Artist Noah Scalin creates a series titled “Anatomy of War” where war weapons and bullet holes mix with human anatomy and portraits. “clinically dissected, revealing a remarkably human set of internal organs,” though “with a conspicuously absent brain.” With these alterations, Scalin says, “The objects become as fragile as the lives that they can potentially take.”
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Pink Series by photographer Prue Stent
Prue Stent’s Pink Series explores sexuality, magic, and femininity through a single, powerful lens: the color pink. The Australian-based photographer uses hue as narrative, tying mood, character, and emotion together in images that feel both playful and provocative.
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The Ghillies by artist Polixeni Papapetrou
A sense of mystery and anonymity surrounds artist Polixeni Papapetrou photography series. Each photograph contains a camouflaged figure that is human like but blends in to their surroundings. Borderline chic, these figures also remind us of childhood spies or the lightheartedness of Scooby-Doo and Shaggy investigating something. Check out the whimsical series below: source:
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Mixed Media Portraits by Bernhard Handick
Bernhard Handick’s mixed media portraits exist in a space where familiarity becomes unstable. At first glance, the faces feel recognizable, drawn from pop culture and fashion photography, images we have been trained to read instantly. But Handick interrupts that recognition just long enough to make it strange again. What emerges is a body of work that feels seductive, fractured, and quietly surreal. The foundation of these portraits often begins with photography, particularly imagery tied to celebrity, editorial fashion, or mass media. Handick then disrupts that surface through manipulation. Photographs are layered, spliced, and overpainted. Faces blur into other faces. Features are obscured, multiplied, or partially erased. The act of painting…
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Paradise Lost, photographed by Nick Knight
Nick Knight’s Paradise Lost is unsettling precisely because it redirects violence toward something we are conditioned to treat as harmless. Roses, symbols of romance, devotion, and ceremony, are shown being shot through the head. The gesture is abrupt and wrong-feeling, not because flowers are rare or fragile, but because they are culturally protected from this kind of outcome.
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Jeff Hong – “Unhappily ever after”
Not every story ends the way we hope, and Jeff Hong’s series Unhappily Ever After confronts that idea with a darkly humorous twist. The artist reimagines beloved Disney characters, placing them in scenarios where happy endings are replaced by realistic, often jarring consequences. The result is a series that is both playful and unsettling, challenging viewers to reconsider the familiar narratives they have grown up with.
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David Szauder’s Glitches in Memory
David Szauder’s series Glitches in Memory explores the fragile and fragmented nature of recollection through a striking blend of vintage photography and digital distortion. The German artist uses portraiture to examine how memories warp over time and how fleeting moments and passing acquaintances can shift in clarity and meaning. The work feels both intimate and unsettling, capturing the human impulse to hold on while acknowledging that preservation is never perfect.
