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Shadow Within | Christian Houge

The “Shadow Within” explores man’s relation to the wolf and ultimately to himself. 

The relation between nature and culture has played an important role in art throughout the centuries. In this photo project, I invite the viewer to contemplate nature’s raw power and purity through the figure of the wolf.  Nature, which we are born with, and culture, which we learn, co-exist within us. Thus, the wolf (nature), even in its purity, exists in shadows. These shadows stand for the taboos in our society: fear, social hierarchy, aggression, sexuality and loneliness.

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The Intricate, Beautiful Patterns of Civilization Seen From Above

umans love to tease signals from noise. We see a man in the moon, Mother Mary in a piece of toast, Lady Luck in a winning run at the casino. Alex MacLean deftly plays to this tendency in his stunning aerial photos that reveal patterns in seemingly mundane things.

MacLean leans from the window of an airplane to snap tightly arranged photos of urban, industrial and wild environments. The vantage point is low enough to make out the people and places on the ground, but high enough to see their organization within the broader landscape. His photos provide our appetite for patterns several layers of interpretation to chew on, while exploring the impact of things like urban sprawl, pollution and resource extraction.

“Through sort of abstract and engaging patterns, those things will draw people into it, and hopefully think about these issues,” he says. “It really is about combining art and information. Some of it is sort of subliminal–you can’t quite put your finger on it but it sort of draws you in and engages you.”

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Ramona Zordini’s Eerie, Yet Sensual Photography

Photographer Ramona Zordini creates images that tastefully and powerfully channel sexuality and eroticism between lovers and oneself. Zordini is interested in both showcasing pairs of naked bodies floating on murky water as they interact with one another and portraits of single bodies as they emerge from whitish liquids. Although Zordini’s sensual photography carries an undeniable sexual energy, they embody an aesthetic that resembles organic textures and lines, as well as a concepts (of love, sex and self-discovery) that are poignant and relatable.

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Poignant Portraits Of Homeless Individuals Give A Human Face To Poverty

Photographer Lee Jeffries has devoted much of his time to capturing the overlooked faces of homeless individuals across the globe. Trekking from London to Paris to Rome to New York, the UK-based artist has made it his personal mission — he’s actually a full-time accountant by trade — to attach a human face to the epidemics of poverty and addiction.

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I’ve always wanted to capture people’s expressions through sketch.

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Two Spectacular Photographs of a Volcanic Eruption as Seen from Space by Endeavour

In September and October of 1994, the space shuttle Endeavour was orbiting 115 nautical miles above Earth while the Kliuchevskoi Volcano was spewing ash and dust into the atmosphere at an alarming rate. Not in any position to do anything about it, the astronauts aboard the space shuttle did the only thing they could do… they took pictures.

The two images you see here were taken from the space shuttle and show the global scale of the ash cloud released by Kliuchevskoi. 

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