INÊS VALLE

Haris Nukem

Embracing a bold and audacious portraiture style, Haris Nukem has rapidly risen to become one of this decade’s most illustrious photographers. Documenting the varied faces of human animalism, Nukem captures moments of heightened freedom, be it through love, friendship or opulence.

Nukem’s following owes much to his passion for vivacious characters, consistently as dark as they are vibrant. Exhibiting an unbridled ease, subjects enable him to capture their fall into various stages of indulgence, chaos or triumph. What the images offer in grit is matched equally by vivid emotion—and their provocative nature offset by incandescent, burning hues.

Just as Nukem reveres our capacity for carnal behaviour, he strives to pay respect to discipline. Subjects exude the strength of their conviction, portraying a “work hard, play hard” attitude. The result is a body of work which documents intense relationships with ourselves, our peers, our partners and our work through a supremely impassioned lens.