Turkish Flatland - Manipulated Photos by Aydın Büyüktaş

In his series Flatland, Aydın Büyüktaş Turkish photographer and digital artist warps the streets of Istanbul in inspiration from the 1884 satirical novella Flatland. For more check out his Instagram. 

The Big Canyon and the Grand Apple

Swiss photographer Gus Petro compares in this photo-manipulations, the Grand Canyon and New York City casting a light of scale and size on each.

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Zoo Fashion Photos

Barcelona based Yago Partal  has this fun and funny photo manipulation series called Zoo Portraits.

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Beautiful Photo Manipulations by nois7

With just a slight destabilizing nudge away from reality, the photo manipulations from Robert Jahns (nois7 as one of Instagram), are an uncanny and stunning imaginative beauty made visible.

Underdog: Humanized Dog Portraits from Sebastian Magnani

Bern Switzerland based photographer Sebastian Magnani blends his photographs of dogs with their owners digitally to make these humanized dog portraits.

See also Zoo Fashion Photos

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Finger Icons

Astoundingly creative.​

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Carved Photos - Photographic Palimpsest

German artist Michel Lamoller, in his series “tautochronos," cuts up prints from multiple photos of the same place at different times. These tauto ('same') chronos ('time') artifacts are like palimpsests erupting through the layers into a time and space disruption.

ANIMAL REGULATION SERIES by LIU DI

Twenty-five-year-old artist Liu Di Photoshopped these distorted animals into his photos of the Beijing in an interesting echo of all the enormous abandoned buildings throughout the city.

The series, Animal Regulation, is part of a group show featuring the work of other young Chinese artists. Curated by Barbara Pollack, it’s on display in two locations in Florida: at the Tampa Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg.

Flower and Animal Images Built out of Nude Human Bodies

Cecelia Webber uses images of the human body arranged to create the vision of plants and animals. She photographs nude models (herself included) and then builds the final images through edits, cuts and color.

She explains: “Each image takes many stages to create. I start by researching photos of the creature or plant I’m trying to create and then sketch poses I want to photograph in a notebook…I never warp my models or edit them to change them – it is important to me to portray real natural bodies. Once I have my photos I start laying out my piece and playing with colour and arrangements…Many drastic transformations take place during this stage, so it’s sort of magical, because so many different variations are possible. I feel many possibilities at once but the true form of my subject slowly emerges.”

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Manhattan Skyline Mirrored in Dreamlike Images

Brad Sloan captured these stunning New York City shots and reflected them to create these eery and dreamlike images.

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Images Evoking Intricate Biblical Calligraphy on the Body

Israeli artist Ronit Bigal in her “Body Scripture II” series uses digital photography overlaid with Biblical Hebrew text.

She explains:

“[The bodies] are almost abstract and enigmatic, arousing the viewer’s curiosity to discover what are the photographed objects, what meanings lies behind the texts; and whether there is a thematic affinity between them or, perhaps are the associations purely aesthetical?” 

See also One Thousand and One Dreams » 

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Human Animal Photo Hybrids by Ulric Collette

Here Ulric Collette (we've seen his amazing Genetic Patch Portraits before)  creates these creepy/awesome half-human/half-animal images in his project Therianthropes. Love them.

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Fashionable Animals by Miguel Vallinas

Continuing the stylish treatment of animals ( see Zoo Fashion Photos or Underdog: Humanized Dog Portraits), Madrid-based advertising and industrial photographer Miguel Vallinas styles the whole look, boots, scarves and all, for his project Segundas Pieles.  

Witty Wild Animal Photo Manipulations

French photographer Thomas Subtil has this witty and charming photo manipulation series "Hakuna Matata" with wild animals from Kenya as its stars. 

See also Zoo Fashion Photos

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Bodyscapes: Photos by Carl Warner

Using human parts to create stunning landscapes, photographer Carl Warner's project titled "Otherscapes."

See also The Form of the Body

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One Year-Old Photoshopped into Amazing Situations

One-year-old Singlhild demonstrates capacities that are way beyond her years in the creative pictures, photoshopped by her dad, Swedish photographer Emil Nystrom. 

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Mashing Up Old and New Famous Faces

Toronto-based graphic designer Marc Ghali combines the faces of two similar figures from separate decades. Can you identify them all?

Also check out a similar project we covered in 5 things TV 5-1

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Kids and Their Parents Swap Heads

This is what happens when you photoshop the kid's face onto the parent's body and visa versa. From German photography Paul Ripke.

Photoshop Beastiary

From wikipedia:

A bestiary, or Bestiarum vocabulum is a compendium of beasts. Originating in the Ancient world, bestiaries were made popular in the Middle Ages in illustrated volumes that described various animals, birds and even rocks. The natural history and illustration of each beast was usually accompanied by a moral lesson. Reminds me of course of Borges' Book of Imaginary Beings.

​Redditor gyyp imagines, with the help of photoshop, a compendium of beasts. I would love, as a writing exercise, to come up with a name and moral lesson for each. Anyone help?

Hraffonallard - The wit and temper of a duck with the grace and strength of a mustang, the Hraffonallard learns early on the emotional triggers of its opponents, delivering, on its powerful back, the one person that will undermine the confidence just moments before physical confrontation.​

DEFRAGMENTADOS by YAGO PARTAL

These photo manipulations from Barcelona-based photographer Yago Partal  (his Zoo Fashion was another project of his we loved) are part of his series called “Defragmentados”. 

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