The beautiful and surreal photography of city lights at night by Satoki Nagata

Satoki Nagata is a photographer born and raised in Japan, but now living in Chicago. With a PhD in Neuroscience, the photography became his passion since he moved to USA. Taking his pictures always in black and white, he began his photography career taking pictures of people in Chicago's streets.

Among his recent projects, there are some series of photos taken at night, in cold weather, in the streets of big cities like Chicago and Paris. Nagata's photos are created with several layers, making the people portrayed there to look like translucid shadows or silhouettes, a beautiful effect created putting the flash pointing to the camera and placing the subject between these, using a slow shutter speed.

The result, that Satoki Nagata shows in his series Lights in Paris and Ligths in Chicago, are intimate photos that makes the people to look like apparitions or entities among the nocturnal cold city lights, something that makes me feel nostalgic and a little bit melancholic, looking a beautiful moment captured and frozen in time.

Appreciate the beautiful and surreal photography of city lights at night by Satoki Nagata:

Ligths in Chicago

















Ligths in Paris

Images from Satoki Nagata's website. Indicated by O que vem à rede.

Fantasy and surrealism in the illustrations by Cyril Rolando

Cyril Rolando is a self-taught french artist who makes beautiful and intriguing illustrations that mix elements of fantasy and surrealism. Cyril Roland doesn't consider himself an artist, but just a Photoshop user.

More interested in telling something than technical aspects, Rolando's illustrations generally have as characters, lost children in quest for the truth or animals, symbols of innocence and naivety in a world of fantasy where animals can talk, dreams become reality and imagination rules the world. Also, his illusttrations generally show music related objects, like an aquarium-piano, a harp made between horns or a gorilla knitting music while sitted on a piano.

With surreal illustrations that reveal us short and intriguing stories, the art of Cyril Rolando generally show us layers of comprehension, maybe a natural quality of the artist, who works as a psychologist and have the art as a hobby.

Appreciate the fantasy and surrealism in the illustrations by Cyril Rolando:

After the rain



Follow our rules



Don't trash your dreams



La fable de la girafe



Save our souls



Le pianoquarium



Missed deadlines



The last sound from Earth



A kiss from paradise



Blowing bubbles



The hope



Calypso



Defy the sky



Feral strings



Heavy-hearted



Protect me from what I want



Rage



Requiem for Hope



Silent prayers



Tell me why the sky is red

Images from Cyril Rolando at DeviantArt. Indicated by The Design Inspiration - Follow our rules.

The surreal, dark and grim illustrations by Ed Mironiuk as GH-05-T

GH-05-T is a persona created by the artist Ed Mironiuk to create illustrations free from the inhibition of his own ego. The result are ghostly images (GH-05-T - ghost), with dark and surreal themes.

GH-05-T's art are like psychedelic nightmares, with images that create in the viewer both repulsion and fascination, some kind of hypnotic fascination that prevents us the stop looking. His illustrations are mostly perverted portraits of well known characters (such as Darth Maul, the dark rabbit from Donnie Darko ou Leyak, an entity from Bali folklore) or just bizarre images, that as a perverted Rorschach test, you can interpret as you want.

Appreciate the surreal, dark and grim illustrations by Ed Mironiuk as GH-05-T:

Images from GH-05-T's website. Indicated by Supersonic Eletronic.