Ireland: Photos by Danielle Nelson Mourning

Ireland: Photos by Danielle Nelson Mourning

Self-portraits in period costumes and landscape photos taken in Donegal, Ireland.

I feel an affinity with this country because it is where my ancestors are from. There was no question about it when I met the people and drove around the country. I felt like I had found a part of myself which had always been missing. So, I made a project for two months on the rugged coast of Donegal about the potato famine and the period when my family emigrated to America. I am not a writer so I will end this shortly but I will say, spending time in Ireland was like living inside the best novel I had ever read….the music, the landscape and most importantly, the people made me feel like I was finally home.

Photo Collage by Kyungmi Shin

Photo Collage by Kyungmi Shin

Site-specific photo collage arranged to form multilayered cityscapes.

Lumen: Photos by Jurgen Heckel

Lumen: Photos by Jurgen Heckel

Not sure if these are long-exposure photos of cars in the distance but the effect is stunning.

Photos by Brooke Shaden

Photos by Brooke Shaden

Conceptual photos resembling surreal paintings.

I began photography in December 2008 and have been shooting just about non-stop ever since then. I try to shoot every day or at least a few times a week. No matter what, the thing that keeps me feeling most alive is creating new worlds through photographs and so I am constantly creating, editing, and posting them to the online world.

Wasting My Young Years: Video by London Grammar

Wasting My Young Years: Video by London Grammar

A music video for London Grammar shot on 35mm film using a homemade camera rig consisting of 625 individual pinhole cameras. The cameras were exposed at the same time to capture the people in the video as if they were frozen in space.

Paintings by John Musgrove

Paintings by John Musgrove

Paintings resembling photographs taken at different times of the day and stitched together.

In my cityscapes, I try to capture the fleeting drama and beauty of everyday experience. I'm drawn to compositions in which light, shadow, form and color interact to create both balance and surprise. Beyond that, I want each canvas to evoke a unique sense of place. Most of my San Francisco pictures feature neighborhood views off the beaten track.

Camera Obscura: Photos by Abelardo Morell

Camera Obscura: Photos by Abelardo Morell

Photos of projected images of the outside view on the back walls of rooms using a small lens or a prism.

A few years ago, in order to push the visual potential of this process, I began to use color film and positioned a lens over the hole in the window plastic in order to add to the overall sharpness and brightness of the incoming image. Now, I often use a prism to make the projection come in right side up. I have also been able to shorten my exposures considerably thanks to digital technology, which in turn makes it possible to capture more momentary light. I love the increased sense of reality that the outdoor has in these new works. The marriage of the outside and the inside is now made up of more equal partners.

Mixed Media by Jane Maxwell

Mixed Media by Jane Maxwell

Mixed media works that grew out of the artist's fascination with pop culture and female icons as well as a passion for vintage materials, modern fashion, and design.

Trim, fashion-forward silhouettes serve as central icons in this mixed-media collage, that deconstructs and illuminates the feminine ideal.  

Figures are stripped of fashion and makeup, and built from layers of found and vintage papers that have been sanded, scraped and resurfaced. Aged movie posters, produce crate labels, advertising signs, and related materials compose the colors, patterns, and text that surround and become the figures.  

While the women in this work are pared down forms, they remain thin, long-legged, and sexy. There is a palpable ambivalence surrounding this work that both denounces the cultural pressure to be perfect while acknowledging a deep desire to achieve societal standards of beauty.