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Newspaper Portraits by Gugger Petter

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 07:23 PM PST

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For the past 21 years, artist Gugger Petter has worked with newspaper as a main medium for her artworks. She admits that she is truly fascinated with newspapers because it is like a diary of people’s lives, it also presents her with a black and white color palette which she quite loves. Over the years, she has developed a unique weaving technique which she uses to be able turn the papers into beautiful portraits.

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Visit her site to see more of her works.

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