http://cfye.com Street art, graffiti, photography, music and independent film Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:33:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cfye.com/craig-feder-the-real-nyc-5528 http://cfye.com/craig-feder-the-real-nyc-5528#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:00:08 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5528 New York City based Craig Feder has a rich history in photography and always travels the NY city streets with his camera. This resulted in an almost iconic series of the people of New York City. Craig has managed to capture the kind of people that caught my eye when I was in New York, [...]]]> http://cfye.com/craig-feder-the-real-nyc-5528/feed 1 http://cfye.com/eduardo-nascimento-5501 http://cfye.com/eduardo-nascimento-5501#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:01:36 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5501 Portuguese photographer Eduardo Nascimento contacted us about his most recent and personal work called ‘Treshold’, a series of personal portraits along with a short essay about the concept. The series is all about perception, boundaries and intimacy: “Threshold is a study about the limit. Of the photographer on the other, of the observer on the [...]]]> http://cfye.com/eduardo-nascimento-5501/feed 2 http://cfye.com/muhammad-al-husayan-workers-5486 http://cfye.com/muhammad-al-husayan-workers-5486#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:25:25 +0000 Kaymir http://cfye.com/?p=5486 http://cfye.com/muhammad-al-husayan-workers-5486/feed 0 http://cfye.com/diana-lemieux-5443 http://cfye.com/diana-lemieux-5443#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:00:38 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5443 It’s not easy to distinguish yourself as a conceptual portrait photographer, as there’s tons of them out on Flickr who try and get a bit of recognition for their work. The photography of Diana Lemieux sets herself apart though! Based in Boston, she creates expressive female portraits that are both raw as emotional. ” I [...]]]> http://cfye.com/diana-lemieux-5443/feed 0 http://cfye.com/yijun-liao-experimental-relationship-5464 http://cfye.com/yijun-liao-experimental-relationship-5464#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:10:24 +0000 Ana http://cfye.com/?p=5464 “What does love look like? Anything. As long as two people match, no matter in what way, it’s love.”  (The Morning News) Why not to be a bit obvious and start the day talking about relationships? They are so simple and, paradoxically, so complicated, so unpredictable, so full of possibilities. We accept human beings as social [...]]]> http://cfye.com/yijun-liao-experimental-relationship-5464/feed 0 http://cfye.com/ella-and-pitr-the-paper-painters-5417 http://cfye.com/ella-and-pitr-the-paper-painters-5417#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:00:13 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5417 French street artists Ella & Pitr have the most romantic story! She used to be a comedian, he a graffiti writer. They met each other in the streets of St. Etienne (France) while doing paste-ups. Now isn’t that just lovely coincidence? Their street art works consistst out of paste-ups that are subtile, yet hold a [...]]]> http://cfye.com/ella-and-pitr-the-paper-painters-5417/feed 0 http://cfye.com/robin-bharaj-celebrating-the-journey-5313 http://cfye.com/robin-bharaj-celebrating-the-journey-5313#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:56:27 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5313 London based photographer / videographer Robin Bharaj is a real multi-talent. The self-taught artist with Indian roots was well on his way to become an IT specialist, but as soon as he started doing the 9-5 thing he realized it wasn’t for him. He made the brave decision to focus on a creative career instead [...]]]> http://cfye.com/robin-bharaj-celebrating-the-journey-5313/feed 1 http://cfye.com/sarah-ann-loreth-practice-5256 http://cfye.com/sarah-ann-loreth-practice-5256#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:43:37 +0000 Kaymir http://cfye.com/?p=5256 An old saying goes “The more you practice, the better you get”.  New Hampshire 24 year old born photographer Sarah Ann Loreth took that advice to advance her skills as an artist with her 365 days project. Basically for a year you take a picture (mostly self-portraits) every single damn day. The easy part is [...]]]> http://cfye.com/sarah-ann-loreth-practice-5256/feed 0 http://cfye.com/codefc-letters-from-eelam-sri-lanka-u-n-approved-5318 http://cfye.com/codefc-letters-from-eelam-sri-lanka-u-n-approved-5318#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:21:48 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5318 Our friend CodeFC is a frequent visitor of South-East Asia. We’ve seen some nice works Code made in that area, but none as striking as his most recent series in Sri Lanka. I think most of you know that there has been a civil war waging in Sri Lanka between the government and the Tamil [...]]]> http://cfye.com/codefc-letters-from-eelam-sri-lanka-u-n-approved-5318/feed 0 http://cfye.com/james-kalinda-5279 http://cfye.com/james-kalinda-5279#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:42:34 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5279 Exceptional work from Italian street artist James Kalinda! You can find his art on the walls of abandoned buildings, sometimes together with Centina, an artist we recently featured. His paintings are quite dark, something that extends in James’ sculptures which contain animal skeletons. But painting or sculpture, all of his works seem to lure at [...]]]> http://cfye.com/james-kalinda-5279/feed 0 http://cfye.com/carlos-nascimento-drafts-5237 http://cfye.com/carlos-nascimento-drafts-5237#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:36:16 +0000 Kaymir http://cfye.com/?p=5237 The 26 year old Carlos Nascimento from Portugal is professionally speaking a sound engineer working in film and advertising sound post production. However, for the last 5 years he’s been picking up the camera more often and firing away. So far it is just a collection of random shots, somehow it feels like a visual scrapbook. [...]]]> http://cfye.com/carlos-nascimento-drafts-5237/feed 0 http://cfye.com/lee-basford-kushiro-5153 http://cfye.com/lee-basford-kushiro-5153#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:00:50 +0000 Kaymir http://cfye.com/?p=5153 I stumbled across the works of England based photographer (and super multi creative) Lee Basford in our Shuttercrack group on Flickr. With his images shot on the Japanese Island of Hokkaido he tells us the beautiful story of an old school working horse farm. What might seem to be the simple life is actually hard [...]]]> http://cfye.com/lee-basford-kushiro-5153/feed 0 http://cfye.com/nick-pironio-5201 http://cfye.com/nick-pironio-5201#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:14:33 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5201 Documentary / fine art photographer Nick Pironio, based in Raleigh, North Carolina, sent us some amazing photography the other day. Although the series he saw fit for us were good (‘last night’ & ‘Laura’), we personally favoured some of his other pictures. In his impressive photography portfolio we found striking portraits from barbershop college students, [...]]]> http://cfye.com/nick-pironio-5201/feed 0 http://cfye.com/jan-cieslikiewicz-adventure-around-the-corner-5160 http://cfye.com/jan-cieslikiewicz-adventure-around-the-corner-5160#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:33:59 +0000 Kaymir http://cfye.com/?p=5160 The photographs of Poland born Jan Cieslikiewicz got me by surprise when I saw a monkey in one of his pictures. Then I discovered that this guy has one sick portfolio of travel images. Maybe travel photography isn’t the right word, I think he’s uses traveling as a mere instrument to shoot his pictures. Most [...]]]> http://cfye.com/jan-cieslikiewicz-adventure-around-the-corner-5160/feed 0 http://cfye.com/mike-heath-the-cuban-mixture-5129 http://cfye.com/mike-heath-the-cuban-mixture-5129#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:57:07 +0000 Kaymir http://cfye.com/?p=5129 For most people Cuba is just one vintage postcard with old cars, old people and old buildings. Everything is old and on the verge of breaking down. But in reality that is just the facade (or the lack of in a way). London based photographer Mike Heath captured Cuba in a way I’ve never seen [...]]]> http://cfye.com/mike-heath-the-cuban-mixture-5129/feed 6 http://cfye.com/rezine-5110 http://cfye.com/rezine-5110#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:43:14 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5110 Rezine is a ‘graffiti’ artist from Lyon, France. I say ‘graffiti’ because Rezine does a lot more than just Graffiti. You could describe his work as post-graffiti, or work that has derived from the French graffiti movement in the 90′s. Rezine isn’t afraid for any kind of medium; wall, paper, canvas, recycling art, volume, installations [...]]]> http://cfye.com/rezine-5110/feed 0 http://cfye.com/isaac-cordal-galicia-5089 http://cfye.com/isaac-cordal-galicia-5089#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:36:21 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5089 Street art sculptor Isaac Cordal continues to impress us with his Cement Eclipse series! The little cement sculptures he places in cities around the world always convey the right emotion. The latest cement eclipses update comes from the home of Isaac Cordal: the Galicia area in the North-West of Spain. In Pontevedra, Galicia there’s a [...]]]> http://cfye.com/isaac-cordal-galicia-5089/feed 0 http://cfye.com/hoje-e-dia-de-folia-gui-christ-5064 http://cfye.com/hoje-e-dia-de-folia-gui-christ-5064#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:16:42 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5064 There are great things happening in Brazil! Our good friend Gui Chirst (interview here) will have a major exhibition in Rio de Janeiro, based on stunning series ‘Hoje é dia de folia’. If this sounds familiar to you, you might be right! In 2010 we did an exhibition in Amsterdam called ‘CFYE at the Wise [...]]]> http://cfye.com/hoje-e-dia-de-folia-gui-christ-5064/feed 1 http://cfye.com/pascal-fellonneau-reykjavik-5034 http://cfye.com/pascal-fellonneau-reykjavik-5034#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:14:06 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5034 We’ve received another great photography submission, this time from Pascal Felloneau. Pascal has been shooting a surprising series about the capital of Iceland: Reykjavik.  These pictures show you a day to day life (and color coordination) that’s way more than packs of snow. About Pascal: Pascal Felloneeau is a Parisian, self-thaught photographer picked up a [...]]]> http://cfye.com/pascal-fellonneau-reykjavik-5034/feed 2 http://cfye.com/evan-roth-graffiti-taxonomy-5035 http://cfye.com/evan-roth-graffiti-taxonomy-5035#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:01:43 +0000 Arden http://cfye.com/?p=5035 Tags are important for graffiti. Ask a graffiti artist what the first thing he put up was, and it most likely be a tag with a shit Edison marker somewhere. Tags are a form of typography and the artists are highly specialised in the specific letters of their name. For most it takes years to [...]]]> http://cfye.com/evan-roth-graffiti-taxonomy-5035/feed 3