Urban Oasis: Photos by Richard Vantielcke

I always enjoyed these grocery stores open late at night, first of all because they often saved the life of a starving photographer, then because they all look more surreal as each other, becoming oasis of light in the darkness of the Parisian night.

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In the contrast series Amelie von Oppen focuses her observations on typical street details. The graphical and line accentuated interpretation of people in the urban cityscape show the common everyday in a contrasty depiction. In each case the works are multipart photography installations, that can be mounted in flexible variations. Thereby, the observer is included in the creative process; as by putting the pictures in orders of his own taste he can create new formations and overall impressions.

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C Fausta Facciponte / Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery

Here is Fausta Facciponte’s Doll Series.  Coming face to face with these large portraits, one notices dust, dirt, and filaments of hair–remnants left by the author to convey the arduous process she went upon to rescue and salvage the old children’s toys.  Thrift stores, garage sales, and online auctions were just a few of the places Facciponte found these relics of children’s past, long forgotten by their owners.  Through examining these objects, asking what their story is, where they come from, who owned them and who confided in them, the work creates an empathy within the viewer, adding to the experience the sense that the viewer themselves is likened to a material object.

C Fausta Facciponte / Courtesy of Stephen Bulger

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London based Steve Gallagher is a still life photographer with a very graphic and minimal style. His photographs are all about showcasing a single product in its glory. Color is a key ingredient in his distinct style. Gallagher shoots for some of the best advertising agencies and magazines in the UK.

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The Girl with 7 Horses by Ulrika Kestere

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From the Back Seat of my Car by Alìcia Rius

Photographer Alicia Rius is based in the Netherlands. Her series, From the Back Seat of My Car, is a testament to her vision of viewing abandoned objects as ‘hidden treasures’. She writes: ‘I did not plan this project. I never looked for these cars, and in fact, I think they found me. I wanted to immortalize their beauty and turn the tin in something romantic.’

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Toy Stories - a series by Aled Lewis. Funny, simple, and smart.

Barbie Trashes Her Dreamhouse - by Carrie M. Becker. Hoarder!

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“Plastic Loving” by Benjamin Deroche. I know they’re just dolls, but this is awkward.

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“Abnormal Beauty” by Steve Poxson. Photographs (or scans?) of insects create a beautifully clean pattern. More at the artist’s site, including one of mice that I really like.

Sadak S/S 11 collection, photographed by Daniel Bolliger.

Behind label SADAK is Serbian indie fashion designer Sasa Kovacevic, whose S/S 2011 collection narrates of a micro-nation called “Ex-land”, an imaginary state where contrasting inspirations merge.

German photographer Daniel Bolliger shoots and handles post-production, capturing this lively collection and its textural ambiguities, shapes and dynamic cultural references rooted in a precise historical time but reinterpreted to a present day “Ex-land”.

Jean Francois Fourtou plays with scale and proportions in his series “My House.” No digital manipulation was used in these photographs.

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“From Enchantment to Down,” photography series by Thomas Czarnecki. No happily ever after for these Disney princesses.

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Alexey Titarenko graduated from the Department of Cinematic and Photographic Art at Leningrad’s Institute of Culture in 1983. He began taking photographs at the beginning of the 1970s, and in 1978 became a member of the well-known Leningrad photographic club Zerkalo, where he had his first solo exhibition (1978).

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Clement Valla’s series “Postcards from Google Earth” features glitches in Google Earth’s images of bridges and overpasses.

Google Earth has developed an extended network of automated cameras, operators, satellites, aerial photographers, programmers, and terrain and map information to assemble an ever more convincing representation of the planet. This mostly automated system sometimes produces unexpected and wonderful artifacts. The bridges in these postcards are glitches that occur when the 2d satellite imagery and 3d terrain don’t line up quite right, or structures such as bridges are projected down onto the terrain below, creating fabulous and unintentional distortions. These images are like funhouse mirrors – strange illusions and reflections of the real.

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