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Wayne Levin's black and white photos of underwater worlds may leave you wondering if someone spiked your breakfast. The dreamlike, hallucinatory images depict the ocean in an exceptionally unearthly light. Beautiful stuff....read more
Dietmar Eckell has a thing for ruins. The German photographer travels the world to capture eerily beautiful photos of decaying things and places, from forgotten military sites and decomposing cars to crashed planes and abandoned buildings. Of the many excellent photo series on his website, God's Ruin is one of our favorites. The collection of images stunningly depicts ancient churches and......read more
The Profile House, designed by Black Line One X Architecture Studio (BLOXAS), is an expressive homage to the industrial character of Brunswick East, a neighborhood in Melbourne's inner north. Seeking an addition to their Californian Bungalow, the clients emphasized the sustainable performance of their future home. They also wanted a space with a feeling of openness, lightness, and visual......read more
For proof of film photography's aesthetic superiority, look no further than these grainy, light-leaked images from Momomi, a photographer from Seoul, South Korea. With a keen understanding of what makes film great, Momomi captures the innate beauty of life's quieter moments: a ladybug in the garden, morning light piercing through a window, a hand in front of glistening water. Really gorgeous......read more
Some people creative skills to burn. Count Daphne Kotsiani among them. Trained as a classical pianist, Kotsiani is an accomplished musician with recording credits that include this collaboration with Sigur Ros. She is also a self-taught photographer, and from the looks of this series, she's taught herself quite well. With an eye for lonely forms and figures in natural landscapes, Kotsiani creates......read more
Off the shores of Crosby Beach in northwest England, a series of life-size figurative sculptures stand in the shallows staring at the sea. The cast-iron figures are part of Another Place, an installation by British artist Antony Gormley. Now, the keen eyes at Colossal alert us to these striking photos of the installation by Paul Sutton, who spent the past few months capturing the sculptures amid......read more
Blurring the distinction between contemporary photography and painting, this new selection of photos from Christy Lee Rogers captures a barrage of bodies being submerged in tropical Hawaiian waters at night. The images show a mastery of the chiaroscuro qualities of light, recalling the classic Rubens masterpiece, Massacre of the Innocents. With the subjects bent and distorted, bathed......read more
This small selection of Flickr finds from 25 year-old Australian photographer Joe Nigel Coleman has us yearning to hit the road on a summer journey. Based in London, Coleman seemingly travels endlessly, capturing gorgeous images of his friends and moments in nature along the way. "I’ve spent the majority of the last five years exploring the world, living out of a backpack," he says.......read more
Designed for a local artist, this stunning rural home from Toronto-based studio Altius Architecture near Collingwood, Ontario communicates beautifully with the natural surroundings, with dark-framed glass walls and vertical windows that flood the interiors with natural light. Completed last year, the Clearview Residence features a broad selection of sustainable......read more
Olaf Otto Becker's photographic interest in Nordic landscapes began in 1999, when he first traveled to Iceland. On that trip, he snapped a picture of a retreating glacier. When he returned three years later, the glacier was gone. Between 2003 and 2006, Becker made a series of solo expeditions in an inflatable Zodiac along the west coast of Greenland, whose rapidly melting ice sheet is proof......read more
