#noproduction

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Simran Kaur, London | Surrealist Still Life & Creative Portraits Photographer & Artist | UEL

My collaboration with Simran Kaur, a third year photography student at UEL, was initiated by me when I happened to see on Instagram (where we have been following and admiring each other’s work for some time) that she was working on an illustration for a character in a story she was creating that she had named Null. At the time I was using this term myself to various ends as part of the growing no-production praxis. I invited a collaboration and sent her some work to respond to, in fact the No-production Manifesto. 

She soon had created the image above, which I adore. Her style can seem almost childlike and naïve, but as she told me when I asked what she found of interest in my much “darker” work: “ I might like cute and dreamlike aesthetic or soft, but I love mixing some dark aesthetic or meaning to my work. Sometime is not in the actual composition but is in the meaning and the words or the feelings behind the work. I just enjoy mixing cute and dark aesthetics together, is like sweet and salt they taste good together ( put a bar of chocolate between 2 salty biscuits) “ 

Her second response she addressed with doodling, and called ‘Kira Kira’:

“きらきら ( Kira Kira) means shiny in Japanese, you can just say Kira but you can also say Kira Kira especially if you want to emphasise the word shiny...”

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Simran Kaur is a surrealist still life and creative portrait photographer and artist. She is Punjabi and she is currently based in London.

​Simran's main objective is to make the viewer's dreams come true by creating intriguing setups, but she does also create mental health or environmental awareness with her experimental photography. At the same time, she also creates dreamlike abstract visuals to make the viewer explore another reality.

​Simran Kaur's work was featured in various magazines and zines such Serenity Zine, The Sour Collective, Lux Lucent Zine, Bloom Magazine, Sunbow ZIne, Outlander Zine, Between Spaces, Unapologetic Zine, Isa Magazine, Pocket Baby Zine, Primavera Zine, Superfroot Magazine, Collective Collections, Painted Faces Co. , Sumou Mag, Sunnies Magazine, I'm your venus zine, Rambutan Mag, Stargazette Magazine, Starsick zine.