Through a Veil Darkly: the Art of Bernd Preiml
Tags: bernd preiml, conceptual, fashion photography, gloomy color schemes, historically inspired, modern fairy tales, neo-victorian, otherworldly photography, photomanipulation, retro, surreal, victorian
Preternaturally Beautiful Horror Photography by Jenn Violetta
Visit Jenn Violetta on Flickr for more of her wonderful photography.
Tags: abuse, blood, bruises, children, colorful, emotive, flour-white face, hauntingly beautiful, horror photography, injuries, innocence, jenn violetta, medical-themed, military-themed, otherworldly photography, photomanipulation, political, surreal, trauma, violence
Vintage Dream Photography by Ellen Rogers
Ellen Rogers‘ gorgeous, experimental film photography, reminiscent of 19th-century hand-colored pictures, always makes me feel like I’ve entered an ethereal dreamland that combines the past and the present seamlessly, where beautiful princesses come out of the shadows and mists and lure you. Rogers does everything with analog cameras, film, and darkroom techniques only, with the resulting images being sometimes blurred, overlaid, and having other interesting and charmingly individual effects. Sometimes black-and-white, sometimes with the unreal, super-saturated color of vintage photos, her work is delightful and dreamy and piquant.
Tags: art nudes, black and white, colorful, ellen rogers, flowers in hair, headdresses, high fashion, otherworldly photography, twins/doppelgangers/doubles, vintage
“Immune”: Floria Sigismondi
Floria Sigismondi is an Italian-Canadian photographer, director, and filmmaker who breaks the boundaries between mainstream and alternative visual culture. She has worked with many high-profile artists on their music videos, including Björk, The Cure, Marilyn Manson, and The White Stripes. Her personal projects and commercial work both amaze me with their preternatural beauty and color.
Floria’s vivid, hallucinatory images are morbid, beautiful, and hyper[sur]real. Her works take place in a strange, artificial, and gorgeously colorful world of her own – film stills from her videos could be taken for photo-art and vice versa.
Tags: floria sigismondi, medical-themed, music videos, otherworldly photography, religious imagery, saturated color, self-portraits, surreal horror, virgin mary
The Mystical Levitating Photography of Sergey Loie
Sergey Loie on Flickr
Tags: abandoned buildings, art nudes, otherworldly photography
J-Chan’s Designs
Jessica of J-Chan’s Designs is a wildly imaginative, out-of-this-world stylist, costume designer, and makeup artist. She is also the founder and editor in chief of recently launched Giuseppina Magazine.
Vivid, manic, bipolar, brave colors and contrasting, rougher vs. delicate textures characterize her fashion creations. The makeup is fittingly bold and insanely colorful. The styling is what really draws me to these designs, often adding a rare beauty to them. It can be a bit gritty and over-the-top, or more elegant and subdued, in muted colors. Elaborate, innovative, often wildly colorful makeup and huge hair/headdresses with lots of ornament and accessory are a common element, and complement the crazed fairytale aesthetic of the outfits. Though it can be wacky and almost overwhelmingly cluttered, a color-explosion chaos to the eye, it is always interesting.
Tags: amazing makeup, collars, colorful, hair, historically inspired, j-chan's designs, lacy, otherworldly photography, ruffs
Royal Fairy Tales and Frail Dolls
Lily Bloodstained AKA Mon-artifice is an amazing young photographer who does the most fantastic self-portraiture. In her richly dark imagery, she takes on the personae of tragic and baroque, 18th-century aristocrats and the like, in flour-white makeup elaborated with ink ornamentation, and half-masks, often with the theme of mirroring, fragmented, or double images. Expressive, dark, and endlessly creative, she is a true inspiration. She embodies a sense of nostalgic melancholy, and her work, though deeply emotional, is always subtle and has a certain elegant quality. Here is some of her work below. I like so many of her images that it was hard to pick!
Lily Bloodstained on DeviantArt
on Flickr
on Darkfolio
on Dirty Angels
Tags: 18th century, baroque, historically inspired, lily bloodstained, masks, otherworldly photography, self-portraits
Heaven by Felice Fawn
Two incredible images, titled Heaven and Purgatory, respectively, from Felice Fawn:
Tags: amazing makeup, art nudes, felice fawn, medical-themed, otherworldly photography, religious imagery, virgin mary, white hair
Otherworldly Color: Neil Snape
I love the lighting, colors, and general flawless beauty of Neil Snape‘s fashion photography. The undersea, mermaid-like effect is very lovely.
Tags: colorful, otherworldly photography
Wahre Märchen: The Art of Annie Bertram
I did an interview via email with artist Annie Bertram recently. Annie is an amazing artist who puts her heart into what she does, extremely kind, and I’m so glad I got to do this interview with her. She was wonderful and gave some great answers.
Tags: annie bertram, decaying architecture, floria sigismondi, forgotten places, h. r. giger, interviews, modern fairy tales, otherworldly photography, vecona, victorian
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