The Door of Perception
This is as fashion as it gets on DOP. But Dutch photographer Viviane Sassen‘s work is extraordinary and transcends the common. She’s one of my favorite photographers and this selection focuses on her documentary and personal work.
Read what people have to say about her after working together.
In seven interviews:
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This 3D printing project is so extraordinary because of it’s self-sufficiency. It creates objects out of sun and sand. Of course it’s still in the early stages of development. But imagine what this could do in the future.
Alexander Ross’ hyper worlds of cellular growth and green towering vines are one of a kind.
End Time City is Michael Ackerman’s radical portrayal of the Indian city of Benares, the holy City of Light on the shore of the Ganges.
Fludd was striving for an universal science, combining mysticism, aesthetics and the more rational sciences to an all-embracing system of knowledge.
I hesitated to make this post because what it reveals is a rather weird presentation of human desire. But ultimately…
Cacti and succulents are plants with fascinating characteristics. And this series portrays them in the most beautiful way.
I’m absolutely mesmerized by Jordan Kasey‘s paintings. Her color scheme and softness of shapes and light have a dazzling effect…
J. D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere’s work captures the intersection of cultural tradition and personal expression.
Georgia O’Keeffe is mostly known for her large-scale paintings of natural forms and flowers at close range with which she sought to share the beauty she witnessed.
If the human being is the only animal that knows it lives in time, the movie is about that knowledge, a modern fairy tale about the nature of being alive.
Thorgerson’s metaphorical language to me feels like as if Magritte would have been into photography instead of painting.
Fractals are a wonderful way of seeing infinity. Their beauty is only secondary after that lesson in perception.
Indulging in the aimless activity of watching the ephemeral beauty of clouds can enrich your life. Realize we don’t live beneath the sky, we live within it.
Most probably I will never look down at mother ship earth from space. But some astronauts did when they set out to explore the final frontier.
French artist Alexandra Duprez mentions Australian Aboriginal art as her main inspiration to take up painting.
These days the light returns and I behold an enchanted world. I feel so grateful for this gift of vision and the living world it presents to me.
René Magritte developed key strategies and techniques to defamiliarize the familiar, to evoke the mysterious.
Finally, the story of the greatest science fiction epic never made has finally been told. Jodorowsky’s Dune is a new documentary about that beautiful, crazy-ambitious, disaster of an adaptation.
Take a close look at insects and remember how inconceivably wild and manifold life shapes on this planet.
Toshio Saeki is a psychosexual dream weaver, a grand master of mixing myth, that dream quality and pure libido.
