Barcelona-based artist Natalia Pereira's photo series titled "Dismorfobina" explores the deformation of our identity when we desperately try to fit into a perfect mold that is not our own. The photographs brings attention to body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), a mental illness involving body image issues that results in depression and social phobia. According to the artist, Dismorfobina is a “[d]isorder suffered by those who have been dominated by the habits of consumerism."
Artist's view South Korean Gwon Osang is simple and creative. Builds his lightweight sculptures by taking hundreds of photographs of his subjects, he photographed people, animals and objects and pasted figures. See some of them below.
Alexey Bednij is russinan photographer who manipulates photos of people and animals in oder to make these unique shadow portraits that he refers to as ‘collages’.
Bill Durgin’s incredible ‘Figure Studies’ series transcends traditional photography into sculpting a piece of art with one’s camera. The images are the result of complex arrangements of the body parts which require extreme flexibility and contortion by the model to achieve an “austere effect contortion.”
William George Wadman is an American portrait photographer. His work tends towards intimate traditional portraiture in both environmental and studio settings. He shoots in all formats and in both film and digital. He has been a contributor to TIME magazine, BusinessWeek, Improper Bostonian, POZ, among others. His images have been featured worldwide in The New York Times, La Monde, Der Spiegel, Times of London, USA Today, and Corriere della Sera.
Kyle Thompson is a young photographer from Chicago, Illinois. He specializes in fine art photography, creating his own surreal realities in still images.
