Omar Victor Diop may be a photographer, a filmmaker, a fashion designer and an art director, but what defines him most is his passion for authenticating identity. With identity comes diversity, and Diop’s arresting visuals show that acknowledging and embracing diversity will ultimately bring us all together.
Read MoreOnly graduating as a fine art photographer in 2010, Alma Haser has already won multiple awards for her work, which offers a whole new spin on the ancient art of portraiture. In addition to being a master with the camera, she is a master in origami, the Japanese art of paper folding.
Read MoreLife is a mixture of love and hate. For me, hatred predominates in daily life and to ventilate this I draw my frustrations away. So you could say this triggers my imagination because it gives me a reason to create.
Read MoreI like to walk alone on the streets when I want to get inspiration. Because I do my art for people so I need to investigate people. When I listen to the people, I combine the words with the elements in the place where I listen to them. I try to make what I hear a visual element on my mind. This is how my imagination works.
Read MoreMainly on surreal art and designs. I want to get the consumers confused, when looking at my work.
Read MoreOleg Dou is essentially a portrait artist with a haunting twist. Fascinated by vintage child portraits, Dou’s work comes off as psychic x-rays of the human soul, exposing the monster lurking within seemingly innocent humans. His subjects are both lively and macabre, charming and threatening, whimsical and dark.
Read MoreHassan Hajjaj gives you the Orient In all its warmth and colors. Yet it is not a nostalgic Orient that somehow stood still in time. No, his orient has fully come to grips with modernity. His does not fear or resent it, but embraced it, enriched it, while fully standing its ground. Hassan talked to Plastik about Morocco, making movies, world music and “being Andy Warhol”.
Read MoreWe’ve all fantasized with the idea of photographing our memories and saving them on a hard disk. Weronika Gesicka’s work is a study of what those memories would look like were they to actually be captured, and it’s simply mind-blowing. Each photograph is a disturbingly thorough display of how our brain can deceive us by filling those missing gaps in our memory, and fictionalizing something that once felt so real. Blurring the lines between reality and fiction, Gesicka’s work is bound to spark some thoughts about the role of memory in our lives, and how memory can shape who we are as a person, and who we want to become.
Read MoreMixed-media artist and photographer Cristina Burns juxtaposes dolls, toys, candies, skulls and insects in meticulously arranged patterns. Like modern day cabinets of curiosity, her brightly colored works are a playful reminder of the vanities of life. Seeing her surreal streak, it is no surprise Hieronymus Bosch ranks among her favorite artists. Cristina talks about Bosch, Alice IN WONDERLAND, her beloved Naples and much more.
Read MoreI like to inspire myself with good movies. When I go to the cinema, I sit down and I literally let that movie feed me with its music, images and all those moments that create in me a feeling. I start from those feelings to create something new.
Read MoreAustralian photographer Dean West meticulously constructs his images. In his older work, history and mythology were a major influence. These days he creates his own myths that are based on his own or friends’ memories that somehow got distorted over time. The essence is still there, but details changed. Just like stories change every time they are told by someone else. In the end, you ask yourself: “What’s real?”
Read MoreWho would not want to spend a day with Australian artists Prue Stent and Honey Long? They are like the main protagonists in a fairytale of their own making. Their artistic journey seems like a wild never ending dress-up party. In this duo-interview, Prue and Honey talk about how they once upon a time first met, about playfulness and success, and about past, present and what’s next …
Read MoreGerman photographer Monica Menez’S work is at once elegant, sexy and tongue in cheek. A fan of Guy Bourdin and Helmut Newton, she likes to explore the familiar set in the unknown. In recent years, she has become a leading voice in fashion film. Her Precious shows how erotic something mundane as making a pizza can be, while Odditory offers a very naughty music class indeed. And all, of course, in gorgeous clothes!
Read MoreIt was not easy being a woman in 1950s America. The ideal was to be a devoted mother, cozy homemaker and obedient wife on heels mopping floors with a radiant smile. And of course dinner would be ready when daddy came home from work. A post-WWII variation on the classic three M’s a woman ‘needs’ to embody: the Virgin Mary, Mother Mary and Maria Magdalena. The seemingly perfect world of “female caricatures” in small town suburbia is the main inspiration for New York-based fine art and fashion photographer Bamby who mixes the theatrical with a hint of irony, Lynch with a touch of Hitchcock.
Read MoreBorn in South Africa, Dean Bradshaw grew up in Australia where he spent much of HIS childhood catching lizards and other reptiles. Having obtained a degree in zoology, he worked as a field biologist before moving to California to become a full-time photographer known for his skills in lighting and Photoshop. While Dean does a lot of commercial work, all images shown here belong to his growing personal body of work.
Read MoreThe stuff I do is literally me. My passion for technology, for the virtuality. I started working on this kind of things one year ago, so I feel the need to improve and express as much as I can. I try to communicate daily what I feel and what I see in a way that's aesthetically pleasing. I can say this work is principally focused on doing and improving myself from a creative point of view. The content of the work is instead mainly derived from the daily emotional sphere that accompanies me.
Read MoreI know this is a bit cliché, but anything can trigger my imagination. Sometimes it’s a song, another piece of art, or something I touch. I try to figure out how I can reinterpret whatever the trigger was using my 3D software. Living in New York City I come across interesting things almost everyday and something I see will often trigger an idea.
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