Vanessa Dualib knows how to make eggs…come to life. In her series titled Eggbert, Vanessa turns everyday eggs into characters that make you think twice about that morning omelet. And sorry about the terrible pun in the title. I couldn’t...
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This story sort of blew me away when I read it over at My Modern Met, and I just had to share it. Basically, French photographers Fabrice Nadjari and Cedric Houin traveled to the Wakhan corridor in Afghanistan to document the people and way of life there. Many of these people had never even seen a camera or photograph, so the duo took Polaroids of them to have as souvenirs. Below are images of the people with their souvenir Polaroids....
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Just in case you thought you’d seen it all, here are some portraits ‘carved’ into Oreos by Judith G. Klausner. I think I probably could’ve lived 1,000 years on this Earth and this would have never even come close to occurring to me as a possibility. I’m too busy worrying about calories when I’m eating Oreos to think about turning them into portraits, but they’re actually pretty cool. You have to...
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These incredible portraits were drawn by artist Mark Powell on authentic vintage envelopes. The illustrations themselves are great, and the weathering of the faces is both intriguing and a little unsettling. The antique nature of the stationary adds an extra layer of depth and lends the portraits a sense of importance and finality. Taking a relatively simple and common concept (portraiture) and turning it on its ear in such a way is what...
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Graphic designer and artist Florian Nicolle created these awesome collage / illustration / watercolor works. The textures in these paintings are too much – but in a good way. Instead of muddling the works, the textures actually enhance them, giving them a sense of depth and in some cases desperation. These masterful pieces are great examples of how to be heavy-handed with layers of color and content in a way that adds to an image...
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