Marcus Lyon is a photographer and artist that creates monumental visions of globalization and human movement. His photo-art is not just a snapshot of Moscow, Mumbai, or Marina del Rey, but consists of composites of many pictures that overpower the viewer with its immensity.
Lyon's photos are meticulously planned up to the minute details, often a long time before they are...
Charles Henry and Elin Petronella, a Franco-Swedish couple, travel across Europe in search of the continent's finest architectural achievements. From the colorful streets of Copenhagen to the modernist architecture of Barcelona, each project symbolizes or highlights a part of history and is later immortalized in embroidery.
To this day, Charles and Elin's ever-growing collection consists of textile versions of popular...
Unable to travel, this artist compiles photos of her virtual journeys, made from screenshots on Google Street View, on her Instagram account. Having chronic anxiety and agoraphobia, she cannot fly or even travel due to her phobias. So, she decided to get around the problem by escaping virtually through Google Street View.
On her Instagram account called Agoraphobic Traveler, she...
Dogs can be faithful companions, this is a confirmed fact. An excellent example is Troja - a red-haired Irish setter dog who has a real passion for travels and adventures in its blood. Troja’s owner, George Rotan is from Norway and publishes on Instagram quite extraordinary pictures of his pet made during their hikes together. We cannot decide who...
Every year, during the last days of August, the Wara Art Matsui festival offers its share of gigantic sculptures made of rice straw. The festival was born from a collaboration between the students of Niigata University and those of Musashino Art University in Tokyo who wanted to exploit the material of rice straw with an innovative angle.
It was in...
Pedestrian crossings, gates, cracks on walls, antennas, rainbow halos on the asphalt - the whole urban landscape, with its imperfections, is the inspiration on which relies OakOak, a French street artist who is behind a series of works for which the term "graffiti" sounds definitely way too reductive.
His creations draw heavily on pop culture : characters of videogames, comics,...
Be it decrepit castles, closed amusement parks, disused greenhouses or filming locations like Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak, Instagram account "allabandoned" lists some of the most picturesque abandoned places around the world.
Held by urbex lovers (contraction of the words "urban" and "exploration"), this account is updated daily and is followed by some 500,000 subscribers. If the descriptions of the...
With "Déjà Vu Vibes — Wander. Roam. Replicate" in its Instagram biography, the monomaniac account "Insta Repeat" directly announces the aim of his project: through photo mosaics, it reveals visual similarities and successions of abundant "perfect" images that look similar, repeat same vantage points and turn the social network into a standardized matrix.
Although most of us are aware of...
Inspired by the mobile app Pantone Studio that can identify the colors of the color chart on any real-life object, an Instagrammer decided to place the Pantone references on her vacation spots. Based in San Francisco, Lucy Litman loves to contemplate the landscapes of her region and look for references of colors in the famous color chart that could...
Quoting Henri Cartier Bresson, “photography is an immediate action, drawing is a meditation," and this seems to be the motto guiding the hand of Pietro Cataudella. Student of Geophysics in Pisa, Sicilian of origin, through his artistic project CityLiveSketch he manages to combine three of his passions: drawing, photography, and travel.
Pencils, Moleskine, camera and a smartphone are the tools...
