Aorta

Aorta is made up of this photographic duo: Marco Grizelj (1972) and Kristian Krän (1973). These two began photographing at an early age, and they joined forces at the School of Photography at Göteborg University when they discovered that they were highly compatible, both in terms of the imagery they were interested in and as people. After graduating in 1997 they worked for the Göteborg City Theater. For the next five years they then worked almost exclusively for foreign clients. During a part of that period, they were based in Paris. Aorta’s signature work is in semi-documentary fashion photography, where their work is both inartificial and imaginative. The duo likes to see things cinematically and their photographs are often shot on location. They enjoy entering the ideas process at an early stage and they prefer to do their own retouching.