The ZONE initiative was launched in 2015 by the kolor art collective in Rio de janeiro, Brasil. The project is split into series of photos called zones each defined by a distinctive style, texture, theme and atmosphere.

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Shootings took place in kolor’s studio in the heart of Rio and in an apocalyptic, suburbian junkyard where the Oscar nominated Brazilian artist  Vik Muniz, worked on his internationally acclaimed documentary: Waste Land. The ZONE project was inspired by Rio’s epic drag scene, local artists, and the works of David Lachapelle, Osborne Macharia and Jan Saudek.

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The models, performers, actors, drags featured on the photos belong to Rio’s militant anarcho-humanist microcosm and have heavily influenced the conception of characters and scenes. The other ingredients being the photographer’s heavy use of theatrical aesthetics  and glam-trash contrast.    

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The kolor art collective was born in 2015 as a creative base organising nonconform art events and photo shootings in Brasil. Paul Kurucz is the collective’s Franco-Hungarian founder and photographer, who launched kolor in 2011 in Budapest, Hungary before relaunching it in Rio and transforming it to include photo projects.

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In 2016 kolor is expanding the project and incorporating the 4 and 5 photo zones, each marked by a 3 digit code to be displayed montlhy at Paul Kurucz’s website: www.paulkurucz.zone. Next featured zones will be: Sadomaso Grangma, Pink Gangster, Flexing Pussy, The Toilet of Ipanema etc.

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