Category Archives: Photography

Zoo book portraits

03/21/2013 by chicquero

After studying Fine Arts in Barcelona, with a specialization in Visual Arts, Yago Partal undertook a project with Manel Soto; the creation of a Visual Arts Studio. They spent six years working for brands and companies like Filmax, Chesterfield International, Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, Canal +, and doing some editorial work for fashion brands, as well as submerging themselves in a more artistic environment with several exhibitions showing more personal projects. After this period, he decided to […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: Almodovar, animals as human, bad ass, cool portraits, photography, stylish, wildlife, Yago Partal, zoo creatures

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Inside the suitcases of lunatic asylum patients

02/26/2013 by chicquero

Very much interested in the clinically insane, Pennsylvanian photographer Jon Crispin has taken his interest to new heights by exploring and documenting the personal artifacts left behind by mental patients in a late-19th century psychiatric institution. The upstate New York patients at the (now discontinued) Willard Lunatic Asylum left more than a few curious artifacts in hundreds of suitcases. Which of these once stowed-away items intrigues you the most? The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. Havelock […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: asylum, insanity, Jon Crispin, lunatic patients, NY patients, Pennsylvanian photographer, personal artifacts, personal items, suitcases

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Bloody Valentine <3

01/31/2013 by chicquero

Hilarious and grotesque in the same instant, these “Valentines Day,” series caused somewhat of an emotional response by the viewer. Wes Naman has been a self taught photographer of ten years before graduating from commercial photography in his home in North Carolina. Since moving to Albuquerque he has been an assistant to photographers such as Chip Simons and Robert Reck before deciding to start his own company, Naman Photography. In between working as a photojournalist for the weekly Alibi, freelancing […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: arts, blood, blood paint, bloody, fun, love, painted body, photography, scary, shocking, valentine, Valentines day, Wes Naman, white

Dancers among us!

01/23/2013 by chicquero

“The inspiration for this book came to me one afternoon as I watched my son, Hudson, playing with his toy bus. I was trying to keep pace with his three-year-old mind as he got deeper and deeper into a fantasy involving nothing more than a yellow plastic box and armless figurines. At least that’s what I saw. He saw frantic commuters rushing to catch the 77 local bus to Australia. He jumped in place, mouth open and slapping his knees, joyously reacting to […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: art, arts, ballet, beautiful, city, contemporary, cool, dance, dancers, dancers among us, dancing, movement, people, photo, photography, urban

Wow, burning matchsticks!

01/10/2013 by chicquero

Check this out guys… everyday icons and objects formed from matches burning brightly against a black background – not only is Russian photographer Stanislav Aristov’s Matches series, it is gorgeous and clever as well. After creating the shapes by bending them mid-burn, he uses a macro lens and studio flash to capture the flame and smoke. Aristov says “It was while I was watching the match that I began to think of how it represents life…there is the burnt part […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: burning, flame, macro lens, matches, matchsticks, objects, russian photographer, smoke, Stanislav Aristov

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Scotch Tape Portraits

01/03/2013 by chicquero

Forget special effects, prosthetics and hyper-detailed makeup; all you need to turn a willing friend into a monster is a little Scotch tape. Photographer Wes Naman used the unassuming office supply to transform human faces into bizarre flesh mashups, creating a unique series both amusing and horrifying, full of deep meaning and metaphor, both negative and positive, a social commentary that defies all common sense. According to Wired, Naman stumbled upon the technique while wrapping Christmas presents with his assistant when the two […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: cool, face, funny, hilarious, laugh, office, people, photography, portraits, scotch tape, series, supplies, tape, Wes Naman

Fireworks!

12/31/2012 by chicquero

HAPPY NEW YEAR.. 2013!!! Life is like a firework. You gotta ignite the fuse and make it beautiful. YOU MAY ALSO LIKE Lights never down Man, star and moon Enlightened souls Oh my galaxy! Charm is glow Topographic projections

Categories: Photography • Tags: 2013, beautiful, fire, fireworks, lights, magic, magical, new years, NYE, photography, photos, show, world

Double exposure portraits

12/28/2012 by chicquero

Brazilian photographer Heitor Magno is a really cool visual artist who’s behind some very eye-catching double exposures. He applies many of his double exposed imagery “like a tattoo artist on flesh; the effect is seamless and stunning at times”. Reminiscent of Matt Wisniewski‘s work, Heitor often mixes the human body with various natural elements and he literally likes to “play with fire” in a darker conceptual way. Awesome portraits! Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: brazilian photographer, double exposure, fire, Heitor Magno, natural elements, photography, portraits, tattoo

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Animals and interiors

12/20/2012 by chicquero

Karen Knorr was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico in the 1960s. She finished her education in Paris and London. Karen has taught, exhibited and lectured internationally, including at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The University of Westminster, Goldsmiths, Harvard and The Art Institute of Chicago. She studied at the University of Westminster in the mid-1970s, exhibiting photography that addressed debates in cultural studies and film theory concerning the ‘politics of representation’ practices […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: animals, architecture, arts, culture, decor, digital photography, heritage, India, India Song, interiors, Karen Knorr, myths, pet, photography, Rajasthan

Coolest burgers!

12/19/2012 by chicquero

Two French creative minds, Thomas and Quentin created this cool Tumblr called Fat & Furious Burger featuring creative, cool and yet weird burger designs. “We were so bored of random food at lunch, so we started cooking together, it soon became a kind of a ritual: improvising and experimenting new ways of cooking a burger”. Looks like it´s a lot of fun! I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face. Scarlett Johansson YOU MAY […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: burger, cool, creative, fat and furious burger, food styling, french, Thomas and Quentin, tumblr

NY in black

12/17/2012 by chicquero

French photographer Christophe Jacrot has captured NY´s scene from the final week of last October in his series “New York In Black.” Whether were watching on television, or among the displaced, something we all can agree on was the strange and eerie mood of Lower Manhattan during the week in which darkness descended upon New York City and wiped us all off the power grid (thanks to Hurricane Sandy). In an almost painterly fashion, Jacrot gives us some angles of […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Christophe Jacrot, darkness, empty place, hurricane, manhattan, NYC, October 2012, Sandy

Spotted subway stations

12/11/2012 by chicquero

Subway architecture is definitely something really cool… tourists all over the world enjoy riding the local subway, checking its stations and architecture. It´s a great variety of shapes, textures, colors, angles and styles. These are some pretty awesome shots of some of the most beautiful subway stations around the world photographed by some truly talented people. Fun! If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I’m gonna have a heart attack. Edward Norton you may also like A minimal […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: architecture, lights, metro station, photography, shapes, subway, tube, world

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Oscar Niemeyer Architecture

12/06/2012 by chicquero

. Oscar Niemeyer, the greatest Brazilian architect who helped to shape the 20th century and mankind’s vision of the future, died on Wednesday aged 104, ten days before his 105th birthday. The celebrated Brazilian architect whose flowing designs infused Modernism with a new sensuality and captured the imaginations of generations of architects around the world. . His curvaceous, lyrical, hedonistic forms helped shape a distinct national architecture and a modern identity for Brazil that broke with its colonial and baroque past. Yet his influence extended far […]

Categories: Design, Photography • Tags: architect, architecture, brazil, brazilian, building, curves, death, Design, died, future, lines, modernism, Oscar Niemeyer, sensuality, spaces, white

New taxi cabs in a flooded car park in New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy made landfall in October. The superstorm devastated the Northwestern United States, costing an estimated $65 billion of damage. At least 250 people were killed in seven countries along the storm’s path.

True reality of 2012

12/05/2012 by chicquero

This is a “Wow” moment… here is a compilation of the Agence France Presse (AFP) most enduring images of this current year. We selected some impressive, shocking, saddening, funny and some very touching imagery as a retrospective of what had happened worldwide in 2012. Check this out! A Dutch local resident, standing in his house, looks to high waters level through his window, in Dordrecht on January 5, 2012. Gale force winds reaching up to 110 kilometres (about 70 miles) […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Agence France presse, better world, catastrophic, impressive, peace, photography, reality, retrospective 2012, sad, shocking, touching, war, worldwide

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My body is a landscape

12/04/2012 by chicquero

Californian photographer Jean Paul Bourdier creates haunting photo graphics that show his viewers the environment from inside out by painting the bodies of the models, which makes them look like one with the desert landscape. Bourdier is the author of Bodyscapes (introduction and dvd by Trinh T. Minh-ha), co-author with Trinh Minh-ha of Vernacular Architecture of West Africa, Habiter un monde, African Spaces and Drawn from African Dwellings. Production designer of seven films and co-director of two films directed by Trinh T. […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: abstract, art, arts, artsy, beautiful, body, colorful, desert landscape, Jean Paul Bourdier, landscape, modern, painted, paintings, people, photography

Pop pop bang bang project

11/20/2012 by chicquero

Pop Pop Bang Bang is an incredible project created by a great collaboration between photographer Thomas Brown and creative director Anna Burns. The former describes it as a mix of “film, photography, and pyro”. Together, the two focused on three themes that seems to always find their way into movies: explosions, guns, and girls. With this idea they decided to create their own conceptual, visually arresting settings in three different London locations. Very eye catching! Drama is very important in […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: Anna Burns, art direction, art installation, explosion, girls, guns, london, photography, pop art, Thomas Brown, umbrella, video

Lonesome girl road trippin´

11/15/2012 by chicquero

Model Querelle Jansen makes a mysterious figure in photographers duo Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello’s latest work for Numéro #138. Fearless, hitting the road, Querelle dons dramatic selects with ruffles, lacework and sheer materials styled by fashion editor Samuel François. The designs of Roberto Cavalli, Etro, Dolce & Gabbana and Gucci amongst others stand out against a desert landscape. Hair by Romina Manenti, Makeup by Rie Omoto. The land created me. I’m wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the […]

Categories: Fashion, Photography • Tags: desert, dramatic, Fashion editorial, lonesome girl, Numéro, Querelle Jansen, road trip, Samuel François, Sofia Sanchez and Mauro Mongiello, styling

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Hyperphotos

11/14/2012 by chicquero

Jean-François Rauzier, French artist, born 1952. Fascinated by photography from an early age, Jean-François Rauzier graduated from the School Louis Lumière in 1976. He has since been working as a professional photographer, while developing a personal creative work. J.F Rauzier was immediately captivated by numerical photography when it penetrated the professional market 15 years ago. He has been exploring the multiple opportunities offered by computer’s retouching since then, turning himself into a “virtual” painter. In 2002, he created the “Hyperphoto”, a concept […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: architecture, art, arts, artsy, city, cool, Design, digital, Europe, hyperphoto, Jean François Rauzier, manipulation, photo, photography, photoshop, retouching

Deep fried gadgets

11/08/2012 by chicquero

In a project whose title speaks for itself, Brooklyn-based photographer Henry Hargreaves in collaboration with food stylist Caitlin Levin literally deep-fried a series of electronics equipment but don´t you worry, no technologies were harmed in the shooting of this project. Although the gadgets look real, they’re actually recreations made with a material called foamcore, which were then dipped in batter and dunked in oil. After discovering an online video of an unsuccessful attempt by Japanese youths to deep fry a […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: Caitlin Levin, culture, deep fried, discarded technology, electronic devices, gadgets, henry hargreaves, ipad, iphone, ipod

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Photo impressionism

11/07/2012 by chicquero

Josh Adamski has captured stunning images and turned them into works of fine art with his keen eye. He was born and raised in the UK and is now based in Israel. Much of Adamski’s work is focused around water as he lives near the beach and draws inspiration from the sea. After a photograph is taken, editing takes place to make the image more abstract and turn it into something even more powerful. The colors that Adamski brings out […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: abstract, art, artsy, beach, colors, fine art, images, impressionism, josh adamski, ladscape, nature, people, photo, photography, stunning, sunset

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The Jell-O Presidents

11/06/2012 by chicquero

President´s election is on! New Zealand photographer Henry Hargreaves recently released a series of presidential portraits molded from Jell-O (yes, Jell-O). He used the color palette of the American flag, and small biographical info to give us some insight into the life and character of each president. According to the key at the bottom of the poster, the presidents who face right have served two terms of office while presidents with smaller stars have died while in office – the […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: artistic portraits, Barack Obama, election 2012, henry hargreaves, Jell-O, presidents, USA flag, USA president election, USA presidents

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