Don't Believe Your Eyes. Matthew Albanese is artist who fascinated with special effects and magic.
Matthew own a stunning artwork collection of photographs that will blow your mind with their realistic presence. On the left side in gallery you can see the final image and on the right you will be able to see how image was created using his special effects. Russian artist creates miniature sculptures from burnt matchsticks. File this one under completely cool.
This art by Stanislav Aristov displays matchsticks like never before. Burning matches, Russian artist Stanislav Aristov creates miniature sculptures into every scene possible, including a hanging spider, sail boat, apple, bow and arrow, Christmas trees, and even the Eiffel Tower. Fun photo series mocks some of the most ridiculous laws in America.
15th century Flemish selfies taken mid-flight by bored traveler. Fruit and vegetable food sculptures by Dan Cretu. Selfies by a pregnant photographer. Tanzanian lake turns animals into frozen statues. Filth Flarn Filth. Candid photography by Caspar Claasen. The Awkward Years Project by Merilee Allred. We all look back on our younger days with fond memories and, mainly, embarrassment.
Remember your school portraits? Beautiful photo negatives set on fire. Human bodies as mountainous landscapes. Brock Davis’ best-of-2012 iPhone shots. Rainbow Mountains in China's Danxia Landform Geological Park. Huge landscape installations lined with nude people. What a pilot sees from his cockpit, 35,000 ft in the air. Portraits of men wearing their girlfriends' clothes. Photographs of models and their mothers. Beautiful natural terraced pools of Pammukkale, Turkey. Stunning light art tribute to Banksy by Michael Bosanko. Stunning underwater images by amateur photographers. The 15 Craziest Things In Nature You Won't Believe Actually Exist. Mother Nature is beautiful and amazing because we can see many amazing stuff like these 15 things that you won’t believe they actually exist.
All these places are real. It is hard to believe in that, but that is true. 25 Places That Look Not Normal, But Are Actually Real. Edgar Martin's photos of hydro-electricity plants in Portugal. Balanced diets: Food balancing atop one another. Diorama maps from photographs. Junk food on fire: new photo series by Henry Hargreaves.
Universes of oil spills. Man recreates famous paintings with photography using his daughter as model. Nature shots featuring the photographer’s hands and feet. Fantasyland photo series pays tribute to photographer's deceased mother. Jonathan Hobin Re-Creates the World's Most Infamous Tragedies with Children. Jonathan Hobin is a Canadian photographer whose series In the Playroom features a range of children reenacting some of the most brutal news stories of our generation, from JonBenet Ramsey’s death and the Siegfried and Roy tiger mauling to 9/11 and the threat of nuclear war.
At first glance it’s hard to tell if the children in the photos understand the horror they’re conveying or if they’re just having a lot of fun. Regardless, many people have reacted strongly. The photos have been described as sick, pure shock, and tasteless, self-indulgent masturbation. Even the children’s parents have been vilified for their involvement. If you're in Canada this week, In the Playroom is coming to Toronto for an exhibition at the Gladstone. VICE: What kind of feedback have you been getting from the kids in these photos? What do the parents think, generally? Do the kids understand the scenes they’re portraying? Do you think that the photos are shocking? Photographic illusions of falling up into the sky. Mysterious polaroid photography by Bastian Kalous. Projections of Berlin’s city landscape in rooms. Volatile and beautiful: Africa’s Afar depression.
Boy with muscular dystrophy leads normal life in photo series. Wow.
To cheer up a 12-year-old boy who has muscular dystrophy and has to steer away from most physical activities, Slovenian photographer-psychologist Matej Peljhan shot a photo series of him doing what he wished he could: play basketball, swim, breakdance break dance, swim and even fly thanks to a red balloon. Looking at these pictures, I think Peljhan just cheered up the rest of us too. UPDATE: Here’s a little teaser from an interview we did recently with Matej Peljhan. [read the exclusive interview here] Tell us the background to ‘The Little Prince’ series? Matt Molloy's stunning smeared sky photographs. Stunning Russian fire and ice caves. Remarkable Ice Shadows. Sleeping couples in long exposure shots? Intriguing. The Edge Effect: mirror reflections that look like paintings. Alex Stoddard - Fine Art. Distorted sticky tape faces. Confronting photos series: China 2050. We all have a vision of what we think the future will look like.
So what does the ever present growth of China mean for Westerners? That is the question China-based French photographer Benoit Cezard is trying to answer through his interesting and controversial series, China 2050. The series show Westerners performing a range of “blue collar” jobs that may currently be performed by poorer Chinese migrants – cleaners, construction workers and waiters are all included. Is this the future for the Western world? Limited Area: photos by Robert Schlaug. Photo exposé of Tokyo’s street sleepers. Photographer Adrian Storey has some fascinating pictures of Tokyo denizens who fall into a stupor in public spaces, some sprawled, some hunched over, in train stations, on the streets, by the road, everywhere.
When you gotta sleep, you gotta sleep. New photography by Alison Scarpulla. The Underwater Project by Mark Tipple. Mark Tipple’s photography series, The Underwater Project, captures the raw emotion of ocean swimmers as they struggle to emerge from the waves.
Terraced Rice Field Photo, China Wallpaper. Creative kids photography by Jason Lee. With all the rampant cuteness in the world, it’s good to see some dark humour thrown in, which makes it less syrupy and gives it more heart.
Bertil Nillson photographs bodies in movement. Being a dancer and into photography myself, I know how challenging it can be to capture people in movement. I really appreciate the art of Bertil Nillson. The Swedish photographer and filmmaker, who is currently residing in London, focusses on dancers and circus people with his work. Students swallow 5mm film squares to shoot their insides. Human cameras? I know right!
Photography students Luke Evans and Josh Lake ate 35mm film squares, letting their bodies do the rest. This created some very impressive results. Once the film was retrieved, they were examined and scanned using an electron microscope. Wow. Photographs of the female form by Dorrell Merritt. Dorrell Merritt is a London-based photographer producing stunning, melancholic photographs with beautiful subjects often focusing on the female form. High speed photographs of liquids in motion. To create something beautiful through high-speed photography requires a lot of planning and patience. Photographer Jack Long’s series of photographs entitled Liquid Vessels and Blooms came about through his explorations with splash photography, which led him to create original ways to photograph liquids in motion.
Or fluid suspensions, as he likes to call it. Through extensive experimentation, he was able to shape and color liquids in forms resembling flowers and was successful in creating each photo with just a single capture of the camera, without the use of photoshop to create composited images. The Collective Snapshot series by Pep Ventosa. Circus-themed photographs by Bertil Nilsson. Incredible Photos That Have Not Been Photoshopped. Surreal fashion photography by Elizaveta Porodina. More Than Human: new photo series by Tim Flach. Tim Flach is probably best known for his highly crafted images of dogs and horses, but this epic series of photographs surpasses Equus and Dogs Gods easily.
More Than Human is about the human-animal relationship and goes deeper than the patiently lit and hugely engaging portraits. Souvenirs replacing landmarks by Michael Hughes. Stunning photojournalism by Richard Mosse. People in and out of uniform by Herlinde Koelbl. Cigarette ash landscape by Yang Yongliang. 33 animals who are extremely disappointed in you. If you can incite anger or disappointment in another species, then you know you have really masted the Ebenezer Scrooge thing. I, on the other hand, have the terribly naff habit of smiling goofily at animals because, in all seriousness, how the heck are you supposed to interact with small fluffy things?
Anyhow, I digress. Wonderfully repulsive macro photos of decaying vegetables. Heikki Leis was born in Tartu, Estonia, and has lived and worked in the same town for the better part of his life. He has been working as a freelance artist since 2000 and an avid photographer since 2004. Sheep Nation: a photo series by Davide Luciano. Do you follow the herd? Macro photos of bullets in glass resemble giant galaxies. This remarkable photo series, The Big Bang, by Houston-based Deborah Bay, shows the destruction wrought by bullets being blasted through plexi-glass.
And, as our friends at Wired have suggested, they also closely resemble those mystical planetary galactic realms, far, far above. Photographs taken inside of instruments. There’s something other-worldly about these shots by Mierswa Kluska for the Berlin Philharmonic, which take a fascinating perspective from within the acoustic instrument. The internal landscape draws parallels to the architecture of buildings, and with a bit of imagination you can almost feel the unique tone and life of each acoustic instrument just by looking inside them. Inside instruments. Dark and eerie photography by Yell Saccani. Louis Porter’s photography book: Bad Driving. The cover of Louis Porter’s latest photographic book, Bad Driving, shows a road marker lying limply against the asphalt, in prostration for the bad driving that put it there. Experiment with Nature - StumbleUpon. The Girl Who Loves to Levitate (14 photos)