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Elegantly Surreal Portraits Of Blue Women From Montreal

“Blue Gals” is a series by Montreal-based artist Etienne Dufresne featuring models with blue skin going about everyday activities. For this artist, shooting his strange portraits is a way to bring to life the characters he drew in school while growing up. Continue reading »

“Parallel Universes”: Dreamy And Surreal Photo Works By Ibai Acevedo

Based in Barcelona, Ibai Acevedo has fun creating “parallel universes (…) between imagination and reality”. Whether he captures aquatic scenes or the intimacy of a room, Ibai uses lights and colours with talent and immerses us into a dreamy universe. Continue reading »

Strange And Surreal Abandoned Places From Above By Kosmaj Project

Talking about abandoned places. Look at that. How amazing does it look? Kosmaj Project is all about urbex, abandoned and remote places. This Instagram feed truly celebrates hir love for urbex. Kosmaj Project has shared a series of images that showcase a range of beautiful abandoned buildings across Russia and abroad. Continue reading »

New Surreal Paintings By Matthew Grabelsky Take The New York City Subway For A Wild Ride

New York City is sometimes affectionately (or disaffectionately) referred to as a ‘concrete jungle’, but for Los Angeles-based artist Matthew Grabelsky (previously) it’s more of a big cageless zoo. Using the New York City subway system as the setting for his work, Grabelsky paints surreal portraits of people who are seemingly normal from the neck down, but who have had their heads replaced by animals, both wild and domesticated. Continue reading »

19-Year-Old Artist Takes Self Portraits To Create These Surreal Compositions

Alexandra Chertulova, who is also known by an artist’s name Rayda Ealvay, is a 19-year-old self-taught photographer, retoucher and artist from Perm, Russia. She’s constantly surprising her more than 10k followers on Instagram with her dreamlike photo manipulations that she creates using Photoshop. 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 »

Dark, Surreal And Moody Photo Works By Simon Kerola

Simon Kerola a.k.a Johnny Keethon is a self-taught Swedish photographer working in Stockholm. His pictures can be read like cinematic creations, where memories from childhood and inspiring portraits blend together. Continue reading »

The Dark And Surreal Photo Artworks Of Ben Ward

Ben Ward has plenty of talent to spare. A car lost in the dark, a mysterious portrait… his pictures can be read as fictions in which you are the protagonist. Those beautiful settings will satisfy your thirst for fantasy. Continue reading »

Surreal And Slightly Morbid Illustrations By Virginia Mori

Young girls in dark dresses with black hair around their doll-like faces – these are the main characters of Italian illustrator who creates surreal drawings with a touch of horror. Continue reading »

Surreal Self-Portrait Photo Manipulations By Annegien Schilling

Manipulated self-portraits by Annegien Schilling a.k.a. fetching_tigerss (previously featured with her incredible manipulated self-portraits), multi-talented 18 years old photographer, digital artist and content creator who was born in Seattle, but is of Dutch descent and speaks the language. Continue reading »

Russian Photographer’s Surreal Images Will Transport You Into An Enchanted World

If you love all things whimsical and make-believe, Russian photographer Platon Yurich’s dreamlike visuals will be right up your alley. Continue reading »

Bunch Of Artists Unite To Design The Interior Of This Surreal Bar And The Details Are Incredible

Q Caffe – about people. People. Dreams. Noise. Speed. Constraints. Fears. Masks. Trials. Failure. Flight. Liberation. Our world… HUMAN?

Entirely different from any other café, Q Caffe illustrates an actual story through its decor, about man and his strivings in a hierarchical and limiting society

Built in collaboration with 6th Sense Interiors and lots of other first grade artists, having steampunk and dark-fantasy influences, Q Caffe’s new design illustrates the social man’s path, presented from different perspectives, and the complexity of the oneiric, fantastic dimension that pushes past reality’s borders, amplifying and even transforming it. Each visual element has been thought through and worked on to the smallest detail, constructing this fabulous ensemble of metaphors. Continue reading »

“If We Are Gonna Perform Inception Then We Need Imagination”: Surreal Photo Manipulations By Sergey Dryutskiy

Sergey Dryutskiy is a multi-talented digital artist and photographer, who has 20,400 followers on instagram. Sergey’s manipulations open the door to his imaginative world, where a beautifully intriguing landscapes boast surreal elements. Continue reading »

Surreal Driftwood Sculptures By Debra Bernier Tell The Forgotten Stories Of The Ocean

Debra Bernier is an extraordinary artist from Victoria, Canada. She uses natural materials, such as driftwood, clay, and shells to create mesmerising sculptures. These intricate pieces represent the spirits of nature as human fusing together with the natural material. Continue reading »

Salvia Is The Surreal Drag Artist Channelling Alien Glamour

Born and raised in the Welsh wilderness, as a kid Salvia never felt at ease in her human body. “I always felt detached,” she says, “as if it was just an ugly vessel carrying me around.” Continue reading »

Surreal Stretched-Out And Rearranged Portraits By Sakir Yildirim

Sakir Yildirim is an Istanbul-based creative art director who combines photography and graphic design to create amusing and surreal images. His series Crawler is a collection of glitchy, stretched-out Photoshopped portraits, while Flip and Mirror features rearranged strips of a photograph rearranged haphazardly. Continue reading »

Photographer Davide Sasso Captures Stunning Surreal And Moody Shots Inspired By Japanese Anime

Davide Sasso is a talented self-taught photographer and digital artist currently based in Novara, Italy. Davide focuses on landscaping and traveling, he shoots marvelous street and nature photography in saturated colors. Continue reading »

Amazing Surreal Photo Manipulations And Portraits By Dmitriy Rogozhkin

Today I want to show amazing surreal photos of taleneted Russian photographer Dmitriy Rogozhkin. Continue reading »

“Giant Animals And Tiny Humans”: Breathtaking Surreal Photo Manipulations By Eben McCrimmon

From Australia we bring you a beautiful series of photo manipulations and digital art by Eben McCrimmon who envisions a world where giant animals coexist with tiny humans creating gorgeous visuals where scale tricks your mind. 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 »

Artist Reveals The Characters Of Zodiacs Through Surreal Portraits Of Women

According to artist Vivien Szaniszlo: “In my series I would like to reveal zodiac sign’s character trough surreal women portraits in a different way.” Continue reading »

“Dreaming A Dream”: The Surreal Digital Compositions Of A 19-Year-Old Creative

Only 19-year-old, the young artist Ronald Ong unveils a magical and enchanting world through colorful compositions. Based in Malaysia, this creative offers us a poetic vision thanks to beautiful digital collages. Continue reading »

Surreal Book And Lamp Installations By Rune Guneriussen Illuminate Norway’s Forests

Norwegian artist Rune Guneriussen moves elements of domestic life into the outdoors, producing large installations built from books, lamps, and other displaced objects. His works are placed in remote areas of Norway’s forest, and either balance precariously in a selected location or illuminate a particular patch of the surrounding wooded environment. 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 »

Stunning Digital Surreal Art By Mikhail Batrak

Mikhail Batrak is a Ukrainian artist whose work examines the relationship between perception, Surrealism and empiricism. Continue reading »