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…

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…

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…

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…

German photographer Markus Reugels is a passionate of macro photography who captures unique liquid forms which he generates only with the help of water and colored ink. Using his imagination, and no photo manipulation at all, the artist freezes beautiful images of “liquid art”, images the human eye fails to notice otherwise. Luckily for high…

Lissy Elle Laricchia is a young 18 year old photographer based in Canada. Exploring fantasy worlds which most of the times feature female characters or even herself as the main character, her imagery emanates a certain magic filled with a vintage vibe. Childhood fairy tales reinvented, tea parties, tutus, levitating girls, childish adventures with monsters…

Alexander Yakovlev is a professional photographer from Moscow, Russia. His work caught our attention upon seeing his photo series of dancers, an impressive collection of ballerinas, break dancers or just professional dancers captured in a perfect balance. Unlike Manuel Cafini, another photographer with a soft spot for motion photography and dancers, who focuses on the…

Photographer and painter Ted VanCleave recently released a new series titled “Behind the Hollywood Sign”, a fine art photographic collection portraying the famous Hollywood Sign as it has never been seen before. The unique perspective lies in capturing the Sign from behind the letters, offering in this way both an idea of its architecture, but…