Spectacular Winning Photos of The World Press Photo 2022
A selection of images from this year’s World Press Photo 2022 contest, with regional as well as overall winners for the first time, supported by a regional judging process.
Story of the year: Saving Forests with Fire
Indigenous Australians strategically burn land in a practice known as cool burning, in which fires move slowly, burn only the undergrowth, and remove the buildup of fuel that feeds bigger blazes. The Nawarddeken people of West Arnhem Land have been practising controlled cool burns for tens of thousands of years and see fire as a tool to manage their 1.39m-hectare homeland.
“It was so well put together that you cannot even think of the images in disparate ways. You look at it as a whole, and it was very well done” – global jury chair Rena Effendi. Photograph: Matthew Abbott, Australia, for National Geographic/Panos Pictures/World Press Photo 2022 Continue reading »
Embroidered Sculptures of Woodland Treasures by Amanda Cobbett
Every day, Amanda Cobbett walks her dog in the Surrey Hills and observes the minute changes in the woodland around her. The embroidery artist takes note of the different lichen, fungi and bark patterns she finds in different parts of the forest; later, using photographs and a magnifying light, she recreates them in painstaking detail out of thread, paper, papier-mache and silk. Continue reading »
Artist Couple Creates Unapologetic Embroideries With Funny And Honest Quotes
According to an artists: “Hi Everyone! Our names are Karla and Fabricio and we are Lisbon, Portugal-based creatives behind the Rebordação Handmade Embroidery project. Through our creative embroidery hoop art, our mission is to create “embroideries to make your day a little happier and funny.” From Van Gogh to Britney Spears, many well-known figures are represented in our work.” Continue reading »
Youmeng Liu Makes Realistic 3D Embroideries, And They Look Good Enough To Eat
Embroideries have come a long way from just being a traditional art form, and nowadays there’s many masters in the field. Naturally, they all want to make their special mark, and because of that, they keep looking for new paths to explore within the medium. Continue reading »
These Embroidered Landscapes by Katrin Vates are Beautiful
Katrin Vates is an embroidery artist that has started to gain a following online for her beautifully embroidered landscapes. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Images of The Siena Creative Photo Awards 2021
Here is the list of winners of the Siena Creative Photo Awards 2021. Photo of the year won by Iranian photographer Masoud Mirzaei for his photo “The Lake”. It was selected among tens of thousands of images submitted by photographers from 137 countries. The Creative Photo Awards competition includes 17 categories for contemporary photographers, whose innovative approaches to photography challenge the viewer’s expectations and offer surprise and delight at every turn.
The winning images for each category will be showcased at the exhibition “I Wonder If You Can” during the Siena Awards Festival, from October 23rd to December 5th.
Photo of the year – The Lake by Masoud Mirzaei
“Lake Urmia, the largest lake in the Middle East and the sixth-largest saltwater lake on Earth, is located between the provinces of East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan.” Continue reading »
Brilliant Rude Cross Stitches by Katerina Lukashina
When you think of cross stitch, you probably think of Bible quotes hanging off the walls at your grandma’s house. There’s nothing wrong with that, but for those of you who want a little more from your embroidery, check out these hilariously brilliant examples created by Russian-American artist Katerina Lukashina. Continue reading »
This Anesthesiologist Recreates Historical Clothes
History can be something to learn from, something to study, or just plain boring to some people. However, for some, it’s a source of inspiration and a way to unleash their creativity and style. Continue reading »
Artist Creates Intricately Patterned Artworks by Delicately Stitching Colourful Threads Into Leaves
American artist Hillary Waters Fayle creates intricately patterned artworks by delicately stitching colourful threads into leaves. “I want this work to ask people to slow down and think about this leaf – what beauty can be achieved when working with care.” She collects the leaves from her yard or from parks and maps out the design on each one before stitching. Continue reading »
Artist Rufina Bazlova Creates Embroideries Based On The Protests In Belarus
The artist Rufina Bazlova turned traditional Belarusian embroidery into a political statement: she embroidered with a red thread beautiful drawings based on the protests in Belarus against falsifications at the last presidential election. The artist shares her works in a special installation account. Continue reading »
Professor And Microminiaturist Anatoly Konenko Creates A Tiny Protective Mask For Grasshopper
Yevgeny Sofiychuk/TASS
Mini-masks about the size of a rice grain are made of a special high-density medical fabric with a built-in air filter. Continue reading »
To Avoid Coronavirus At Events An Arab Fashion Designer Creates “Soiree Muzzle”
Egyptian fashion designer Samo Hejres designed a wedding dress with a muzzle for combating the spread of coronavirus. Continue reading »
Brilliant Cross Stitches
When you think of cross stitch, you probably thing of Bible quotes hanging off the walls at your grandma’s house. There’s nothing wrong with that, but for those of you who want a little more from your embroidery, check out these hilariously brilliant examples. Continue reading »
Iris van Herpen Creates Futuristic Wearable 3D Printed Pieces
For her collection, Iris Van Herpen channelled ‘wearable myth’ into two new 3D Printed collaborations. Incorporating organic patterns to enhance the body, it’s a new level in wearable prints. Continue reading »
China’s Famous ‘Face-Kini’ Gets Porcelain-Inspired Facelift
Face masks for the beach known as face-kinis have become a curious fashion item in China in recent years. On Wednesday, models showed off the latest designs at a product launch on the sands of Qingdao, the eastern Chinese city where they were first popularized. Continue reading »
Hand-Sewn Hairstyles That Cascade From Embroidered Hoops By Sheena Liam
Fashion model and embroidery artist Sheena Liam hand sews images of women whose hair seems to gracefully dangle from each of her 2D surfaces, Liam using black thread as a substitute for her subjects’ long locks. The works are all completed and displayed on embroidery hoops, with hair styles extending from the women in french braids, messy buns, and long ponytails. In one particular design, tiny pieces of thread are seen attached to the wall below the hoop, creating the illusion that the embroidered woman above is messily trimming her bangs. Continue reading »
Deborah Simon’s ‘Flayed’ Bears Reflect On Human, Animal Relationships
Deborah Simon, a Virginia-born, New York-based artist, creates sculptures that explore “the reality of the animal and the vulnerability imbued in toy.” Though her sculptures appear to be taxidermy, series like “Flayed Animals” are made entirely from hand. She uses materials like polymer clay, faux fur, acrylic paint, wire, foam, glass, and embroidery materials to create these animals, mostly focusing on bears. Continue reading »
Superb Minimalist Botanical Embroideries By Adam Pritchett
Adam Pritchett is an embroidery artist based in Lake District, England, a countryside famous for its forests, lakes, and mountains. From these bucolic surroundings he draws inspiration for his minimalist botanical embroideries that usually feature flowers, vines, and tiny insect inhabitants. For a particularly ingenious series, Pritchett stitched a variety of spiders into the canvas, turning gaping holes in the fabric into spider webs. Continue reading »
Artist Covers Walls With Cross-Stitch Floral Patterns In Street Installations
Set designer and artist Raquel Rodrigo brings the macro details of cross-stitch embroidery to building facades around Madrid. Her colorful installations are prepared beforehand with enlarged cross-stitch techniques utilizing thick string wrapped on wire mesh before each is unrolled and affixed to a surface. The decorative pieces create a fun, pixelated texture that looks completely different close up versus at a distance. Continue reading »
This Urban Artist Creates Amazing Rainbow Colored Art Around The World
French urban artist Mademoiselle Maurice (previously), has traveled the world adding colorful artistic installations for everyone to enjoy. After studying architecture in Lyon, she worked in Geneva and Marseille, before moving to Japan, where she was in 2011, when the devastating earthquakes hit. It was then that she decided to start composing artistic and urban works. Now based in Paris, Mademoiselle Maurice designs and creates colorful installations using origami, lace or embroidery, or other mixed media. Continue reading »
Amazing Street Art By HoodGraff
Snoop Dogg has released T-shirts and accessories featuring Belarusian embroidery patterns and professing the U.S. rapper’s “love” for Belarus. The items were designed by HoodGraff, a group of street artists from the Belarusian city of Vitebsk. The artists chose to relocate to Russia earlier this year after being fined $1,700, a substantial sum in Belarus. Their offense: attempting to paint a mural of the late, internationally acclaimed Belarusian writer Vasil Bykov, a vocal critic of Lukashenka, during a street-art festival in Minsk. Here’s a selection of some of HoodGraff’s work. Continue reading »
Cross-Stitched Fashion Ads by Inge Jacobsen
A fashion campaign for a Danish jeweler is reworked in cross-stitch by artist Inge Jacobsen, with weight photographs transformed into a mashup of modern realism and soft, vintage-looking embroidery. Certain elements, like a chrome teapot and the jewelry that is the focus of the campaign, are left unstitched so they gleam strangely against the tactile qualities of the thread. Continue reading »
Bear Sculptures Embroidered with Anatomy
Bears are seemingly turned inside-out with embroidery of their anatomy in stunning lifelike sculpture by Deborah Simon. Measuring about two feet square, the sculptures reveal internal organs, musculature, skeletons and nerves. The series highlights how human desire for their pelts puts these majestic creatures in danger.
“Bears are the ultimate stuffed animals; both the iconic plush toy and the prized taxidermy specimen for hunters,” says Simon. “Most of the sculptures deal with vulnerability; the vulnerability that the animals face from environmental degradation, conflicts with people, suburban sprawl and poaching. I particularly find the dichotomy between the defanged, declawed childhood toy and the fierce reality of a top predator fascinating.” Continue reading »
Saatchi Collection
The Art Gallery of South Australia is exhibiting selected works from the collection of London advertising executive Charles Saatchi. Critic Christopher Allen says much of the work, such as this portrait of pop star Cher, is “simultaneously pseudo-critical and [has an] utterly indulgent attitude to mass culture”.
Pink Cher (2009), by Scott King; paint on canvas. Continue reading »
