Photographer or rather more appropriately ‘Photo-Artist’ Thomas Mangold has some downright freaky photo retouching happening in his portfolio. The above elephant fly thing is insane. The detail he manages to capture is inspiring, no doubt that’s not an easy feat to achieve.
Brooklyn based photographer Kevin Cooley has a flair for making the world captured through his lens look ‘other worldly’. The stark color in his contemplative imagery equates to photographic art and his attention to craftsmanship insures a spectacular result.
Photographer Julia Galdo seems to have a fun personality that shines through in the biographical section of her website. She was originally interested in marine biology but somehow found her way to photography. Thankfully so, as there are some beautifully composed fashion shots in her portfolio. She considers herself lucky but I think talent might be playing a small role.
Paris based photographer Ruben Brulat is only 21 years old and picked up a camera only 2 years ago. It became his passion almost overnight and he has not put down the camera since he first picked it up. His work is about capturing humanity and he is “fascinated by places where the beauty of human beings has gone”. I think these ideas are most evident in his series entitled ‘Primates’. The human form is almost lost within the natural landscape but when it is discovered it appears frail and childlike cradled by the serene yet harsh alien landscape. The imagery is extremely contemplative and it would be a thing to behold at a large scale in a gallery setting. Considering his young age, Brulat is someone to watch because he is a remarkable talent who will no doubt continue to grow.
Fashion photographer Gabriel Jeffrey has a dead sexy body of work that you can’t even try to tear your eyes away from. It all starts with the first image that loads on his home page. He might also be a Bowie fan. I don’t know, call it a wild guess.
Ansen Seale is one of those rare photographers who found a way to paint with his camera. His ‘Temporal Form’ series could almost be described as sculptural imagery utilizing the human form as it’s foundation. He accomplishes his images by using slitscan photography. As opposed to me butchering a description of that process I have pulled some copy from Seale’s artist statement below.
Here is a section pulled from the artist’s statement:
“Over the past 10 years, I have pursued a little-known genre called slitscan photography. Far from being just a visual curiosity, it has become a substantial tool for the exploration of themes meaningful to me. I have found slitscan photography to be an excellent vehicle for ideas central to my work– ideas about time and our place in its continuum.
It is important to understand that these images are not manipulated. This is the way my camera sees the world.
Rather than suspending a single moment, my photography examines the passage of time. To accomplish this, I invented a modern digital version of the panoramic camera. In my version, a single sliver of space is imaged over an extended period of time, yielding the surprising result that unmoving objects are blurred and moving bodies are rendered clearly. The model in the studio must move in order to be captured. In the Water series, the stones in the river do not move, and so, become stripes. The water flowing past them perturbs their static image, creating a kind of color field painting. This is no trick. This is photography in the purist sense, but a form of photography where abstraction is the norm, not the exception.”
Brooklyn based photographer Alex Gaidouk captures quiet contemplative moment of serenity that can lift you out of your present reality and put your somewhere, albeit momentarily as an observer, which is a unique gift.
Photographer Jason Tozer has a new website featuring new work. The other noteworthy press-bit is that the site was designed by Build and you can definitely see the typographical influence the moment the page loads.
Ashkan Honarvar who is based out of Utrecht, Netherlands has some disturbing yet remarkable photo-retouching-art in his Behance portfolio that is almost impossible to take your eyes off of.
This particular series that looks as though the subjects faces have been mutilated but on closer inspection reveals the retouched devastation is actually comprised of candy is disturbing and fantastic. Spectacular work.
Eccentric photographer, very very eccentric photographer Terry Richardson has his own blog that he keeps very well stocked with his signature brand of raw imagery *including some kind of funny images of Terry Richardson.
*See image above.
Photographer and visual artist Gustavo Lopez Mañas has been making some waves around the creative blogosphere lately with his cover and photo-art series titled ‘Avatars’ for Coilhouse Magazine. There is good cause for the buzz, as you can tell by browsing the image series as he managed to realize some beautiful images and elaborate costumes. You can view the entire series at Lopez’s Behance-folio.
Lopez was born and educated in Granada and awarded 2nd prize in the category of Music by the International Photography Awards in New York and took gold from the Lux Photography Awards in 2005 and 2008.
Currently NYC-based photographer Katheryn Love captures dreamy contemplative imagery that trips the imagination and sparks introspection. You can also view her work at her Flickr-folio and scroll her Tumblr blog.
Photographer Steve Poxson creates some of his imagery in an unusual way. ‘In the age of digital photography Poxson is reinventing this form by emulating the early processes of the photogram.’ He places his subject matter on a flatbed scanner to create super high resolution image patterns of things that people may find unsettling to look at. Things like mice, pieces of meat and bugs. It’s an interesting approach that has garnered some attention for Poxson as his work was nominated by CR for the Best Degree Show Work of 2007.
Buenos Aires-based fashion photographer Basilio Silva is responsible for capturing some ultra-hip imagery. Information about him is hard to come by and seems to vary from blog to blog but maybe it doesn’t matter when his body of work speaks so clearly for itself.
Photographer Joshua Scott has an ability to bring life to lifeless objects and throw them into a spinning array of stunning color.
Sexy and stunning fashion photography is spilling over the Flickr-folio of Matías Troncoso. Someone else is looking at his work too because his website has exceeded it’s bandwidth (check the Flickr first).
“Nick Knight is among the world’s most influential photographers as well as being Director & founder of SHOWstudio.com the fashion & art internet broadcasting channel. Knight’s work has been exhibited at such institutions as the Victoria & Albert Museum, Saatchi Gallery, the Photographers Gallery and Hayward Gallery and recently The Tate Modern. He has produced a permanent installation, Plant Power, for the Natural History Museum in London.”
There is nothing more to say. Onto some beautiful images.
Lithuanian born artist Monika Bielskyte now resides in Paris where she works primarily in with photography and video based installations that also include text and music. She has traveled the world over to generate her work and sifting through it is akin to opening a dark box of haunted dreams. Spend some time looking through her projects. Each one unlocks a new and beautiful reward. Every image is considered and as a whole the projects build upon image after image leaving you in the darkest recesses of imagination.
