Artist Interview: Keiko McCartney with Insights on Photography

It was our pleasure to discover Keiko’s work when she first submitted her work to be featured on our blog. She’s Spanish, she’s 22 years old and has an extraordinary talent for photography. Currently she’s a freelance photographer and writer. To find out more about her journey and discover her amazing work, she was kind…

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Miguel Vallinas Explores Identity in the Skins Series

Miguel Vallinas Prieto, Spanish photographer focused on advertising and industrial photography, is the creative mind behind two interesting series: “Skins” and “Second Skins”. In his work, the artist commonly explores landscape and nature photography, cityscape or contemporary architecture and portraits. Carefully crafted works of planning lighting, location and techniques, his images prompt reflection and contemplation….

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An Interview with Shaun the Sheep Producer and Animator Peter Lord

A dark, amorphous figure stands by a blackened pewter cauldron and is more like a ghost than a homogeneous form. It stares into the black pit that endlessly snaps and crackles like Meg and Mog’s breakfast, eternally bubbling whilst a figure slowly evolves, getting clearer and clearer. The form comes up to the top of…

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The Artistic Sensitivity of a Film-maker: An Interview with Guillermo Barreira

The career of Spanish film-maker Guillermo Barreira started with the success of his documentary Soccer Stories, taking second prize at the sports film festival Marca in 2007. An award was also won at the Festival de Cortos de La casa Encendida de Cajamadrid for Burking, but this belies unique personal experiences. His artistic journey has encompassed…

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Interview with Master Glass Sculptor Henry Richardson

Named 2012 Design Artist of the Year by the  Design Center of the Americas, master glass artist Henry Richardson is an innovator into the field of glass sculpture. With techniques known primarily to architects, the artist uses hand-chiseled plates of glass fused through a high-intensity light welding process he innovated. Taking mainly large-scale forms, his sculptures feel translucent…

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Hide Away from the World in Jessica Tremp’s Photography [Interview]

There is something in Jessica Tremp‘s imagery that makes you feel like home wherever you are watching it. Natural lighting, mostly outdoor locations, nudity here and there, but a type of innocent nudity that tends very little towards eroticism is what her photography shows. A Melbourne based photographic artist, Jessica came to our attention with her latest…

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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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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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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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Tata Christiane Fashion or the Absurd Vision of Beauty

Tata Christiane is a fashion label based in Berlin who redefines the idea of beauty. Tata and Hanrigabriel, the artists behind the name of the label experiment with extremes, mixing the grotesque, the absurd with the extravagant in colorful and bold collections. Playing with the borders of elegance and bad taste, they produce unique pieces…

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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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