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    Design Free Thursday // “Whistler’s Mother” Reinterpreted by Aline Smithson.

    11th April

    American photographer Aline Smithson has reinterpreted a famous 19th century painting by James McNeill Whistler “Arrangement in Grey and Black No 1”, colloquially know as “Whistler’s Mother”. Smithson’s clever series features the artist’s grandmother dressed in hilarious outfits creating a different scene in each image. What a hoot!



    Design Free Thursday // Polaroid Portrait Mosaics by Maurizio Galimberti.

    28th March

    Maurizio Galimberti is a celebrated Italian master of Polaroid camera who creates visually arresting, abstract mosaic portraits of celebrities. What I really love about these images is their unique three-dimentional quality. The photographer manages to capture a real sense of intimacy by shooting his subjects from a really close range. It feels as though a viewer is able to focus on a number individual elements simultaneously, and observe an image as a series of frames suspended in time…



    Design Free Thursday // Lauren Hillebrandt.

    21st March

    Young Dutch photographer Lauren Hillebrandt finds inspiration in mundane routines of everyday life. Her images capture the absurdity of common objects transformed into fun sculptures and small works of art…



    Design Free Thursday // Conceptual Photography by Christian Åslund for Jim Rickey.

    14th March

    These clever images are the work of Stockholm-based photographer Christian Åslund. Åslund recently shot and art-directed an ad campaign for Swedish shoe brand Jim Rickey. He utilised conceptual photography that pays tribute to old-shool 2D platform games…



    Fictional Architecture by Filip Dujardin.

    7th March

    Filip Dujardin is an architectural photographer based in the Belgian city of Ghent. For his personal photography project titled”Fictions”, Dujardin creates images of fictional architecture. These hyperrealistic photo collages of wild and impossible buildings and structures are constructed using digital technology…




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