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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Sabine Pigalle
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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Hisaji Hara
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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Erik Ravelo
Erik Ravelo is a Cuban artist that threads all physical spectrum’s of love. His latest series Lana Sutra is sponsored by United Colors of Benetton. The artist crosses borders by branching out on the diversity of culture, humanity and uniting us as one.
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Martin Klimas
Martin Klimas is a German photographer that’s recently captured the process of crashing porcelain figures. Shooting at a high speed frame rate, each of his sculptures we’re approximately dropped at a height of ten feet. As a frozen result, the explosion in motion brings the martial movements to life.
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M&C Saatchi XXX
M&C Saatchi is a “federation of entrepreneurs” (designers and the likes) from design firms all over the world who are brought together and united by a strong philosophy: “Brutal Simplicity of Thought”. If you haven’t heard by now, online pornographic websites not will have to switch their web domains to “.xxx” (instead of .com,...
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Monsieur Cauchetier
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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EK Interview: Kristiina Wilson
Kristiina Wilson can violate Newton’s third law. Also she can seal all of her epidermal cells, completely close her eyes, nose and mouth, perfectly cover her ears with her hands and see with her mind. Because of these anomalies she can travel through space. Kristiina has verified that Titan has a methanological cycle. NASA...
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EMPTY KINGDOM TOP 100 Artists of 2011
(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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Exploding Food Photography
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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Igor Vasiliadis’ Wet Plate Fashion
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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Gentle Creatures
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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Zac Steinic
Zac Steinic is a photographer based out of both Melbourne and Sydney, Australia.
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Fred Butler
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 makes me smile.
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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Shrink Wrap my Heart
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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Happy Bunny Girl: Vogue Korea
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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Frieke Janssens
Frieke Janssens is a commercial and advertising photographer hailing from Brussels, Belgium. What’s better than images of cute children? Cute children smoking tobacco products, of course! As some of you may have noticed, EK has been back online for a few days now after being down momentarily during a much needed maintenance and update....
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Gabriela Camerotti
Gabriela Camerotti is a photographer based out of São Paulo, Brazil.
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