Lampoon / Rid Burman on being Diverso: «Things are abstracted, distorted, not traditionally beautiful»

German Expressionism, Egon Schiele, Modernism, Mirò. Rid Burman’s many inspirations draw from a distant, dreamlike world

Rid Burman shooting for Lampoon Issue 24

being lost in translation. A vibe of storytelling and a very old world approach to my photography. German Expressionism, Egon Schiele, Modernism, Miro. Peter Hugar, Corrine Day. Girl had really long limbs. Things aren’t beautiful traditionally. Abstraction, distortionlost in translation. Narrative, storytelling and an old world approach to my photography. German Expressionism, Egone Schiele, Modernism, Miro Peter Hugar, Corrine Day and a girl with really long limbs

Rid Burman

Burman is a photographer born in India in the early 80s. He has his roots in a family of sculptors and painters . Naturally, art has always been a priority in Burman’s approach to photography. After graduating from the Brooks Institute of Photography in California in 2000, Burman moved to New York and worked as an assistant for Steven Klein and Mark Seliger. He returned to India in 2008 and started collaborating with prestigious brands, also with magazines such as Elle and Vogue to name a very few. He has a certain propensity to create unique stories and a vision of his own. Always on the move, Burman works between Paris, New York and Mumbai, constantly exploring new ideas, new places, drawing on the abundant inspirations of his Eastern and Western philosophies.

Credits

Photography Rid Burman, styling Victoire Sevenoart, direction Laura Gavry, hair Sachi Yamashita, makeup Cyril Laine, set design Pierre Vaillant, styling assistant Eloise Roncone, agent and producer Carole Congos, model Katherine Azbill, casting Remi Felipe