I would describe my style as a mix of daydreams and fairytales. The fascinate thing in photography is the way I can deal with my feelings and the way I can convert my daydreams into images. Photography allows me to create the world I would love to live in. And through photography I met wonderful people which I am fortunate enough to call my friends now. It makes me really happy to be connected with so many beautiful souls. Katharina Jung
Since 1968 Guido Daniele has been painting and participating to personal and group art exhibitions.In 1972 he started working as hyper-realistic illustrator, in co-operation with major editing and advertising companies, using and testing different painting techniques.
Since 1986 he has been working and improving his personal usage of airbrush: he paints back-stages in different sizes (the biggest ones can be 400 square metres) for artistic and advertising pictures, tv commercials and tv programmes. He also creates trompe l’oeil, both in private houses and public buildings. In 1990 he added a new artistic experience to his previous ones: using the body painting technique he creates and paints models bodies for different situations such as advertising pictures and commercials, fashion events and exhibitions.
Los Angeles-based artist Alexa Meade has made a name for herself by turning real people into walking, talking works of art. Using acrylic paints, she paints on the skin of human subjects in a way that optically flattens them into two-dimensional paintings.
Valerio D’Ospina takes us high above the city, with straight, forceful lines and dramatic viewpoints. He renders a bird’s-eye view of the metropolis, revealing a powerful city through the heights of its splendid skyscrapers.
Jamie Heiden is a photographer first. She gets the most satisfaction out of taking a picture. But when she sits down at her computer, the beginnings unfold. Most of her finished images contain multiple photographic layers. Dodging, burning, boosting contrast and adjusting exposure were all tasks performed in the darkroom that are now tools she has at her fingertips using the computer. What would have taken hours in the darkroom can be done and then undone in half the time, not necessarily making the completed process any shorter but allowing for ten times the amount of experimenting within.
“My photography arises out of my personal desires rather than technique and technology. It is almost an artisan’s approach through which I attempt to express my own hallucinations and moments of silence. My photographs don’t offer answers. At best, they attempt to create more questions.” Saùl Landell
Hari & Deepti started experimenting with paper cut shadow boxes in 2010 with hand painted watercolor paper which was then cut and assembled in a wooden box to create a diorama, with years of practice their art became more intricate and minimal at the same time. They started experimenting with lights and simplified their pieces by losing the colored aspect of the paper. They have since then evolved to add their own style of paper cut art incorporating back-lit light boxes using flexible LED strip lights. “What amazes us about the paper cut light boxes is the dichotomy of the piece in its lit and unlit state, the contrast is so stark that it has this mystical effect on the viewers.”
A beautiful young lady Svetlana Belyaeva from Russia works with great style and quality in their captures, specially when the subject is related to fashion, beauty or erotic.
Moscow born Anna Nemoy is an architect and fine art photographer with a very keen eye for texture, light and form that brings all her fantastic still life photos to life with great compositions and vibrant colors.
Everything what is essential for me lies with(in) human. I do not look at the big picture, I see details. I see skin, hair, perspective, shapes. But I do not only see, I also feel … I feel sadness, vulnerability, sensuality, escape, and so on. Humans cannot live without each other, they attract each other, they reject each other, it is a continous process which starts at a very young age. Complicated, interesting…. In my photos I want to freeze a moment and stop that complicated process of exchanging energy. In that moment I want to show only one single energy … human.” Mariska Karto
Life in Pictures 