Phyllis Galembo‘s pictures reflect the ritual adornment and spirituality of masquerade in Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso in West Africa. These portraits of masqueraders build on Galembo’s work of the past twenty years photographing the rituals and religious culture in Nigeria, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti, as well as the homegrown custom of Halloween in the United States.
Marc Marcel
DMT & The Meaning of Life
This talk really has it in it. So much truth in so simple words. Here’s more of him.
DMT
The Spirit Molecule
I featured this documentary before but I feel it deserves to stand alone.
Sibylle Ruppert
The Inward Gaze of the Flesh
Painting or drawing is a form of conversation with oneself. It is a solitary relationship with his or her own intimate world. It is a work that makes people aware of their fundamental loneliness.
Sebastião Salgado
Amazônia
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.
Inner Worlds
Outer Worlds
I just discovered the greatest documentary of all time. I urge you to take the time and watch this carefully. What do you feel?
The Abramović Method
& Institute
The fantastic Marina Abramović wants to share her legacy with the world. It’s all her knowledge condensed into a method — The Abramović Method.
The Overview Effect
& Satellite imagery
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.
René Magritte
Evoking the mysterious
René Magritte developed key strategies and techniques to defamiliarize the familiar, to evoke the mysterious.
Andy Goldsworthy
Working With Time
Goldsworthy is at play with the relentless flow of the elements, forming fragile and temporary moments in time.
Jerry Uelsmann
Photo Synthesis
Jerry Uelsmann uses the technique of combination printing to create his dreamlike scenes.
Boris Bućan
Reimagining Folk Art
Visually arresting and conceptually rigorous, the graphic design of Boris Bućan has recently experienced renewed international interest.
Linda Westin
Illuminated Dendrology
These portraits of the woods are influenced by imaging neuroscience. Especially the colors are reminiscent of the artist’s experience with fluorescence microscopy.
Asger Carlsen
Studies on Flexibility of Relation
Asger Carlsen’s pictures make me think about my human form and its range of functions.
Kevin Lucbert
worlds in between blue lines
Kevin Lucbert draws doors into parallel universes. And he mostly uses the color blue, which obviously fits to DOP. It…
Esther Teichmann
The dark viscosity of paradise
The synchronicity of discovering Esther Teichmann at this moment in my life is striking. I am surrounded by lush nature and the promise of the unknown speaks to me beyond language.
Toshio Saeki
Nothing is True
Everything is Permitted
Toshio Saeki is a psychosexual dream weaver, a grand master of mixing myth, that dream quality and pure libido.
Maoist
Peasant Paintings
Huxian Peasant Paintings are a product of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Ostensibly painted by amateur worker-peasant-soldier artists, they depict idealized scenes of the thriving socialist countryside.
De Es Schwertberger
Heavy Light
Over more than fifty years of creating, Schwertberger’s themes and painting style evolve continuously. The path led from a figurative fantastic realism to an almost abstract, process-like creative flow.
Simen Johan
Until The Kingdom Comes
The images of Simen Johan speak to me because of their perfection, showing us the animal kingdom in a supernatural…
Susumu Endo
Space, Real & Imagined
My main theme is the relationship of two different dimensions in space: the real and the imaginary.
