Source Colossal   Known for his stunning photos of wildlife and landscapes, as well as co-founding SeaLegacy alongside fellow conservationist and photographer Cristina Mittermeier, Paul Nicklen has traveled the globe to not only highlight our planet’s phenomenal biodiversity but also to shed light on its increasing vulnerabilities due to the ongoing climate crisis. Nicklen’s most ambitious…

Source Colossal   Organized by Capture the Atlas, the 2026 Milky Way Photographer of the Year saw a record number of submissions, with more than 6,500 entries representing a wide range of landscapes and perspectives around the world. Just 25 were selected as the top images, representing 12 different regions from the Canary Islands to New…

Source Design You Trust  Anna Poltorykhina is a Russian 2D artist and illustrator whose practice combines digital and traditional image-making, with a strong focus on landscape studies and painterly atmosphere. Her public portfolio materials describe her simply as an artist working across both media, and recent visible works point to plein-air-inspired scene building and compact…

Source Design You Trust  Think Very Little is a premier print and publication studio established in 2016. Curated by Valeria Teteriuk, it showcases poetic photography, moody visuals, and contemplative narratives from global artists (Kensaku Kakimoto, Kasia Traveltheworld). Themes explore self-reflection (“eyes on the horizon, back to the mirror”), presence (“guest who is already here”), and…

Source Design You Trust  Jean-Jacques Balzac is the pseudonym of a Parisian architect known for “Wrong Architecture Illustrations”—AI-generated surreal structures that collapse infrastructure into organic forms. Balzac’s generative art features eroded walls, root-like cables, living buildings, and vacation homes (“Maison des vacances,” “Entrance”). His distorted modernism reimagines bridges, dams, and towers as symbiotic entities. More:…

Source Design You Trust  Sofia Karnukaeva is a Barcelona-based architect and ceramic artist who graduated from Moscow Institute of Architecture (MARKHI) and studied contemporary art at Joseph Backstein ICA Moscow. Karnukaeva’s tactile vessel-sculptures explore transformation—how external conditions birth new forms. Her organic, zoomorphic ceramics evoke nests, beehives, caves, and bodily shapes, translating abstract intuition into…

Source Colossal   “The world hums with beauty and danger, harmony and discord,” says Jake Messing. “We walk through these shifting currents every day. For as long as I can remember, I have turned toward the natural world—studying its patterns, its relationships, its quiet lessons.” In highly detailed, hyperrealistic paintings, the Northern California-based artist explores nature…

Source Colossal   For the better part of two decades, Irina Werning has traveled throughout Latin America searching for a specific trait: incredibly long hair. In her photography series Las Pelilargas—meaning “the long-haired ones” in Spanish—she chronicles a time-honored Indigenous tradition through a visual celebration of patience, joy, and cultural pride. In a statement, Werning shares…