Miguel Vallinas

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Talented Spanish photographer Miguel Vallinas dedicates his time mostly for urban and natural landscape photography but hence widely known for his personal projects. Last year his "Segundas Pieles" or "Second Skin" went widely across creative blogs. Recently he continued his anthropomorphic series of animals dressed as human. His other series "Raiz" (Roots) went a bit crazy by replacing human heads with flowers, what also lead to numerous hidden meanings.

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Left March

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Russian fashion photographers Andrey Yakovlev and Lili Aleeva took over paintings, shred them through Russian constructivism principles and recreated them in portraits as an editorial photo session. The results can be seen on Behance

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Kaleidoscopic by Maria Baoli

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Maria B’s (Tumblr) newest project ‘Kaleidoscopic’ is a visually captivating series that alters everyday space with unexpected layers of reality.

‘There’s a certain beauty in the gestures that are almost invisible in our daily lives. With the opposition of movement and the calmness of the subject, there’s a feeling of both reality and fiction,’ she explains.

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Urban Symmetry by Zsolt Hlinka

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"A series of symmetrical buildings on the banks of the River Danube by Budapest-based photographer Zsolt Hlinka. The images emphasize the uniform proportions of each structure by removing their surroundings and placing them in homogeneous, monochromatic backgrounds."via

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The dreamy landscapes of Charlie Davoli

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"The dreamy landscapes of Charlie Davoli resemble snapshots from a parallel universe. Yet they all come from the hands of the artist, who literally creates unreal worlds by shooting pictures with his iPhone"

Visual paradoxes, perfect symmetry, and optical illusion play an important role for the photo artist. Davoli says, "My inspiration comes from a combination of the supernatural images from the Italian artist De Chirico, my love for geometry of Bauhaus, and the pop culture of Warhol and Lichtenstein... And all with a touch of retro sci-fi. "

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Tiny Pantone Objects by Inka Mathew

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A personal project of tiny proportion—matching small everyday objects to their Pantone® Matching System colors, by designer Inka Mathew (Instagram). All pictures were taken with her iPhone 5 and edited with Snapseed. She also released a book "Tiny Pantone Objects" last year available on Amazon

"According to Mathew, the process is fairly straightforward. After she finds an object she wants to match, she goes through her Pantone chips book (an indispensable tool for graphic designers and color enthusiasts) to find the right swatch. Using natural daylight, she places the object on top of the swatch to make sure the hues match, and then snaps a photo with her phone. She finds matches 95 percent of the time, making for a total of about 145 vibrant compositions since she started the project over a year ago." via

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Top 20 Photographers of 2015

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This year we shared nearly 200 portfolios of amazing photographers and other artists using this medium as the main tool to create their projects. Check out 20 bests below that we painstakingly filtered from Designcollector 2015 photo archive

Vincent Laforet

United States

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Multi-talented Swiss-born filmmaker and photographer Vincent Laforet has wowed his fans with breathtaking late-night aerial photos of New York City, illuminated by the lights of a city that never sleeps. He shot the series “Night Over New York” while sitting on the edge of a helicopter flying above the Big Apple.

 

 

Daisuke Takakura

Japan

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Japanese photographer Daisuke Takakura takes clone photography pretty seriously. His project “Monodramatic” features some models tens of times, with some of the clones so far away from the camera that they can barely be seen in the distance.

 

 

Uldus Bakhtiozina

Russia

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Uldus reinterprets traditional Russian Tales in her photos by focusing on the pagans roots and ethnography of Russia. Her works are thoroughly detailed and immersive, and are based on comprehensive research and comparison with Euro-Asian mythology. The artist pays special attention to her ambivalent interpretation of the symbolism hidden in legends and myths.

 

 

Daria Khoroshavina

Russia

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Moscow-based photographer Daria Khoroshavina creates awesome animated photographs of her favourite cooking recipes.

 

 

Francesca Fattori

United Kingdom

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The Wonders Taste was inspired by a René Magritte’s picture named “The Invisible’s Taste”. Artist Francesca Fattori often take inspiration from the surrealist art. Fattori objectifies ordinary food ingredients by relating them to her personal perceptions of sinuosity; extravagance; limitation and fragility. The pictures are still scenes from a play and removed from their fluid natural sequence, which she likes to call “Metaphysical Landscapes”.

 

 

Chris Burkard

USA

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Chris Burkard is a photographer based in California, whose work is layered by surf, outdoor, lifestyle and travel subjects. Burkard’s images are punctuated by energized landscapes and moments of bliss, by adventure seeking and the lifestyle that ensues, by movement and intuitive light-working capabilities

 

 

Blake Little

USA

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“When people showed up to Blake Little’s studio in response to a Craigslist ad calling for actors, the amateur thespians didn’t realize what they were in for. Fascinated with honey as a symbol and an artistic medium, Little asked his subjects to strip naked and pose in front of a monochromatic backdrop while his assistants doused them in gallons of the sticky, viscous substance. The experiment yielded a striking photo series in which people with a diverse array of body types and aesthetics appear transformed into statues."

 

 

Mihaela Noroc

Romania (x2 TOP2015)

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Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc is on a mission to capture portraits of women from every country in the world in order to shed light on the beauty that exists everywhere. A little over two years ago, at the age of 27, Noroc quit her job, withdrew all her life savings, and embarked on an incredible journey across the globe with little more than her camera and backpack. Her travels so far are documented in The Atlas of Beauty, an ongoing project that features a diverse array of local women from 37 different countries and almost every single continent.

 

 

Alex MacLean

USA

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Award-winning Fine Art Aerial photographer Alex MacLean creates abstract canvases by shooting man-made and natural landscapes from a bird’s eye view.

 

 

Ray Collins

Australia

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Artists have wrestled with the raw, majestic, natural power of the sea for hundreds of years, but Australia-based photographer Ray Collins is one of the few who really gets it right. Collins’ epic wave photos seem to freeze and capture all of the sea’s power, casting it in the respectful and majestic light that it deserves.

 

 

Michael Wolf

Germany

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With seven million people, Hong Kong is the 4th most densely populated places in the world. However, plain numbers never tell the full story. In his “Architecture of Density” photo series, German photographer Michael Wolf explores the jaw-dropping urban landscapes of Hong Kong. He rids his photographs of any context, removing any sky or horizon line from the frame and flattening the space until it becomes a relentless abstraction of urban expansion, with no escape for the viewer’s eye. Infinite and haunting.

 

 

Alain Cornu

France

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If you have been to Paris you might remember its mythical nights full of love and unknown. Photographer Alain Cornu focus on the second topic – unknown for the common eye, and that is Paris roofs.

 

 

Sergei Sarakhanov

Ukraine (x2 TOP2015)

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Awesome lifestyle and fine art portrait photographer Sergei Sarakhanov raised in St.Petersburg and based in Kiev, Ukraine.

 

 

Anna Radchenko

United Kingdom, Russia

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Anna Radchenko is one of the new exciting talented breed of Russian artists that are now using London as their creative base. Originally from Moscow, Anna creates visual works on human emotions and observations of the modern world, working with installations and photography.

 

 

Klaus Frahm

Germany

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Photographer Klaus Frahm takes photos of theater auditoriums from the stage, showing us ‘a work-space hidden behind the red curtain’ as he describes it. His ongoing series ‘The Fourth Wall’ takes us behind-the-scenes of Europe’s most famous theatres.

 

 

Anna di Prospero

Italy

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Rome-based Anna di Prospero travels a lot, and creates meaningful self-portraits blending herself into urban environments

 

 

Chompoo Baritone

Thailand

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Every day, thousands of people on Instagram snap pictures meant to invent a new identity for themselves. That is the message behind this wonderful photo series by Chompoo Baritone, a photographer in Bangkok, Thailand who shows just how fake Instagram photos can be.

 

 

Erik Madigan Heck

United Kingdom

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“At first, these highly stylized fashion images from Erik Madigan Heck look like vector art. However, these shots of Junya Watanabe’s Fall 2015 collection are actually all photography, but edited to be flat and one dimensional to complement the graphic nature of the collection.”

 

 

Mattia Crepaldi

Italy

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Milan-based photographer Mattia Crepaldi teamed up with some of the most beautiful models of Italy and Europe, such as Ilaria Pozzi. They all have jaw-dropping tattoos, from neo traditional to geometric, and from tattoo masters such as Marco Galdo. Mattia Crepaldi’s portraits are diptychs, showing two different aspects or complementary sides of his model. The result is raw, dark, but also moving and breath-taking…

 

 

Ben Thomas

Australia

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“In the series ‘Chroma’, Australian photographer Ben Thomas captures photos of urban landscapes featuring bright aqua-hue tones and simple forms that resemble illustrations. Shot across a number of cities – including London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Shanghai – the images depict a diverse mix of architecture and skylines. To achieve the colour and texture seen in his photos, Thomas usually photographs on sunny days and uses photo editing tools to create the right balance between intensity and depth.”