Candy Ken Performs At "Queen Kong" @ Precinct In Downtown Los Angeles
photographs by Oliver Maxwell Kupper
His face splattered with Hello Kitty temporary tattoos, a chiseled male hustler body and a thick Austrian accent, Candy Ken is a Harajuku Greek God run through the sieve of a culture on digital overload. If you held a mirror to the teenage zeitgeist of the twenty first century, Candy Kenβs smiling gold grill would be twinkling right back at you. Over the weekend, the Berlin-based performer released his first official album, entitled Real Talk, and he did it as his own manager, promoter and record label. Click here to read more.
Click here to read an interview with Candy Ken. Photographs by Flo Kohl