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Rodney Smith is a Yale graduate who now lives in New York. He has distinguished taste and things to say. “He’s old school with a twist.”
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Paulina Otylie Surys is a photographer hailing from the UK…and if you hit up her website, you’ll see the scope of her body of work, which is fairly impressive (just by the sheer number of shoots she has under her belt). Surys’ work is haunting, ghostly, soft, and all beautiful for it.
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Christopher is a rather new and still-developing photographer. However, out of his many images, there were several I saw which made me think about the same thing – home. Some of his images are so capable of making you feel the comfort in the happiness, sadness, loneliness, friendship, and/or whatever other feelings and memories...
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Lissy Elle is a dreamer of fantastical proportions. Luckily, she always has her camera handy to share her imagination to the world. Creatively spontaneous and already immensely driven by her passion for photography, Ms. Elle has compiled a style uniquely akin to Wonderland and beyond.
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Cedric Arnold is a photographer whose powerful portraits of ordinary Thai men, from Buddhist monks to boxers, shamans and policemen, give an amazing insight into the traditional practice of yantra tattoos.
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Michael Ostermann is a photographer currently “burning” in Vienna, Austria. Ostermann’s fashion and commercial work is pretty fuckin’ wicked. I strongly urge folks to check out Ostermann’s site (more particularly his blog section) because there’s a treasure trove of just cool shit to keep you busy for a few hours…especially if you have nothing...
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唯以 (Wei Yi Shi) is a teacher currently based out of Guilin, China. Wei’s photography has a lot of interesting narrative aspects with the use of soft colors that creates a very intriguing ambient setting and mood…I’m digging it.
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Expelled from high school, Aernout Overbeeke is a self-taught photographer who has literally traveled the world for his work behind the lens. Overbeeke works for many international magazines, such as Conde Nast Traveler, NY Times Magazine, House & Garden, and many more. Among Overbeeke’s body of work, today we highlight his “Comedia” series…’nuff said....
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What’s interesting about Bénard is his prevalent use of male models in nude photos. It’s not just the fact that they’re men, there’s also something interesting about the way they are portrayed- a more pliable, sensual version of man rather than their traditional depiction as being rigid and stiff.
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Eefje de Coninck is a photographer hailing from Belgium. Coninck works ranges from commercial, commissioned, and personal work which can all be seen on her site.
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While living in a world where we think we’ve seen it all and pretend to be jaded by the bizarre, Joel Peter Witkin isn’t afraid to show you beauty through his affinity with death and a flare for the macabre.
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Claire Martin is a documentary photographer who initially started her career in Social Work, but later changed her focus to photography after realizing the change that she could assist in bringing about through her work behind the lens. Martin’s work has jolted her to international notoriety for her ongoing photo documentation and essays of...
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Dean Fidelman is from Los Angeles and started climbing at the age of 15 after being inspired by his photo teacher. Many climbers like to think of climbing in numbers, basing their progress on a scale. Dean, however, loves climbing because of the movement, “the spirit” of climbing.
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Sabine Pigalle is a French photographer/stylist that originally studied French literature. Her beautiful series ‘Protectors/Patron Saints’ is a series where each individual portrait represents a different trade during the middle ages. She’s currently working out of Paris while being featured in Asia, Europe and the United States.
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Tokyo Based photographer Hisaji Hara portrays monochrome portraits based on paintings by Balthus. Hara develops minimal, erotic moods through a voyeuristic perspective on the innocence of youth.
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Junku Nishimura is a Japanese photographer who I like to categorize as an organic artist. With a Leica M5 in his hands, his journalistic approach reminds me of the original black and white forefathers. Majority of his photos are captured in rural parts of Japan.
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Stefano Bonazzi is a self-taught web designer and digital artist hailing from Ferrara, Italy. Bonazzi uses a unique combination of techniques from charcoal drawing, photo editing, and digital photography to produce his works.
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Michael Kenna has captured the beauty and essence of the locations of his travels through his stunning photographs. The places he has traveled to range from Russia to Korea, and although all of his photographs are really something, his set of photos from China was highly distinguishable. Kenna has done an amazing job at...
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Raymond Cauchetier is a French photographer and a legend in his own right.  His images from many of the seminal films of the French New Wave are  among the most iconic of all set photos.  His work helped define an era in French filmmaking that changed the world of Cinema forever.
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