Girls and whale sharks!

10/10/2013 by chicquero

In an effort to raise awareness about conservation and the environment, marine life photographer Shawn Heinrichs collaborated with fashion photographer Kristian Schmidt on this completely awe-inspiring underwater project. The images feature enchanting combinations where human models swim in sync with whale sharks, the world’s largest fish. Involved in the project were Italian model Roberta Mancino, underwater model Hannah Fraser, stylist Fazli Krasniqi, and physiologist and artist Taro Smith. As the models and animals worked flawlessly together, the two photographers captured […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: cool, Kristian Schmidt, ocean, photo, photography, sea, sharks, Shawn Heinrichs, underwater, water, whale, whale sharks

Ashes to Dust!

10/03/2013 by chicquero

I am Dust + Time of War by Olivier Valsecchi (2009-2012) Inspired by Ovid’s definition of Chaos – a confused mass of liquid and fog, order and disorder, light and darkness – the “Dust” (2009) and “Time of War” (2012) series, part of the “I am dust” project, are about incarnation, resurrection, rebuild what was destroyed, struggling for life. Olivier Valsecchi was born in Paris in 1979. Revealed to the public eye in 2010 by  DUST,  this series earned him the prestigious Hasselblad […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: art, ashes, body, cool, dust, human, naked, Olivier Valsecchi, people, photo, photography

Dancers among us!

01/23/2013 by chicquero

“The inspiration for this book came to me one afternoon as I watched my son, Hudson, playing with his toy bus. I was trying to keep pace with his three-year-old mind as he got deeper and deeper into a fantasy involving nothing more than a yellow plastic box and armless figurines. At least that’s what I saw. He saw frantic commuters rushing to catch the 77 local bus to Australia. He jumped in place, mouth open and slapping his knees, joyously reacting to […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: art, arts, ballet, beautiful, city, contemporary, cool, dance, dancers, dancers among us, dancing, movement, people, photo, photography, urban

Hyperphotos

11/14/2012 by chicquero

Jean-François Rauzier, French artist, born 1952. Fascinated by photography from an early age, Jean-François Rauzier graduated from the School Louis Lumière in 1976. He has since been working as a professional photographer, while developing a personal creative work. J.F Rauzier was immediately captivated by numerical photography when it penetrated the professional market 15 years ago. He has been exploring the multiple opportunities offered by computer’s retouching since then, turning himself into a “virtual” painter. In 2002, he created the “Hyperphoto”, a concept […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: architecture, art, arts, artsy, city, cool, Design, digital, Europe, hyperphoto, Jean François Rauzier, manipulation, photo, photography, photoshop, retouching

Photo impressionism

11/07/2012 by chicquero

Josh Adamski has captured stunning images and turned them into works of fine art with his keen eye. He was born and raised in the UK and is now based in Israel. Much of Adamski’s work is focused around water as he lives near the beach and draws inspiration from the sea. After a photograph is taken, editing takes place to make the image more abstract and turn it into something even more powerful. The colors that Adamski brings out […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: abstract, art, artsy, beach, colors, fine art, images, impressionism, josh adamski, ladscape, nature, people, photo, photography, stunning, sunset

Ashes and Snow

10/03/2012 by chicquero

Ashes and Snow by Canadian artist Gregory Colbert is an installation of photographic artworks, films, and a novel in letters. The work explores the shared poetic sensibilities of human beings and animals. Ashes and Snow has traveled to Venice, New York, Santa Monica, Tokyo, and Mexico City. To date, Ashes and Snow has attracted more than 10 million visitors, making it the most attended exhibition by a living artist in history. Each exhibition consists of more than fifty large-scale mixed media photographic artworks and three film installations. The photographic artworks measure approximately 3.5 […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: africa, animals, arts, artwork, ashes and snow, cheetah, earthy tones, elephant, Gregory Colbert, humans, India, monkeys, most attended exhibition, people, photo, photography, sepia

Little Planets

05/27/2012 by chicquero

The works of american artist Josh Sommers carve out their context, somewhere along the boundaries of landscape photography, art, mathematics, and technology.  There’s a crispness to these photos, in that they appear to have been planned from the beginning instead of having an effect slapped on afterward. The stereographic projection, in geometry, is a particular mapping (function) that projects a sphere onto a plane. The projection is defined on the entire sphere, except at one point — the projection point. It is conformal, meaning that it preserves angles. It is neither isometric nor […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: arts, effect, geometry, josh sommers, landscape, little, photo, photography, planets, projection, sphere, stereographic, technology

The real “Happy Feet”

01/09/2012 by chicquero

Feet First “While sitting on Brighton beach (England) back in 2005 with my new girlfriend Verity I suddenly thought the view of our feet pointing out to sea would make a nice photo. Ever since then, we’ve continued to document our travels in this way, resulting in a collection of over 90 photos. In 2011 the series took a new twist with the arrival of a third set of feet – our daughter Matilda.” Feet First Project Tom Robinson, an […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: couple, feet first, feet on the ground, foot, photo, photography, places, project, tom robinson, travel, traveler, world

Who’s Your Daddy?

01/03/2012 by chicquero

Daddy’s getting nuts Sean Dufrene is a cool photographer from Los Angeles. The following images represent a caricature of his father.  Each image is based on situations that he experienced while growing up at his house. Very funny series, love the lighting and colours too. His dad is the old man in the photos! “There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.” Samuel Johnson >>>YOU MAY ALSO LIKE<<< Listen to your […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: dad, daddy, father, funny, humor, photo, photography, sarcarstic, sean dufrene, son

Dance like no one’s watching!

12/01/2011 by chicquero

Dance photographs Diana Patient is a photographer of many things, perhaps specialising mostly in creative portrait photography, dancer and performers’ portfolios and fashion editorial photographs. From working as a press photographer for The Daily Mirror, to working for fashion designers abroad to photographing internationally acclaimed bands at big music festivals. Diana emailed us today, to check it out her work, we loved her style and decided to feature some of her fabulous dance photographs. Keep it up dear, thanks for […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: art, ballerina, ballet, dance, diana patient, music, photo, photography, street

Vintage rural America.

11/24/2011 by chicquero

America in Color from 1939-1943 We don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in Brazil, so I decided to make a special post to our fellow american buddies. Happy Thanksgiving! These great images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: 1930, 1940, America, America in Color, art, Bound for Glory, culture, denver post, farm, Farm Security Administration, fotografia, Library of Congress, north america, Office of War Information, old, photo, photographs, photography, photos, pics, places, rural, small town, Thanksgiving, turkey, united states, US, USA, vintage

Not Frankenstein, call me Frankie!

11/20/2011 by chicquero

Frankenstein It’s Alive Project Frankenstein or, The Modern Prometheus, is a novel about a failed experiment that created a monster, written by Mary Shelley, with inserts of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Shelley started writing the story when she was eighteen, the first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818, she was 21. Shelley’s name appears on the second edition, published in France in 1823. Frankenstein’s monster have influenced popular culture for at least 100 years. The character of the monster remains one of the most […]

Categories: Design, Laugh • Tags: art, arte, chic, culture, Design, designer, Frankenstein, horror, mary shelley, monster, movies, Movies & Cinema, novel, percy bysshe shelley, photo, photography, photos, pop art, pop icon, popular culture, the modern prometheus, trends

Holiday tease..

11/19/2011 by chicquero

Loewe Holiday Collection 2011/2012 What a brilliant campaign from Loewe’s, the spanish luxury brand specialized in high quality leather goods and accessories. They have been around since 1846, and lately, they are doing a really good marketing job. The following shoot is part of a very creative campaign to increase their holiday sales, I’m sure they will be fine! I love the simplicity and the colors contrasts with the pieces. These could be great displays, windows and a possible animated viral “stop […]

Categories: Design, Fashion • Tags: accessories, ads, advertising, art, arte, campaign, campanha, chic, culture, Design, designer, display, Fashion, holiday collection, leather, loewe, luxury, marketing, Moda, photo, photographer, photography, style, trends, window

Innocence avec Elegance!

11/18/2011 by chicquero

Innocentia Susanne Bisovsky commenced her fashion studies with Vivienne Westwood (fabulous “university”). Amongst others she is presently designing for Sportalm Kitzbühel. For her own Haute Couture-Collections, Susanne Bisovsky reworks special pieces over years, putting them into a new context.  Her prêt-à-porter line is available in the continuously expanding. This Haute Couture collection, called Innocentia, was  shot by the photographers Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss. The dresses and the photography are beautiful and really original! So theatrical, love every single detail! A girl should be two […]

Categories: Fashion • Tags: art, chic, classy, culture, Design, designer, Fashion, haute, haute couture, innocentia, Moda, peter olschinsky, photo, photography, style, styling, susanne bisovsky, theatrical, trends, verena weiss, vintage

You better do what you want!

11/18/2011 by chicquero

Chameleonic top model Freja Beha Erichsen (OMG… she can even look good in a short spiky platinum blonde hairstyle) gets into a punk mode  for this powerful and edgy story “Think Punk”. Shot by amazing photographer Mario Sorrenti coming from the pages of Vogue Paris 90th anniversary edition (October 2010). Love the softness of the evening gowns blending with the edginess overall… the styling is beyond unbelievable! We love Freja Beha as well as we love Mario. Check out some […]

Categories: Fashion, Photography • Tags: decadent, edginess, edgy, editorial, fashion lovers, fashion photographer, fashion photography, fashionista, freedom, Freja Beha, Freja Beha Erichsen, Glam punk, God bless America, groovy, hairstyle, live it up, Mario Sorrenti, model, photo, photography, powerful shots, punk, spikes, spiky hair, studded belts, studded jacket, studs, think punk, top model, wtf

Killing colors and blocking time!

11/17/2011 by chicquero

Killing Time Great color blocking shoot for Vogue Italia, fashion photographer Lucia Giacani,  did a great editorial for for Vogue June 2011 issue. Currently Lucia lives and works as a freelance fashion photographer in Milan, collaborating, amongst others with the following magazines: Vogue Gioiello, Vogue Pelle, Vanity Fair, Vogue Accessory, VS, No.ise & Twill. The model Ekaterina Detcheva has a very clean, sort of androgynous look, which I love, not to mention, her great red hair. This shoot is quite fabulous because of the […]

Categories: Fashion, Photography • Tags: art, arte, bruno tarsia, campaign, chic, color block, color blocking, culture, david jones, Design, designer, Dinalva Barros, editorial, Ekaterina Detcheva, Fashion, green apple, kilian marin, Lucia Giacani, milano, Moda, model, photo, photographer, photography, photos, style, styling, stylish, trends, Vogue, Vogue Italia

Toy Train, care for a ride?

11/16/2011 by chicquero

Omocha Densha – Toy Train The japanese designer Eiji Mitooka (couldn’t find his website for credits) created a child-friendly public transportation. The artistic force behind a regional train which travel on a daily basis on the 14.3km Kishigawa line in Japan. The unique train is called the Omocha Densha (Omoden or Omo), briefly translated as the Toy Train. It looks like a playhouse for kids, the train equipped with a Gacha Machine for those little kids to churn out a little toy. […]

Categories: Design • Tags: anime, art, arte, cartoons, comics, culture, Design, designer, eiji mitooka, Japan, japanese, kishigawa, line, marketing, omo, omoden, omosha densha, photo, photographer, photography, public transportation, style, subway, toy train, toys, train, trends, trip

Ciao headless!

11/16/2011 by chicquero

Italian artist Francesco Brunotti  loves to create things such as  videos, photographs, artworks and other creations. He’s very creative and his work is super cool! This series is called “Where’s your head at?”,  he created two editions (summer and winter shots) and we mixed it up here to show a little bit of his work to you guys! Madonna mia! Hope you don’t lose your head, ragazzi! “Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: artwork, bicycle, car, ciao bello, Francesco Brunotti, head, headless, Italian art, Italian artist, Italian photographer, Italian photos, photo, photo series, photography, stereo, summer landscape, swing, umbrella, weapon, winter landscape

Priviet! Want some vodka? No, some russian art!

11/15/2011 by chicquero

Russian and very talented “photo artist” Oleg Dou is a multi award-winning based in Moscow. Because of his artistic family he faced art ever since he was a little kid. He got inspired by a book with Proto-Renaissance artists. With his photography he’s trying to show people in a not stereotypical way, he’s always been interested in human individuality and self-expression. His work reaches a point between oposities such as alive and dead, attractive and disturbing… It leaves no doubt […]

Categories: Artsy, Photography • Tags: alive, art, arte, artsy photos, attractive, dead, disturbing, graphic techniques, inspirational renaissance, kids, mannequins, Moscow, Oleg Dou, photo, photography, photos, powerful images, priviet, Proto-Renaissance artists, renaissance, Renaissance art, Russia, russian, russian artist, russian photographer, tears, touching images, women

Dreaming in a pragmatic way.

11/15/2011 by chicquero

Dream Sequence Madame Peripetie aka Sylwana Zybura is a polish photographer based in Germany. The conceptual photographer is greatly influenced by Surrealism, Dadaism as well as the new wave era of the ’80s, British post punk scene and the avant-garde theater. I love her dreamy sequence, very out of this world. Sylwana explores the boundaries between fashion, photography and the human essence, experimenting through different colors, shapes and feelings. So peculiar, strange and beautiful, at the same time. Keep dreaming.. […]

Categories: Photography • Tags: art, arte, chic, crazy, culture, dadaism, Design, Fashion, fotografia, Madame Peripetie, Moda, photo, photographer, photography, photos, surreal, surrealism, trends

Wanna a ride?

11/14/2011 by chicquero

For sure this is a great example of taking simple shots, reinvented and retouched into a set of super cool pictures and concept created by France based photographer Alain Delorme. The theme from this “Totems” set is to capture the complexity of what the bicycle couriers have to carry on their everyday basis in which making them the true heros of Shanghai of the modern times! Love the colors, the elements “riding on the couriers”, it’s a concept you don’t […]

Categories: Laugh, Photography • Tags: Alain Delorme, Asia shots, bicycle courier, bike, daily activities, daily duties, french photographer, photo, photo shoot, plastic water gallons, ride, riding a bike, shanghai, tires