Trained ballet dancer Sparrek realized ballet wasn’t for her + luckily for us, she flexed her creative muscles using a camera. Models pose, glide + soar, as Sparrek occasionally blurs reality, with surrealistic expectations. (via fubiz)
Nudists Retreat To Designer Looks By Laura Pannack
Photographer Laura Pannack sought subjects at nudist retreats + shot their day-to-day, while illustrator Micah Lidberg brought them to life in several designer looks. Present were looks by Marc Jacobs, Jake & Dinos Chapman’s collaboration with Louis Vuitton + Comme des Garçons. One group play boules in restrictive get-up from J.W. Anderson below while another eat […]
AnOther Magazine 02: Amazing Centerfolds By John Galliano
Aren’t these sick?! AnOther magazine dug around their archives + found these beautiful pics known as ‘Centrefold SS/02 Concept’. With concept + art direction by John Galliano + photography by the brilliant Steven Klein, the result was nothing but gorgeous. Galliano told AnOther, ‘It was all about mixing the rough with the smooth, the hard with […]
Animals Dressed In Fall Fashions Look Better Than You Think
Thanks to Spanish artist Miguel Vallinas ingenuity, he masterfully manipulates photos of animals dressed in fall fashions, to create interesting portraits. Later on, I’ll show you another similar series + you decide which is better. Called ‘Segundas Pieles’ (Second Skins’), it’s funny how he knew how to to style each individual animal based on it’s species, […]
Kristen McMenamy Suits Up To Find ‘Love In All The Wrong Places’
For W’s editorial ‘Love In All The Wrong Places’, shot by Steven Klein + styled by Edward Enninful, you are transported into a world worthy of David Lynch’s irreverence. The lighting of each shot, captures all the beauty behind model Kristen McMenamy‘s beauty, casting her as a femme fatale of sorts, in a film noir. […]
Although brief, it’s still pretty powerful + emotional. Here’s a quick look at a past cover shoot for the lab magazine Issue No.7, featuring the inimitable genius that is all Marina Abramovic, the ‘Godmother of Performance Art’. Shot by Justin Tyler Closer + styled by Michelle Carimpong, we see Marina go from donning big hair in […]
Study For Inner Improvement – Where Paint + Photography Collide
What would you say if you found a black + white photo of a surprised yet daunted woman, with several strokes of Yves Klein blue coming out of her mouth, maiming part of her face? ’Was it a mistake?’, you ask; ‘What was this woman trying to say through paint or what was she trying […]
Vermeer Makes A Rare Appearance In The Twenty First Century
As soon as I saw Dutch photographer Hendrik Kerstens photos of his daughter Paula, I immediately thought of Johannes Vermeer’s famous “Girl With The Pearl Earring’ (also a movie, by the same name, starring Scarlett Johannson) above. To be able to capture the light in photography as in this painting + others, of the Seventeenth […]