Mixed media artist Benjamin Everett started out as a graphic designer and landscape painter before taking up photography. He transforms real places into surreal landscapes that inspire us to dream.
In 2018, he won the renowned Hasselblad Masters Award in the landscape category.
“Hendrik Kerstens did not train formally as an artist. however, he wished to devote himself to a more creative profession and in 1995, at the age of forty, he left the business world and took up photography. His wife Anna worked full time to support this change of direction. in a reversal of more traditional roles, Kerstens cared for their young daughter Paula, while also studying photography during the day. Having a child left a deep impression on Kerstens. Through photography, he explored the accompanying feelings of responsibility, vulnerability and love he felt towards his daughter, starting with documentary family snapshots.
As Paula physically and psychologically grew, Kerstens searched for an artistic manifestation of these changes, leading to his interpretations of the great dutch master painters of the 17th century with Paula as his muse”
Auckland based fine art photographer Marine de Wit uses camera as both paintbrush and paint working with natural light, blur and gorgeous textures
Fabian Oefner`s work explores the boundaries between time, space and reality. He creates fictional moments and spaces, that look and feel absolutely real, yet aren't. Through this, Oefner dissects the different components of reality and gives us a clearer understanding of how we perceive and define it.
Inspired by science, Oefner`s approach to art is highly methodical and at the same time playful for unexpected moments to happen. He creates carefully orchestrated works, that are planned down to the last detail as well as pieces, that use a loose framework for art to happen.
In his highly acclaimed "Disintegrating" series, the artist portrays performance cars, that seem to blow apart. He creates these artificial moments in time by photographing every piece of the dismantled car individually and arranges them digitally into one photograph. Spending hundreds of hours on each piece, the photographs become a hyperrealistic rendition of a moment, that never existed.
Started in 2013 the ongoing research on glass screen as metaphor of a digital being is a central focus in Tilman Hornig career as an artist.
From an ontological point of view, computers – similar to Heidegger’s notion on Being – “are” not at all. Today, they are required to deter- mine any kind of being. They, therefore, precede any kind of being. Computers “are” not, they exist as an invisible given, which penetrates everything. Foremost, computers are nothing specific. As a universal medium, they are similar to that which Aristotle called the diaphanes, the “transparent” – an undetermined “in-between,” metaxu, which has to be formless in exactitude to take on any form and to transport all possible impressions. The significance of the computer also correlates to an image of the Stoics, the apeiron, ”the in-finite,” which, being primal matter par excellence, includes the possibility of any other matter, and which, exactly because of that, has no proper qualities itself. It is therefore no accident that transparency is the ethos of our time.
The phenomenon of virtual illusion denies reality by depicting it. The transparency is an exaggeration of emptiness and abundance of information and content at the same time. It creates infinite possibilities and makes the world a backdrop.
By throwing back the symbol of digital space, limitless communication, infinite information to its purely material form, Hornig makes the paradoxical cultural elevation visible. For the device as such is free of any content, it is a neutral surface and at no time permanent. Only at the moment of use does it transfer the surrounding reality into a virtual illusion of the same, thus becoming a mirror of countless, varying realities. The transparency of the "GlassPhone" refers to the actual function of the smartphone as a transmitter of information and translator between the worlds.
The complex and ever-increasing overlap of analog and digital realities is touched in the current exhibition "Silent Night" on a formal as well as on a content-related level. It shows 24 variations of a motif from the "GlassPhone" series. In the darkness of an airplane cabin - as the characteristic oval window hatch in the center lets us know - the human body disappears almost completely. Only the hand holding the sculpture is illuminated by the mystical light in the center of the picture, while the "GlassPhone" itself crosses the additional picture surface enclosed by the window frame in an almost perfect diagonal.The precise, harmonious composition differs in its execution only in this second picture surface, the landscape to be imagined and especially the atmosphere of light that radiates inwards and frames the sculpture like an aureole. Golden sunrises or sunsets, rosy pastel evening moods, deep blue night skies or greenish shimmering auroras create stylized hyper-realities. They reveal that this motif was digitally mounted.
Georgian photographer basing and working in Saint-Petersburgm Giga Topuria has an eye on the beautiful moments, renaissance light and sfumato shadows, while catching classic compositions in an urban life of a top cultural city of the world we all love and live in.
Multi-media artist based in Los Angeles Luna Ikuta shares their love to frozen moments of a nature beauty through creating motion artworks featuring a short life of plants
Through a range of perspectives, glaring upwards, scanning downwards and cutting across the city skyline, Malachowski’s lens searches the metropolis like a surveillance camera.
Taipei City -based studio HAO Design focuses on the intersection of Chinese practices and Nordic minimalism by creating aesthetic forms of living. In their recent project they transformed a loft into a playful penthouse with a lot of hidden elements that can transform space during the day.
“The master of this property likes the traditional Chinese style while the mistress likes the light and simple Nordic style. They hope to build a unique playground with a slide for their two daughters, which is also in line with the long-term use of the space.”
'SUNSET WAVES' is a fine art series by visual artist and landscape photographer Jan Erik Waider based in Hamburg. His focus is atmospheric and abstract landscape photography of the distant North. All images were taken on the black sand beach of Vík í Mýrdal on the south coast of Iceland.
Renowned portraiture and landscape photographer Nadav Kandar famous for his long-term projects depicting the power of nature and humanity. In his recent series “Solitude - Quietude - Contemplation” Nadav explores the solitude in the times of lockdown
“I think of a quote by Rilke: “Love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you.” So many feelings are at play and I was aware that in this quiet time there was a much bigger picture playing out, and it will continue to play out in our future.”
Russian fashion and beauty portrait photographer Kamilla Hanapova can be mean for a reason. Without any doubts the project is a self expression on the topic of censorship, toxic masculinity and opinionated society. The art of giving no F.
Photographer Tim Tadder speaks out for himself on his new project Black is a Color - “Black is a color demands that we look past skin tone, & into beautiful, infinitely complex humans whose lives matter equally. Black is a beautiful color & intrinsically linked to my own liberation as an artist.”
“When primary colors are mixed at equal parts, black is ultimately the precipitating color. During the process, an imperial display of tones appears in the swirling to mirror powerful structure & emotion from the subjects. At a crucial time for the nation to unite, I hope this collection encourages empathy, unity & a non-binary view of race. Black is a color challenges one to see past profiling & foresee the beauty that is capable of elevating the human experience. Black is a color demands that we look past skin tone, & into beautiful, infinitely complex humans.”
Environment artist Elora Pautrat living in Japan shares her visual stories of Tokyo made of photos, digitals and some magic
Photographer Franck Bohbot shares his visual story of a covid summer 2020 he spent in California
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“PMA studio, a Spanish architecture studio founded by Pablo Madrid, designed a minimalist holiday home located in the charming neighbourhood of Portixol, in Palma de Mallorca.
The project consisted in the renovation of a traditional row-house on a very narrow plot. Despite the slender shape of the property, the plan ensured that the interiors of the home still received plenty of light..” via @trendland
Photography by Pernilla Danielsson (@lifestyle_mallorca)
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
