Category: Black & White

Update: Brian Cattelle’s Nation-Wide Project to Photograph Nude Women in Sites of Decay

Note: Contains nudity. Last March we featured the work of Brian Cattelle, an American photographer who embarked on an ambitious project called “BARE USA.” The concept was simple, yet powerful: to travel to each of the 50 states, photographing nude models in abandoned buildings, thereby reinvesting scenes of neglect with beauty and new life. On November […]

Subtly-Animated GIFs of Landscape Scenes by Nancy Liang

Sydney-based illustrator Nancy Liang uses dark, nearly abandoned landscapes to tell intriguing stories. Using textured papers and mixed media, she draws out social, cultural, and personal narratives. Each scene contains subtle movements like a flickering light, billowing chimney smoke, and even a floating van. These small animated details, shown in the moonlight, add a sense […]

Mattia Crepaldi’s Dark Portraits of Tattooed Models

Selene Moonshine poses against a black backdrop. Photographer Mattia Crepaldi gets a close-up of her gorgeous freckled face and tattooed shoulders. Perfectly shot in black and white, it is still easy to guess the shade of her Auburn hair. This model and others are captured under dim lighting, a photo styling that Crepaldi commonly uses […]

Dirk Dzimirsky’s Photorealistic Art Expresses His Concern with Water Torture

With the aim of making a political statement about torture methods such as waterboarding, German artist Dirk Dzimirsky began experimenting with water as a subject in his hyperrealistic art. While the final result looks less politically focused, Dzimirsky explains that it provided inspiration for his current direction. “The water stayed as an element in my […]

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 […]

Marco di Gioia’s Black and White Photographs

Note: Contains nudity. It is like we’re looking at the hand of Michelangelo’s “David.” Marco di Gioia’s simple yet unsettling photo shown above is beautifully composed. Some of his images seem like they were dipped in Peter Witkin’s sepia and grain bucket. Free of props, Gioia takes pictures of the human body, naked and in […]

The Smoky Photographic Paintings of Elicia Edijanto

It is all about the soft grey background and delicate overlay of black paint that makes Edijanto’s work look photographic. It fooled me at first, but kids riding wild animals and whales lifted almost to the sky were clear hints these were not photojournalistic attempts. Her foam-brushed paintings are kind-hearted tales of children and animals […]

New Graphite Portraits by Thomas Cian

Highlighting skin textures and using double-exposure effects, Thomas Cian uses graphite and a bit of watercolor pencil or gouache to add the finishing touches to his portrait art. Already known for his Moleskine drawings, he recently published a few animated GIFs showing his start-to-finish process at Behance. Images © Thomas Cian.

Black and White Nudes by Waclaw Wantuch

Note: Contains nudity. Waclaw Wantuch is a Polish artist who does strong work in the fine art world of nude photography, taking the complexities of the body as one of his subjects. His shots of models contorted into many strange shapes are classically beautifully but also witty and inventive in their composition. All photos © Waclaw Wantuch Via […]