3rd Wave of Inspiration
Since 2003
Delaney Allen is an American photographer whose work investigates self-exploration while surveying and masking varying objectives within photography. Employing the use of self-portraiture, still-life and landscape, Allen constructs an individualised path as the collections intersect in storytelling
Melbourne based creative Isamu Sawashares her latest project, Colliding Flora created during quarantine as a series of five kaleidoscopic images made in collaboration with photographer Isamu Sawa during Covid19 isolation.
Mathilde Karrèr loves accessories, color, and flowers to create lavish yet subtle compositions with a captivating narrative. Half-way between paintings and movie stills, her photographs are elaborate, visually-rich micro worlds with knowingly chosen details.
Her lighting expertise and the wish to make every image premium, texturised and rich, this is what makes her photography stand out. Many of her works, she develops and styles herself, you can call it a very hands-on way of working.
“The art of painting, in many styles, have subconsciously, a big influence in my work.
Also late 20th century movies, the production and set design, I find very inspiring. I like to approach a project as a director, set designer and problem solver in one.
Certain themes will always re-emerge in my work, a strong connection to the classical still life off course, however I like to experiment, try new things, push my own reference framework”
Michal Zahornacky is professional fine art photographer from Slovakia. The main role in his photography plays the human. He mainly focuses on fine-art and conceptual portraits. He brings thoughts and moods to his photographs which he always shows in unclear imagination.
In his “Close” series, the artists looks into the pandemic world of isolation and the feeling of closeness evoked by forced social distancing. It is captured on the impeccable angles showing the grandeur of photographed buildings – their symmetry and repetitiveness.
Jeff is a Senior Art Director at Huckberry, an occasional freelancer, and chef de cuisine at Mi Casa. Beside these he loves shooting and exploring the outdoors, and recently comes up with a long-term project “Sunsetting” - a zine featuring selected shots made in SF.
“At the end of a 10-year spell living in the sunset district of San Francisco, I created this short series of photographs documenting the character of the area—taken at the time of day from which the neighborhood gets its name.”
Akatre is a creative studio founded in 2007, in Paris, by Valentin Abad, Julien Dhivert and Sébastien Riveron. The trio works and expresses themselves in graphic design, photography, typography, video, artistic installation and musical creation for institutions in art, cultural, fashion, media and luxury.
Madrid-based art director Miguel Marques and photographer Pascal Schonlau from London created a series of visual artworks under the theme SKIN DEEP. It's a visual essay that addresses how human bodies merge to other digital mediums, addressing 2D photography with 3D illustrations in this collaboration.
The ability to recognise finest nuances and deviations when observing the appearance of a person is often tested by the abundance of purely digitally created bodies in cinema, print and online. Utilising a combination of photography and 3D elements we created a series of images that show a progression from the original human shape towards an abstracted virtual representation.
Delphine Diallo is a Brooklyn-based French and Senegalese visual artist and photographer. Wherever she can, Diallo combines artistry with activism, pushing the many possibilities of empowering women, youth, and cultural minorities through visual provocation.
Sought to challenge the norms of our society, Diallo immerses herself in the realm of anthropology, mythology, religion, science and martial arts to release her mind. Her work takes her to far remote areas, as she insists on spending intimate time with her subjects to better able represent their most innate energy “I treat my process as if it were an adventure liberating a new protagonist” — Diallo’s powerful portraitures unmask and stir an uninhibited insight that allows her audience to see beyond the facade.
“We are in constant search for wonder and growth. I see art asa vessel to express consciousness and an access to diffuse wisdom, enlightenment, fear, beauty, ugliness, mystery, faith, strength, fearless, universal matter”
Delphine is currently represented by MTArt Agency (@mtartagency) lead by Marine Tanguy (@marinetanguyart)
On the occasion of 2020 World Oceans Day (June 8th), UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission organized the first Virtual Ocean Literacy Summit, with the support of the European Global Ocean Observing System (EuroGOOS), Ocean Wise and Experiential Atelier. During this event, artists from across the globe exchanged ideas, experiences and insights on the future of Ocean Literacy in the context of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030).
A unique audio-visual immersive movie was especially produced for the summit by a group of artists (Can Buyukberber) and musicians (Altın Gün Band). By using art and creativity to help save our ocean, Ocean Literacy is a powerful tool to create a society able to make informed and responsible decisions.
BRRCH is the NY-based floral project of Brittany Asch, founded in 2013 on the principle of delivering flowers as art to heighten the appreciation of the natural world around us.
With a deep respect For natural landscapes, Brittany aims to create Floral climates from worlds that do not exist, often elevating the flower Elements she shares into the realm of fantasy and Surreality. Her work with Flowers was once described as "What love would look like if love could materialize into floral form."
Award-winning Fine Art conceptual artist Romina Ressia (recently evaluated by Sony as an exceptional Latin American Photographer and nominated for Global Leadership Prize of 2020 Tällberg/Eliasson Foundation) constantly pushing the borders of art photography perception. Represented by The House of Fine Art (@thehouseoffineart) in London she is a part of virtual group exhibition “Myth-Making” opened this days.
Owner of a pictorial style, she is well known for her anachronisms and the use of the absurd and the irony to approach modern issues. The attempt to grant a fresh air to the classic style is another important characteristics of her work.
Slava Semenuta known as Thisset shares his latest work Contemplate and the words about it:
“This video tells a simple story of any thinking person who is looking for meaning of existence.
A person who is both suffering and enjoying life.
I showed this story in a peculiar way and with my own vision of the world.
In this short music film, there is a share of madness and surrealism.
I wrote an abstract script and was the director of this video and I also drew fonts to decorate the video.
The font is designed in a style that imitates plants and smoke to enhance the surrealistic atmosphere.”
French ‘Oceanscape’ photographer Fotomas has been shooting some pretty delightful surf photographs. Mostly shot in Hossegor, south of France, Thomas uses very long exposure and creative photo filters to tweak his final colors, and the result is stunning
Photographer Philipp Bünger captures abstract ghost likely visiting him from avant-garde period of the previous century
Japanes photographer Yoshito Hasaka polishes his skills as hard as katana’s steel by revealing midnight shots of Tokyo he made on daily basis
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
