3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Michael Chichi is an artist and designer based in Hawaii. His work explores various themes and interests — patterns in nature, sensuality & eros, beauty, environs, phenomenology, humanism, transcendence & perception. Here is his new series “Beauty Hangover” featuring our favourite artist-photographer Elena Kulikova (@elenakulikovastudio)
Auckland-based art director and multidisciplinary designer Juliette Wanty creates imaginary spaces with a clear sense of modernism twisted with a movie scene from any of Wes Anderson’s. “Featuring scale cardboard models and continuously repainted wooden boards, Wanty’s spaces are realistic reinterpretations of interiors we’d probably inhabit in our dreams.” via @trendland
Griselda Duch is a photographer specializing in landscape, still life, and architectural photography. She likes to travel around while working for both personal and commissioned projects.
“Being unique among creative and artistic professions, I think architecture is very important. Beyond merely providing shelter, architecture becomes the stage set and context for our lives, and an important influence on our living. Playing between line, shape, and color; the series aims to transport the viewer into a setting. Being drawn to the places we all inhabit and that become frames full of unusual details and combinations, I seek to reveal the role of architecture to endless possibilities, looking for aesthetic sensations where symmetry, light, color, and textures become the main protagonists.”
“Inner State” is a series of photography Maria shot during Greek stagnation 2014 - 2016, and as she says “Revisiting these photographs nowadays, during the Covid-19 health crisis, I sense those same feelings of uncertainty and unpredictable change of fundamental aspects of everyday life as we used to know it. This current global situation may be an important moment to realize that no matter what causes a crisis, or where it takes place, solidarity, collaboration and compassion is our only way out. “
Kapsimalis Architects designed a picturesque minimalistic house in Pyrgos, Santorini with views towards the Mediterranean Sea. It offers breathtaking views towards vineyards and the Mediterranean Sea. The property can be divided into three separate dwellings with individual outdoor spaces.
Photography by Giorgos Sfakianakis
“CODA installation” was a photoshoot created by photographer Kamilla Hanapova for industrial and interior designer Daria Zinovatnaya in support of her unique cupboard release as well as other objects. The goal of an installation was to show bright pieces of geometry furniture, merging their forms in order to show the character and peculiarity of each item.
“Staging herself in the middle of nature and atypic location from around the world, Brooklyn-based photographer and multi-media artist Belden Carlson interacts with her environment and then adds another touch with mixed-media collages for her final compositions..” via @trendland
In her ‘Self-Portraiture’ series, she’s an integral part of the landscapes, adopting unusual postures and embracing the surrounding around her. She immortalizes her own identity to stand for present by literally becoming one with each scenes.
Exceptional photographer and our friend Anna Radchenko reflects on isolation and social distancing through photography with her “The Comfort Zone” series
What does isolation mean to us? How do we feel about it once it’s imposed and our freedom is
taken away?
“Although these photos were shot before the
international lockdown, they’ve become even more relevant in the current landscape. Much of
what we took for granted, including the freedom to leave our homes, go to work and meet people,
has been replaced by a growing feeling of uncertainty and confinement. We find ourselves in an
alternative reality, where we have to change our habits and some of our traits as we are spending
so much time on our own”
Conceptual photography of Nik Mirus is characterised by a clean, graphic and colourful aesthetic. Whether collaboratively or working alone on personal projects, he enjoys the tactile and constructive aspects of studio based photography. Through the conceptualisation of images, building and lighting sets, he takes great pleasure in constructing images from the ground up.
“Danish-born, London-based photographer Mads Perch is renowned for continually pushing his creative and technical limits, often using smoke, projections and unorthodox creative elements which he then feeds back into his commissioned projects giving his work a unique style and in the process beautifully blurring the lines between fine art and commercial photography.” - @trendland
Featured below is a selection of shots and a short film from his recent editorial for Nataal (@nataalmedia) a global media brand celebrating contemporary African fashion, music, arts and society.
I love the central library in KC because I always have loved/collected libraries: I go to one in every place I visit. They're pretty fair places. Everyone is welcomed, and we all share the same resources. They're reservoirs of culture, and the KC library is exquisite, so full of history, it's grand, it's full of different people and the quiet is so full. Finally, I love the giant slide in concourse park because it's brilliant and I take kids there all the time, and I think it's fun to try and remember how to be a kid. Oh and I love uptown arts bar because I used to sing at the open mics there and that was my introduction to a KC community, - Laura Kennedy
Not in kc: The Smokey mountains, Sumter national forest, the burren ireland. In kc st, James on troost, the slabs in Gillham park, Mattie rhodes, the central library, The giant slide in concourse park? Well I grew up in Kentucky running around in the woods, so the Smokeys and Sumter remind me of the green hills and mountains of home. There's something very comforting about being surrounded by wildness and green. You can't escape the growing things, even though there are these deep shadows. For me the South is a place of enormous tragedy but it's inseparable from my roots. For kc, I love the slabs because I lived kind of close to gillham park and we used to walk down there and have drinks and watch the sunset and marvel at the graffiti. It's a beautiful example of a neighborhood/community adapting a space.
“/ / MOVING | | GHOSTS / / is an ongoing project that I started at the beginning of 2019 where I am collaborating with people to create portraits of them in locations important to them while wearing their favorite outfit.
I ask people to wear their favorite outfit is because clothes show where that person is at that period of their life, how they feel & have been feeling. The clothes express who they want to be and in turn, give them confidence. I am interested in sharing who people are and the connection that comes with that. The catch is that they have to hide their face. I ask that people cover their face because it kills the model / identity but allows for other parts of who they are to come out in the image.
Important locations come from the idea of boudoir. Boudoir comes from the french word bouder meaning: to sulk. Historically, sulking was seen as something one would do privately, and the term bouder came to encapsulate a room where one would go to withdraw and be quietly alone. A bouder was a place of intimacy and privacy, where one could express their true selves without fear of judgment or punishment.”
“I usually do Barnes and noble or level one at the river market It’s where I go to find solice. Manga and stuff like dnd is a healthier escape from my anxiety than drugs or alchohol Yeah through drugs and alcohol but that turned dark fast so now I run dnd games and make my own stories and when I’m done with school I wanna travel. It’s more life is mundane and I want to adventure. That’s actually why I model I wanna travel to all the fashion capitals and get paid for it”, - Chance
“I’ve tried to think about it a lot! But I love nature, I have a bunch of plants. I think the path that I’ve been going in, I end up growing in different aspects. I can only imagine that being reciprocated visually through nature. I believe life is a simulation”, - Victoria
St. James is incredibly diverse, open-minded and social justice oriented. It is a church focused primarily on people, which gives me a great deal of hope. It's also just an incredibly happy place. Mattie Rhodes is where I work, and I think it's the happiest place on earth. It's three floors of recycled/donated art supplies and decades of children's artwork.
Checkout Zero is an anti-consumerist visual tale by French photographer Pol Kurucz . In a not so distant future when all, even the soul is on sale, eccentric cashiers interact with peculiar products of a factory-like supermarket. Through visual allegories and pop aesthetics each female protagonist uses their singularities to provoke us and challenge wild capitalist, gender and aesthetic norms. Checkout Zero was shot in Sao Paulo with local models and queer artists. The series mixes fine art and fashion elements and features creations from local brands.
“Sebastian Weiss is a Hamburg-based architecture photographer with a flair for exquisite, impeccable angles. Having documented sites such as Spanish La Muralla Roja for Wallpaper* and Parisian suburbia, he is also the author of “Dramatic personae” series that aims to “represent public faces that deliberately restrains the identity of the object in order to concentrate on its public performance” via @trendland
Creative duo Leta Sobierajski and Wade Jeffree delivered their first international exhibition “Music To Your Eyes”. They bring our distinctly optimistic, unapologetically vibrant, and supremely fun world of explosive colour to Calm and Punk's gallery space in Tokyo.
Music to your eyes is an exploration of harmony through visual stimulation of our work in order to explore colour and form. Our goal is to ignite a sensation for the viewer that is optimistic yet also leaves them with a sense of joy. Ultimately it is our way we describe our work: as visual music. Similar in concept to audible music, everything we look at and engage with has its own rhythm. Through the use of multiple mediums ranging from photography, wall reliefs, inflatables and a virtual reality experience, we encourage visitors to enter their world of insatiable optimism and explosive color.
The photographs on these walls are real—they are not 3D. The bodysuits were designed specifically for this show, and the sculpted shields held by those bodies were cut and painted by hand. We embrace the fact that they are imperfect and flawed. In the photographs on the walls, we camouflage ourselves as body sculptures, drenched in pattern and color that transcends from these images to sculptural wall hangings to inflatables hanging from the ceiling and finally to virtual reality discoverable through a headset. Our goal is to extend their vision to multiple dimensions, so you may enjoy their colorful world no matter which reality you may live in.
“An old factory in Poblenou, Barcelona was converted into a creative centre for business innovation. Envisaged by ARQUITECTURA-G for a decade of development, led by the economy of means, the original layout of the space was preserved and features an office, classroom, workspace and bathrooms.”
A creative collaboration between Nikita and Maria Replyanski and Kirill Maksimchuk from the world of Cyber Warrior. In this art project, they research a nature of an artificial personality. Team has created 8 characters by mixing real shooting, 3D printing, computer graphics, fashion, and art to find the identity of a nowadays person. The collaboration was presented at the Digital Fashion Exhibition curated by @trashymuse at EP7 in Paris during the Fashion Week {23 September to 1st October 2019}
Art direction & Concept Design: @n.replyanski
Photo: @notyouramericandream
Style: @katrin_white
VFX: @nomorerender
Graphic Design & Typography: @electroseela
Photographer Petecia Le Fawnhawk is known for creating striking surrealist landscapes using a mix of sculpture and editing techniques. Her new series “Shifting Perspectives” was recently commissioned by Apple and they looks like a “Monument Valley” recreated in real life
Spanish photographer Guillermo Espinosa based in Berlin shares his camera view on architecture, urban life and portraiture
Turkish artist Ceren Bulbun uses the traditional art of collage in a very innovative way: where she mixes natural phenomenon with human anatomy and body details.
Finding connections between nature and human body: a violet eyelid remembering a purple galaxy, the veins in our eyes that resemble a red striated marble or tangled fingers blended with wave power.
Lena Pogrebnaya was born in Odessa, Ukraine. She first fell for photography in 2009 while studying at Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture. After graduating in 2011 Lena continued her photographic exploration. Brutalist architecture of the 50s and 70s quickly became Pogrebnaya’s main inspiration. The essence of her projects lies in monumental constructions featuring concrete, granite, decorative tiles of multiple colors and… people merged with the aesthetics.
Her artistic investigation goes beyond conventional approach that nature and industrial objects should be opposed. For Lena Pogrebnaya architectural forms are part of the nature — being creations of people, nature’s products themselves. In her “nature creating nature” universe a human being feels harmony both in the wild and urban environment. Her models looks dignified in any site, and yet they are simply a unit of the beautiful surrounding just like everything else in the picture.
