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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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.
Reisewitz’ photographs, most of all large formats, explore the changing relation of the city and the countryside in a period of feverish economic development.
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.
Pavel Tchelitchew clearly was a seer of the unseen, a true visionary artist.
Michael O’Neill’s quest to capture the essence of yoga spans time, space, and peoples.
Frieder Grindler is one of the big names of German poster design in the second half of the 20th century.
Ben Roberts creates photographic contemplations of rural Japan with an unique artistic signature.
Be warned, looking into somebody else’s eyes might never be the same again after seeing the following pictures.
This documentary from 1996 is a celebration of life.
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.
Asger Carlsen’s pictures make me think about my human form and its range of functions.
There are contemporary “back to the land” communities practicing a hunter-gatherer way of life. Projects like this will serve as a touchstone to those interested in living differently.
Turrell is an artist who works with the nature of perception. He uses light to make you perceive your perceiving.
It is rarely possible that an artist’s vision pierces me to the heart at first glance. Dutch artist Saskia Olde-Wolbers did so. Her clear as a bell vision is unmistakable and unique.
The works of Zone Patcher are the very definition of digital psychedelic art.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter circles the red planet since 2006. The little spacecraft sends high-res pictures of Mars’ surface ever since.
Karl Blossfeldt was an attentive observers of nature, a teacher of contemplation.
I’m totally fascinated by Hannsjörg Voth‘s structures in the Moroccan desert. There is a beautiful book called Stadt des Orion…
Ernst Fuchs was one of the most influential masters of the visionary arts movement.
Capturing the fleeting moments of a wave’s journey to dissipation, Australian photographer Ray Collins feels more at home floating in…
