Magda Przybycien - photography

 

I believe that simple is the best. If something's functional, the aesthetics will find themselves in austerity. Art's a bit more complicated than that, because it lacks defined function, therefore fanciness sometimes indeed is a requirement. But not here. Kept as a kind of journal, these photographs surprise with the story behind them, their elements held together guide us through some kind of visual journey. Yes, right, I know, ninety-eight percent of photography does that. But not as cleanly and neatly as those. Something that Henri Cartier-Bresson called the Decisive Moment. Wouldn't you agree? Sometimes, they also resemble the great Urban Patterns series, but that's wholly different thing...

I promised not to share her webpage.

Jean-François Rauzier - Hyperphotography

What's the best resolution a modern camera can achieve? Do you know? If you do, forget it - that's the past now, as French photographer Jean-François Rauzier will beat it. This hardened by his countless achievements fanatic spends few hours scanning a place with his camera and few hundreds more blending images seamlessly into one, grand fantastic landscape  Unique, surreal, time-consuming work. And the effects.

Don't watch them here. Go to his website where you can zoom and wander around them!

Sherif Elhage - Photography

These are all real. That is how I'd like to start before you start viewing the photographs. Left unmodified, those half-abstract shots are made using only a camera and the natural surroundings. The white stripes in the middle of a picture? Flag poles. Black outlines? A cave. Very imaginative use of the world, however weird it sounds. Wonderful imagination of a young French photographer, Sherif Elhage who worked on nearly everything in the wide "world of art" - from advertisements to fashion.

Laurent Chehere - Photography

Laurent Chehere is a man who follows his dreams. Working as a photographer, traveling around the world. And when living a dream, it is easy to be inspired by one - and that seems to be the case with his "Flying Houses". Edited pictures of Parisian buildings mid-air with ropes attached to them are certainly imaginative!

Andreas Kuhn - Urban Patterns

Often we regard art as something carefully prepared and thoughtful, made with an intention to spark an emotion within the viewer-recipient. But we forget that art is all around us - most of the time unintentional art that acquires this status by being stimulating to our senses. "Neither they want to please nor make a point. they’re just there: findings »en passant« collected passing by." as writes Andreas Kuhn, a photographer who decided to hunt those little things in form of patterns that happen to be all around us - but from a right angle, they become much more.

Urban Patterns tumblr

Connie Imboden - Photography

Connie Imboden is one of the most known artistic photographer in the world - most of the major museums of modern art has at least one of her work. While we tend to feature young and relatively unknown creators, let's take a look at someone with over twenty-five years of experience.

Imboden photographs people - naked bodies in surreal motions, cut in half, disappearing and twisting into abstract shapes. Her earlier work focuses on those figures and correlations that enter our subconsciousness upon seeing it - the shots are much more distorted and edited. On the other hand, the work from 2011 and newer, while staying true to the style she worked on her whole life, introduces colour red and is more about straightforward emotion rather than mind tricks.

Aisha Zeijpveld - Photography

Aisha Zeijpveld is a photographer who recreates themes from Picasso and Schiele using Escher-esque perspective with surreal atmosphere. I don't think there could be possible more to these minimalistic shots that with great imagination reflect various themes. A bit morbid, a bit fabulous her pictures are thoughtful, artistic and draw you into them, whether you are willing to enter or not.

Artist's page.

Jay Shuster - Photography

"I take pictures of truisms, I also like to play around with the idea that an image can initially look very familiar yet after looking at it for a few more seconds you start to notice things un-familiar." - writes Shuster about himself. But his photomanipulations are one thing. I really like the clearness of his photographs - just the lines, the colors, nothing more. No unnecessary details that command your attention besides the photographed objects and space. Ascetic and pure, whether in destruction or futuristic daft punk themes.

Source: http://jayshuster.com/

Gilbert Garcin - Photography

Most of the time artists we feature here are young and fresh. And there's nothing wrong with that - they are imaginative, deserve recognition which I, in a still too small quantity, supply. But today I want to write about my favourite photographer and a very curious person. Gilbert Garcin got interested in photography when he was sixty-five. He is now eighty-three and still creates. And here, his life experience make his work more imaginative and original than that of any youngster.

Source: http://www.gilbert-garcin.com/index.htm

Kyle Thompson - self-portraits

Kyle Thompson is a young, aspiring photographer who specializes in self-portraits. Vain? Wouldn't say so, after seeing them. Original and imaginative.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyle_thompson/

Anton Surkov - Dust Portraits

Anton Surkov is an Ukrainian photographer who shoots people covered in dust. Yes, you read that right and yes, it sounds wrong, but what can you do? Today we feature some of his works, but I really like his portraits. Always check out the source, guys!

Source: http://500px.com/BALDMAN

Martynka Wawrzyniak - photgrahy

Born in Poland, living in NYC, Mrs. Wawrzyniak is full of interesting concepts and imaginative works. A bit harsh, but playful and thoughtful representation of certain aspects of today.

Source: http://www.martynka.com/