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photography > dark into light.

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It’s the unfortunate truth that not everyday can be a bright sunny, happy day, but that doesn’t mean that a cold, gray winter day doesn’t have anything beautiful or inspiring to offer. Today’s feature reminds us that there is always something special to glean from those less than stellar moments even if you have to work a little harder to see it sometimes.

Juliette Bates is a French photographer who lives and works in Paris. In this haunting series of photographs, she captures the beauty of the dark arts in a way that combines little pieces of life and death in each frame. There’s something simply eerie yet bright, delicate, and uplifting going on here and I love the duality of it all.

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photography > patterned hyperreality.

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In the past couple of years I have shared a lot of images of paintings that look like photographs on The Flood, but what about photographs that look like paintings? I was so captivated by the images in today’s feature that I had to fit it in before I could post about anything else.

JUCO is a collaborative photography project based in Los Angeles that is led by Julia Galdo and Cody Cloud, a dynamic duo that first worked together at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002. What is exceptionally special about their images is that they often appear to be more like hyper-realistic paintings by a master artist rather than real life images shot by a camera. In this photo shoot for SF Magazine, the pair shot a vintage-inspired combination of floral patterned outfits against similar backdrops and a pop of feathers in the form of vividly colored parrots.

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studio sessions > daily cruise mix.

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Studio Sessions is a new music feature where artists, designers, and photographers share a playlist of music they enjoy listening to while they work. Today’s playlist is by a photographer featured in The Flood #6, Max Sanders, a Minneapolis, MN native who loves nothing more than to cruise around on his bicycle, blast music from his portable handlebar speakers, and take beautiful pictures around town. If you’d like to share your own mix via 8tracks please do let me know and I’ll give you all the details!

Here’s what Max has to say about his mix: “When I ride my bike I feel like a bird. Maybe that’s why birds are one of my favorite things to photograph, or maybe it’s because they evolved from velociraptors…. I do love velociraptors. Whatever the reason may be, I have to say that the music I listen to while I ride my bike sets a great mood for photographing all of the interesting things I see on my daily cruises with my Nikon D-60. For my mix I picked an array of songs that are ideal for biking in the sun while taking pictures of birds and anything else you see. I hope you give it a good listen!” – Max Sanders

See more of Max’s photography via Flickr.

Track List: 1. Pick Myself Up – Peter Tosh  /  2. Bird in Hand – Lee “Scratch” Perry  /  3. Sillie Willie – Pablo Moses  /  4. Easy Task – Junior Murvin  /  5. Wages of Love Rehearsal – Bob Marley & The Wailers  /  6. Stop There Jah – Augustus Pablo  /  7. Bam Bam – Sister Nancy  /  8. Star, Daily News & Gleaner – Eek-A-Mouse  /  9. I Am That I Am – Peter Tosh  /  10. Let There Be Light – Lee “Scratch” Perry

art/photography > sandra’s world.

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Have you ever felt like there are just too many things you want to do with your life? I know I do. These days, the good news is that you don’t have to limit yourself to just one field or specialty. Talented creatives like Sandra Juto are showing us the endless possibilities of living a multi-dimensional life in the 21st century.

Sandra Juto is a fascinating Swedish woman who seems to do it all. She’s an illustrator, graphic designer, artist, photographer, blogger, crocheter, and, on top of it all, she runs her own little handmade shop from her home in Berlin, Germany. Everything she makes seems to have her own signature touch that is equal parts dreamy yet simple and charming. Her blog is full of pictures from her everyday life, documenting all of her wonderful side projects into one place from her very own perspective.

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fashion photography > rosebud.

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It’s no wonder why collage and assemblage is such a major thing these days. With access to the internet and a boatload of magazines, books, and copies of historical and vintage images available to buy with a single click, artists and designers are finding it incredibly easy to borrow images from several different sources and piece them together in interesting ways. This phenomenon is not just limited to art, however. As you will see in today’s feature, collage-inspired pieces and editorials are making quite a splash in the fashion scene these days as well.

Mel Bles is a female fashion photographer in London who has an exceptionally hip, contemporary, and captivating portfolio filled with photos for TopShop, Dazed & Confused Magazine, and Missoni among many others. In a recent editorial shoot for Jalouse’s February 2012 issue, Mel shot Edie Campbell donning mix-and-matched patterns which were then paired with giant flowers that look as though they’ve been cut & pasted right into the mix. If you like the look of today’s shoot, check out Karen To’s flowery collages from a previous post on The Flood!

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photography > fascinating worlds.

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I so love getting lost in dreamy pictures, but sometimes it’s even cooler when dreamy pictures look like they could have actually happened in real life. Today’s feature is about a photographer who infuses elements from dreamland, the imagination, and fairy tales with reality in a way that makes the impossible seem really quite possible after all.

Anja Stiegler (also known as Photoflake) is an amateur photographer from Wolfsburg, Germany. By trade she is actually a multimedia engineer who discovered her passion for photography and image editing in 2006 as a way to balance out the left-braininess required for her studies. Anja is completely self-taught and uses surrealism, conceptualism, and the fascinating idea of a world of daydreams as inspiration for her incredible photographs.

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fashion photography > butterfly caught.

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Mohamed Gaff

Lately I’ve been seeing more and more photographers embracing the creation of their own magazines as a means to display and spread their own work. One of these photographers turned magazine art director, Armin Morbach, has been featured on The Flood a couple of  times for his stunning photography for self-produced magazine Tush, and today I’d like to introduce another in the form of the magnificent and mysterious Mohamed Gaff.

Mohamed Gaff is an Iraqi fashion photographer who was raised in Germany where he still resides today. His work is extremely dramatic and striking, making it perfect for those moments when you’re flipping through a magazine and you suddenly have no choice but to stop and stare for that extra moment or two. In an interview with Factice Magazine, Mohamed says, “I am on the hunt for the power of authenticity. I believe in the magic of the moment and I like to create atmospheres with lots of effort that allow extraordinary magic to happen in my work.“

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