Izima Kaoru is a Japanese photographer whose knowledge of fashion and fascination with death allows him to marry the two in a very seductive way. Izima creates the “perfect death” by asking actresses and models to reveal their fantasies about their own idea of a perfect death.
Caroline Mackintosh’s underwater photographs create a graceful movement of body and liquid as if the two forms are playing together underwater. Her series called Thigh Deep captures the water’s ability to warp limbs of the effervescent women dancing in the harmony of it all.
“The Way of Byzantium” shot by photographer Marco D’ Amico with stylist Marco Grisolia and fashion editor Romina Toscano leaves us wanting more. The marriage between synthetic light and a modern Byzantine woman creates something unique in each photo. The luxurious play of color and texture is accomplished by balancing …
Nobuyoshi Araki has captured the beautiful cherry blossom season in Japan, which is an annual occurrence in the Japanese capital and the center of centuries of local tradition. These cherry blossom photos inspire something in people which instill a moment of peace and zen. Like a throwback photo album found …
Ruven Afanador’s photographs for Town and Country are floral wonders captured in their essence by the gradients of color and blossoming arrangements. With the help of fashion editor Hanna Teare, these photos create surreal personalities set against fairy tale-like settings.
“I was fascinated by the diverse and visual elements of the tribes within their community – their incredible skin tones and the way in which their fashion was so influenced by their surroundings.” ‘These people are not models, they are warriors who have killed… they are mothers, grandmothers, children.” Though …
File this under awesome collaboration. The power that is Hedi Slimane and Saint Laurent cannot be denied as they bring us the Saint Laurent Music Project. Their latest campaign captures the likes of Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth, Courtney Love, Marilyn Manson, and Ariel Pink to style themselves in the latest …
Mike Brodie aka the Polaroid Kidd, is a photographer from the United States. At age 17 (or 18 depending on which interview you read) he hopped his first train, that was 2002. Since then he has traveled over 50,000 miles through 46 states by train and documented the entire experience. …
In 2007 Chicago 26-year-old real estate agent (and president of the Jefferson Park Historical Society) John Maloof walked into an auction house and placed a $380 bid on a box of 30,000 prints and negatives from an unknown photographer. Realizing the street photographs of 1950s/60s era Chicago and New York …
In an effort to raise awareness of the unseemly living conditions in Hong Kong, these cramped apartments in Hong Kong by photographer Benny Lam are shot from above to show the reality of workers in this metropolis. If you thought your dorm or apartment in New York were small, you …
The contents of a suitcase can be quite personal and very telling of what kind of life an individual lived. Photographer Jon Crispin has visited the remains of an old psychiatric hospital, formerly known as The Willard Asylum for the Chronic Insane, and has discovered hundreds of old suitcases belonging …
“They looked like the concrescence of linguistic intentionality put through a kind of hyper-dimensional transformed into three-dimensional space.” - Terence McKenna This quote juxtaposed with the macro coral reef photographs by Felix Salazar give a sort of existential plunge into the depths of color and language that transcends our physically …
