Category: People
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Art Through the Eyes and Minds of People With Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is an intense and unforgiving mental disorder whose symptoms can include everything from abnormal social behaviors, to hearing voices, and not knowing what’s real. It often accompanies other, less severe mental conditions like depression and anxiety. Needless to say, the sum of these disorders can be hard to deal with. 50 percent of those diagnosed with…
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The Invisible Man is Liu Bolin
Liu Bolin is an artist from China’s Shandong province. Born in 1973, he currently lives and works in Beijing. Bolin received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Shandong College of Arts in 1995 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2001. His work has been exhibited…
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Artist Photographs Politicians Packaged in Meat Trays
Following on from our very popular and controversial post about an artist who depicts world leaders sitting on the toilet (see HERE), along comes Saint Hoax, a pseudonymous Middle Eastern artist. Infatuated by the element of pop, Hoax works with both tangible and digital mediums to recreate a world based on visual lies. Combining pop art with tyrants…
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Awe Inspiring Portrait Photography From Around the World
Travel portrait photography is not just about making a portrait, it is about capturing a moment, an emotion. And for this to happen, one must interact, love people and know how to catch the right moment. Here is a top-10 list of photographers that are famous for their portraits of people from around the world.…
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The Death Of Conversation: Photographing People Obsessed With Their Phones
Photographer Baby Cakes Romero doesn’t have a problem with portable tech specifically, because our devices facilitate our lives, but he believes it is making people seriously dull. He started to photograph people in company on their phones as there was a certain symmetry to them and it appealed on a visual level, but as he continued he noticed an…
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Photographer Changing Maternity Photography With Underwater Mermaid Moms
Adam Opris is a wedding and lifestyle photographer by day and an underwater photographer by night. He is always trying to push the envelope and create art through people and their stories. According to Adam, he grew up in South Florida with a love for everything outdoors and practically lived in the ocean his whole life. With that…
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aMOzing Mustaches from Around the World to Celebrate Movember
With Movember just around the corner, it’s time for blokes around the world to start thinking about their health, and their facial hair. For the uninitiated, Movember is an annual event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and other male cancers. In preparation for this…
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Street Artist Rone Knocks ’em Dead With a Sold Out Show
Australian street artist Rone has been coloring the streets of the world with his signature style since the early 2000’s… long before other street artists like Banksy were household names. The fact that he has a fairly extensive Wikipedia page attests to this fact. Famous for his sumptuous paintings of glamorous women, in particular an…
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Artist Redosking Draws the Most Incredibly Realistic Eyes You Have Ever Seen!
Jose Antonio Lopez Vergara – better known to his followers as “Redosking” on Instagram and Facebook – puts the real in realistic. He has completed several human eye drawings, and the results will blow you away. Using just Prismacolor pencils, a white gel pen, a Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen (black) and Strathmore Toned-Tan Paper, Josie captures amazing details, including…
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Swirly Psychedelic Self-Portraits by Nikos Gyftakis
Greek artist Nikos Gyftakis created this wonderful series of swirling self-portraits between 2004-2005. The works are made with oil pastels on canvas and are actually quite large, with a few of the pieces taller than 5 feet(1.5m). You can see many more from this series and more of his recent work in his work gallery. And don’t forget, if…