Erwin Olaf

Erwin Olaf has many faces. I know him best for his "50 Years Old" series depicting his drastic aging and fall from grace. The photographs are appropriately titled "I Wish", "I Am", and "I Will Be" respectively.








However, Olaf has another series entitled "Grief" which depicts beautiful women straight out of the 1960s, trapped in their own beautiful homes in their beautiful bodies. The photographs are smooth and flawless thereby purposefully underscoring the present dark nature that pervades. The pictures themselves are perfectly plastic, but I think there's something missing that makes it a bit trite.