Exploded fun from photographer Todd McLellan.
Artist Iori Tomita transforms marine life into “New World Transparent Specimens” with a preservation technique using enzymes and dyes.
Joseph Parra employs a variety of techniques, including digital printing, printmaking, drawing, painting and sanding to create arresting, dream-like imagery.
Petros Chrisostomou photographs small-scale, ordinary, ephemeral objects in architectural models that he constructs himself, creating imaginative juxtapositions.
After being beaten into a brain-damaging coma by five men outside a bar, Mark builds a 1/6th scale World War II-era town in his backyard. Mark populates the town he dubs “Marwencol” with dolls representing his friends and family and creates life-like photographs detailing the town’s many relationships and dramas.
What begins as a form of therapy for both the physical and emotional trauma of his attack soon develops into something much more.
Artist Hyungkoo Lee outfits models with a clear dome embedded with key areas of magnification. The results can range from humorous to nightmarish.
From 2006 through 2009, photographer Jan Kempenaers toured the ex-Yugoslavia region and documented a series of long abandoned WWII monuments. Through years of neglect and decay they now approach the status somewhere between non-political sculpture and 1970’s sci-fi movie prop.
The photographic set pieces created by Jamie Baldridge allow us a glimpse into an imaginative world of mysterious happenings.
Photographer Irina Werning has taken on the fascinating project of restaging childhood photos, creating in many cases, bizarre juztapostions. Check out her “Back to the Future” series here.
Whitechapel Gallery presents a collection of John Stezaker’s arresting photo collages.
Stunningly surreal photographic manipulations from Yang Yongliang.
Or, as the Klingons would say: QISmaS botIvjaj ‘ej DIS chu’ botIvjaj!
Beautiful photographic studies of decay and textures in this collection titled “The Ruins of Detroit.”
Misha Burlatsky creates photographs using the “Ambrotype” process. From the artist’s biography: “The ambrotype process (from Greek ambrotos, “immortal”) or amphitype is a photographic process that uses the wet plate collodion process to create a negative photographic image on a sheet of glass using whick looks as a positive image when put upon a black background. It was invented by Frederick Scott Archer in 1851.”
Indiana Jones would hate Guideo Mocafico’s work.
Check out this collection of great graphics. What better canvas to work with than this classic VW bus.
Franco Brambilla’s ability to transform the world of vintage travel postcards into eerie, mysterious and many times humorous tableaus of science fiction amazes me.
A series of very creative photos from Carl Kleiner, styled by Evelina Bratell, showcases the ingredients of recipes for the IKEA baking book “Homemade is Best.”
