“We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle. ”
– Marilyn Monroe
TWINKLE
Almost surreal in its ethereality, this photograph of one of the world’s greatest natural wonders, The Northern Lights, was taken in the Rocky Mountains. The photograph is composed to enhance the feeling that the land is being drawn upwards. This gives the piece an almost metaphysical quality.
Another image from the Jökulsárlón glacial lagoon in Iceland, this time on a cold, clear autumnal night, as the Milky Way rose over the landscape. Even without the aurora lighting up the night sky, the beauty and richness of the stars create an ethereal scene over the ice.
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San Francisco Pier 7 is a popular spot for some serious crab fishing at night and offers spectacular and romantic views of the city with the twinkling lights. Saito captures the golden wooden boarding set against the dark skyscrapers in the distance. The central composition of the pier draws the viewer in, as do the shining streetlamps above.
Using a long exposure and filtering the image in black and white, Wada captures the movement of the night as a hectic mess of white lights. The work has a musical quality to it, owing Yoshihiko’s work as a sound designer. One can almost hear the cars whizzing past.
Perhaps one of Federici’s most iconic celebrity portraits of the famous Cindy Crawford, the 1980’s supermodel is cast as the femme fatale, complete with a fashionable beauty spot. The close up shot presents Crawford in as both intimate yet confident. Once the highest-paid model on the planet, Crawford came to encapsulate the 1980’s shot by legendary photographers from Helmut Newton to Mario Testino, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon.
Titled ‘Shaftesbury Avenue’ after the famous London street, this work doesn’t aim to provide us with a photographic record of the iconic location, but a feeling of its atmosphere. The blurred chromatic spots are evocative of street lights, red buses, and glowing signs protruding into the night. One can almost feel the hustle-bustle and hear the familiar sounds of central London.
This is the back alley of Yong Lin’s grandmother’s house in Alor Setar, Kedah. The stunning colours, unblemished starry night and flowers give a heartwarming insight into a local community surrounded by beauty, and intimate childhood memory. Perhaps most striking about this image is how the flowers are flourishing within such an urban environment.
This unique image is baffling to the first view, Saito has captured the orbit of the earth as depicted by the stars. The stunning concentric circles that whizz around each other highlight the movement of the world even when we appreciate a still view. This kaleidoscopic photograph is a blur of purples, pinks and deep deep blues- highlighting the beauty of the nighttime sky.
Now one of the fastest-selling artists in today’s contemporary art scene, Paul is renowned for his distinctive 3-D interpretations of celebrated icons. Straddling the delicate line between visual art and popular culture, his work is neither illustrative or photographic but standing between the two – verging on fantasy.