The Door of Perception
Anna Paola Guerra is living and working in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. And since I discovered her photos I feel the strong urge to see the Brazilian light with my own eyes.
To me Anna’s photos are a reminder of the magic in everything.
Followup: Anna contributed her photo for this record I designed
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Roger Dean is best known for his work on posters and album covers for musicians, which he began painting in…
Yoga: The Art of Transformation was the first major exhibition that explores the visual history of yoga.
These seekers of the inner spirit in outer things, wanted to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world.
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Photojournalist Sebastião Salgado traveled the Brazilian Amazon for six years to document the unfathomable wonder of this last frontier. The forest, the rivers, the mountains, and the people who live there.
Or what being present means to me. And why I practice Ashtanga Yoga.
The photographer Jimmy Nelson visited 31 secluded and visually unique tribes around the world. The result is huge — in extend and significance.
Spencer Tunick photographs individuals en masse, without their clothing, grouped together.
Their latest exploration into generative AI seems like a natural evolution of their practice.
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The skin of another is as cryptic as the vastness of the heavens above. But we try to find meaning, with celestial maps of heavenly bodies.
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Today I picked up one of my favorite books, Island by Aldous Huxley, his radical blueprint for a better world.…
