Alessandro Puccinelli is an accomplished commercial photographer with an impressive portfolio of projects for corporate clients including Sony, Mobilicity, and Canada Goose. But his real passion is the sea. "All my personal works are about the sea," he says. "The presence of the ocean in my everyday life is a balancing factor that helps me reconnect with that internal equilibrium......read more
At 22 years old, Helsinki-based photographer Helen Korpak is establishing herself as an emerging artist to watch. The young talent's "Anna" series captures her friend and muse in various beautiful settings, made all the more attractive by the person holding the camera. Korpak, who currently studies at Aalto University, Korpak says of her work that she has created "a map of the emotions in......read more
In our humble opinion, pavement-pounding urban dwellers are always well-served by leaving the city and reconnecting with nature. Quinn Tivey agrees. The L.A.-based photographer and stalwart SHFT bro frequently heads into the wilds in search of new images and experiences. "To lose yourself in someplace wild and untouched by our human development is a sobering experience," Quinn says.......read more
We're not generally prone to superlatives around here, but we love us some aerial photography, and German photog Stephan Zirwes takes some of the most incredible/amazing/awesome/epic aerial photos we've ever seen. Zirwes's pictures of industrial areas, beaches, construction sites, and airfields show a world is full of striking patterns and geometries. Visit his site for the full......read more
In "Pulsar," a collection of images from Japanese photographer Yuji Hamada, subject takes a back seat to light and shadow — the bare essentials of photography. Cruising through his everyday surroundings, Hamada snapped shots of ordinary outdoor spaces, using a homemade smoke machine to enhance the natural light of the sun. The eerie and ethereal images blur the line between fantasy and......read more
In creating his latest series of images, award-winning photographer Spencer Murphy looked back — way back — to the 18th century, when Romantic artists started painting nature as if it were a magnificent but terrifying abyss, ready to swallow humanity whole. His moving collection of landscape photos borrow heavily from the Romantic notion of nature as a sublime......read more
Adelaide-based photographer Ryan Kenny has only been shooting photos seriously for a couple years, but his trademark fuzzed-out aesthetic has already landed him high-profile magazine gigs for i-D, Oyster and Fallen, among others. His portfolio is packed with photos of young, beautiful people living out the carefree fantasies of youth. On his inspiration, Ryan says: "Life......read more