Wrapped up

Tomohide Ikeya is a Japanese photographer who has turned the his hobby of scuba diving into a conceptual body of work.

Here is a selection from her "MOON" collection

I love these photos because they incorporate three things I am absolutely infatuated with.
Water, hair & the moon.
The dark eeriness of the photographs combined with the stillness of the water creates a whole new dimension of reality for the viewer.  The photos seem to have a depth that you can't really explain.  The "moonlight" reflecting on the water just add to this, and give texture to the pieces.  

I would expect the birth of a mermaid to be something like this.

"I'm a photographer who has a concept of "Control" for my work.

Water is one of "uncontrolled" things which the human being never can to do.

I had a lot of opportunities to think about ‘water’ with doing scuba diving in several countries as a hobby.

The beauty of sunshine viewed from under water, daily life of aquatics and me as human just be able to see their world for a moment...

We thought human could control water if we had lots of equipments and cared for risks in water, but human never be able to live in water. And we also never be able to live without water.

Water doesn’t only give a life, but also takes a life. On the other hand, water is not the Mother of Creation or the Master of Destruction, it’s just be there as ‘water’.

Water is a philosophical existence very much even be as ’just water’.  I had been fascinated with water more and more and I had gotten a zeal for expression it.

It is one of reasons which I became a photographer, so I have been creating 

my works which has a relation with water.

I'm expressing "enthusiasm for life" by photography throughout the figure of Water and Human."

http://tomohide-ikeya.com

It's not as it seems.

Awareness campaign created by Duval Guillaume Modem 

and produced by monodot in support of STOP THE TRAFFIK. 

Visit http://www.stopthetraffik.org/ to get involved.  

Skidding in the mud.

"Ion Fukazawa has created a device that creates centrifugal force via a manned-bicycle for creating ceramic vessels."  Exploring the relationship between human interactions and a product line, Fuakazawa challenges the contrast between a machine-based precise and identical product design and the unique and creative art process of the human touch.  The machine allows the product to be created by organized chance and natural forces. 

Created as part of Ion Fukazawa's COFA final year Design exhibition.  

See the process here and the official website of the product here.

Shot on the Sony FS700 with Zeiss primes by Max McLachlan at Cockatoo Island in Sydney.

www.ionfukazawa.com

This one is for you.

Polish photographer Boguslaw Strempel allows us to 

escape from reality and dive into the world of fantasy.  

Except this fantasy is real.

Strempel arises early to capture these landscapes around Poland and the Czech Republic and we are oh-so-grateful that he does so.  Disappear for a second.  Use these as a screensaver or background.  

Flee reality for a second.

Before Sunrise, Before Sunset

"Isn't this the best part of breaking up?

Finding someone else you can't get enough of.

Someone who wants to be with you too."

The whisper of a painting

Omar Galliani is an Italian artist who specializes in drawings using pencil, ink, charcoal or pastels. He uses classical techniques of light-darkness and of sfumato (which means "smoked", deriving from fumo the Italian word for smoke.)  He often draws large-scale faces on wood, but also draws many variations of female portraits as well.  He uses a smudging technique to give his art a light, smoky feeling which is absolutely beautiful. 

Omar Galliani was born in 1954

L'Evasion de Rochefort

The Escape of Rochefort (Circa 1881)

My favorite piece from the exhibit was a less-famous Manet kept in the last room of the show.

It captivates you with the enticing movement of the ocean sparkling in the light.

"Virulently opposed to the imperial regime, Rochefort founded a political newspaper, La Lanterne in 1868. The newspaper, which was published in Brussels, was soon banned. In 1873, the journalist was sentenced to penal servitude for his role during the Commune. His spectacular, swashbuckling escape by sea, in 1874, inspired Manet to paint this strange composition, six years after the event. The artist waited for the Republican victory in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies in January 1879 and a law granting the communards amnesty, in July 1880, which permitted the fugitive to return to France, before tackling the subject. He intended to enter his painting in the Salon of 1881.

By commemorating an event still fresh in all minds, Manet revolutionised the genre of history painting traditionally restricted to antique or mythological subjects. The barely recognisable hero with his tousled blond hair "like a flaming punchbowl", is here shown at the stern of a tiny dinghy bobbing through the waves. Alongside him are his accomplices, Pain, Grousset and Jourde. The sense of solitude and danger is made palpable by the size of the craft. An electric, phosphorescent sea, painted with small, flicked strokes, floods the entire canvas. It "rises to the top of the frame", where the ship that picked up the fugitives looms on the horizon."

http://www.musee-orsay.fr