Spanish photographer makes dreamy, mesmerising imagery with her camera. Shunning the use of colour for the mystery of black and white, her pictures use light and contrast to marvellous effect: wistful portraits of young models with rays of white energy and smoke coursing through their bodies. Intoxicating. Images © Silvia Grav Via Flickr
Category: Photography
10 Visually Stunning British Films
From “The Red Shoes” to “The Third Man” British cinema has always displayed a particular visual flair. It does not matter whether filmmakers are shooting grey council blocks or a desolate field at day break, they manage to capture the often melancholy beauty displayed on these islands. Focusing on films made in the United Kingdom, or by […]
Captivating Photos of Storms
Think: Wedding Photographer, and then think: Storm Chaser. You would probably imagine two completely different people interested in these professions; but Mike Olbinski by day takes pictures of smiley married couples, and on his free time tracks and shoots massive storms. Check out his incredible video of a supercell near Booker, Texas, at bottom of […]
Visual Artists Under 30 to Look out For
It is exciting to view the creations of young artists, as they are still figuring out their vision and deciding what kind of art they truly want to make, and so it is a privilege to be able to see their evolution over time. The individuals selected here belong to a new wave of contemporary artists […]
The Surreal Adventures of a Shrinking Man
Bairon Rivera is a photographer who enjoys playing with perspective and creating illusions that both enthral and marvel the viewer. From models walking up trees sideways to digitally shrinking his subjects to the size of Polaroid cameras and autumn leaves, he is skilled at making believable surreal creations. Images © Bairon Rivera Via Flickr
Breathtaking Landscape Photography
Marc Adamus prefers spending most of the year venturing to outdoor locations and taking photographs, rather than spending time indoors on a computer. He has taken pictures during a month-long solo trek across the Alaska Boundary Range, inside a fiery canyon in Utah and under a magical aurora in the Yukon. His beautiful work has […]
5 Remarkable Fashion Photographers
Fashion photography is a seductive medium, one that draws us in with an intoxicating mix of expensive designer attire and otherworldly models. As photographic technology gets more and more advanced, many fashion photographers are utilising this in their work, creating cutting-edge visual and digital imagery for high-end fashion and art publications. I have selected a […]
Striking Infrared Photography
All of Daniel Zvereff’s art series display photographs accompanied with sketchbook notes and drawings. Although his pictures alone are beautiful depictions of locations like Greenland, Iceland, Canada, Alaska…, the notebook images are a diary of his travels providing us more insight. His initial interest was to document the arctic and sub-arctic regions of six countries, showing […]
Underwater Beauties
Simply titled “Water,” is an artistic advertising shoot by Patrick Curtet. Much of his current work focuses on photographic campaigns for automobiles, and although this is one of his specialities, he was once a sports photographer and reporter. So Curtet is quite experienced behind the camera and also doing art direction and editorial work. Photos […]
Spectacular “River Giants”
High-speed photographer Jack Long takes captures of colored water eruptions that resemble stained-glass jellyfishes. Suspended in mid-air, these liquid forms only last a fraction of a second, and some shots require two cameras to create a three-dimensional effect. Jack Long calls them “Giants,” and as pretty as they look, they actually take a lot of […]