The Photography of Sylwia Makris

06.24.12

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Tags: avant-garde, corsets, dark, emotive photography, fashion photography, hair, hauntingly beautiful, historically inspired, medical braces, melancholy, otherworldly photography, queens, religious imagery, sylwia makris

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Andrea Galluzzo

05.07.11

{from Andrea Galluzzo’s Know Myself in All My Parts series}

Tags: art nudes, black and white, emotive photography, expressive, mystical, sweet/melancholy, symbolism

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Margriet Smulders’ Exquisite, Paradisaical Flower Photography

04.17.11

These are just gorgeous. Violent and serene-looking at once, extremely vivid as well as unreal.

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Tags: bloodmilk, colorful, emotive photography, flowers, hauntingly beautiful, red, saturated color, visceral

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Photography by Michaela Knížová

04.01.11

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Tags: emotive photography, expressive, modern fairy tales, self-portraits

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Mary Kuzmenkova

11.17.10

I love photographer Mary Kuzmenkova’s flower headdress series, unnaturally-enlarged-doe-eyed portraits that are playful, sad, and moving, by turns. Below are some more examples of her work – I especially love the tenderness that she captures in her subjects, and I feel as if her work represents the zeitgeist of our age in some way, at least some part of it – a nameless, languid yearning.

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Tags: "ethereal woodland maiden" look, black-and-white portraits, emotive photography, enlarged eyes, flowers in hair, mary kuzmenkova, soft color

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