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Sediment Bruise officially labels themselves as an alternative pop rock band, so if you’re into this music you most likely have heard of them. The Greek band was created in Thessaloniki, when: Vag Mood (vocals), Michael-Angelo Nikolaidis (keyboards, guitars, vocals), Nick Nikolaidis (guitars), Panagiotis Gianoudis (bass), George Moukos (drums) and […]
The portfolio of emerging Cluj-based photographer Paula Gradinaru combines portraiture, still life, street and concert photography; consolidating her positions as a rising Romanian artist. Paula’s work is multifaceted and difficult to describe. She gives meditative attention to the elements of light and color, elaborating textural contrast through shadow, light and […]
Venus Beach is an Afrofemale planet dreamed by French photographer Pol Kurucz. On Venus Beach synthetic is organic, male is female and color is light. Galaxies away from racism, misogyny and terrestrial inequalities the inhabitants of Venus beach live a free, eccentric and glamorous life. Through visual allegories and pop aesthetics […]
As if everyone wasn’t already in love with singer Radu Oscaciuc‘s broken, pleading voice, he had to go and offer the perfect adaptation of ‘Just a little bit‘. You can see right from the start that Dimitri’s Bats are fully invested with this song. The passion flows with every line, […]
Timisoara based band The Case will release a new video for ‘Dark Places‘ on September 5th, according to the band’s Facebook page. The Case are that type of band that’ll make you reflect and reconsider. This track is just the right amount of cryptic, while providing the type of rock that’s […]
Josh Lin, a philosophy student in Taiwan, has been shooting film photography since 2010. I started shooting film since 15, using a lomo LCA+ and shot everyday life. When I started shooting creatively, the images constructed in my mind just came from nowhere, it’s vague but that’s how I found […]
Romanian photographer Mihaela Andreea Andrei has shared her latest work with Cultartes: “Summer Polaroids“. Mihaela Andreea is known to create hazy, dream-like portraits that demonstrate the extent to which instant film can be pushed to look like an alternate world. While she doesn’t work exclusively with Polaroids, the simple, evocative […]
Zeno Gill is a longtime contributor and friend of Cultartes. New York-based photographer, Zeno mostly shoots portraiture, street, or travel photography. He has shot for Disney, Brylcreem, Raw Beauty Talks, and several boutique model agencies in NYC. “Freak Out” is his latest black and white series that he shot in New York City on 35mm film. […]
Today’s revelation in music is Shayfer James, a complex singer and songwriter I recently have heard of. “New York Doesn’t Remind me” takes fans on an audio-visual journey throughout NYC, reflecting on love, heartbreak, and the intertwined connection memories can hold to particular locations. Sure, New York has become one […]
Iulia Grosu is a Romanian artist who graduated the Fine Arts High School “Bălaşa Doamna” Târgovişte and the undergraduate courses of the Graphics Department of the National University of Arts Bucharest. In 2018, she was awarded an Erasmus scholarship for studies in Poland at the University of Fine Arts Poznań, followed […]