William Miller is a veteran photojournalist from New York who once considered cameras to be merely tools that were used to interpret a visual story for the numerous magazines and newspapers that commissioned his work, but when he stumbled across a broken Polaroid camera at a yard sale, he found, through experimentation, that there was actually a story to be told by the inner workings of the camera itself. See more work below…
Paul Wackers is an artist who draws on the work of the traditional masters of art (Matisse, Picasso, etc.) and changes it up with his own contemporary approach. As he says, his work “is a response to the world and then a reaction to what it has to offer.” He tries to create the feeling of getting lost in the thoughts that are easily ignored or put aside with his landscapes and now interiors which can be seen in his current exhibition at the Morgan Lehman Gallery in New York until the end of this month. See more work below…
Aaron Johnson is a painter living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His works are maniacal depictions of the decaying excess of the insatiable culture we live in today. Bold colors, evil monsters, hidden symbols, and insane mixtures of textures and patterns all contribute to the sensory overload of these pieces and, in turn, of the world as a whole. See more work below…
Shay Kun is an artist in New York whose realistic looking paintings attempt to capture the grandeur of nature and the adventure seeking tourists who have come to invade it. See more work below…
Craig McDean is a British fashion photographer based in New York who was recently featured on The Flood here. Since then, he has shot this colorful editorial for November 2011′s Interview magazine which depicts a sort of avant garde surfer girl. Modeled by Juliane Grüner and styled by Karl Templer. See more work below…
Jean-François Campos is a French photographer who divides his time between New York and Paris. This striking black and white editorial, modeled by the polka dot ridden Myf Shepherd and styled by Vittoria Cerciello, was shot for Flair magazine’s November 2011 issue. See more work below…
Kehinde Wiley is an amazing black portraiture painter based in New York who attempts to glorify black men of the world much like traditional artists depicted Caucasian men, but in a much more exciting, colorful, and contemporary way. These larger-than-life critically acclaimed paintings have exhibited all over the United States, and selected pieces will continue to reside in the Savannah, Georgia Museum of Art until the end of January. See more work below…
