Natural Villains

Natural VillainsMarkus Klinko Title: Natural Villains (New York, 2002) Small: 50cm x 61cm Edition 50 Medium: 84cm x 101cm Edition 25 Large: 125cm x 152cm Edition 12 Photography Printed by Weldon Color Lab on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Digital Pearl Paper

I just hadn’t seen this concept played out in a still image and that encouraged me

Medium: 128cm x 152cm

To juxtapose a Sports Illustrated Swimwear model next to some frosty and unrefined explorers from bygone days is a risk conceptually if there is no wider context

Although they only played each other 14 times

It’s a team sport and what a team we had that afternoon

I'm an oil man

Colorado is a treasure trove of a bar inside

Film makers such as Paul Anderson with There will be Blood and now Martin Scorsese with the highly anticipated Killers of the Flower Moon homed in on the nascent US oil production industry in the years before and after the First World War

and even crazier human interaction

He is as authentic as they get and we like authenticity

-Jennifer Lashbrook

while others require innovation and resilience