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There are people and there are artists, there are artists and there are muses. Sometimes these 3 just intertwine in a perfection that is non-existent in the tumultuous reality we live in. There are people that carry emotions and thoughts like vessels, gathering inside them the weight of the world […]
France-based photographer and graphic designer Dimitri Bourriau is a “multifaceted self-taught artist” with a passion for urban exploration and mainly abandoned places. Last time we featured on Cultartes his take on Buzludza, the “Bulgarian abandoned Soviet spaceship”, an astonishing photo-series of one of most mysterious architectural structures from Eastern Europe. […]
Răzvan Dima is a photographer based in Bucharest, Romania. His activity crawls around the idea of being the judgy witness, pointing his finger at the wrong-doings happening around him and deconstructing them through photography. “I like to be the quiet observer”, he says. I draw inspiration from the apparently ordinary […]
Conceptual artist Ștefan Șerbănescu pressed pause on paintbrush and charcoal, replacing graphics with graphic photography. His new, ongoing series of brilliant still life imagery mixes nudity with vegetal and animal elements, turning the restroom in an unexpected scene for a wave of stomach-twisting portraits and self-portraits. Nothing prepares the viewer […]
Alina Noir, Romanian author and photographer currently based in Montreal, Canada, just released a new photo-series of unexpected scenaries featuring nude people in the comfort of their homes. The pictures were taken last year while she was in France, and together they compile an assembly of 25 unique, libertine and […]
Glam Jail is a Franco-Brazilian tale by photographer Pol Kurucz about 11 eccentric inmates transforming a prison visitor’s booth into a colorful fashion haven. Through visual allegories and pop aesthetics the photographer challenges social and racial norms symbolized by the carceral universe. The shootings took place in the Offen Studio […]
Christian Răzvan or CHRSRZVN is a Romanian photographer based in Timișoara. He is currently studying Arts and Design in the city. Christian’s activity really took off last year after he managed to catch a few collaborations with local and foreign models. His online visibility grew since. Predominated by mainly editorial, […]
Antonis Tsarouchas is a Greek visual artist currently based in Germany. Combining photo-manipulations and mixed-media with the tumultuous imagery of urban lifestyle, the artist does a great job at capturing the past-years’ TV fever on film and Polaroid. Antonis’ style can be located in between the ‘80s retro, synth extravaganza […]
Neal Auch is a photographer based in Ontario, Canada. As you will soon find out, his works focus mostly on “arrangements of dead animal parts”. As creepy as this might sound when you articulate these words out loud, his imagery has something more to it – both in beauty and […]
Alexandru Laurus is a Romanian photographer based in Cluj-Napoca. He often convinces strangers to let him photograph them and capture their emotions and unique looks. As he says: “I don’t know if this counts as art and I don’t want to search for definitions. Fuck definitions. Fuck perfect lines. Fuck the Fibonacci spiral. All of this just melts down on her cheeks then trickle down her chin, her neck collar bones and […]