Mole Empire As Imagined by Carla Dias

Carla Dias, French make-up artist has got “Mole Empire under her skin”. Not literally, but figuratively of course, with this special effects make-up that she dedicated to us, as part of the “Mole Empire imagined by others” series. With the idea that what we post here on Mole Empire is so sticky that it gets…

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Dara Scully Tells Stories in her Nude Photography [Slightly NSFW]

At only 23 years, Spanish Dara Scully is not just a photographer. She’s a free spirit, a storyteller, and a character in her stories, stories which mix fantasy elements of a child’s world with erotic and nude elements of a grown up’s world. It’s a mysterious world oscillating between two extremes, worth discovering and diving…

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Have Yourself a Very Mole Empire Christmas!

Photo from snooowflake on tumblr 2012 has been an interesting year for Mole Empire. Thanks to some brilliant artists out there our platform has grown and extended to contain a mixture of  photography, art installations, painting, drawing, graphic design, styling, or even artistic creations that are hard to be defined but definitely worth mentioning. We…

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Miniature Worlds Unveil in Christopher Boffoli’s “Big Appetites” Series [Interview]

Tiny figures, meticulously detailed appear as taken from a movie scene in Christopher Boffoli‘s “Big Appetites” series. The humorous scene is humorous unveils itself in surroundings made out of real food environments. Here a strawberry, there some bananas or some pasta, and little people casually fit in the surroundings having a conversation. Each image has…

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Greg Holland’s Art or Transforming Images into Paintings

A self-taught photographer with a background in painting, Greg Holland‘s art is an interesting combination of the two forms of art. Continuously exploring the relation between people and their environments, he focuses on portraiture in which faces emerge or recede from the background. In his day time job, Greg is teaching full time, but recently…

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Andrea Petrachi’s Futuristic Mechanical Sculptures [Interview]

Every day household items come to life in the mechanical sculptures of Andrea Petrachi aka Himatic. Simple things that are thrown away every day are collected by Andrea and assembled in the most ingenious forms, giving birth to original robots that looks as if taken from a sci-fi movie. Toy parts, electronic pieces, or different…

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The Addams Family, a Photo Project by Pauline Darley

Pauline Darley, fashion photographer based in France has put up a fun and realistic photo series about the morbid cartoons “The Addams Family“. Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday, Cousin Itt and even The Thing are brought to life in a modern fashionable portrayal through a black and white photographic series. The series brings up some childhood thoughts…

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Mole Empire as Imagined by Giada Laiso

The key to creativity… is a hurricane of inspiration. That is how Giada Laiso, 21 year old art student and photographer imagined Mole Empire, as part of the “Mole Empire imagined by others” series we just launched. Giada explains the idea behind the two thematic photos dedicated to our website. I thought about how Molempire…

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Mole Empire as Imagined by Markus Reugels

It’s been more than two years since we’ve been gathering and presenting all kinds of art here on Mole Empire. From simple observations, to inspiring stories or to tops that entertain you, we’ve made our best to be a platform where unconventional artists and underground art meet. Later on this year we’ve started our interview…

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Halloween Fashion Look by Alexander Khokhlov

Alexander Khokhlov, the photographer behind the Weird Beauty photo series exclusively sent us his latest fashion look for Halloween. In this little experiment the author created a bold beauty look with a self made pumpkin hat. As simple as it may seem, this summer Moscow was running out of big orange pumpkins because of the…

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Giada Laiso’s Dreamy and Mysterious Photography [Interview]

There are lots of young artists out there trying to be discovered and to show their creations to the public. Giada Laiso, a 21 year art student from Italy is just one of them. Studying photography in Milan and with an inclination towards surrealism, Giada’s imagery features characters as captured from a dream, a dream…

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Museum Anatomy – Recreating Lost Paintings on a Human Body [Interview]

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…

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