There are some people who are simply unafraid of hard work; it might please them to spend hours toiling away at their craft, in the hope of achieving a specific outcome that they have envisioned in their mind’s eye. Artist Amy Bennett is one such person. To create her paintings, Bennett works in a […]

If the eyes are the windows to the soul, then the subjects of Chinese photographer Wang Ningde’s unsettling portraits are forever closed off to the world around them. Drawing on the themes of constant change and the haunting memories of the Cultural Revolution, Wang’s photos are a revisit to the photographer’s memories of his childhood […]

Diane Meyer’s multi-media work, blending old photographs and the forgotten art of cross-stitching, questions the modern-day problems of anonymity and identity in a world where our public and private lives are increasingly scrutinized. The old photos (Of herself? Friends? Family?) seem both familiar and unnervingly detached; eerie, yet oddly comforting. See more of Meyer’s work […]

  Strange Plants is both a celebration of and a reflection about the role that plants play in our lives.  A myriad of flora is represented and reinvented in this book, in which artists were invited to contribute both new and old work involving nature. “The artists in this book were challenged to think about […]

  We all know how important water is; it’s something that has been drummed into us ever since we were little kids, yet knowledge does not always translate into action. Watermark is a documentary that hopes to change this. Lensed by renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, in a collaboration with award-winning documentary directors Jennifer Bachiwal […]

  Photographer Ken Hermann’s latest project documents the variety of characters in the Mallick Ghat flower market of Calcutta, India, creating an intriguing portrait book of some of the hundreds of flower vendors at the marketplace, which has been in operation for more than a century. Flowers are used in temple offerings and Hindu weddings […]