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(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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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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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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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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Brice Bischoff is a photographer originally hailing from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Do caves have auras? Why not. Currently, Bischoff is based out of Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Coach Moon is a “photographer of delectable perversions” who shoots “sexual not sexy” images for his sets. It’s always nice to go from X-mas holiday stuff to near XXX-rated, right?
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Gabriela Camerotti is a photographer based out of São Paulo, Brazil.
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Sandy Skoglund (Quincy, Massachusetts) is a photographer and a surreal installation artist. Skoglund creates imaginative sets and carefully places overwhelming amount of animals, objects as well as people. After studying in France, New York and Iowa she gathered her studies in filmmaking, multimedia art, printmaking and much more.
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Vanitas- A group of three supernatural beings, a photographer, stylist and an illustrator uniting and brazing a collage baby. In current issue of I Love You Magazine published the collaboration of Ashkar Honarvar, stylist Kathi Kauder & photographer Sabrina Theissen. With their direction in clothes, color and substitution the collage has a violent retrospective...
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David Olkarny is a photographer/filmmaker residing in Bruxelles, Belgium. His portfolio is a very conceptual piece, which alters the viewers reality with a taste of fashion.
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Andrea Quarantotto is a photographer originally hailing from Bologna, Italy. Quarantotto is the founder of Up-and-Coming Style, an online fashion magazine.
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Lydia Roberts is yet another young and extremely talented photographer that we’ve stumbled across that is only going to get better as she continues her work. It’s mind-blowing how many young photographers under 21 years old (This is generally speaking, of course. I believe Roberts is currently under 18 years old) possess such a...
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Matt Wisniewski is a pretty impressive guy…being that he’s a super smart web developer based in Brooklyn, New York, USA who also makes pretty awesome photo-collages and digitally manipulated photo pieces. It should be noted that Wisniewski makes it clear that he doesn’t take all the photos himself, but the post-production digital work is...
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