KINDRED

These amazing photos were taken by Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov, who adapted his camera in order to achieve remarkably close-up focus on individual snowflakes after they’ve fall on the ground. He illuminates his shots with a flashlight and the background texture is dark wool fabric.

Alexy’s images reveal the unique geometric shapes of each snowflake with such astonishing clarity that it’s easy to forget just how tiny they really are. Visit Alexey Kljatov’s Flickr stream to view many more of his remarkable snowflake photos.

May Muses

Art Obssession

By piercing holes in found photographs Amy Friend, who has exhibited her work widely in Ontario, Canada, allows light to pass through the images, bringing the photographs and the people in them to life. “Through small deliberate interventions, I altered these vintage images,” Friend explains. “Allowing light to pass through them. (After all, photographs are made possible with light.)”

Vivienne Westwood