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Photos: Daniella Zalcman.

If not exactly double exposures, these images are very interesting all the same. Using her iPhone and photo- manipulating apps, Daniella Zalcman merged photos from well known places in New York and London to create these fascinating images. Read more

Images: Romain Jacquet Lagreze.

Entering a vertical landscape is always a thrilling experience whether it is a forest of tall, straight, trees or the breathtaking urban density of a high-rise city.

Here, the French graphic artist Romain Jacquet-Lagreze, moved by the intensity of his experience in Hong Kong, has created these images which are published in Vertical Horizon, his latest book. Read more

Photos: Andre Ermolaev.

The talented Russian photographer Andre Ermolaev has explored the natural beauty of Iceland’s streams and rivers from the air to create this incredible series of photographs.

The colours of the streams are entirely natural, and give an indication of the rich mineral content in the waters that surface contaminated by the volcanic activity below. The black soils set-off the colours of the rivers making them look abstract, even artificial. Read more

Images: Shinichi Maruyama.

Francis Bacon intuitively saw and painted something of what these beautiful photographs by Shinichi Maruyama reveal.

Maruyama is a artist photographer based in New York. These these photographs of naked people dancing in front of the camera reveal notions of space that we all occupy. Read more

Table salt 45x magnification.

The San Francisco based artist and photographer Caren Alpert, wanted to see what we were eating in a new light, so she found a way to photograph food under an electron microscope. The series of photographs she produced is called Terra Cibus.

It is interesting, that while working on the images, she eventually started to see food and consumers as part of a larger ecosystem.

Is it a similar thing with architecture? Read more