John by Kate and Camilla

The notorious New York duo Kate and Camilla are artists in a league of their own. They met in a photo class at Smith College, teamed up to get their MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and quickly ran off to New York where they now have their very own studio and some considerable clientele.

We've always said that we make images we want to see and we hope that the world wants to see them too. That said, in the constant flux of information and inspiration, we often return to portraiture and consider most of our work to be a form of portraiture. We are less interested in capturing the truth of a person than we are interested in capturing our truth through a person, place, or thing.

In a list of subjects of interest they include sex, faces, sexfaces, bodies, parts, scapes (land not garlic), masculinity, femininity, portraiture and its history. John is a piece from a semiannual "nude art modeling" collaboration between the two and a man named John. They pick a flexible theme, gather some random props, and he meditatively moves around.

Kate and Camilla have a large body of work worth a look on their website. And they are recipients of PRINT Magazine's New Visual Artists Award for 2007; pick up March's issue for their feature. Kate and Camilla—keep it coming.