To Raise Awareness by Belo

To raise awareness among the general public about the global clean water crisis, the artist Belo created an image composed of 66,000 cups of colored rainwater simulating levels of impurities found in water all over the planet. This major work of 3,600 square feet, representing a fetus in the maternal womb, emphasizes the necessity of water, even before birth, for each living person. Fun Facts: 66,000 compostable and biodegradable cups, 15,000 liters of colored rainwater, 1 kg of vegetable dye, more than 100 volunteers, 62 hours of work, placed end to end the 66,000 cups would measure 5.2 km long. Belo

Improbabilità by Giuseppe Colarusso

Italian photographer and photo manipulator Giuseppe Colarusso created a series of surreal photographs, titled Improbabilità, showing various household objects and scenes with a twist. Many of the photographs may look rather normal upon first glance, but then it dawns on you: what you see doesn’t quite make sense.

Death is at Focus by Izima Kaoru

Renowned fashion photographer Izima Kaoru collaborates with famous Japanese actresses to stage elaborate death scenes that remind us how variously the world’s cultures handle the subjects of beauty and death. This new monograph of Kaoru’s latest work poses the question, “Why cannot a corpse be beautiful?”

Kaoru’s narratives, which are generally suggested by the subject herself, present a heroine who is perfect in her demise. Clothed in Yohji Yamamoto or Jil Sander, the young beauty is captured from multiple viewpoints – each an elegant composition based on the figure in a landscape. Setting, cause of death and attire are key elements in Kaoru’s unconventional photographs.

Wedding Invitations

Matt and Manny are getting married and created these brilliant invitations.

Revenge by Ellen Von Unwerth

Shot entirely in black and white, in Von Unwerth’s signature style, the exhibition is a playful and sexy narrative of sisters sent away to their aunt’s chateau, by their anguished mother, who has just lost “her husband, his ex, her brother, and his wife” in a cable car crash. With childhood memories of their aunt’s extravagant and luxurious lifestyle, the girls look forward to the adventure, only to arrive and face the disappointment of serving to their aunt’s — and her staff’s — twisted whims. Finally able to free themselves from her clutches, the book ends with the aunt receiving her just desserts.(from Photography-Now)

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More about Ellen Von Unwerth.

Micro Waves

Australian photographer Deb Morris is a master of micro wave photography. While her brand of photography isn’t a globally popularized branch of the medium, it is absolutely breathtaking and bound to lead more photographers to discovering its visually magnetic allure. Her innovative collection known as WAVEART features shots that get in close to capture the magnificence of the most subtle ripples of water, turning them into majestic swirls of light.

Inspirational photography by Cade Martin

Washington D.C.-based photographer Cade Martin has an inspirational body of work that lean heavily towards grace and buoyancy. He celebrates the human form with the environment, setting off the former against fantastically lit backdrops like perfectly clipped foliage and weathered architecture. It all works out to be pretty uplifting stuff.

Time over space by Jay Mark Johnson

Normally, we record a moment in time with a photograph or a video, revealing specific spaces in time, but these abstract photographs by multifaceted artist Jay Mark Johnson takes a different approach. Using a slit camera, the photographer manages to capture both motion and time into each of his warped panoramic shots. Somehow, the technology is also able to separate the subject(s) from the background. Stationary architecture and immobile objects are transformed into streaks of color as moving subjects are distorted.

To get this effect, without the additional use of Photoshop or other sources outside of his $85,000 slit camera, Johnson kept his focus fixed in one position. Normally, for panoramic photos, a photographer would have to take several shots that pan across an area because the camera captures bits in vertical rectangular slivers and internally composites them into one wide image. By remaining still, the camera is forced to continually photograph the same area of space over a different course of time. So, essentially, as you browse the width of Johnson’s images (left to right), you’re viewing the passage of time, instead of space.

Johnson’s unique series, known simply as SPACETIME, alludes to Albert Einstein’s Special Theory that implies that space and time are not mutually exclusive, but rather relative to one another. According to said theory, it can be gathered that “as an object moves faster in relation to another object, its time in relation to that object slows down.” It’s a complex method of perception, as abstractly depicted through Johnson’s portfolio.

Jay Mark Johnson’s website

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Anamorphic Architecture

Swiss artist Felice Varini painted geometric shapes in these large urban areas creating anamorphic illusions. For more work of Varini go to this article.

Felice Varini’s website, and here other great illusions.

Incredible 3D Illusion Drawings

Dutch artist Ramon Bruin makes some pretty impressive 3D drawings.

Ramon Bruin’s website