MANIPULATIONS // Digital Photography

Interesting collection of digital photo manipulations.

LJUBODRAG ANDRIC // Photography

Creative landscape photography & colour palettes. Self-taught Ljubodrag Andric, born in Belgrade Yugoslavia, landed his first paid job as a photographer at age 21. He has since never turned back. Andric infuses his imagery with humor wherever possible, starting with the commonplace and turning it into something unexpected. “A good image should always leave some questions unanswered,” he says. Andric, who does nearly all of his own post-production work, believes shooting from real life is the key to creating compelling photography. He reserves the digital phase for enhancing atmosphere, not assembling the illusion of reality.

PETER SUTHERLAND // Creative Advertising

Peter Sutherland’s prop-making continues to be loads of fun. Advertising, film, and POP provide satisfying challenges for his enthusiastic problem solving. Peter’s acquisition of new skills is on-going, but his formal training includes study at the Ontario College of Art and Design, École des Beaux Artes in Montréal, an apprenticeship with sculptor and wood carver, William McElcheran, and stints as the production mould-maker for Canada’s premier mannequin factory and as an architectural model-maker.

RUSSELL COBB // Portrait Photography

Russell Cobb is a multi award winning artist/illustrator now turned photographer. His awards include 5 Best of British Gold Awards, D&AD silvers and in 2011 Creative Review, one of the UK’s leading design publications awarded him the accolade of Best in Book. In 2003 the Indepenent UK National newspaper voted him one of the UK’s top 10 Illustrators. He served as Chairman of the Association of Illustrators UK 2004-9. Cobb has been featured in many international publications and collaborated with many leading art directors. His commercial and commissioned work has been exhibted in London, Berlin,Oslo and Zurich. Now in search of a new challenge he brings his fine art and design expertise into his photographic work. Cobb’s work is fascinated with the notion of actors and stage, observing how people transform themselves in response to costume, uniform and location. His work searches for a timeless depiction of the subject matter.

HEIKKI LEISS // Portraits of Women

Interesting collection of portraits by photographer Heikki Leiss.

SCI-FI // Photo Manipulations

Check out a random collection of sic-fi digital art.

AYAMI NISHIMURA // Make-Up Artist

Amazing explosion of colour by make-up artist Ayami Nishimura shot by Rankin

GABRIEL WICKBOLD // Colour

Another set of inspiring colour palettes by photographer Gabriel Wickbold.

GABRIEL WICKBOLD // Sexual Colours (NSFW!)

Check out this amazing explosion of colour by Brazilian born, Sao Paolo based  photographer Gabriel Wickbold. 27 years old and self taught, ”I picked up some tips from my photographer friends, and made a research laboratory in my studio,” he recalls. “Every day I discover how to do different kinds of lighting. But for me, it’s about much more than the perfect lighting setup. It’s about the perfect vibe.” His bright color palate and passionate sexual energy seem to scream of his nationality, Brazil is pure rawness with a sense of pride in the half naked bodies scattered throughout .  There is not much puritan thinking down there, and Wickbold’s wet,sticky series “Sexual Color’s” is a great example of that.

ANDREAS FRANKE // Underwater Exhibition

Australian photographer Andreas Franke has digitally manipulated the submarine images he captured around the sunken boat Vandenberg, on Artificial Reef Off Key West, to create a parallel universe under water and even exhibit in this medium. The series Life below the surface is installed at the location of the wrecked ship. The pictures are encased between sheets of plexiglass and have a steel frame sealed with silicone to avoid the water from entering. The video below documents the installation of such a particular exhibition.

BREAKING BAD // Artwork

Here is an awesome collection of artwork from a recent showing titled “Breaking Bad”. This show is a collection or works by different artists inspired and themed by my favourite TV show!

SWAROVSKI // Inspired Colour

Inspiration colour from Swarovski’s latest calendar.

RUUD VAN EMPEL // Sunday (Digital Collages)

Ruud Van Empel, is a Dutch artist whose digitally collaged photographs “confront photography’s authority with painterly stylization and an almost cinematic experience of parallel time frames.” Meticulously photographing models, clothing, and shrubbery, the artist then reassembles them digitally to create artificial figures and landscapes.

His latest work “Sunday” features children gathered in manicured continental gardens, restrained by sharp angles and geometric trims, a departure from his previous work of children in uninhibited, wild foliage. With hints of instability and unrest brewing, the children seem awkward proprietors rather than explorers. Furthermore, a smiling elderly woman dons a quizzical smile; scattered figures are suspended merely for light to reflect upon in “Landscape”.  Shining light on a new digital relationship with nature, time and space, don’t miss this show, now on view at Stux Gallery.

ALEXANDER KHOKHLOV // Black & White Face Painting

Just found these really cool B&W face painting illusions by photographer Alexander Khokhlov

ALEJANDRO MAESTRE GASTEAZI // Julián

As a photographer, Alejandro Maestre Gasteazi‘s expertise lies in the realm of lighting and digital post-production. These two skills are flexed to the utmost in the latest portrait series of his good friend Julián. Beautifully sculptural and built up like a motion picture, Alejandro focuses on the understanding of the body, leaving each frame as a simple vision of not-quite-dry concrete floating against a basic white backdrop.