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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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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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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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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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Tim Jarosz is a photographer and graphic designer currently based out of Chicago, Illonios, USA.
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Back in August 2010, Richard Mosse was featured on EK for his beautiful photojournalistic set that highlighted Kivu, Congo using infrared photography. We revisit Mosse to check out his newer works, and travel into this particular war-torn region of Congo yet again. Happy Winter to all. May peace, love, and compassion fill all of...
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Originally hailing from Australia, Lachlan Bailey is a fashion and portrait photographer currently based in New York, USA. Bailey’s landscapes look just as good as his commercial work, not to mention as nice as well.
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Zander Olsen’s series is an ongoing collection of constructed photographs rooted in the Forest. These works, carried out in Surrey, Hampshire and Wales, involve site specific interventions in the landscape. Wrapping trees with white material to construct a visual relationship between tree, not-tree and the line of horizon according to the camera’s viewpoint.
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Thunderbolt is a photographer based out of Taichung, Taiwan. The truth of the matter is Mr. Thunderbolt does not consider himself to be a professional photographer at all, and only picks up the camera out of pure enjoyment. Well, please keep shooting Thunderbolt because even as a simple family man that you are, you...
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I spy with my naked eye…a naked man. Ruben Brulat’s photography focuses on the relationship between humans and both the natural and man-made world. “I want to understand why people, groups and societies behave the way they do.”
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Carly Scott is a photographer currently based out of London, UK. Scott just finished a 3 month road trip across America in which she documented her entire journey on http://twentyeightstains.tumblr.com. Today, we showcase a broad sample of Scott’s overall body of work.
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Leif Nash is a photographer based out of Melbourne, Australia. EK likes what Mr. Nash is cooking from down-under. “I am always searching for the essence of my own technique and love to capture the haunting fragility of the natural world as much as figures in the mist of it. I find it more...
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Nick Ballon is a photographer originally hailing from the UK. Ballon’s list of clients stretch from the Guardian Weekend, Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday and Monocle magazine whilst commissioned commercially for Ferrari, Mother and YCN agency.
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Yoshihiko Ueda is a mixed media/photographer from Japan. After graduating from Visual Arts College Osaka, he was Masanobu Fukuda’s & Taiji Arita’s assistant in 1980s. After going independent he created several projects under fashion photography, film productions and advertising. In the end he was so fond of darkroom work he gave special attention to...
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Nicholas Kennedy Sitton is a photographer currently based out of San Francisco, California, USA. There’s nothing like the rollings urban hills of the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.
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Jovan Todorovic is a photographer and director who splits his time between Belgrade, Serbia and Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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(photo credit: Marc West) Hello beautiful people! Last year our impromptu Top 100 mega-post spread like wildfire on the internet, causing both acclamation and controversy (although none of the artists we selected seemed to argue with us)  …so you better believe we’re gearing up for another mega-post featuring our top one hundred favorite artists...
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Originally hailing from Paris, France, Sophie Xu is a photographer currently based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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