A Song For The Optimists

This is a scrapbook of inspiration.

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PHOTO: PHILIPPE HALSMAN ARCHIVE—MAGNUM PHOTOS

Discover the Genius of Philippe Halsman’s Surrealist Portraits

A retrospective opens in Paris.

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My daily commute from the train to SAIC

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Thai artist Uttaporn Nimmalaikaew paints multiple layers of canvas, thread, fabric, and netting to create stunning works of three-dimensional art. Delicate and utterly unique, the paintings resemble shimmering holograms that subtly shift and transform when viewed from different angles.

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A short trip to the John Hancock observatory.

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Tl;dr: Please donate whatever you can to the Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland. Hello to all of you. With all of your support, Unseen Portland has been growing for close to five years now. During this time, I’ve never asked my followers for money, because… there was no real reason...

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Sofia Ajram is a Montreal, Canada-based photographer who creates surreal photos filled with beautiful light.

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Portuguese street artist Artur Bordalo, aka Bordalo II, uses mixed media to create his own interpretations of the urban landscape and environment. He often composes his works using various found items that he merges together into beautiful, three-dimensional forms. 

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Paulette Tavormina

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Stories Worth Telling is a powerful series of surreal photographs that tells the stories of foster kids. Read our exclusive interview with photographer Rob Woodcox, who was adopted as a young baby, at My Modern Met.

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http://www.larazankoul.com/

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These Surreal Faceless Portraits Will Haunt Your Nightmares

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Stefano Bonazzi- ”Is a self-taught web designer and digital artist hailing from Ferrara, Italy. Bonazzi uses a unique combination of techniques from charcoal drawing, photo editing, and digital photography to produce his works. “All my work is infused with the prospect of life as a snub, a disillusioned and cynical vision that leads me to concentrate on the negative aspects of things. This way I look at reality, however, does not want to be a disenchantment end in itself, but rather an alternative viewpoint to spread niceness and false constituent of the bottom of our society. My creative path winds through the representation of states of mind tormented, but never definitive. I am fascinated by the infinite shades in between that color our contemporary life, I love the gray rather than black and white. The feelings of anxiety and discomfort, which in some way belong to each of us, as well as the approach that we have about death, it usually issues hidden by a company that paints itself as omnipotent and ethereal, are the focal points around wheel to which my work. Misleading image of a false reality loaded artificial colors, dyes prefer a picturesque vision and reduced most essential. I find it particularly congenial to the realization of my representations digital technologies, a veritable kaleidoscope of nuances of expression that allows the artist to infinitely expand its scope of intervention and evaluation. ”

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Nightmare #10 Digital composition printed on photographic fine art paper, framed. Size 70 x 120 cm

To view more of his work visit - www.stefanobonazzi.it

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After i began using digital cameras i now ended up doing most of my photography with black and white self-developped film material. I would consider my work to be influenced by the photographers i admire like Meyerowitz, Gilden, Moriyama or Ansel Adams. Nevertheless i would not say that i take photographs having somekind of premade plan or system in my mind. Most things just happen. First i try to let my feelings and intuition lead me the way to find motives. After developping the films and scanning the negatives i try to structurize the results and create series that, again show me the way to new ideas and so on and on……..just following my instincts and trying to keep the process in flow.

Currently i am working on my first book which will include work of the years 2010-2014.

www.janherdlicka.com

www.facebook.com/janherdlicka

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Tommy Ingberg

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'Doll House' - model: Sung Hee Kim, Alexandra Elizabeth - photographer: Emma Summerton - fashion editor: Camille Bidault Waddington - hair: Neil Moodie - make-up: Mathias van Hooff - Vogue China November 2014

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Sylwana Zybura aka Madame Peripetie's award-winning photographic book project: 'Dream Sequence' : “seeks to illuminate the dreamy phantasmagorias to which we disappear to in the night, creating characters that radiate a sense of ever-lasting awe and reverence.” *Styling: Stella Gosteva / Make-up: Marina Keri