Hugh Kretschmer is a photographer based in Los Angeles and specializing in photo-illustration, advertising and editorial photography and design. Of his work, he says: ‘The idea is the most important ingredient. I’ve always appreciated concept because it adds another layer to the photograph and invites participation from the viewer. When I see something that is [...]

Canadian photographer Finn O’Hara takes some of the most beautiful landscape photographs I have ever seen!

Kenyan-born Wangechi Mutu has trained as both a sculptor and anthropologist. Her work explores the contradictions of female and cultural identity and makes reference to colonial history, contemporary African politics and the international fashion industry. Drawing from the aesthetics of traditional crafts, science fiction and funkadelia, Mutu’s works document the contemporary myth making of endangered [...]

Neil Young (no, not the Canadian musician) is an emerging contemporary Canadian painter. His work and process combines structure to organic movement, creating abstract paintings that explore light, contrast, texture, and colour. His bold use of colour and well-balanced compositions are quite the feast for the eyes.

“Art is my voice, my release of submissive [...]

Dance is a very beautiful art. I remember attending a ballet performance when I was quite young, and being fascinated with the beauty lines and shapes that well-trained dancers can produce. There were always plenty of moments that could have been framed into very compelling studies in movement and light - the Chasse’, the Sissone, [...]

I used to really love painting, but I never really had the chance to explore the art. Every time I come across an amazing painter, that urge to pick up the brush again rekindles. Today was no different. It’s simply amazes me what textures, strokes and colours can do capture an atmosphere and make the [...]

War wrecks lives. I hear of my parents’ struggles through wartime as children and it never ceases to break my heart. Innocent children are thrown into the line of fire, made to suffer through adults’ greed, selfishness, intolerance and unreasoning behaviour. This is the primary goal of young Canadian photographer Dominic Nahr’s work. This series, [...]

The sun was just coming up over the Normandy coast at about 5 a.m. on June 6, 1944 – D-Day.
The Allied navies – Canadian, British, American – had brought a huge invasion fleet from England to France in total darkness. For men on the ships, first light showed the black shapes of other nearby vessels. [...]

Heinz Edelmann is the graphic designer who designed the album sleeve for The Beatles’ ‘Yellow Submarine’ album. He passed away today, leaving behind a legacy so closely related and iconic of one of the most influential musical acts in contemporary times.

Was there ever anything that you considered so important that you decided to use your [...]

Opera is such a classical art form that few youngsters these days are interested in it. They are preoccupied with the endless drone of derivative songs, complete with meaningless lyrics, predictable chord progressions and weak musical structures so pervasive in the contemporary music landscape. But perhaps all this disinterest rises from the misperception that opera [...]