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Photographer Enoch Ku Finds Artistic Visual Moments In His Series Ordinary Sacramento

Steph Wade — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 11:00:49 +0000

The project ‘Ordinary Sacramento’ by Californian photographer Enoch Ku began as a result of a realization that his life was becoming too busy and unsustainable. His compelling imagery depicts quirky angles and amusing distortions that appear from everyday objects and spaces found out in public.

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Subtle Surrealism By 18-Year-Old Photographer, Sam Johnson

Steph Wade — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 09:00:05 +0000

Australian photographer Sam Johnson’s series ‘Shades’ skirts the boundary of illusory photography. At just 18 years of age, the London-based photographer has impressive skill, and there are more to his photographs than meets the eye.

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Open To The Public By Alex Chinneck

Steph Wade — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 09:00:56 +0000

The latest artwork by British artist Alex Chinneck is titled ‘Open To The Public’, a surrealist installation where an oversized zip appears to open up the facade of an abandoned office building.

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Michael Northrup’s Dream Away, Unusual Images Of Everyday Intimacies

Steph Wade — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:00:45 +0000

Making waves internationally is Baltimore photographer Michael Northrup’s newly released third photo book, Dream Away, a tender documentation of the journey of his former marriage and family life.

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Martin Jonsson’s Nebulous Surrealism

Rosie Flanagan — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 09:00:41 +0000

Clouds are something of a leitmotif in the oeuvre of Swedish artist Martin Jonsson. They appear in almost every oil painting, obscuring faces and annihilating identities.

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Alexandra Von Fuerst Surrealist Imagery

Nina Blace — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:00:10 +0000

Alexandra Von Fuerst is the London-based Italian photographer whose lenses form playful, surrealistic and refined images. While her work mainly focuses on the glossy fashion imageries, her images delicately flirt with provocative but subtle details of female bodies and objects.

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Inside The Classical Sculptures By Cao Hui

Monika Mróz — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:00:59 +0000

Triggering our sensibility to graphic images of the inside of our bodies, Chinese artist Cao Hui has revealed the inner side of classical sculptures.

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Half-Told Stories

Paula Lou Riebschläger — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 13:00:45 +0000

In her series Personal Projects Peruvian photographer Daniela Muttini depicts the female body in existential situations. Most of the photos play up the contrast between the beauty of the models, bright colors, or spectacular backgrounds and the cruel stories the pictures are intended to tell: Naked bodies covered in tulle, a huddled woman alone in the desert, a pink gun, pink blood.

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The Layered Symbolism Of Krista van der Niet

Monika Mróz — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 16:00:39 +0000

Constructing her photographic still lives with an exceptional precision and high sense of aesthetics, Krista van der Niet reaches out the essence of mundane objects, celebrating simplicity and the purity of things. In her recent work, Dutch photographer interprets the ordinary by focusing on her own definition of the womanhood.

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Viviane Sassen Combines Surrealism And Fashion

Sarah Press — Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:00:50 +0000

Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen is one of the rare artists who moves between the two worlds of fashion and art. Spending three years of her childhood in a village in Kenya has given her a special and original eye for fashion photography. Alongside her independent work, Sassen is mostly famous for her innovative work with fashion, making campaigns for Miu Miu, Stella McCartney and Louis Vuitton. Sassen`s fashion photography is marked by strength and surrealism, created in close collaboration with a team of stylists, art directors, models and make-up artists. Using graphic shadows and vivid colors, Sassen fabricates images full of symbols and ambiguity. She hides faces in deep shadows or turns them away which allows the viewer to identify with the subject and visualize their own narrative. By showing manipulating and shaping bodies, overlapping limbs and waving hair, Sassen acts like a sculptor using photography as her medium.

“I want to seduce the viewer with a beautiful formal approach and then at the same time, leave something disturbing.”

All images © Vivianne Sassen

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The Unsettling Sculptures Of Choi Xooang

Monika Mróz — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 16:00:16 +0000

Coming from South Korea, Choi Xooang has been sculptig for almost 14 years now. Introduced to sculpture in an art school, he was immediately struck by the medium and the possibility of creating an actual and tangible object. Both fascinating and disturbing, Xooang’s figures show his concerns about human condition in the society. Although the intricate details make them as hyperrealistic as the works of Ron Mueck, Xooang’s sculptures are often surreal at the same time, having their bodies disorted or merged with other species. Open for numerous interpretations, they leave the viewer with unsettling feelings. But as the Korean artist said in a recent interview with Yatzer, “If one feels uncomfortable physically or mentally when viewing my work, I would say it worked.”

All images © Choi Xooang & Galerie Albert Benamou

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Otherworldly Human Sculptures By Kyuin Shim

Jessica Jungbauer — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 09:00:21 +0000

Based in Seoul, Korean digital artist Kyuin Shim creates otherworldly human sculptures. Using 3D rendering software, the images depict the human body in a surreal way. By exploring the various meanings of Korean expressions in his work, one of Shim’s latest series is titled ‘흑흑’, which means ‘cry cry’ and ‘black black’ and depicts a dissolving human figure. In his work, Shim focuses on digital art, motion design and illustration.

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A Tea Set For The Screen By Louisa Zahareas

Anna Dorothea Ker — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 23:00:45 +0000

Designer Louisa Zahareas‘ surrealist tea set, titled ‘Screen Mutations‘, appears decidedly off-kilter when viewed in reality. Take another look through the screen of a Skype session, and the tableware looks normal. To reinvent a key family ritual for the age of digital communication, the designer worked with computational geometry expert, Dianne Hansford, who employed the technique of forced perspective in the creation of her surrealist porcelain pieces. Says Zaharea of the idea behind the project, “I wanted it to be humorous and light, but at the same time point to a real issue. How far are we willing to go to distort physical reality with how we are presenting ourselves on the web?”

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Vanishing Portraits By Photographer Estelle Lagarde

Jessica Jungbauer — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 23:00:13 +0000

For her latest series ‘L’Auberge‘, French photographer Estelle Lagarde created vanishing portraits with a surreal touch. All of the photographs were shot in the restaurant and rooms of the ‘Saint-Yrieix-le-Déjalat’ hotel in Corrèze. On the inspiration behind the project, Lagarde says: “That story began in spring 2012 when I went back to a small hotel and restaurant in a village in Corrèze, which was closed for several years. The characters took shape one after another, settled in these rooms, in the dining room, at the bar. Gradually, they were fixed on the silver film.” Recently, the series was published in a book.

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Eerie Surreal Photography By Bobby Becker

Jessica Jungbauer — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 13:00:11 +0000

Nashville-based photographer Bobby Becker captures eerie imagery in a minimal yet dramatic way. His conceptual photographs have a surreal touch and create a thought-provoking feeling in the viewer. Most of the images are staged in a clean black and white setting. Becker, also known as Excavate, shares his latest works mainly on his Flickr page.

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