30 Satirical images created by Pawel Kuczynski

Van Gogh Shadow

Kalie Garrett

Kalie Garrett is a 19-year-old photographer who takes such vulnerable self-portraits, you can't help but get emotional when you look at them. Rather than describe them myself, here are some touching testimonials left on her Flickr page:

"You probably know by now how much I adore your work. I mean, your photography is like a drug to me. I can get lost in your stream so easily and just look for hours and hours on end. The kind of emotion you show in your photos is unique and different from any other photos I've seen."

"From the moment i first discovered your work, I was incredibly inspired. You were the one who showed me what emotion is. I look at a photo and listen to the song in the description.. I'll look at the picture for like ten minutes because it is so incredible how you can make me feel your emotion."

"They want to make me rip my heart out and tear it to shreds, yet at the same time put my hand to my chest and hear my heart beat. Because your photos make me feel alive. They flood my eyes with the most honest emotions that sometimes I can't even look, that or I can't pull my eyes away."

Alex Stoddard

Alex Stoddard is one of those talented teenage photographers who knows how to express themselves. His self-portraits are all incredibly unique and after viewing them you're left wondering where he's going to take you next.

What I enjoy most is that you can almost feel his passion come through. His commitment to not only executing on an idea but doing it well, is apparent to anyone who sees his photos.

I got in touch with Alex to ask him a few questions, including how his style evolved while taking on the 365 project. (That is, to shoot and share one picture each day.) Read that interview below after enjoying his very creative self-portraits.

Valerie Chiang

Though Raleigh, North Carolina-based Valerie Chiang is not a professional photographer (rather, she is a student at Oberlin Conservatory studying piano performance), her photos certainly speak volumes.

Just 18-years-old, Chiang tells us she's been taking pictures only for the last year and a half. "When people look at my photos, I want them to feel as though they are momentarily transported into a fantasy world. I try to create 'dreamscapes,' where people can use my photographs as a method of escapism."

Art of Ice Cream

At the Opera Zaramella

Sugar Painting - Chinese Dragon

she takes a photo every day: 3.5 years

banned ad for Bienalle at Athens 2011

Salma Hayek

At the age of 23, Hayek landed the title role in Teresa (1989), a successful Mexican telenovela that made her a star in Mexico. In 1994, Hayek starred in the film El Callejón de los Milagros (Miracle Alley), which has won more awards than any other movie in the history of Mexican cinema.^{[citation needed]} For her performance, Hayek was nominated for an Ariel Award.^[9]

Early Hollywood acting work

Hayek moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1991 to study acting under Stella Adler.^[10] She had limited fluency in English, which was attributed to her suffering from dyslexia.^[11] Robert Rodriguez and his producer and then wife Elizabeth Avellan soon gave Hayek a starring role opposite Antonio Banderas in 1995's Desperado.^[3]
Hayek had a starring part opposite Matthew Perry in the 1997 romantic comedy Fools Rush In. She followed her role in Desperado with a brief role as a vampire queen in From Dusk Till Dawn, in which she performed a table-top snake dance. In 1999, she co-starred in Will Smith's big-budget Wild Wild West, and played a supporting role in Kevin Smith's Dogma.^[3] In 2000, Hayek had an uncredited acting part opposite Benicio del Toro in Traffic. In 2003, she reprised her role from Desperado by appearing in Once Upon a Time in Mexico, the final film of the Mariachi Trilogy.

Bruno Torf's Art & Sculpture Garden

Hidden amongst the trees of the small Victorian village of Marysville is a world full of fantasy, beauty and humour. Surrounded by the magical rainforest setting. Bruno has created one of the world's most unique and deeply inspiring experiences for art and garden lovers of all ages.   With over three hundred paintings and sculptures to discover, a journey to Bruno's is one of Australia's most special attractions.

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People of Clouds

In the Mixteca, one of the most impoverished regions in Mexico, migration to the United States has arrived like a storm. In a place so insular that pre-columbian languages like Mixteco, Trique, and Asmuzgos are still spoken more widely than Spanish, and where cars, electricity and indoor plumbing are recent introductions, if they exist at all, northern migration has emptied communities and transformed the lives of those left behind. Some villages have lost as much as 80% of their population to the north and have become little more than ghost towns, home to just a handful of old men, women and the left-behind children of migrants.

In San Miguel Cuevas -- or Nuyuco, Face of the Mountain, in Mixteco -- just 500 people out of 3000 remain. Its streets are largely empty, its fields stand deserted, its century-old way of life lies in shambles as families dissolve to the north, rending the social fabric of this traditional agrarian society. Old women raise grandchildren left behind by their mothers, teenage girls do the work of absent fathers, and old men sit alone, abandoned by their children. "I only think about dying," one 70 year old said, "my only worry is how my funeral will be."

Photographer Matt Black first photographed the mixteca in 2000. He has since made 12 trips to the region, and plans more. To contribute to the project, visit his Kickstarter project site.

1. Fog settles on the deserted streets of San Miguel Cuevas, a Mixtec village in the highlands of Oaxaca. Over 80% of its population has emigrated to the United States, leaving it little more than a ghost town. (Matt Black)
2. The aftermath of slash and burn farming. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
3. A drought-stunted field offers meager rewards for an elderly farm wife. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
4. Caught in a rainstorm, an elderly man walks home from his remote corn field. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
5. Preparing tortillas on an indoor hearth. San Pedro Chayuco, Mexico. (Matt Black)
6. An elderly mother of migrant children. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
7. Left behind by his migrant children, an ailing man lies in his yard. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
8. In the hills above town, farmers till a newly sprouted corn field. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
9. Dried corn is harvested by a girl and her grandmother. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
10. A plow team is guided through a hillside field. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
11. A farmer clears a section of forest. San Pedro Chayuco, Mexico. (Matt Black)
12. Inspecting a burned field in prepartion for planting corn. El Ciruelo, Mexico. (Matt Black)
13. Village women cook food for a wake. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
14. A woman feeds her flock of turkeys outside her hand-built home. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
15. Sisters empty the last corn from their family's crib. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
16. A girl works at her family's farmhouse. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
17. Sorting corn on the floor of a farmhouse. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico.
18. Dressed for ceremonial dancing, a boy awaits a Saint's Day celebration. San Pedro Chayuco, Mexico. (Matt Black)
19. Awaiting the start of a burial at the cemetery. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
20. Men dig a grave for a fellow villager. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
21. A returned migrant leads a procession to church. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
22. Breaking dirt clods in a field. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
23. A goat-herder feeds her dogs in a cleared section of forest. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
24. Cooking tortillas in a hand-built kitchen. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
25. The father of migrant children alone at home. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
26. Collecting chapulines, an edible grasshopper. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
27. Herders run their goats into the hills. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
28. Inspecting a burned field in prepartion for planting corn. El Ciruelo, Mexico. (Matt Black)
29. The patio of a village store offers a break from the heat. El Ciruelo, Mexico. (Matt Black)
30. A boy plays with his dog outside of town. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
31. Preparing tortillas in the kitchen at home. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)
32. A woman returns home laden with her infant and household supplies. San Miguel Cuevas, Mexico. (Matt Black)