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okmarzo

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Oleg Oprisco

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May 7, 2013

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Oleg Oprisco is a photographer from Kiev, Ukraine with a clever approach to perspective, composition, and the use of color that'll make you look twice.
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Laurie Hassold

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May 6, 2013

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Laurie Hassold is a sculptor based out of Southern California that constructs bizarre organisms out of this world. She molds her extraterrestrial lifeforms out of clay, bones, wire, paint, and other random objects. H.R. Giger and Kris Kuksi would be proud.
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Kuroki Kozue

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May 5, 2013

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Kozue Kuroki is a Japanese illustrator that conjures up a surreal fantasy that reveals a dark side of an unusual fetishism. Yet at the same time, this fairytale world portrays soft, soothing elements of petite little girls living in a world of innocence. Sort of like Alice in Wonderland but more strangely beautiful.
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Vadim Stein

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May 4, 2013

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Vadim Stein was born in Kiev (Ukraine) in 1967, where he received an education in the sphere of sculpture and restoration. Eventually, he worked in theater for many years and it became necessary for him to photograph his work. By working behind the camera, he brings out the beauty of balance, tranquility, and aesthetics with extremely talented acrobatic models and performers through a fine art approach.
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Izima Kaoru

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May 3, 2013

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Izima Kaoru is a Japanese photographer that combines death and fashion in a very seductive way. He invites actresses and models to reveal their fantasies about a perfect death: above all, he asks them which designer clothes they would like to wear when they die.
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Ingrid Endel

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May 1, 2013

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Ingrid Endel is an Australian dancer at heart, but after an unfortunate accident dislocating her knee a second time, she had to end her career indefinitely. She picked up a camera while recovering and discovered a new passion. Now shooting beautiful conceptual pieces within her natural surroundings, Endel portrays the spirit of a dancer through the eyes of the lens.
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Etsuko Miura is Back

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April 30, 2013

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Etsuko Miura is a Japanese sculptor that creates frail-looking amputated dolls in bondage. Immediately, they look physically very shocking and in traumatic states, but the craftsmanship in details and the allure of the bizarre embodies beauty within their delicate nature. Check out the original post that was featured back in July 2011.
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Kirill Kuletski

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April 29, 2013

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Kirill Kuletski is a Russian photographer based in London that explores the process of using photography as a means to capture mood, and to more closely replicate the exact atmosphere which the photographer experienced at the time when the picture was taken. His images specifically focus on situations where the subject being documented becomes a medium which translates the artist’s state of mind into a visual form – one which can be experienced by others, accurately reflecting the feelings and emotions which were originally encountered.
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Siyu Chen

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April 28, 2013

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Siyu Chen is a Chinese illustrator that studied in Beijing and New York City receiving her MFA at The School of Visual Arts. She works with both traditonal and digital mediums in her work that helps to create an interesting and unique surreal juxtaposition through her imagery. She is currently living in Germany working internationally designing books, magazines, and newspapers.
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Roger Dean

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April 27, 2013

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Roger Dean is a veteran English illustrator, designer, and architect best known for his work on posters and album covers that began in the Pink Floydian era. His visionary paintings often feature surreal-scapes in exotic psychedelic locations. The 'Retreat Pod' chair was designed by him and was featured in the film 'A Clockwork Orange'. This boss has sold more than sixty million copies world-wide.
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Leanne Surfleet

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April 25, 2013

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Leanne Surfleet is an analog photographer based in the UK that explores the subject of the self through the use of expired film and Polaroids.
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Mclean Stephenson

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April 23, 2013

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Mclean Stephenson is a photographer based out Sydney, Australia who is raw, unpolished, and lil' rough around the edges, which complements his nitty gritty style. This artist submitted his work to our Empty Kingdom Flickr Pool, so be sure to take a look around, submit to us, and maybe you can be featured just like him.
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Saraseaside

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April 22, 2013

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Sara C. aka Saraseaside is a photographer based out of Barcelona, Spain who has a range of images that makes you feel like you're looking through a beautiful visual diary with a personal photojournalistic approach.
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Richard Learoyd

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April 21, 2013

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Richard Learoyd is a British fine art photographer based out of London, England and an alumni of Glasgow School of Arts. He shoots portraits with models and animals with a subtle, intimate detailed approach that brings out the soft ethereal tones of the images.
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Christopher Coppers Part II

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April 19, 2013

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Christopher Coppers is a Brussels-based artist whose sculptural pieces are created by using strips of magazines. Combining his love for printed matter with an obvious urge for creative destruction, Christopher painstakingly revisits magazines in a way which somehow gives them a second purpose, a second life. This gentleman was featured on June 2010.
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Emile Morel

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April 17, 2013

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Emile Morel is a French digital artist based out of Lyon, France who creates illustrations of surreal imaginary worlds.
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Spiros Halaris

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April 16, 2013

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Spiros Halaris is a London based Illustrator and Art Director that works in the field of fashion. He works with a variety of media often combining mixed media and digital aspects to various types of illustrations. The sophisticated yet sensitive way he uses his materials, playing with light and shadow in both color or black and white pieces, captures the pulse and style of the subject.
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Damien Hirst

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April 14, 2013

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Damien Hirst is a London based artist that uses a varied practice of installation, sculpture, painting and drawing to explore the complex relationship between art, life and death. “Art’s about life and it can’t really be about anything else … there isn’t anything else.”
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David Altmejd Part II

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April 13, 2013

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David Altmejd is a Canadian artist who lives and works in New York with a very unique approach to sculpting. He has a variety of styles from contemporary to obscure that screams of emotion using all forms of mediums. Mr. Altmejd was featured back in 2010 and it's great to see him back.
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Stanislav Groz

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April 10, 2013

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Stanislav Groz is a fine art painter from Saint Petersburg (then Leningrad), Russia and now currently resides in San Francisco, CA. "I’m investigating an internal movement of the objects in the painting as well as of the painting’s subject; a situation that is not present on the canvas in the current time. What has happened an instant before, or what is going to happen an instant after intrigues me."
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