I was surfing on the web and I came across this photographer Mylou Oord, who used her friend Aynouk Tan as a muse for her photography. Mylou is a self taught photographer and isn't really interested in fashion photography. Her work mostly consists out of portraits because she likes working with real people rather than models without an interesting story. Her work was published in various exhibitions and magazines such as Blend and Mykromag. There are many photographers that work with people so why do I like Mylou Oord? I think it's because her photos are raw, real and personal and she's telling a true story through her photographs.
A friend of mine recommended this website of an artist named Alessandro Bavari. Not so strange because we both love weird, dark, unrealistic photography with a psychedelic touch. I really enjoy the way Alessandro Bavari uses digital manipulation and creates the kind of fantasy world we sometimes dream of but are afraid to remember. It's unreal but familiar. Using different human and animal matters, objects and architecture, pictures and landscapes, fossils and materials, which join his mental museum, also strongly influenced by indo-european cultural myths and allegories as well as 14th and 15th century artists.
He studied scenography, photography, history of art and various other topics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. Developing different techniques of oil, watercolors and engraving, experimenting with glue, industrial paint and exploring photographic printing techniques. Since 1993 he's been adding digital manipulation to his art, developping a personal artistic language using industrial and organic products from nature before incorporating photographic process, then computer digitalization, which leads to "a kind of contamination among the arts dissolving the boundaries which distinguish them".
