This book features a hand-picked selection of young emerging artists from various corners of the earth.
Some of the artworks presented have been exhibited at Leslie's Artgallery during the last three years, but the book also includes artists who will exhibit at the gallery in the future, giving the reader a preview of what is to come, and who will define the upcoming surge of new art according to the vision of Leslie’s Artgallery.

Billy & Hells are actually two photographers: Anke Linz and Andreas Oettinger. They met in 1986, were in love with photography and started to work together and made their first pictures in a studio in Munich. Inspired by the photos of Diane Arbus, Irvin Penn and Richard Avedon, Billy & Hells started working as two professional photographers in the field of fashion photography for advertisement and magazines.

Teiji Hayama's paintings join together western and Japanese influences, combining different art historical periods varying from Christian art, Greek mythology to contemporary Japanese pop culture and Ukiyo-E.

"I want my portraits to have a psychological charge and the viewer to feel the fragility of the transition from childhood to adolescence, a physical and mental transitional stage involving social and psychological changes."

Teiji Hayama