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Breathtaking Adventure Winners from the 2024 Nature’s Best Photography Awards

Outdoor Adventure: Winner – “Highliner during annual Solar Eclipse” by Belva Hayden, USA
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The 2024 Nature’s Best Photography Awards spotlight 11 stunning adventure outdoor images, capturing the beauty of rugged landscapes, serene wilderness, and dramatic wildlife encounters. These masterpieces celebrate the thrill of exploration while emphasizing the need to protect the fragile ecosystems that make such moments possible. Continue reading »

Mysterious Soviet Leningrad City in Noir and Atmospheric Photographs by Boris Smelov

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Boris Smelov (1951–1998) was a prominent Russian photographer and one of the key figures of the Soviet underground art scene. Continue reading »

Photographer Don Hong-Oai Captured Traditional Chinese Aesthetics with Imaginary Landscapes of Timeless Beauty

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Don Hong-Oai (1929–2004) was a Chinese-born photographer renowned for his distinctive style that melded traditional Chinese painting aesthetics with photographic techniques. Continue reading »

Spring, Death and Rebirth: Beautiful Concept Artworks and Illustrations of Quanyi

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Quanyi is a Chinese freelance illustrator and concept artist based in Guiyang, China. Specializing in visual art, Quanyi has made significant contributions to the entertainment industry, particularly in concept design and illustration. His work is characterized by a unique blend of architectural elements and imaginative landscapes, reflecting their background in architecture. Continue reading »

Beautiful Paintings of Women by Harrison Fisher in the Early 20th Century

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Harrison Fisher, born around 1875 in Brooklyn, New York City, began drawing at an early age and launched his illustration career in 1898 with the *San Francisco Call* and the *San Francisco Examiner*, becoming renowned for his captivating portraits of women that earned him acclaim as the successor to Charles Dana Gibson. Continue reading »

Amazing Landscape-Winning Photos From The Fine Art Photography Awards 2024

1st Place Winner: Curves of Fjords by Eva Chupikova
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The Fine Art Photography Awards 2024 honored the exceptional talent of amateur photographers in its Outstanding Amateur Category, highlighting stunning landscape images that beautifully captured the natural world’s essence. Continue reading »

Impressive and Sensual Oil Paintings by Gabrielle Dobrzelewski

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Based in US, Gabrielle Dobrzelewski creates oil paintings that serve as points of departure for exploring larger topics of interest—desire, anxiety, femininity, queerness, and the invisible threads that connect us to one another. Continue reading »

Impressive Vintage Posters Designed by Eric de Coulon

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Born in Neuchâtel in 1888, Swiss artist Eric de Coulon, who studied architecture at ETH Zurich and later moved to Paris, is best remembered for inventing the “lettre sujet” technique, designing tourist posters in an elegant Art Deco style, and creating dynamic compositions for the Klausenrennen car races, before his death in 1956 at age 68. Continue reading »

Horrible Photographs of Damaged Cars From the 1994 Northridge Earthquake

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The 1994 Northridge earthquake struck the San Fernando Valley in southern California on January 17, becoming the most destructive quake in the state since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the costliest in U.S. history. Continue reading »

Artist Creates Beautiful Photorealistic Posthumous Portraits of People on Gravestones

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People always want to keep the memory of their deceased loved ones alive. Even if they are simple portraits on granite slabs. This tradition is many years old, but it does not get old with time. Continue reading »

Brainless Carcass to Consume: Diabolic, Horror and Macabre Artworks of Alberto Salinas Molina

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Alberto Salinas Molina is an artist from Mexico. In his works he shows human pain, fears and hellish suffering. Basically, he shows what humanity well deserves. Continue reading »

The English Dance of Death: Thomas Rowlandson’s Scathing Memento Mori 1814-1816

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The Danse Macabre probably arose in early 15th century Europe as a response to the widespread deaths caused by The Black Death plague. The English Dance of Death by Thomas Rowlandson was released in under-subscribed installments between 1814 and 1816. Continue reading »

Death, Despair And Bloodborne: Superb Art By Rob Bowyer

Rob Bowyer is a freelance illustrator from the UK who draws very sad pictures. Most of them are skeletons and all sorts of monstrous creatures in depressing, ghastly locations. That said, Bowyer’s artwork even looks very stylish – you could put each one on your desktop or wherever young people are putting pictures nowadays. Continue reading »

Faces of Death: Macabre Art by Vladimir Chebakov

Vladimir Chebakov is a Russian artist, based in Prague, who paints a demonic chthon. His images, subtly reminiscent of Beksinski’s work, are so dark and disturbing that it is impossible not to be fascinated by their dark aesthetic. Continue reading »

The Many Faces of Death in Monochromatic Artworks of CVSPE

In a chaotic world – as ours has never seemed so clearly to be – one can answer it with reason, although that voice could just as well scream into the void. Or, one could answer with chaos. Esotericism, magick and other forms of spiritual expression rely on that which is unknown, unprovable and largely, an agent of chaos. In this realm, CVSPE’s illustrations capture the mood. Continue reading »

The Ordinary Life of Anubis, a God of Death, in Melancholic Illustrations by Joanna Karpowicz

There’s a mystery in each of these intriguing paintings, pulling you into their depths. The figure of Anubis seems to be an outsider waiting to participate in each painting’s story – like yourself as an observer of the image. Continue reading »

Spitting In The Face Of Christ: The Superb Blasphemous Horror Art Of Paolo Girardi

Surely if our meagre planet were overtaken by skeleton soldiers, leather winged giant insects, goat human hybrids, rats, cosmic storms and serpent lords, this is what it would look like. Paolo Girardi is fucking possessed with an intrinsic vision to put the most barbaric, and rusted atmospheres into carnal shape. Continue reading »

“Asylum Of Shadows”: Horror, Nightmares And Dreams In Metal Albums Art By Ken Sarafin

“Metal bands want to portray the opposite of a happy life on their album covers,” says Ken Sarafin, and the Vale of Pnath frontman knows from whence he speaks. In addition to creating the awe-inducing artwork for his band’s latest release, The Prodigal Empire, Sarafin has illustrated at least a dozen album covers for an array of acts, both local and national, including Axeslasher, Listen to Reason, Exotype, Acedia, Arcania, Blue Waffle and Voiceless Location, among others. Continue reading »

“The Womb Beyond The World”: Dark Illustrations By Mexican Artist Tavo Santiago

Tavo Santiago is a freelance designer situated in Orizaba. Mexico. Even though he is specialized in digital art, his central works are character illustrations dark in nature. The main theme of his illustrations is death, usually on playing cards. Skeletons, wounds, swords and knives, magic and the spiritual, these are all things you can see on his dark digitalized drawings – both in color and nature. Continue reading »

Miyu Kojima Creates Miniature Replicas Of Lonely Deaths

Twenty six-year old Miyu Kojima works for a company that cleans up after kodokushi (孤独死) or lonely deaths: a Japanese phenomenon of people dying alone and remaining undiscovered for a long period of time. The instances first began to be reported around 2000, and are thought to be a product of increased social isolation coupled with a greying population. Continue reading »

Merry Imperial Christmas With Star Wars Death Star Tree Topper

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Have yourself a Merry Imperial Christmas! This new officially-licensed Star Wars Death Star Tree Topper lights up red or blue with green in the laser dish. And it even plays the iconic Star Wars main theme and Imperial March. You control it with a remote control featuring the Imperial crest. Continue reading »

Death Anxiety Comics Inspired By Our Fears

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When I Die I’ll be a dead man and all my fears would become reality. It’s a personal comics series of death anxiety stories. Continue reading »

Meet Ladybeard, A Cross-Dressing Wrestler And Death Metal Singer From Australia

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This hairy, smiling, cross-dressed man is the latest sensation in Japan, but his fame is growing beyond the borders of the Asian country! He’s Australian and his real name is Richard Magarey, but you can call him Ladybeard. Continue reading »

The Face of Death

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This stunning photographic series is a collaboration between the British photographer Rankin and the talented Andrew Gallimore. These images offers faces are completely transformed by decorations and make-up, made on the occasion of the Mexican day ‘Dia de Los Muertos’. Continue reading »

Death of a Giants


A marine rescue worker photographs a sperm whale that washed up on Portobello beach in Edinburgh, Scotland, Saturday, January 11, 2014. Police in Scotland and a Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, SSPCA, team were called to Portobello beach near the Rockville hotel in Joppa, Edinburgh, at around 7.30 am Saturday. A spokeswoman said the animal is dead and arrangements are being made with Edinburgh City Council to remove it from the water. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/AP Photo/PA Wire) Continue reading »