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Hui+
May 22, 2013
Hui+ is a photographer who has been featured on Empty Kingdom's Top 100 of 2011, and this is now her fourth feature. Her EK credentials are certainly vast, and we're always happy to bring her back. Since her first appearance in 2010, she continues to feed her viewers with earthly atmospheric realms that's delicate, ethereal, and just simply lovely.
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Ren Hang Part III
May 16, 2013
Ren Hang is a pretty damn raw Chinese photographer that really has no limit or censorship to his visual poetry. He'll portray his naked friends in deranged obscure sexual positions with other sensually posed buddies against beautiful landscapes. Either way, he is bad ass and we've missed him. The images featured on here are toned down so go to his website for more crazy shit.
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Kirill Kuletski
April 29, 2013
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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Saraseaside
April 22, 2013
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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Denis Piel
April 5, 2013
Denis Piel is a veteran photographer that was born in France, raised in Australia, and educated in the United States. He is an internationally acclaimed award winning photographer and filmmaker primarily recognized for his influential approach within the field of fashion photography. This photo series is based in the West Indies from 1982.
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Tippi Degré
April 2, 2013
Tippi Degré is a French woman (born 1990) who spent her childhood in Namibia among wild animals and tribespeople. Her parents, Alain Degré and Sylvie Robert, worked as freelance wildlife photographers. During her stay in Namibia, she befriended wild animals, including a 28-year old elephant Abu, a leopard nicknamed J&B, crocodiles, lion cubs, giraffes, and many more. She also befriended the Bushmen and the Himba tribespeople of the Kalahari, who taught her how to survive on roots and berries, and to speak their language.
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Natsumi Hayashi Part III
March 27, 2013
Natsumi Hayashi is a Japanese self-portrait photographer based out of Tokyo that uniquely captures herself in mid-flight. She's achieved a nickname labeled as the 'Levitating Girl' also known as 'YowaYowa'. Unfortunately, this is possibly her last feature because these are the lasts of her photos from her outdated personal blog. But don't cry because we have a lot more images from her past posts of September 2011 and February 2011.
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WWII in Present Day
March 26, 2013
Sergey Larenkov is a Russian photographer that composites WWII photos from the early 1940s to present day identical locations from Berlin, Paris, Vienna, Leningrad, Prague, and other European cities. By merging these two timelines in perspective, this allows the viewers to visualize the ordeal of emotions through digital time travel.
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Bence Bakonyi
March 18, 2013
Bence Bakonyi is a Hungarian photographer based out of Shanghai, China. His beautiful mountainous landscape series, "Dignity", deals with personal identity and existence in an abstract and metaphysical state.
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Carl Bower
March 18, 2013
Carl Bower is a documentary photographer whose latest series Chica Barbie strips bare the beauty pageants of Colombia and widens the lens to trace the rise and fall of these cinderella-like celebrities against their backdrop of poverty, crime and decades of armed conflict.
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Tulip Fields in the Netherlands
February 4, 2013
Belgian photographer Bruxelles5 has captured aerial images of the beautiful tulip country, the Netherlands. During the spring, he traveled to the countryside of Anna Paulowna, where they bloom in magnificence.
EMPTY KINGDOM TOP 100 Artists of 2012
January 31, 2013
[Photo by: Lauren Treece]
The beginning is, in fact, finally here. After shifting through exactly 1470 posts for the entire 2012 calendar year, a dozen pots of coffee made, several holes punched in the drywall during heated deliberations, and several concussions suffered from office supplies hurled at each others' heads, we proudly present the third annual EMPTY KINGDOM TOP 100 Artists of 2012!
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WWII Photos in Color
January 23, 2013
War History Online is a quality website that frequently features amazing images and news based on world military history. The website recently published resourceful amount of archived photographs of WWII during 1940-1943 inspired by the colors of Kodachrome photo film.
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Adam Voorhes part two
January 17, 2013
Adam Voorhes was previously featured on March 2010 for his phenomenal photographs of fragmented, exploiting objects. His curiosity and original style expand further exploring not only the make-up of an object, but the relationships between his subjects.
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Sarah Sudhoff
January 14, 2013
Sarah Sudhoff is a photographer based out of Texas whose startling series, At the Hour of Our Death, explores our evasive relationship with the concept of dying and its elevation to a terrifying, almost mythological act, disconnected from the physicality of the thousands of miniscule motions that make up our daily lives.
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Christophe Negrel
January 13, 2013
Christophe Negrel is a French photographer whose latest series, Senegal, is an absolute knock-out. His subtle images are curiously atmospheric, a tender approach - faded yet powerful.
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Claire Martin Revisit
January 8, 2013
Claire Martin, first featured last March, is a documentary photographer whose work focuses on marginalized communities within the world's wealthiest nations. Not only are her photos fascinating but she takes the time to tell the story of each of her subjects - in a way that makes them more than just an isolated image of a person, existence unknown.
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“Where Children Sleep”
January 5, 2013
A picture can really be worth a thousand words, however with James Mollison's series, "Where Children Sleep", it's beyond words, but rather, truth. It's an honest insight with detailed visual stories on where children around the world rest their heads at night. James travels from the U.S.A., Mexico, Italy, China, India, alongside many other countries for this series.
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2013: THE BEGINNING IS NEAR
January 3, 2013
2012 was an unpredictable, fast, scary, wild, and beautiful year in many ways. While the media want to talk about the Mayans and debate the end of the world, to tell you the truth none of that matters. Because every day is somebody's last day on earth. Every day people lose loved ones who mean the world to them. While we would love nothing more to speak only of the beautiful wonderful possibilities of the new year, 2012 was sobering in many respects and it would not be honest to ignore some of the incredible human tragedies of the year.
