biennial, Shenzhen Art Museum; 2008 Pingyao International Photography Exhibition.
Morgan Blair
Morgan Blair is a freelance illustrator, fine artist, and sometimes-desperado. She is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) living and working in Brooklyn, NY and continuing to advance her interests in trees, legos and excellent music. Her ambitions for the present and future include adventure, survival, being in the presence of magma, and making art forever.
Karine Marenne
Karine Marenne graduated from the Superior School of Visual Arts of Mons (Belgium). Using video, photography or performance, her work focuses on relationships between people, with a sociologic perspective. Her work also focuses on masculinity vs. feminity, and the position of women in today's society. She currently has an artist residency in Brussels.
Julia Fullerton-Batten
Julia Fullerton-Batten was born in Bremen, Germany to a German mother and English father. Julia is rapidly developing a reputation as one of the leading young photographer in the country. She has won a large number of awards. Her images have been hung in the many famous galleries and profiled in many professional and popular photographic magazines.
MAGIC BOX ONLINE
To celebrate The Debut Issue of MAGIC BOX in 2009, O2 cultural creative launch a brand new website and O2 BLOG.
O2 Blog will be a space for us to share our recent projects and ideas from our creators, contributors and collaborators. Previous issues of 100% O2 and O2 MAGAZINE will be soon released on-line; we will update our latest discovery irregularly, just stay tune.
