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…
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…
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…
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…
Pauline Darley is a young fashion photographer based in Paris. Working as a full time photographer only since 2010, she has an impressive number of series and collaborations for magazines as Marie Claire, L’officiel and Elle. Recently she caught the attention on the web with the series “She has waited too long”, featuring model Clementine…
An engineer turned photographer “by chance”, Italian photographer Manuel Cafini manages to harmoniously combine the technical aspects of photography with the perception and sensitivity of an artist. Entirely self-taught, he has found his visual voice as he’s exploring the art of motion in his works. Here’s our interview with Manuel, in which he tells us…
Remember PLAI festival, the multicultural event we were telling you about earlier this month? A world music festival taking place in Romania in the middle of September in the Banat Village Museum – a place filled with tradition and history, PLAI brings together sonorities from all over the world and hundreds of cultural activities. Patrice,…
Ïve Bastrash‘s movie posters would make any child of the 90s nostalgic about those times when superheroes like “Batman” were our role models and when we used to watch “X-men”, “Pinky and the brain” or “2 Stupid dogs”. With the same cartoon style of the 90s and an eye for monsters, action and sci-fi, Ïve…