Photography

(Photo by: Dara Scully, EK Flickr Pool Submission) Welcome, ladies n’ gentlemen, lads n’ lasses… gems n’ germs. The EMPTY KINGDOM Top 100 Artist of 2011 is here!
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Maurizio Anzeri is an artist originally from Loano, Italy, but is currently based out of London, UK. Anzeri directly sews into found vintage photographs creating embroidered patterns that adorn and garnish the figures. Damn Mr. Anzeri!
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Alan Sailer is a California based photographer that shoots and captures food through high speed explosions with extremely high speed cameras. Working out of his own garage, pellets are fed through the objects to probe the precise moment of impacts.
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Yiu Yu Hoi is a photographer currently based out of Hong Kong, China. Yiu shoots infrared photography similar to another photographer that we’ve featured, Richard Mosse (August 2010, December 2011), who uses the same technique, but obviously in this case, totally different context and execution. Nonetheless, these are some gorgeous images.
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Igor Vasiliadis is a photographer originally hailing from Russia. Vasiliadis’ editorial works has been featured in numerous publications, such as Flair (Italy), Spoon (USA), Gala, Shape, Hello!, L’Optimum, Playboy Int, Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, Maxim, FHM, Moulin Rouge, and Fashion Collection among countless others. If you’re unfamiliar with traditional wet plate photography (collodion process), get...
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Soft and lovely photos by Marianna Rothen.  I love the way women shoot each other.  I feel that when men shoot naked women they tend to focus on making them look sexy to satisfy their mental boners, while women tend to look for an extra quality or mood from their naked subjects.  Maybe that’s...
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After yesterday’s sampler of Eliot Lee Hazel’s work, the second course is already here. This feature is just as jam packed as the first one, so enjoy.
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Now this doesn’t happen often, but once in a while I’ll come across an artist to feature, and find myself having trouble trying to narrow down a set of images to showcase the said artist’s body of work. Well in cases like this, why not just showcase them all! Hence today, I feature Part...
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Zac Steinic is a photographer based out of both Melbourne and Sydney, Australia.
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Hibiscus Ridiculous is a series dressed by Fred Butler and shot by Elisha Smith. The stylist apparently is on Lady Gaga’s speed dial. When looking closely you can see the trend throughout Gaga’s performances. Check out Fred Butler’s amazing website for more work from styling, installations and set dressing,
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Sean DuFrene is a photographer currently based out of Long Beach, California, USA. I’m sure that some of you may have seen DuFrene’s work floating around the art blogosphere, and the truth of the matter is his clean, precise, perfectly-executed images make me giggle. He combines commercial work with satirical scenes and subject matter...
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Li Wei is a photographer currently based out of Beijing, China. Wei actually started off doing performance pieces, however later moved towards photography depicting himself in apparently gravity-defying situations. All of Wei’s images are not computer generated (or manipulated), but instead, he uses the aid of many props, such as mirrors, metal wires, scaffolding,...
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Happy New Year, peoples.  It’s been a long time.  I’m a bad bunny, but I’m back…   Meet photographer Hal.  He makes me giggle. I think he’s quite romantic in a way.  
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Back in December 2010, all of us here loved Ryan McGinley’s “Moonmilk” series. McGinley has some newer works/series since 2010, and being that he made it to our EK TOP 100 of 2010, we revisit him early this 2012 year to start it off right.
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Vogue Korea’s classic spread ‘Happy Bunny Girl’ photographed by Lee Gun Ho featuring Jang Yoon Ju. The beautiful series portrays South Korea’s traditional wardrobe the Hanbok with a modern contemporary stamp. Featured back in February 2011.
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Current students of Rochester Institute of Technology, Ayaka Ito and Randall Church’s project ‘Cinema Flash Showdown’ creates a series of digital shredded lines. By using HDRI sphere lighting & 3D flash applications they blend their photographic background to achieve the organic finish.
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Brittany Markert is an analog photographer that we featured several months back in October 2011. Markert originally hails from San Francisco, California, USA, but now has relocated across country in New York.
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Jim Sanborn is a visual artist based out of Washington DC. His series are topographic lights that are projected on natural landforms. All of the pieces were photographed at night using long exposures. On moonless nights, the landscape was lit with searchlights. The landforms themselves are quite large, requiring the projector and camera to be, on...
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RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, and the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard may be from the slums of Shaolin, but they have nothing on the real Shaolin monks. Tomasz Gudzowaty is a photo-essayist who has a deep interest in “humanistic photography.” Gudzowaty’s black and white images are stark,...
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