Surreal photos

Photographer John Dykstra says he believes in the power of perspective. His surreal photo style is created entirely with practical effects and simple

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Tony Luciani is his mom’s primary caregiver. When she got dementia, he decided to record her memories.

My name is Monica Carvalho, I’m a Swiss-born photographer & digital artist based in Berlin.

We absolutely love every single surreal photographer/artist that we write about, but much of their work tends to be rather melancholy or down-right dark. Not so with German art director Robert Jahns (a.k.a. Nois7 on Instagram), whose beautiful and adventurous images will inspire you and brighten your day. His images are surreal, but many of them are only subtly dream-like or unreal – it all looks like a normal photograph until you spot that one mystical detail that takes his image into the…

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A one of a kind view of the world expressed in drawings. You know that maxim, "A picture is worth a thousand words"? That is how I would summarise Miles Johnston's work. Beautiful concepts hidden in illustrations waiting to be discovered. When found by different people, as if by magic, they unearth different meanings. Having given these surreal pieces titles, made the images even more fascinating and helped me crystallise these drawings into meaningful pieces of art. For more of Johnston's…

These are a trip

When Artists create, they make their worlds. Some create happy worlds, full of sense and discovery, some adventurous lands full of magic and fantasy, some creepy and eerie worlds full of monsters and fear. That's the power of creativity. Every artist has to learn how to use it.