Chadwick Gray and Laura Spector are the masterminds of a complex project titled Museum Anatomy. By using Chadwick’s body as a human canvas, works from museums around the world are recreated into an unrecognizable human form and then documented through photography. The painting itself is very elaborate, and Chadwick’s position is a key element in…
Remember the Weird Beauty project by Russian photographer Alexander Khokhlov and make-up artist Valeriya Kutsan? By denying any color, this photo project features model faces used as a canvas to emphasize various familiar symbols, as part of a beauty look. This time the artists chose even more complex signs, which blended perfectly with the features…
We’ve written a lot about surrealist photography on Mole Empire, and we’ve seen as many surrealist artists. It’s an interesting type of art to stretch your imagination, but the thing with surrealist imagery is that it is highly manipulated most of the times. Paul Biddle‘s photography is a playful and ironic one, with influences from…
Photographer Clayton Cubitt has a new approach to female sexuality through sensual literature in his video project titled “Hysterical literature”. Women filmed in a black and white setting are sitting at a table, dressed as for a date and reading their favorite passage from a book. They start giggling, laughing and loose control over their…
Julie de Waroquier is a French self-taught photographer who explores surreal and fantasy worlds, questioning the reality through her photographic projects. Reminiscent of Lissy Elle’s photography, but with a more subtle and dreamy approach, Julie’s imagery means fairy tales, illusions and female characters levitating or simply trapped in parallel worlds, all transmitted with a nostalgic…
With the movie scene feeding the public with the same commercial movies on and on, stumbling across some interesting movie projects is more and more rare. Recently I’ve had the pleasure to discover three short movies which deal with themes we’re not really used to see in films: Crestfallen, Contact and Drool, three powerful stories…
London based artist Mark Powell has a rather unusual way of practicing the art of drawing. Using antique envelopes as canvases, he draws incredibly vivid portraits of elderly people using only a biro pen. His artistic path is also an unconventional one just as his art, so we got in touch with him for an…
Exploring the similarities between two family members, Ulric creates original portraits by joining the faces of the two persons through a common characteristic, like the eyes, the lips or the nose. The result is an intriguing portrait of one harmoniously person or a totally contrasting portrait of two apparently different persons. His Genetic Portraits have…
Russian photographer Alexander Khokhlov‘s new series “Weird Beauty” in collaboration with wonderful make-up artist Valeriya Kutsan displays a new approach to beauty through brilliant black and white imagery. Instead of the natural beauty of the model, the emphasis is put on various familiar shapes which are painted on the model’s face, also creating a brilliant optical…
Luzinterruptus, the anonymous art group who highlights the beauty of public spaces using only light and creativity, turned the appearance of the cold Federation Plaza from Melbourne into a cozy space filled with lit up books. By recreating a similar installation they carried in New York – Literature vs Traffic, the pedestrian space was flooded…
Somewhere between Terry Border‘s hilarious Bent Objects and the conceptual photography of Horacio Salinas, Romanian photographer Dan Cretu assembles edible sculptures of regular objects made entirely out of food items. Adding a new twist to the food photography, he names the colorful creations “eco art”, name inspired by his fans’ community. Having worked in advertising,…
Freelance graphic designer, post producer and photographer Manuel Bravi is an Italian mixed digital artist based in Milan who loves to create a surreal atmosphere of mystery and horror in his photography. With an inclination towards erotic and nude photography, he displays a world where passion, loneliness, pain and melancholy are portrayed. He’s also interested…