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Side-By-Side Photos Show How Tragically Different Life Is In War-Torn Countries

News broadcasts and stories on social media highlight the casualties and destruction of war in the Middle East. It’s a sad truth that daily life in the Middle East is the polar opposite of the relatively peaceful culture that many of us in the Western world know. Artist Uğur Gallenkuş is showcasing just how tragic the contrast in daily life can be between these two parts of our planet. Continue reading »

“When Worlds Collide”: The Strange, Beautiful And Surreal Mash-Up Art Of Igor Skaletsky

Let me take you down to the strange and enticing world of Igor Skaletsky where nothing is really quite what it seems and his art is presented like a dazzling fashion spread for a high end glossy magazine. Continue reading »

“Can’t Stop Feeling”: Spectacular Dreamlike Photo Manipulations By Jeff Kepler

Surreal photo manipulations by Jeff Kepler, a gifted photographer, art director, and graphic designer currently based in Hermosa Beach, California. Jeff focuses mainly on lifestyle photography and photo manipulations. Continue reading »

Dreamlike Photo Manipulations By Hansruedi Ramsauer

Creative photo manipulations by Hansruedi Ramsauer, a gifted self-taught digital artist and web designer currently based in Bachenbülach, Switzerland. Hansruedi was born in 1966 in St.Gallen, Switzerland. He creates some awesome photo manipulations. Continue reading »

Meet Sara Shakeel, The Original Crystal Artist

Stretch marks are a totally normal part of life, but they are often the subject of shame or embarrassment. Instead of viewing stretch marks as something negative or worth hiding, one artist is showing how beautiful they really are. Continue reading »

Wonderfully Interpretive Paper Collages Depicting Popular Cats And Dogs Of Instagram

Artist Lola Dupre has created a wonderful series of interpretive, hand paneled paper collages that depict popular cats and dogs of Instagram. Continue reading »

Incredibly Strange Collages That Will Make You Very Uncomfortable

Johnny Smith is an LA-based actor and artist who makes some pretty weird pieces of collage art. Continue reading »

Artist Austin Light Makes Funny Collages From Boring Stock Photos

According to an artist: “I work in marketing, so I see a lot of stock photos. I thought it would be fun to add animals and descriptions to some of the strange images I found. So I did that, every day during the month of May.” Continue reading »

Surreal And Spiritual Photo Collages By David Stenbeck

Identity, sensuality… the pictures David Stenbeck publish question as much as they impress. Fascinated by colours and bodies intertwining, this Helsingborg (Sweden) based photographer defines himself as a “spiritual misleader”. Continue reading »

“Lamb Of Future”: Cyberpunk Noire Fashion Collages By Alexander Berdin-Lazursky

Alexander Berdin-Lazursky is a multi-talented 34-year-old photographer, digital artist, designer and educator from Samara, Russia who currently lives and works in NYC. Alexander focuses on portraiture, he shoots amazing fashion, beauty, lifestyle and fine art portrait photography. Continue reading »

Artist Collective Creates Dreamlike Collages Related To Digital & Post-Modern Russian Existentialism

Andrei Kochergin, Eugene Zubkov, Victor Mogilat, Lev Pereulkov and “Gentlemen of Luck”, a group of Russian artists, created a collaborative art project called MXD that turns ordinary life in Russia into a parallel post-modern reality. Continue reading »

Stunning Surreal Photo Collages By Aidan Sartin Conte

Aidan Sartin Conte is a talented photographer, artist and graphic designer who was born in 1977 in Pescara, Italy and currently lives and works in Washington, DC, USA. Continue reading »

“The Lady Of Dreams”: Surreal Vintage Photo Collages From The No-Photoshop Era By Grete Stern

It is no news that women have historically found it harder to develop themselves as professionals in diverse male-dominated work environments. This is even truer in the case of female artists in the 1930s: Stern had to struggle against all imaginable and unimaginable odds, in order to become one of the pioneers of modern photography in Argentina and a referent of protest art in the world. Continue reading »

“Reforming The Built Environment”: Architecture Photo Collages By Michael Jantzen

Michael Jantzen is a conceptual artist, designer, architect, inventor and engineer currently based in Los Angeles, California. Michael explores art, architecture and design in his imaginative renderings of conceptual buildings and structures inspired by nature, technology and science. He describes this series as a surreal reinterpretation of known structures such as houses, churches, apartment buildings, and other conventional built forms, including furniture. Continue reading »

Artist Hussam Eissa Creates Dark And Surreal Collages That Bring Spectacular Scenes To Life

Photographer, art director and graphic designer based in Alexandria, Egypt, Hussam Eissa creates amazing manipulations that bring to life our craziest dreams. Hussam studied Electromechanical Engineering in Alexandria University. Currents of surrealism run through each story as whale fly through the sky, Eissa leads us into a dreamlike and poetic universe. Continue reading »

Street Memories: Surreal Digital Collages By Nacho Ormaechea

Nacho Ormaechea is a talented Spanish artist, photographer, graphic designer and art director currently lives and works in Paris, France. Nacho studied illustration and graphic design at Ecole Estienne. He uses digital collages to imagine the stories of the people he comes across on the street. Continue reading »

Surreal Architectural Collages By Beomsik Won

Beomsik Won is an professional Korean photographer and artist who currently lives and works in Seul. Beomsik received his M.F.A. in Photography from Hongik University and M.F.A. in Fine Art Media from UCL University. To Won architecture is a language that can be expanded, reduced, and manipulated at will. For his latest ‘Archisculpture Project’, Korean artist assembled from photos of diverse architectural buildings by various architects. While studying at the Slade School of Art, Won was inspired by the eclectic variety of London architecture, but felt that to photograph the buildings he admired individually would only amount to a database, when what he sought was a creative response to his experiences in the city. Continue reading »

These Trippy Collages Got Phillip Kremer Kicked Off Of Social Media

Endlessly entertaining, often hilarious collages of celebrities, politicians, and ordinary people are at the crux of artist Phillip Kremer’s infamy. He makes art that is as interesting as the stories behind his creations. After hosting his first art show in the bathroom of a dive bar 20 years after his final art class in high school, Kremer found new excitement in making art once again. The series of collages started from Google searches of “blank face” when Kremer couldn’t find anything. Continue reading »

Artist Joe Webb Creates Cynical And Shocking Collages That Tell The Uncomfortable Truth About Our Modern World

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Joe Webb uses vintage magazines and printed ephemera that he has collected to create simple but elegant hand-made collages, no Photoshop manipulation is allowed. Webb reimagines the imagery using simple and concise edits, transforming the original scene into something altogether more surreal. Continue reading »

Days Of Future Past: Natural Act Collages By Merve Özaslan

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We tried to get in touch with Turkey-based photographer Merve Özaslan for quite a while now and finally we succeeded. So we gladly present her creative photo collages that merge multiple images into one narrative. She’s using vintage black and white photos that she blends with fragments of nature to create visual stories. She fits the natural elements into shapes of bodies, windows and floors to boldly interrupt the old-fashioned events with modern, color components. Her images are vivid and talk about the joys of life, reminding us to live everyday to the fullest. Continue reading »

Large Scale Surreal Architectural Collages By Anastasia Savinova

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Anastasia Savinova is a russian-born visual artist currently living and working in Sweden whose background in architectural studies has led her to create these intriguing large scale collages. Continue reading »

Three-Dimensional Human Collages Encased in Layers of Glass

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Brooklyn-based contemporary artist Dustin Yellin has received worldwide recognition for his technique to creating large-scale, fantastical collages encased within layers of glass. Psychogeographies, his newest exhibition commissioned by the New York City Ballet for the annual Art series, is a collection of life-size humanoid figures. Continue reading »

Surreal Collages Of Cambodian Trees Mixed With Traditional Art By Clement Briend

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French photographer Clément Briend projected giant gargoyle heads on to trees at Parc de Saint-Cloud near Paris. Continue reading »

Unusually Beautiful Architectural Collages by Matthias Jung

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German graphic artist Matthias Jung creates collages of fictional structures that seemingly turn the logic of architecture upside down. Buildings sprout mountains populated by livestock, homes hover in mid-air, and contrasting architectural styles are fused together in strangely harmonious ways like something straight out of a Terry Gilliam movie. You can see more of Jung’s work on his website where he also has a number of prints available. Continue reading »

Amazing Surreal Photo Collages by Elena Vizerskaya

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Collage, photo-manipulation, photo-design are rather only the technical features of Elena‘s approach that allow her to create uncommon and often surrealistic worlds perceived by a spectator intuitively, on the emotional level. It is a special space that looks rather like a dream filled with reflections and allusions. A space where many things meant to be felt, not understood, where you come back again and again. Continue reading »