Photographer Captured Fascinating Photographs that She Found on Old Tombstones in Italian Cemeteries
According to a photographer Laura Signorelli: “I’m a 36-year-old Italian who is fascinated by the past and by many things that are death-related. That is probably because I lost my parents at a young age and I was forced to deal with mortality, loss, and mourning.” Continue reading »
Heroic and Fantasy Pin-Up Female Portraits by Kyu Yong Eom
The amazing science fiction and fantasy themed artworks of Kyu Yong Eom, a concept artist and digital illustrator based in Seoul, South Korea. Continue reading »
Intriguing Female Portraits by Ilya Ozornin
Artist Ilya Ozornin draws girls who are both beautiful and mysterious. Each of his ladies seems to keep a secret, trying hard not to give it away – like Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring or Mona Lisa, they enchant with a kind of understatement and sadness. Continue reading »
French Photographer Sophie Fontaine Shoots Poignant Portraits In Film
Her words are poetic and she shoots film, may sound a bit familiar but Sophie Fontaine shows us something dramatic and unexpected in her artworks. Continue reading »
Artist Cosmo Draws Emotional Acid Portraits in Anime Style
It is not known who Cosmo really is – a girl, a guy, or an alien who came to Earth to draw strange pictures. All we know is that Cosmo is based in Sydney, from where it bombards the world with seemingly simple, but stylish illustrations and comics, similar to colorful bad-rips. Continue reading »
The Whimsical Faces of Artist Ayran Oberto
Ayran Oberto is a Spanish artist who paints bizarre portraits. Grim skulls with eyes, surrealistic faces from acid tripods and bright faces of beautiful ladies – Oberto manages to make each image unique and memorable. Continue reading »
Inspirational Female Portraits by Eva Balloon
Eva Balloon is an artist from Kazakhstan who draws charming ladies. With light strokes, Eva manages to create portraits that are strikingly airy – illustrations so delicate, as if they were made of weightless marshmallow. Continue reading »
Psychedelic Fluorescent Female Portraits by Jelena Kevic Djurdjevic
Jelena Kevic Djurdjevic is a Serbian artist who works at the Berlin design studio SIXMOREVODKA, where she develops concept art and illustrations for video games, films, comics and other media products. In addition to working on studio projects, Jelena draws girls in a recognizable psychedelic style, somewhat reminiscent of Disco Elysium art – with bright spots of color that give an elusive sense of something ethereal. Continue reading »
Art in Faces: Superb Portraits by Gennadiy Kim
Gennadiy Kim is an artist from Moscow who paints wonderful portraits. With hacked, seemingly random strokes he manages to create very subtle works with high detail, precise, colorful and emotionally intense. Continue reading »
Intimate Bird Portraits Highlight The Refined Beauty Of Our Feathered Friends
Sydney-based artist and photographer Leila Jeffreys began her avian projects a decade ago by photographing the colorful budgerigars of her childhood memories. She takes intimate and emotional portraits of birds, including cockatoos, budgerigars, and hawks. Jeffrey’s most recent series is entitled “High Society” and marks a return to her original feathery subjects. Continue reading »
Psychedelic Portraits by Erwin Kruz
Erwin Cruz is a London-based artist who paints vivid, psychedelic portraits. With large strokes, Cruz transforms everyday subjects into stylized existential paintings, somewhat reminiscent of the Disco Elysium video game style. Continue reading »
The Indian Photo Festival Portrait Prize 2021 Finalists and Winners
The ‘Indian Photo Festival’ PORTRAIT PRIZE 2021 is a portrait competition open to photographers from the Indian subcontinent. Photographers have been making portraits for centuries and what’s so interesting about portraiture is its ability to capture the essence of a person, a time period, or a culture. This award aims at discovering the compelling portraits and extraordinary talents.
Cartin: Winner by Sujata Setia
“I’ve never been photographed like this before… with all of my scars, I mean.” Catrin said.
It left us both thinking of what is the limit on scars? How much can we see? Are we all becoming a part of the world where scars need to look “pretty” too? Just enough, so we can use them to remind ourselves that our lives are better? Continue reading »
Captivating Vintage Photos of People in Encampment, Wyoming From Between the 1920s and 1930s
When her youngest child reached 4 years of age and the Nichols family committed to remaining in Encampment after the last of the mining and railroad work left town, Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962) purchased a storefront and established the Rocky Mountain Studio in the center of Encampment, Wyoming. Continue reading »
The Conceptual Portraits of Kyiv’s Youth by GORSAD Collective
Essentially, it’s become so simple and direct that youth subcultures from all over the world are getting their message out. Ukraine is one of the countries in the Eastern bloc that has become exciting and fascinating and these guys are offering us an intimate insider’s perspective on it, a type of grassroots media approach that the rest of Europe would otherwise have had to do without. Continue reading »
Brazilian Artist Draws Realistic Portraits that Look Like Photographs
Nope! These are not photographs! I was just as surprised to find out that these are actually incredibly realistic oil paintings done by 40-year-old Brazilian artist Fabiano Millani. Continue reading »
Fabulous Portrait Photos of Celebrities Taken by Patrick Lichfield
Jacqueline Bisset, circa 1960s
Born 1939 in Oxford, Thomas Patrick John Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield was an English photographer and a first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II, his mother Anne Bowes-Lyon (1917–1980, known as ‘Princess Anne of Denmark’ after her second marriage) having been a niece of the late Queen Mother. He inherited the Earldom of Lichfield from his paternal grandfather. In his professional practice he was known as Patrick Lichfield. Continue reading »
The Fantastic, Beautiful and Colorful Mosaic Portraits by Charis Tsevis
Charis Tsevis is a Greek visual designer living and working in Pafos, Cyprus. He holds a Diploma in Graphic Design from the Akademie für das Grafische Gewerbe, München and a Master in Visual Design from the Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano. Continue reading »
The Art of Japanese Portrait Photography by Kishin Shinoyama
Japanese photographer Kishin Shinoyama has dedicated his practice to exploring intimacy and the human body, as well as documenting his home place of Tokyo. His sensual photographs often depict the body within the architecture of the city or conversely, the inherent sculptural qualities of the naked human form. Shinoyama was born in 1940, in Tokyo, Japan. He studied in the Department of Photography at Nippon University and was awarded the Advertising Photographer’s Association prize. After being employed at the Light Publicity advertising company, he started to work as an independent photographer in 1968. Continue reading »
Sensual Black and White Portrait Photos of Goldie Hawn Taken by Joseph Klipple in 1964
Born 1945 in Washington, D.C., Goldie Hawn began taking ballet and tap dance lessons at the age of three and danced in the corps de ballet of the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo production of The Nutcracker in 1955. She made her stage debut in 1964, playing Juliet in a Virginia Shakespeare Festival production of Romeo and Juliet. Continue reading »
This Artist Drew These 30 Animals So “Badly”, It Might Be A New Style
Art comes in all forms and shapes and always makes people wonder about things and find the most accurate interpretations. But what is considered a good piece of art? To each individual, it might be a different thing: the memories or feelings the painting is calling out, techniques that are used to create the piece, the artist and their personality, their talent, and work. There is no one way to become a successful artist, and Hercule Van Wolfwinkle is one of the people who can confirm that. Continue reading »
Beautiful Portraits of Highland Park High School Teenage Girls, 1947
Cornell Capa/LIFE Photo Archive
Highland Park High School is a public, co-educational high school located immediately north of downtown Dallas in University Park, Dallas County, Texas. It is a part of the Highland Park Independent School District, which serves residents who are predominantly college-educated professionals and business leaders in the Dallas community. It serves: all of the city of University Park, most of the town of Highland Park, and portions of Dallas. Continue reading »
Beautiful Photos of Jane Birkin at Home Taken by Jean-Claude Deutsch in 1971
A native of London, Jane Birkin began her career as an actress, appearing in minor roles in Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blowup (1966), and Kaleidoscope (1966). In 1968, she met Serge Gainsbourg while co-starring with him in Slogan, which marked the beginning of a years-long working and personal relationship. Continue reading »
Sensitive and Emotional Portrait Paintings by Nina Milke
According to Nina Milke: “Everything happened when I became a single mom. I was searching for my inspiration and passion. First I started my creativity with making photo collages in photoshop. Continue reading »
Brzilian Street Artist Goes Viral After Using Trees As ‘Hair’ For His Women’s Portraits
Urbanism and nature seem like contradictory things, but this is not always the case. Sometimes if one’s imagination can allow, the two can be combined just like bread and butter, forming a collaboration that creates something really special and unique. Continue reading »
Lovely Vintage Photos of Rock Stars Posing With Their Kitty Cats
Johnny Ramone
Who doesn’t like rock stars and cute kitty cats?
Though their contributions rarely receive credit, pets have played their part across pop history. An animal’s presence can offer comfort, laughter, inspiration, or annoyance, and earning a pet’s affection can be one of the most rewarding experiences in life. Naturally, those emotions can’t help but bleed into an artist’s work. Continue reading »
