Category: People
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Hyper-Realistic Body Painting Like You’ve Never Seen Before!
Alexa Meade thinks completely backwards. Most artists use acrylic paints to create portraits of people on canvas. But not Meade – she applies acrylic paints on her subjects and makes them appear to be a part of the painting! Meade is an installation artist based in the Washington, DC area. Her innovative use of paint…
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Street Art on the Streets, Melbourne Style
Melbourne, Australia, might be tucked down at the bottom of the world (depending on how you view a map!), but it definitely punches above it’s weight. It’s a hub for great food and coffee, a major destination for street art and artists, and Melbournians are often regarded as some of the friendliest people you will…
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Outpouring of Love as Father Asks Internet To Photoshop a Photo of His Baby Daughter After She Passed Away
This touching and tragic story serves to remind us of just how much kindness and compassion there is in the world. When Ohio father Nathan Steffel’s daughter Sophia passed away only six weeks after her birth due to medical complications, he requested on Reddit that someone alter her photo to remove her medical tubing. Because…
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What Happens When 20 Strangers Are Asked To Undress Each Other And Get In Bed
Undressing someone for the first time can be a little awkward — best case scenario, it’s adorably so. Slipping a shirt over someone else’s head is usually easier said than done, and belts never unclasp quite the way you want them to. You were all lips a minute ago — now suddenly you’re all thumbs.…
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Colourful Life In Indonesian Villages Captured by Herman Damar
Herman Damar, a self-taught photographer in Indonesia, has captured beautiful moments from the everyday lives of villagers living outside of Jakarta, the nation’s capital. His photographs, especially of happy children at play, paint a picture of the idyllic wonder and natural beauty of Indonesian village life. This advertisement director-turned-hobbyist photographer agreed to answer some of…
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Photographer Gets Friends & Couples to Passionately Kiss: But Which is Which?
You may recall that not too long ago the viral video First Kiss made the interwebs go all aflutter. So you would be excused for thinking that photographer Ben Lamberty was being a bit of a copy cat with his latest series. However, Lamberty actually took these photos prior to First Kiss for a campaign…
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Portraits and People of artFido’s European Artist Showcase
The entries in our European Artist Showcase are coming thick and fast. From lions to leopards, dragons to demons, we’ve already received hundreds of submissions from all over the world. And, as with our previous artist showcases, there are a few consistent themes that emerge. Horses are always a popular subject. As are celebrities, pop…
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NSFW: Swiss Performance Artist Attends Art Basel Without Clothes
When Bar Rafaeli appeared completely nude on the cover of Esquire, was it performance art? Possibly – she did have an actual artist named Stephen Victore paint the words of Stephen King on her body. Is the above photo? Absolutely, at least according to Milo Moire, a performance artist and psychologist based in Duesseldorff, Germany.…
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Artist Creates a Bikini Top in Support of #FreeTheNipple
Head to a beach this summer and you might see a bunch of women walking around with their nipples on show. But, before you drop your ice-cream cone on the floor and gawk, know that all may not be as it first seems. The women may very well be sporting the new TaTa Top –…
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Woman Photoshops Her Face In 25 Countries To Compare Their Beauty Standards
U.S.-based journalist and photographer Esther Honig came up with an interesting photo project that answers a difficult question in an ingenious way – how can we compare standards of women’s beauty world-wide? Honig’s solution was brilliantly simple: she sent a portrait photo of herself to freelance Photoshoppers in countries around the world with one request…