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Isamaya Ffrench Paints Her Beliefs On Faces

Isamaya Ffrench worked as a face painter at children’s parties before her worldwide career as a makeup artist started.

She tells stories through people’s faces and isn’t afraid of using unconventional colors and techniques with artistic ease.

At the age of 25, YSL Beauté appointed Isamaya Ffrench as its UK make-up ambassador. She works with artists like Kanye West and Designers like Junya Watanabe. Isamaya Ffrench studied 3D design at Chelsea College of Arts and Product and Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins.

She lives in London and Paris.

All images via Isamaya Ffrench

September 23, 2016
Photographer Captures Raw Emotions Of Women Having An Orgasm

Professional photographer Albertas Pocej has set himself with a personal challenge to capture the moment of women reaching the highest point of physical pleasure – orgasm.

How did he come up with this idea? Well, he dreamt it:

“I simply woke up and I knew I just have to do it.”

The hardest part was to find the models for these sessions: I started to write everybody I know without any boundaries since all the women are so different. The answers I got were mostly two kinds:

“I don’t have enough courage.”

and just the silence, which is also pretty obvious as an answer.

When I finally found 20 women that were ready to take part in this project, some of them refused to continue when I told them that it will not be acting, and some of them weren’t able to relax already while shooting. So at the end, there were only 15 left.

And you know the cool part about it? None of it was faked. The models were actually having orgasms in front of his camera: “I didn’t want this project to be a cliché, I didn’t want any acting – just the real feeling as it is. Every human being is different, so are their orgasms. I wasn’t trying to make it any better as it is in life. I wanted to make those looking at these pictures think. And clichés don’t make people think.“

More info: albert pocej (h/t: boredpanda)

September 23, 2016
Asher Moss presents Pink Diaries

Pink Diaries, Part I is the latest in a series from photographer Asher Moss‘s ongoing obsession with the color pink.

With its sensual, raw pictures, Moss wanted to show the natural beauty of women without embellishing digital filters. Pink Diaries, Part I is the story of two girls somewhere off the grid finding warmth, only in each other.

The photo story features Moss’s muse and her best friend high in the desert, affectionately living out his imagination. See more of his fantasy stories in his debut book Miss Lonely.

All images © Asher Moss, Models Carly Foulkes and Melodi Meadows.

September 23, 2016
800 Human Sculptures Found In This Creepy Japanese Village

Japanese photographer Ken Ohki who goes by the name Yukison was traveling in Toyama Prefecture, Japan, when he stumbled upon one of the creepiest arrays of human-like sculptures scattered around the village of Fureai Sekibutsu no Sato (The Village Where You Can Meet Buddhist Statues).

“I felt like I’d accidentally stumbled into some forbidden area. Amazing,” writes Ken on his Twitter account.

What he actually stumbled upon was a park with over 800 different stone statues carved in the likeness of Buddhist deities and people close to the park’s founder Mutsuo Furukawa. His idea was to make this park a popular tourist destination, where people would come to relax. Nice idea, sure. But as the time passed the statues lost that relaxation quality about them and now gives an even more creepy vibe.

Just imagine yourself making the same discovery alone. At night. With no help in sight. Yeah… Relaxing.

More info: yukison (h/t: rocketnews24)

Meet Mutsuo Furukawa, the creator of The Village Where You Can Meet Buddhist Statues

His idea was to make this park a popular tourist destination, where people would come to relax

So he filled the park with over 800 different stone statues

Those are carved in the likeness of Buddhist deities

And people close to the park’s founder

But as the time passed the statues lost that relaxation quality about them…

And now gives an even more creepy vibe

September 23, 2016
Surreal Photos Of The Burning Man Festival

Welcome home. That’s how you’re greeted when entering a remote piece of Nevada desert where real meets surreal in the annual Burning Man festival.

For photographer Victor Habchy the festival started in 2014:

“I simply packed my bag and traveled the world to attend this magnificent event. I came alone, but let me tell you something: I never felt lonely for a second.”

For one week that patch of desert is transformed into the most surreal setting where anything goes:

“Never in my life have I experienced more love, more freedom, and more self-expression.”

This place gathers everything that is left of the human dreams and utopia and how, by every individual means, we could work together to build up a better world.

“I found beauty in every person and I saw myself beautiful too. I have shared so much, and I have been covered of joy, freedom and love.”

People say you can’t describe what you feel during this festival. However, what they first told me when I arrived is relevant to describe how my week as: ‘Welcome home.’

More info: victor habchy | instagram | burning man (h/t: boredpanda, petapixel)

September 23, 2016
15 Photographers Who Use Shadows As Clothes Perfectly

As a photographer, you’re always looking for new perspectives and interesting compositions. But not every artist has already stumbled upon a great source for both which is a clever use of natural shadows.

Those who did, though, have produced some very interesting results. We present 15 works of photographers, who use shadows to clothe their models in. The cool bit is that you too can easily play with this idea, just scroll down for the inspiration below and then go experimenting yourself.

#1

Image source: kristinsundberg

#2

Image source: Heather Mason

#3

Image source: David Basanta

#4

Image source: Solve Sundsbo

#5

Image source: Emilio Jimenez

#6

Image source: Wendy Hope

#7

Image source: George Mayer

#8

Image source: xaqnoseduermanmisentidos

#9

Image source: Francis Giacobetti

#10

Image source: Emilio Jimenez

#11

Image source: Cristiana Pantea

#12

Image source: Neil Snape

#13

Image source: Charles Nevols

#14

Image source: Ferdinando Scianna

#15

Image source: Jannic Borlum

September 23, 2016
A Luxury Off-Grid Getaway

For those who lack a hideaway in nature but don’t want to give up on the comfort of a city life, The Autonomous Tent seems like a perfect choice, offering a luxury camping experience.

Designed by architect Harry Gesner and installed by an American startup, The Autonomous Tent was engineered as a permanent structure but can be also easily removed without leaving a single trace. Offering the visitors all the charms of camping in nature, it also provides a high level of comfort and luxury of being at home – and it does not require any foundation of utilities.

Because apart from serving in a variety of ways, from fishing lodges to luxury guest suites, The Autonomous Tent is first of all sustainable. It uses the energy generated by solar panels and has a high-tech composting toilet, among other features.

“This revolutionary new direction in sustainable living respects every aspect of our delicate ecosystems” describe the architects.

All images © Kodiak Greenwood

September 23, 2016
A Chair Made Of Vintage Bricks

With a background in product design and craftsmanship, Frederik Kurzweg created The Brick Chair – a witty and smart object made of old bricks.

Trained as a cabinet maker at a traditional company near Münster, Germany, Kurzweg was first noticed and awarded for making a handcrafted journeyman’s piece.

Motivated by this early success, he started studying industrial design at the University of Applied Sciences in Magdeburg, where he expanded his professional knowledge about different material properties and technical design processes.

With its playful form and ephemeral look, ‘The Brick Chair’ looks like it is just about to fall apart in pieces. But this lightness might be misleading – in fact, the chair is very solid thanks to the usage of 253 old bricks that were saved from the oven. Using the old material, Kurzweg gave the forgotten material a new life, creating a unique and modern piece.

September 23, 2016
Originally In Non-Original Form with Thomas Albdorf

The Austrian photographer who shifts perceptions of inanimate objects, Thomas Albdorf, while wandering into urban outskirts.

In his 2012 photo collection, Actualities Albdorf uses various objects as sculptures and stages them by colour, contrast, and surroundings before he releases his shutter.

At first, Albdorf used only the rubble on streets until he experimented with objects in his own environment – showcasing the properties of (old and new) commodity through simple schemes.

September 23, 2016
Nordstrom’s Fall Campaign 2016 – You Are Here

“Is it possible to freeze a moment, to pause time?”

In today’s fast-moving fashion industry, this seems to be too much to ask. Or rather not? America’s traditional upscale fashion retailer Nordstrom posed that very question in his recent Fall Campaign.

“With the constant urge for newness we forget how to enjoy the moment we’re in,” says Olivia Kim, Nordstrom’s vice president of creative project. Live in the now, the campaign realized by artist Alex Prager, prompts. Prager’s short film reminds us to focus on the present, never knowing what the future might bring.

September 23, 2016