Commercial Photographer Cal Redback from Paris is showing a new photo series that is shocking and disturbing and informative, all at once. Called “Tree Beards”, he digitally mixed botanical and other plant matters with portraits of everyday people, to question how much we have alienated ourselves from Mother Nature and to remind us of our connection to the natural world in this day and age. See more on his 500px profile: https://500px.com/calredback .
French artist Thomas Mailaender ‘sunburns’ old photographs onto human bodies. In his new book “Illustrated People”, he applied 23 original negatives from Modern Conflict’s archive onto the skin of models, before projecting a powerful UV lamp over them. The result reveals a fleeting picture on the skin’s surface (burned in), which he then photographs before it fades in the sunlight.
Brooklyn artist Lydia Cambron has decided to recreate those vandalized billboards in the subway in NYC. She applies makeup to match the ad and photographs herself for a new series called Makeup Transit Authority. Who’s to say where your next inspiration may come from? You can see more on her portfolio at: http://lydiacambron.com/
Photographer Jamie Diamond became a Reborner after discovering the community on Ebay. She wanted a fuller understanding of what drove these women to spend sometimes more than $10,000 on a life-like but utterly lifeless infant. Hence, her photo series “Mother Love”, which involved traveling across the US photographing the subculture that has grown up around Reborn dolls. Her work explores the murky waters of reality mixed with artifice, where Reborners create relationships with inanimate objects — an art form born of fantasy. See more on her website.
Toronto-based photographer Thomas Dagg imagines what life in the city would be like if characters from Star Wars lived among us. In this series of gorgeous black and white photos, we find an intimate look at everyday life in a winter wonderland where AT-ATs roam the street while TIE Fighters circle the sky in formation. Luke Skywalker rides a Tauntaun amid a terrific winter storm downtown and Jawas rummage through bins like a nighttime urban menace. He even managed to capture Darth Vader on a soul-sucking streetcar commute in traffic. Enjoy them here.
James Obando 