fashion photography > surfer girl.


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…

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fashion photography > black + white.

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…

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art > redefining glory.


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…

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art > watercolor city.


Samantha Hahn is an artist and illustrator living in Manhattan who creates the most beautiful fashion illustrations using delicately penned lines and bold, bright explosions of drippy watercolors. Her work has gone on to appear in many exhibitions, magazines, and retail venues around the world including Glamour Magazine, Victoria’s Secret, Barnes & Noble, and Anthropologie. See more work below…

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art > painted bath.


Alyssa Monks
is an amazing oil painter, originally from New Jersey, who currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings very closely imitate water, glass, steam, and even flesh.“When I began painting the human body, I was obsessed with it and needed to create as much realism as possible. I chased realism until it began to unravel and deconstruct itself,” Alyssa states in her portfolio biography, “Realism and Abstraction are in a symbiotic relationship – they need each other to exist and eventually become the same.” See more work below…

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art > pen experiments.


Shane McAdams is an artist and writer, living and working in Brooklyn, NY, who has sufficiently harnessed the power of pen explosions. His experimentation with multicolored ballpoint ink pens has produced some pretty interesting and colorful abstract pieces of art, and you’ll see here tomorrow how these pieces have gone on to influence his newest series of work in surprising and expansive ways. See more work below…

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fashion photography > birds of a feather.


Craig McDean is a British fashion photographer, now based in New York, who worked with his stylist wife Tabitha Simmons to shoot this beautiful and unusual Chic-Gothic-Glam spread for Vogue Italia. Modeled by Arizona Muse and Ruby Aldridge. See more work below… Continue reading