Michael Oliver Love is a South African photographer living in Cape Town. He is also the Founder of Pansy Magazine – an online menswear publication that dismantles the preconceived categories of masculinity and femininity, creating a space for free and unaffected expression. Love’s images provide an outburst of colour, texture and energy. Faces pop out from cut-out paper; blocks are painted onto cheeks; oranges are thrown into the air; groups of people cross an undulating red rock. These pictures complement and enhance one another as a celebration of movement and community – forms expanding fluidly across the page. Each composition demonstrates a return to simplicity, favouring primary colours and experimentation with irregular shapes. Blues, reds and yellows appear like punctuation marks within a new and exciting visual vocabulary. Love is represented by Hero Creative Management. pansymag.com | instagram.com/michaeloliverlove.
Michael Oliver Love, Rock Solid. Courtesy of the artist. Michael Oliver Love, Red Hands in the Sky. Courtesy of the artist. Michael Oliver Love, Naartjies. Courtesy of the artist. Michael Oliver Love, Holes. Courtesy of the artist. Michael Oliver Love, Shapely. Courtesy of the artist. Michael Oliver Love, Yellow. Courtesy of the artist. Michael Oliver Love, Sun Kissed. Courtesy of the artist. Michael Oliver Love, Ginger. Courtesy of the artist. Michael Oliver Love, Pansy. Courtesy of the artist.
