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Humble fields become abstracted artworks in thread paintings by Victoria Rose Richards.

The Japanese visual artist Atsushi Adachi creates miniature replicas of objects from the past using old newspaper clippings and articles sourced from the same period.

These illustrations by Benjamin Sack are unreal to behold.

Munich-based photographer Bernhard Lang recently shared aerial views of famous squares and landmarks throughout London, England. By presenting the metropolis from the sky, Lang offers a more dynamic look at the capital city's unique geometric patterns and iconic architecture.

Using a drone, JP and Mike Andrews have continued to capture natural and manmade scenes across the world, stumbling upon unique patterns that can only be discerned from above.

Using data compiled from scientific reports, photographer Dillon Marsh calculated and scaled the volumetric ice models for specific mountains that are losing their critically important glaciers.

Photographer Christopher Payne spent several years building a relationship with the owners of one of the last remaining pencil factories in the United States. Between fall 2015 and summer 2017 Payne was granted access to the production floor for photo-documentation more than thirty times.

Peru's Pastoruri Glacier is a rare remaining tropical glacier, sited at 17,000 feet above sea level in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range.

Marcus Wendt, creative director at the London-based studio Field, recently traveled to the island of Lanzarote to shoot a series of macro images of the region's native plants. His project,

  The Yiwu International Trade Market in China is the world's largest wholesale market, stretching nearly five miles and containing over 75,000 individual vendors. Chinese-American film director Jessica Kingdon peeks into the daily lives of the market's workers in her observational documentary Commodity City, exploring the subtle interactions that occur amongst hoards of dolls, flowers, neon signs, […]

This past February architectural photographer Andres Gallardo Albajar traveled to the Great Wall of China where he was able to take in a rare sight — one of the seven wonders of the world without a single soul to be seen.

In keeping with Dalí's efforts to create artwork based on his emotions, memories, and dreams, the artist chose to organize the wines in the book by how they influenced his mood.

The Dufala Brothers have a knack for the surreal, creating modern objects that have been elongated and stretched into abstract versions of shoes, household appliances, and tools.

"You can look but you can't touch." That's one of the first rules of museums, which house priceless works of art. But what about the community of blind and visually impaired who use their sense of touch to experience the world?

Stepwells, like gates to the underworld, are massive subterranean temples designed as a primary way to access the water table in regions where the climate vacillates between swelteringly dry during most months and torrential monsoons in the spring. Now they're forgotten, ignored and crumbling quickly.

Kayaking Canoeing Kayaking Kayaking Kayaking Canoeing Kayaking Kayaking Swimming Ontario-based photographer Stephen Orlando is fascinated with human movement and uses programmable LED light sticks attached to kayak paddles, people, racquets, and other objects to translate that movement into photographic light paintings. The act of recording motion on the surface of water surrounded by reflections creates […]

John Bisbee has spent nearly 30 years using nails as his sole medium to create geometric sculptures, organic installations, and unwieldy objects from thousands of nails that are hammered, bent, welded, or fastened together in a seemingly limitless procession of forms.

Parchment was extremely delicate and costly to manufacture well, so imperfections from animal hair follicles to small tears and texture anomalies were left for the poor scribes to contend with.