3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
After a rewarding decade as an art historian at the Getty Museum studying and teaching art history and technique, LA-based Naomi Yamada decided to actively participate in the art making process as she followed her love for photography and painting by launching own studio.
Self-taught photographer Mikhail Batrak was naval officer till the turning point several years ago. Today he is award-winning digital artist proving that you need follow your own path and challenge dreams
François Beaurain was born in Bordeaux, France in 1976. Francois is a self-taught and multifaceted artist working predominantly as a photographer, but he sometimes extends to drawing, collages and sculptures. Francois is mostly known for his animated gifs project “Monrovia animated” which is part of the “Making Africa” exhibition by Vitra and Guggenheim Bilbao. From January to May 2014, Francois Beaurain wandered the streets of Monrovia and put in animated images the people met and places visited.
Instabul-based photographer and digital artis Şakir Yıldırım creates mind-bending photo-manipulated projects for no reason but art. We personally love his latest glitchy works from "Crawler Series" posted below
Last year Sagmeister & Walsh created 3d environments inspired by 2d pop art paintings with the help of body painter Anastasia Durasova and set builds by Sing-Sing. This year, along with the same team, they brought psychedelic and constructivist worlds to life, complete with trippy optical illusions and a pink painted horse. Images will be on billboards, in magazines, newspapers, and in stores across the middle east at Aizone stores.
CREATIVE & ART DIRECTION: Jessica Walsh
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Sing-Sing (Adi Goodrich and Sean Pecknold)
DESIGN: Jessica Walsh, Daniel Forero
MAKEUP: Anastasia Durasova
SET DESIGN: Sagmeister & Walsh, Adi Goodrich
SET BUILDS: Sing-Sing
3D / POST PRODUCTION: Pedro Veneziano
RETOUCHING: Lutz & Schmidt
Filmmaker Zach Both got creative when it was time for him to hit the road for work last year. Needing to hit various locations around the U.S., 23-year old Both bought a 10-year old Chevy cargo van off of Craigslist and converted it into a mobile studio. This gave him complete freedom to work wherever the project took him, while giving him a comfortable place to live and work.
via Design Milk
Paul Fuentes is a graphic designer, based in Mexico City, who enjoys staging everyday objects into surreal and colorful compositions creating pop mashups.
We are the lucky species of mankind to live in the era of space exploration. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter system shots hi-res photographs of Mars surface since 2006, not long ago they setup a special website where you can find a lot of them. Pure inspiration and meditative source for digital artists and everyone interested in far far away...
Well-known motion and digital creative director GMUNK has a hook on making awesome photographs with a strong selective vision. Beside shooting urban patterns he recently encountered into infrared photography delivering amazing shots of nature shot as seemed it is from another dimension.
Russian designer, lifestyle and travelling photographer Vadim Sherbakov completed his drone montage from the last trip to Iceland
“Vindur is a non-narrative short film shoot with drone in different parts of Iceland. Vindur means wind in Icelandic which is relevant to the way its shoot. So for 3 minutes you will get to enjoy amazing drone footage portraying Icelandic unbelievable landscapes. Beautiful waterfalls, endless valleys, unusual mountain ranges, out of this world landscapes, oceanic cliffs, old glacier, fantastic canyon and many other wonders that makes Iceland so unique and such a blast to shoot using DJI Phantom 3 professional.”
Travelling photographer Xavier Portela (previously) shares his latest eye-catching images from the trip to Tokyo city
New York based fashion photographer Kristina Varaksina explores the topic of extreme beauty in her recent photo shoot session "Porcelain Beauty" (that just got 1st place in Beauty category at International Photography Awards)
Kristina’s focus is to capture human emotion and the psychological impressions of her subjects' mind – permitting the characters to project their internal reality. Works undertaken are keen to explore a female and child perspective, evoking their thoughts, dreams and hopes.
Adriana Godoy aka Adri Godis is Buenos Aires based urban photographer exploring the city scape through the fair lenses, light and a bit of magic
Montana-based artist and photographer Kyra Schmidt triggers an increased consciousness of landscape with her ‘Transcriptions’ series.
"Filip Dujardin makes digital photo montages of impossible structures. In some, modernist buildings are stacked like towers of mislaid Jenga pieces, with cantilevered sections shooting out in every direction. Others show passageways leading nowhere, like Escher drawings made real. Each is meticulously constructed, teetering on the fine edge between reality and absurdity"
London photographer specialising in urban photography, street photography Nicholas Goodden has a lot of project to show on personal website but we selected the striking one featuring minimal urban shots.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
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"Each of Hoflehner’s photographs achieves a perfection of composition that seems to defy the possibility that it could ever be seen any other way. Gripping in their ultimate solitude and the unexpected natural beauty they capture, Hoflehner's photographs take his earthly subject matter to raise it to an almost mythical level, defining the essence of the place. In these rare and elusive moments, the natural and the man made are brought together in a poetic interplay of light and shadow, emptiness and structure"
Reuters
The streets of Hull (England) were transformed into an ocean of painted human flesh as 3,200 volunteers braved the North Sea chill to create an incredible spectacle. Called the Sea Of Hull, it was the biggest nude art installation Britain has ever seen and the brainchild of US photographer Spencer Tunick, who was impressed at how wholeheartedly his idea was embraced.
