It’s about time I pos­ted a fol­lowup to the first of this series about artists, pho­to­graph­ers, and cre­at­ive people that I have dis­covered while brows­ing vari­ous sites and for­ums. Today I’m con­cen­trat­ing on pho­to­graph­ers that I have dis­covered / redis­covered over the past few months.

Bo Wang

Bo Wang is a Chinese pho­to­grapher cur­rently based in New York. With a BS and MS in Phys­ics from Tsing­hau Uni­ver­sity he is now study­ing pho­to­graphy, video and related media at School Of Visual Arts, New York.

He cur­rently has a show — Het­ero­scapes — at Gal­lery 456 (end­ing 5th of Feb­ru­ary), I feel that his artist’s state­ment describes his pho­to­graphy best:

HETEROSCAPES is a por­trait of China’s con­tem­por­ary urban spaces and land­scapes in a period of intens­i­fied trans­ition. Through­out the past 20 years of an eco­nomic boom, this trans­ition has shif­ted the social power struc­ture and sub­ver­ted once com­mon val­ues, dra­mat­ic­ally alter­ing the func­tions and even the con­crete­ness of land­scapes and urban structures.

Bo Wang is rel­at­ively new to the pho­to­graphy world, but I feel he will be one to watch in the com­ing years.

Con­tinue read­ing: More Artists Of Today (And Yesterday)

We stumble over so many bril­liant artists while tra­vers­ing the inter­net that it would be a trav­esty not to fea­ture as many as we can here. So I intro­duce you to a new series of posts: Artists Of Today (And Yes­ter­day).

Stas Orlov

Stas Orlov — also known as Indi and Uno — lives in Moscow, Rus­sia. A mem­ber of Bang Bang Stu­dio, he pro­duces beau­ti­ful detailed pieces that look almost as if they’ve been drawn in MS Paint. His work is largely sur­real, deal­ing with themes from childen’s stor­ies, to pop cul­ture, to reli­gion, and so on.

Unfor­tu­nately this pro­file is tra­gic­ally short as there isn’t much inform­a­tion on him to be found, and cer­tainly not in Eng­lish. But, make sure to check out his afore­men­tioned blogs on Live­Journal, or his Pro­file on Bang Bang Stu­dio, to get an idea of just how pro­lific he is.

Con­tinue read­ing: Artists Of Today (And Yesterday)