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‘Girls Move Mountains’ Is a Bold Portrait of the Women Playing Soccer in Remote Pakistan
Source Colossal In the Karakoram Range on the northeastern border of Pakistan, a group of Indigenous women and girls is defying conventions with a seemingly simple pastime: soccer. The Gilgit-Baltistan Girls Football League is a bastion of independence and autonomy amid a traditionally conservative environment. “In our culture, girls were brought up to be brides,”…
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Spectacular Winning Images from the 2025 Nature Conservancy Oceania Photo Contest
Source Design You Trust Grand Prize Winner: “Tauhi” by Miesa Grobbelaar, Australia The 2025 Nature Conservancy Oceania Photo Contest just dropped its winners, and wow—they’re stunning. Over 3,500 shots came in from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands, which is almost double last year’s entries. Every photo feels like a love…
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NASA’s Webb Telescope Captures the Dust Clouds of Apep, Named for the Egyptian God of Chaos
Source Colossal NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has come through yet again with an unprecedented image from our Solar System, this time of a unique pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep. A Wolf-Rayet is a massive, very hot star that’s in the later stages of its life, quickly losing mass with the help of…
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Tbilisi Mural Fest’s Dynamic Murals Brighten the Sides of Buildings Throughout the City
Source Colossal Established in 2019, Tbilisi Mural Fest has a deceptively simple goal: to turn Georgia’s capital city into one huge public gallery. For the artist-organizers, who also create works under the moniker TMF Studio, contemporary murals have the ability to transform unsightly, blocky developments into giant works of art. The paintings are not only…
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Jean Jullien: RETURN TO TOKUGAWA VILLAGE @ Alice Gallery, Brussels
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Jean Jullien’s pictorial works explore places and moments in life. This time, on the occasion of his return to the gallery after more than three years, the artist shares his Tokyo experience in the neighborhood known as “Tokugawa Village,” where he prepared his Chinese and Japanese exhibitions.…
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Yusuke Hanai “Perseverance” @ Pace Prints, NYC
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Delight in the Color and Symmetry of YoAz’s Kaleidoscopic Digital Illustrations
Source Colossal Animals, architecture, celestial phenomena and more merge with vibrant patterns in kaleidoscopic illustrations. Yohann Azancot, who works as YoAz, focuses on repetition, color relationships, and maximalist compositions in his digital works. Drawing on the legacy of 1960s psychedelic posters and evocative of circus imagery and M.C. Escher, the artist emphasizes color, symmetry, and…
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Simon Laveuve’s Scaled-Down Tableaux Reveal Post-Apocalyptic Lifestyles
Source Colossal There is always something a bit uncanny about Simon Laveuve’s playful miniatures. Whether a ramshackle residence is built impossibly tall or seems to be both upside-down and right-side-up at the same time, we’re drawn into a strange yet alluring world filled with a range of precisely rendered homes and hangouts. Laveuve is known…