Terrifying Portraits of Indonesia’s Street-Performing Macaques
“Terror often stems not from the unknown, but from something familiar that has been subtly – but unmistakably – transformed. This certainly helps explain why Finnish photographer Perttu Saksa’s series, “A Kind of You”, is so unsettling. Saksa, a portrait photographer by trade, was appalled when, traveling in Jakarta in 2012, he first caught sight of macaque monkeys that had been manacled and forced into roles as “actors” in street performances. In the fall of last year, with the help of an Indonesian journalist, Saksa began investigating people known as “monkey masters” – entrepreneurs who train and rent monkeys to beggars. Continue reading »
New Mom Doodles On Baby’s Portraits
Artist Amber Wheeler of Minneapolis, Minn., has given her 2-month-old boy just that. All she used was some Photoshop and well-timed photos. Using simple black lines – much like the ones in this series of cat Instagram portraits – Wheeler transformed her son into an astronaut, a superhero, and a cowboy without spending one dollar on costumes. Continue reading »
Surreal Portraits Splicing Other People’s Pictures
British artist John Stezaker is fascinated by the lure of images. Taking classic movie stills, vintage postcards and book illustrations, Stezaker makes collages to give old images a new meaning. By adjusting, inverting and slicing separate pictures together to create unique new works of art, Stezaker explores the subversive force of found images. Stezaker’s famous Mask series fuses the profiles of glamorous sitters with caves, hamlets, or waterfalls, making for images of eerie beauty. Continue reading »
Multiple Exposure Portraits by Christoffer Relander
Multiple exposure portraits by Christoffer Relander, a graphic designer and self-taught photographer based in Raseborg, Finland. Continue reading »
Street Portraits of Strangers
“I take portrait photos of strangers. I ask for permission and I take a 5 seconds long photosession. This way I create a gallery of some xtraordinary people who for some reason had driven my attention. This is more than just portraits. My photos show street fashion and current trends. Snapshots from the life of people coming from different cities around the world.”
Awesome photos of ordinary people, that Dariusz Majgier, Poland photographer, have met. Continue reading »
Self Portraits by Yulia Bakhtiozina
I consider myself as a performing artist and very important part of my art is self-portraits. that is my self expression: how i see myself in different edges and images, mainly having fun, designing a brand named Yulia Bakhtiozina! Try to remember my name and google it time to time )))
Typographic Portraits
Cool and funky typographic portraits are the order of the day for the latest Coulson Macleod collection.
Using the Garamond typeface as a starting point, each of our superstars is given a full-on facial treatment using the individual letters of their own names.
Totally quirky. Utterly unique.
Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes
Photographs by Kyle Cassidy.
The question of gun ownership in America is a fractious one. Even the number of guns in the country is in significant debate. The National Rifle Association (NRA), the country’s largest pro-gun lobbying group, quotes the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE)’s estimate that in 1999 there were about 215,000,000 guns in America and one gun in about half of the households in the country. The Brady Campaign (the nation’s leading anti-gun coalition) estimates there are 192,000,000 guns in America, owned by 39% of the population.
This isn’t a book about guns. It’s a book about people.
