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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sandy Kim is a beloved photographer that EK has featured back in December 2010. Not to mention, Kim also made it to our EK TOP 100 of 2010, and before the 2011 year comes to a close, we wanted to check back with her to scope out her new images since last year.
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Jonathan Auch is a photographer currently based out of New York, USA. Love it or loathe it…support it or hate it…the OCCUPY Movement has truly sparked an international flame demanding social change and financial reform from the top down. Auch closely followed the OCCUPY WALLSTREET movement from day one of their encampment in Zucotti...
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Phyllis Galembo‘s previous photography series is a Nigerian ritual based on the spirituality of masquerades. His group followed other religious cultures for decades in Brazil, Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti as well.
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Platonov Pavel is a Russian photographer/designer that creates his own obscure layouts for the head. The photographer is well known for his unique wooden and three dimensional objects but his latest piece is focused on jewelry.
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Who doesn’t like a good, healthy, bountiful, green harvest? Mathieu Young is a photographer currently based out of Los Angeles, California, USA, but originally hails from Northern California. Set in an undisclosed secret location, Young documents a regular day of a successful harvest for those with medical cards to enjoy some of the green-est...
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Matthieu Belin is a photographer based out of Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. Belin shoots beautiful commercial/fashion photos, as well as great portrait and documentary photos.
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Anita Dadà is a wonderfully spirited photographer hailing out of Italy. I say bring it…if you’re going to embrace fine art photography, go all the way as Dadà does in her work. Fearless, real, a bit dirty, and everything else in between including beautiful, Dadà brings it. And may I say that her some...
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Dank hotel rooms, cold beds, still hallways, damp sidewalks, neon lights buzzing overhead, prostitutes, trannys undergoing sex reassignment surgery, and everything else in between are just few of the many subjects that photographer Silabin ณวิทยุ shoots.
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