Some painters create such realistic and plastic pictures that it is hard to believe that they are not photographs. Alexa Meade does the opposite. Instead of canvas, she herself uses models that she colors with acrylic paints. Their skin is her canvas and the result is extraordinary. Although you may think that these are artistic pictures, they are "just" photographs.
Russell Power is an artist from California who took a somewhat unusual approach to portraiture. His working tool is his palm. Not by holding a paintbrush! The process, which Power calls "hand-stamping", is completely unique. How does it all look?
Are redheads the most beautiful women in the world? There are many stereotypes about red-haired women that are not scientifically supported. They are supposed to be temperamental, seductive, smart, polite, passionate, attractive, fun-loving, free-spirited, loyal, stubborn, adventurous, unpredictable, teasing, fiery... Whatever is true or not, men have only one word for them - sexy. The color red means passion, and a man should immediately think of sex when he sees a woman with red hair. American photographer Brian Dowling also explored their beauty and sex appeal, who captured more than 100 redheads from 20 different countries in his lens, and is now publishing their photos in the form of a portrait book.
Similar to the portraits of actors for director Lars von Trier's infamous film Nymphomaniac, professional photographer Albert Pocej took a series of photographs of people in the moment of orgasm. Instead of famous actors such as Uma Thurman and Shia LeBeouf, 15 women posed for him and the following provocative shots were created, showing the genuine expression on their faces as they experience orgasm. No climax of sexual arousal was played.
Many breathtaking works of art are created by human hands. Also, works of art are created on the hands that rival those on the canvases. One who falls into this second category of artist is Russell Powell, but he doesn't do tattoos, which is what you might think at first. Powell draws incredibly realistic portraits with his own hand, or rather the palm of his hand. But his pictures don't just stay on his hand, because he prints them on paper like a stamp.
Every year, in various beauty contests, we can get to know a thousand and one female faces that come from the most remote corner of the world, but these portraits of women are somehow taken out of context, because the girls pose on stage and catwalks, instead of in their natural environment. This was done by a traveler from Romania, Mihaela Noroc, who captured the beauty of women in their cultural environment during her trip around the world, and called her project - Atlas of Beauty - ''The Atlas Of Beauty''.
Today, emotional symbols are everywhere the cursor reaches. They have become an integral part of modern digital speech and a way of expressing emotions and feelings. But until now, no one has used them like the artist and rapper Yung Jake, who used the popular "emoticons" instead of colors and created celebrity portraits from them.
You have a ticket and a glass of beer in your hand. All you have to do now is wait for the band to hit the stage. How does it feel backstage? What does a band think before stepping into the spotlight? And what do they think after the performance, when sweaty and ruined from the great show they just gave you, they finally catch their breath? All this was perfectly combined by photographer Tom Oldham in the ON/OFF photo series.
Flowers and blossoms, delicate doves, lace and frills and other delicate decorations are the main stars of the Lady Things photo series, a series of portraits of women and their femininity.
"Mixed" family portraits remind us that sometimes we don't even realize how similar we are to our closest ones.
HobbyBuddies are cute portraits of unusual group hobbies you never knew existed, captured by Basel-based photographers Ursula Sprecher and Andi Cortellini. It seems to us that the Slovenian Society of Roasted Potato Lovers would certainly feel at home in the company of the Poodle Lovers' Club and the Butchers' Society!
Cute portraits of a dog and his best friend are so cute that looking at them makes us smile from ear to ear. Cute models are Zoey and Jasper.