V is so underground that you can't even google her. Cos her name is just one letter !!! 23 year old Berlin photographer, party starter and derelict chic, V is fluoro-grungey and totally cool.
Originally from Brisbane, Australia, V only meant to come to Berlin for one week. But she found herself entirely at home in the hot and bombed out streets of Berlin, where it's super easy to be poor and fabulous. Why would she ever leave?
V picks up bottles for the deposit money, and sells stuff she finds on the streets at Mauer Park markets (right next to the old Berlin Wall). Wearing a leather jacket with a slime green 'V' tagged on the back, and toting a Vivienne Westwood tartan bag, V photographs a rotating cast of sparkle-crust Berliners (no, not the donuts, the babes!!), on location and at her own studio, Studio V. And in the loft bar of one of Berlin's longest running squatted artist spaces Tacheles, V throws Thursday night parties with weird acts, heaps of graffiti on the walls and super cheap cocktails.
V also photographs bands, does vintage fashion shoots and holds open-call portrait sessions, via the website Craigslist. 'I've photographed heaps of girls, but only 3 guys have ever answered the ad. One of them ended up being my muse, Hans, and the other two guys were freaks. One was a fitness buff, he wanted me to take photos with his bike and then invited me back to the fitness centre under his house, and the other guy brought in a big hunk of salami to be photographed with. That guy also showed this naked video of himself on youtube.'
V makes dark synth-wave too, and because of her dirty blonde hair and super catchy grunge hooks, we're tentatively calling V this generation's Kurt Cobain. Listen to her music here:
www.myspace.com/vlovescats
and check out her parties here:
www.myspace.com/reallyfatkids
((interview by Holly Fluxx and Oliver of the Sky))
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