Maciej Pestka: The Life of Psy

Maciej Pestka is a Fine Arts, Food & Still Life and Conceptual & Advertising Photographer. See their Photographer portfolio on Cherrydeck.

Ireland –  

“Representatives of major fashion brands went crazy, girls threw themselves into his arms, and drinks flower like waterfalls. Everything sprinkled with the sound of Gangnam Style. At 080 Barcelona Fashion 2013, the life of a seemingly unknown Korean born, French raised man changed overnight when he was mistaken for Kpop singer Psy.”

Maciej Pestka was there, camera in hand, and captured everything. Now, a year later, give us a work “The life of Psy” began. This book, through Pestka’s photographs and fragments of descriptive text, lets you into a world of opulent parties that the average Joe can only dream about. Where ‘VIP Only’ becomes ‘Access All Areas’, The Life of Psy brings you deeper into the limitless, indulgent, out of control world of celebrity with every turn of the page.

 

 

The project tells the story of how the life of a seemingly unknown Frenchman changed overnight in a frenzied case of mistaken identity. From a consultant in Cork, Ireland to a celebrity in Barcelona, the document of this overnight success is now being released a year after the original event.

How is the life of a pop star? What makes them different from ordinary human? The admiration, passion and hysteria that surrounds them is genuine or just a product of the market? This exhibition takes us to reflect, among other things, the relationship between what is real and what is a lie.
Photography


 

Related Posts

Manik Katyal on Nicolo Degiorgis “Hidden Islam”

Italy – Winner of Author Book Award 2014 at the Rencontres d’Arles, self-published book ‘Hidden Islam’ by Fabrica graduate, Photography feature ...

Ricardo Cases: El porqué de las naranjas (Why Oranges)

Spain –  I have seen a river in Paris / next to the grey tower / I have seen an ...

Adil Hasan: When Abba was Ill

India – Mahmood Hassan passed away in November 2012 in Jamshedpur, his hometown, where he had worked with Tata Steel ...

Manik Katyal on Halil Koyutork’s “I am Playing Ping Pong Now” – Photography, Sexuality, Society

Turkey –  “”I fell into a state of mental and psychological distress after my divorce. That triggered me in a ...

Frederic Lezmi: Taksim Calling

Turkey –  Taksim Calling is an unconventional poster book that contrasts spontaneously taken iPhone pictures of  the Gezi protests by ...

Sons in exile : Kashish Parpiani

India – The Von Ngari Monastery, Manali currently shelters 12 kids ranging from young eight year olds to adolescent 19 ...

Road of love – Mansoreh Motamedi

Iran – The seven-year Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988) killed thousands of Iranians. Many bodies of the martyrs back. But it still has ...

Andrea Botto: “19.06_26.08.1945”

Italy –  “This book was produced in memory of the return journey my grandfather made from the Nazi prisoner-of-war camps ...

Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber: Nothing To My Name

China –  Music plays an important role in subcultures and protest movements. Music brings people together – both in clubs, ...