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Colored photographs by Fabienne Rivory

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French artist Fabienne Rivory combines photography and watercolor paints to create these breathtaking images. Using gouache or inks to create texture, shading and bright areas of color, Rivory digitally combines the paintings with photographs from her personal collection of landscapes. These are simple images but highly evocative of fleeting moments and dreams.

In her artist’s statement, . . . → Read More: Colored photographs by Fabienne Rivory

Editorial collage by Michelle Thompson

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from Plot magazine – Transgender

Splicing a few found images and scribbling a few marks, UK based illustrator Michelle Thompson makes statements which cut across our personal lives and cultural world. A split image of the top of a man’s face with the bottom of a woman’s face erases the line between the genders. . . . → Read More: Editorial collage by Michelle Thompson

“Concrete Abstract & Notes From the Edge” photographs by Shai Kremer at the Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco

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Shai Kremer‘s “Concrete Abstract & Notes From the Edge” photography exhibit feels eerily relevant in light of the tragic bombing in Boston earlier this week.

In “Concrete Abstract” Kremer overlays multiple images of the reconstruction effort at the site of the World Trade Center. From afar, the large photographs look like abstract paintings. Up . . . → Read More: “Concrete Abstract & Notes From the Edge” photographs by Shai Kremer at the Robert Koch Gallery in San Francisco

Collages by Jiyen Lee

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Specks from afar. That’s what we reduce to in these stunning pieces by Korean artist Jiyen Lee. Splicing photographs of bird’s eye views of people, Lee reconstructs landscapes where life is an endless journey. There are no beginnings nor ends. No places to hide nor rest.

See more of Lee’s digital collages on Saatchi Online.

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Abstract photography by Nicholas Alan Cope and Dustin Edward Arnold

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Here are some spectacular images by the Los Angeles based duo of Nicholas Alan Cope and Dustin Edward Arnold. A gushing waterfall, a macro photograph of the stamen of a tropical flower. Neither is correct. Cope & Arnold created these images through “a mixture of painting, chemistry and photography.” That’s as much detail as they . . . → Read More: Abstract photography by Nicholas Alan Cope and Dustin Edward Arnold

Collage-based fantastical landforms by Gabriel Pulecio

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The designer behind Lustix, New York City based Gabriel Pulecio, is really good at collaging together unusual textures and graphical elements to form fantastical new landforms. I believe most of his work is done digitally.

See more of Pulecio’s work on his flickr site.

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Lines on photographic portraits by Andrew Wee

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Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) student André Wee has created this series of intriguing portraits. The people in these images blend back and forth between nets of geometric lines.

On his website, the Singaporean artist writes that it is “uncertain as to whether these figures are in the process of “forming” or “fragmenting” due . . . → Read More: Lines on photographic portraits by Andrew Wee

“Looking Up” photographs that look up at skies and ceilings by Brent Townshend

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Paris, San Francisco, Turkey and more. Everywhere he goes, photographer Brent Townshend looks up for inspiration. Taking the outlines of the buildings against the sky and using image processing techniques to create a wide view, the Canadian photographer captures 360-degree panoramic views from the ground.

Townshend comes with . . . → Read More: “Looking Up” photographs that look up at skies and ceilings by Brent Townshend

Photographs of animals in the grocery store by Agan Harahap

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The food in the produce aisles of our grocery stores come from the animals and plants of our earth. The animals depicted in these photographs feed upon the animals and plants of our earth. Why is the juxtaposition of these animals in our supermarkets so striking and unsettling? Photographer Agan Harahap explores this . . . → Read More: Photographs of animals in the grocery store by Agan Harahap

Macroflora photos as mandalas

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Here is a bright and happy series of mandalas to help you make it through the morning. Photographer Gregory Miller-Hard digitally created them using his macroflora shots. “These works are the product of my passion for imagery distilled  from the botanic, geographic and aquatic realms,” he writes on his website. “Photography is my medium . . . → Read More: Macroflora photos as mandalas