It is all about the subtlety and details of Berta Vicente Salas’ pictures. Like positioning her father dead center of a Ferris wheel, creating the illusion his head is part of the wheel. Painting only the body of a girl named Carla in blue, which ends up highlighting her head like it was cut off […]
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The Alien with the White Crown
Valeria Vacca is a Rome-based photographer with a lovely dreamy style. Choosing to shoot mostly in black and white her art, which as you can see here alternates between fantastical portraits with a stunning level of contrast and double exposure shots, is like a breath of fresh air. Images © Valeria Vacca
Dreamy Black and White Photography
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
Delphin Musquet: On a Mission to Produce Timeless Tattoos
The first time I met Delphin Musquet, he was lying on a portable table in agony as Giorgio de Duesanti inked his body at a Californian event in 2019. Both he and Duesanti are part of the resident team at Sang Bleu—a well-known brand and studio based in London, Zurich, and Los Angeles. Musquet established in the […]
Rope Bondage: Dirty Archangel and Shibari Dream Team Photographed in NYC
We started with email correspondence with the author of “Lust is My Favorite Sin” and photographer of this remarkable “Shibari Project,” Dirty Archangel is his artistic name. A Turkish immigrant and citizen of New York City, who’s day job are taking professional cityscape pictures of the Big Apple. Because a photoshoot like this one generally […]
Anticipating Asian Cinema in 2019
Anticipation is an expression of bias, which is not to say that the bias is uninformed. I have seen only two of the ten Asian films listed below (“Burning” and “Believer,” both for festivals)—but my piqued interest in the others is not entirely arbitrary. What commends these various titles from Japan, China, Korea and Laos […]
2018 World Design Rankings + 10 Award-Winning Projects
The results are in for the “World Design Rankings,” a platform organized by the A’ Design Awards showing the medals won by each nation from 2010 to 2017. United States collected the most medals, followed by China, Japan, Italy, Hong Kong, Great Britain, Turkey, Australia, Portugal, and Taiwan. Platinum, gold, silver, bronze and iron awards […]
Stockio: Download Beautiful Photos for Free
With the number of stock photos services out there, some pricier than others, it is challenging to find high-quality images free of charge. Stockio is a new service revolutionizing the industry with selective content that you can use for personal or commercial use of your projects. Download 40 high-res photographs per day, or subscribe to […]
10 Tattoo Artists That Create Stunning Animal Portraits
Nature is a powerful force. It’s awe-inspiring in its beauty and wondrous in its diversity. Throughout centuries, its animals of all kinds have intrigued humans, becoming the subject of artistic expression, fables, and of course, tattoos. Animals offer a lot of rich material for tattoo artists: they can be personified, completing human-like activities; a favorite […]