Note: Contains images that may be considered graphic and disturbing to some readers. Colin Christian is a London-born, US-based sculptor known for making playful, doll-like sculptures inspired by science fiction, electronic music, anime, and more. Since 2014, Christian’s works have delved into the darker territories of phobias and the erotic occult. It started with a […]
Author: Hayley Evans
Spencer Tunick’s Awe-Striking Installations of Nude Crowds
Note: Contains nudity. Spencer Tunick is an American photographer who has traveled the globe taking stunning photographs of nude crowds. Amassed and synchronized in large groups, the volunteers pose in diverse (and sometimes challenging) environments, such as public spaces in Monaco, botanical gardens in Mexico, and impressively, the Swiss glacier of Aletsch. Defying logic with […]
The Alien, Floral Beauty of Patricia Piccinini’s New Works
Note: Contains images that may be considered graphic and disturbing to some readers. Patricia Piccinini is an Australia-based multimedia artist known for her large sculptures of fleshy hybrids that trouble the categories of human and animal, natural and unnatural. In the past year, she has created some astounding sculptures of alien-like flowers, titled “Bootflower,” “Metaflora […]
Siren: The Spectral and Grim Photography of American Ghoul
Daniel Vazquez (aka, American Ghoul) is a photographer with an enduring fascination for occult mythology and the supernatural. His Instagram is a stunning and haunting collection of images that depict dark rituals, impending deaths, and robed figures stalking through empty fields. In a series called “Siren,” Vazquez shot two specters on the storm-rent shore of […]
It’s Not Milk: Ivan Alifan’s Surreal and Seductive Paintings
Note: Contains sexual references. “It’s Not Milk” is a series of oil paintings by Ivan Alifan that examine sexuality and the modern gaze. His figures literally ooze with eroticism, their faces eager and serene as they receive the milk-white anointment. Some of his paintings involve dripping giants immersed in surreal landscapes. Alifan’s portraits of sensuality […]
The Playfully Intimate Nude Photographs of Andi Galdi Vinko
Note: Contains nudity and sexual references. Andi Galdi Vinko is a Hungarian portrait and still life photographer known for her bright and playful compositions. Featured here is “Glittercum,” a series of mischievous photos produced by Galdi Vinko and some of her makeup artist and hairstylist friends. Exploring the idea of enjoying feminine nudity without it […]
Disfigured Flesh: The Morbid Creations of Sarah Sitkin
Note: Contains images that may be considered graphic and disturbing to some readers. Sarah Sitkin is a Los Angeles-based artist who creates sculptural works of mutated body parts that have taken on a disturbing life of their own. Pieces of flesh and bone are mashed together like horrific monuments, oozing and growing hair. In other […]
In Sickness and Beauty: The Photography of Evelyn Bencicova
In haunting, theatrical compositions, photographer Evelyn Bencicova splices the beauty of vulnerability with the terror of illness and confinement. Recurring throughout her works are nude figures that crawl and cling together in empty, hospital-like rooms, their smooth, pallid skin evoking both a sensual euphoria and the fever of near-death. Sometimes the bodies arrange themselves into […]
10 Conceptual Photographers Who Compose Visions of Surreal Darkness
The exploration of ideas and human experience is at the heart of conceptual photography. Despite its lengthy history—arising from the mind-centered works of artists such as Marcel Duchamp—conceptual art and photography have never been defined as official movements, but rather as creative methodologies. However, many young artists today are using photography in combination with Photoshop […]
Distorted Beauty And Supernatural Fantasy in Alva Bernadine’s “Succubus”
Note: Contains nudity and sexual references. Alva Bernadine is a British photographer known for his creative and intriguingly bizarre nude portraits. The series featured here, entitled “Succubus,” draws on the legend of the medieval she-demon of the same name, depicting uncanny female figures; duplicated and conjoined at the waist, they strike provocative poses with their […]