With a touch of minimalism and graphic inspiration, photographer and art director Thomas Wiuf Schwartz is bringing a new touch of personalized creativity to photography. A passion for design and visually minimalist imagery of forms, shades, materials, and objects, he creates photos that speak to brands and artists, creating concepts that are uniquely his own. He works in detail, focusing on the play between materials, background, foreground, light, and shadow.
Read MoreThe Italian photographer Simone Bossi is based in Paris and Milan. Having first worked as an architect for five years, he devoted himself to photography fully, though his background and talent in architecture are still visible in his images. Simone studied architecture in Milan and Seville, but as a photographer, he is entirely self-taught. Working on both personal projects and commissions, Simone creates beautiful images radiating a certain calm and serenity. His photographs are “indeterminate fragmented,” revealing only a part of the space and herewith certain emotions. It’s an intimate process in which we recognize his architectural experience, but also his personal one. Simone Bossi talks about these experiences, freedom, and framing what he feels.
Read MoreA collaborative effort, Klaus x VISUAL PLEASURE, has culminated in this concept of physicality between the handcrafted chair and the human body. Photographed by Pilar Schacher, the photo series showcases the balance between wood and body, merging together with the background that is formed by air, represented by the white parachute, that surrounds everything. In the imagery, represented is the “harmony of oneness between the human body and the object and the feeling of comfort, security, and calmness.”
Read MoreSome find simplicity beautiful in its most basic form, and for self-taught photographer Marieke Verdenius it’s the perfect subject. A photographer, teacher, and stylist based in Amsterdam, she focuses on lifestyle, interior, food, and stills with a monochromatic and natural palette. A corner of a staircase, an empty tabletop, the folds of a curtain—it’s the magic of these uncluttered settings and elemental lines that draws in the eye and showcases the allure of these otherwise unassuming objects.
Read MoreFinding beauty in the everyday can be a hard-pressed task, even for the most positive of us. We’re living in uncertain times, and it’s more important now than ever that we find the allure and stories in even the most commonplace of things. Photographer, content creator, and storyteller Sotiris Bougas refocuses his eye on those everyday objects where a shade of colors, a flash of light, or an unusual shape can be all the inspiration he needs to pick up his lens. If you’re looking for images hidden with deeper meaning and a tight-packed narrative, you won’t find it in Sotiris’ photos. Instead, he invites you to take a step back, and appreciate the beauty of the everyday things around you, in those things you may not even notice until he draws your eyes to it. Here, Sotiris talks about his inspiration, his attention to detail, and his love for all the little unnoticed objects that fuel his art.
Read MoreWhen you flip open the pages of your favorite magazine, do you feel underrepresented? Maybe it’s your color, race, gender, or you just don’t see enough models with a face full of freckles. Photographer and creative director Oghalé Alex is looking to change that. The artist focuses on breaking the stereotypes of the underrepresented with beautiful photography of black men and women—as well as models with unique attributes such as vitiligo or freckles—in symbols of unity, togetherness, and love.
Read MoreLondon-based photographer Renée Kemps makes you lose track of time and place with her intimate, light-filled images. Specializing in interior, architecture, and lifestyle photography, she captures beautiful and intriguing images and draws the viewer in, letting him be part of the world she defines with her lens.
Read MoreClemente Vergara is a Spanish photographer based in Barcelona. Combining his passions, he is specialized in travel and architecture photography. It was not that long ago that he picked up a camera for the first time, but he has developed an exceptionally strong eye and individual visual language since. With layers of light, shadow, colors, and shapes, he draws the viewer into his fascinating images that transport you into the world portrayed. Having always loved architecture, geometry has a main role in his works. Besides his career in photography, Clemente also works as an environmental engineer. He tries to combine the two jobs in the best way he can and voices his creativity and view in his photos. Clemente talks passions, inspirations, and how it all began.
Read MoreFor photographer and creative director George Kroustallis, finding the feminine form in human shape, architecture, and minimalism is at the core of his creative inspiration. His photography, which is a mix of fine art and commercial work, is a beautiful blend of shape and structure, balanced with the artistry of light and dynamic storytelling. The award-winning artist and his creative agency Minorstep have worked with some of the biggest names in the industry including Lancome, Burberry, Reebok, Refinery29, and Yatzer.Creating dynamic narratives through his work, George designs around architecture and the human body to find the parallels in their structure and simplicity. Here he discusses how he got started, the drive behind his artistic vision, and how he finds harmony and correlation between his seemingly divergent subjects.
Read MoreAn in-depth Google search for photographer Paolo Abate would garner you very little results, but that’s how the artist prefers it. While admittedly a very private person, he makes no hesitation in turning his lens on the world around him, showcasing the beauty of Italian design through the mediums of structure and illumination. A dance between light and shadow, on a backdrop of architectural design, his photographs capture the beauty of any space with a well-placed beam of light.
Read MoreGreek photographer Yiorgos Kordakis captures the most beautiful and sober minimalistic architectural sceneries. Focusing on pureness and serenity and ridding us of “visual pollution,” he imagines the world how it should be. After having studied automobile design in Turin and media management in London, Yiorgos returned to his home country to serve in the air force. He never anticipated becoming a photographer, but life proved itself to be surprising and unexpected because, after some experimenting, it led him to a professional career in photography. Today, he has been working as a freelance photographer for more than twenty years in New York and Athens. Yiorgos’ works vary between capturing interior, architecture, and people, and he also worked in black and white and with polaroids. By instinct, the artist is drawn most to architectural photography. His imagery has a soft and sober feel while making the architecture and sites come into their own. His photos have been published in internationally-renowned magazines such as Vogue UK, Elle, Architectural Digest, and more, and he has won several awards. Yiorgos tells us more about his path to a career in photography and shooting with perspective.
Read MoreAt first, you might get lost in the textures, colors, and patterns of Tom Hegen’s images, but as you look closer, recognizable landscapes and natural environments emerge. The German photographer and designer is fascinated by the complex relationship between man and nature. Through his lens, he shows the human impact on earth. Focusing on landscapes that have been heavily transformed by human intervention, he shows how extraordinary and defining the human force is that impacts our world.
Read MoreAfter having worked in advertising and marketing, LA-based artist Annie Nguyen now lets her ideas and creativity run wild as Design Director, now and then venturing into photography and surpassing just graphic design. She has always communicated through visual expression and continues to explore that expression through her clean, minimalistic images where she mostly depicts her two big loves: fashion and architecture, in which she finds order and calm in this fast-moving world. Being born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii Nguyen infuses her approach to projects and clients with kindness and respect always resulting in soothing design. She tells us all about her hobby photography and how she expresses herself visually.
Read MoreUtah-based artist Laura Hendricks is a true photographic magician, creating surreal photo collages that take you down dreamy panoramas. She combines different landscapes to form one image, creating a collage rooted in realism, yet delicately mixed with surrealist elements. Mountains drenched in soft pastel colors make beautiful scenes that enthrall you. Laura takes us through these dreamy worlds and shows us how magical nature can be.
Read MoreBased in Sweden, self-taught photographer and retoucher Osman Tahir captures still lifes, interiors, and products with the utmost precision. With the occasional portrait and painting, and his specialized subjects, he holds the viewer’s gaze and portrays elements in their purest form, establishing an effortless, minimalistic beauty. Tahir, under his studio Ostudios, has already collaborated with an impressive client list including IKEA, Domo Design, Alvhem, and many more. Now, talking with Osman, he shares his creative process and talks life lessons.
Read MoreShe is a color addict to say the least. Looking at Tekla Evelina Severin’s works–filled with bold, mesmerizing images of people, architecture, objects, and still life–gives away her fervor for remarkable shapes and color combinations. Schooled in interior architecture and furniture design, she now intersperses between photography, art direction, trend forecasting, interior architecture, and set design, leading this marvelous artist to have been recently listed by Dezeen as one of the top ten architectural photographers to follow in the world. During our talk, Tekla took us on her journey to photography and her quest for color.
Read MoreLevan Kiknavelidze combines architecture and photography to tell mesmerizing stories. He captures the world in frames, creating a world where illusion and reality blend into one entirely unique piece.
To him, these two mediums, photography and architecture, are everything needed to communicate a message. “While architecture tries to become more local in its wide-scaled environment, the photography can broadcast a framed locality into a global scale,” he says. “Especially now in an increasingly digitalized world even a very local architecture can be extended worldwide by means of photography.”
Read MoreDubai-based fashion photographer and art director Abdulla Elmaz captures raw emotion in everything he creates. Heartbreak, loneliness, confusion, hope—Elmaz lays it all in his photography, capturing intriguing looks and visions in every theme he explores. Seeing the world through his lens is to discover a surreal world that encourages passionate conversation in the pursuit of meaning. The photographer shared with us his words of wisdom to aspiring artists and why he thinks his work leaves such an impact on people.
Read MoreSoulful surrealism has become as much a part of artist Petecia Le Fawnhawk’s being as her right arm. It’s instinctual, an extension of her innermost thoughts and perspectives. Inspired by desert landscapes—a climate she gladly left at 18 but recently found herself returning to—Le Fawnhawk’s work expresses a romantic minimalism that most avoid exploring.
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