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Elena Kalis: Underwater

Elena Kalis is an artist that was born in Russia and is specialized in underwater photography. She has been living for the last ten years in the Bahamas. Her photographs are stunning and captivating, she is able to capture moments that could only be described as awe-inspiring.

Elena Kalis is a photographer that uses light, color and space to create images that are not just visually striking, but emotionally stirring. There's a beautiful, artistic movement to these underwater photographs. Elena creates a fantasy land where dreams come true, where imaginations are set free and where beauty and darkness can intertwine to create something purely magical.

Portfolio: www.elenakalisphoto.com

Catalina Bartolomé

Argentinian photographer, Catalina Bartolome , presents us with this lovely set of photos that features a series of woman who all similarly mask their faces with commonly found objects. Generally backed with a solid, empty background, Catalina forces your attention towards their bodies position, placement and language. I can’t help but feel a little intrusive when when looking at her work – almost as if I’m the cause of their hidden visage.

Check out more of Catalina’s work, here .

derecho a higiene

servilletero

derecho a cansarse de cocinar

de frente

gata flora

cocina

callarse la boca

ingenua

hpv

more at Catalina Bartolome website

Li Wei

Legendary chinese artist Li Wei from Beijing started off his performance series ‘Mirroring’ and later on took off attention with his ‘Falls’ series which shows the artist with his head and chest embedded into the ground. His work is a mixture of performance art and photography that creates illusions of a sometimes dangerous reality. Li Wei states that these images are not computer montages and works with the help of props such as mirror, metal wires, scaffolding and acrobatics.

more at Li Wei Art website

Levi van Veluw

Levi van Veluw´s photo series are self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself: a one-man-process. His works constitute elemental transfers; modifying the face as object; combining it with other stylistic elements to create a third visual object of great visual impact. The work you see therefore is not a portrait, but an information-rich image of colour, form, texture, and content. The image contains the history of a short creative process, with the artist shifting between the entities of subject and object.

Landscapes | Landscape I | 120x100cm & 60x50cm | 2008

Landscapes | Landscape II | 120x100cm & 60x50cm | 2008

Landscapes | Landscape III | 120x100cm & 60x50cm | 2008

Landscapes | Landscape IV | 120x100cm & 60x50cm | 2008

'Landscapes'. This 4-piece series reinterprets the traditional landscape painting, removing plots of grass, clusters of trees, babbling brooks from their intimate 2 dimensional formats and transposing them onto the 3 dimensional contours of his own face. Thus a fresh twist is given to the obsession inherent in the romantic landscape of recreating the world and simultaneously being part of it. The romantic landscape and self-portrait genres are combined as a means of re-examination.

Material transfers | Carpet | 120x100cm & 60x50cm | 2008

Material transfers | Sterling wood | 120x100cm & 60x50cm | 2008

Material transfers | Gravel | 120x100cm & 60x50cm | 2007

The Material Transfer series were all completed and photographed within a time frame of 24 hours and without any digital manipulation. Giving familiar elements such as cheap carpet, pebble stones and sterling wood a new context results in a confusing conflict between the objects normal associations and the new values assigned to it in the works. Levi van Veluw interrogates the attributes of daily life. Although it seems as if the actual material is the object of his observation, it is in fact their metaphoric use in daily life what interests him most: the signification people attach to the things that surround them.