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Marc Blackie is an absolutely incredible Fetish/BDSM photography from London. His photography is abnormally incredible and his use of black & white contrast is stellar. He describes his work as “being a product of various parts of my mind; my love of the erotic, the female form & sexual fantasy and quite obviously the more sinister underbelly of these things.”

“Marc Blackie’s photographs depict a surreal, heightened eroticism in a manner that manages to be both playful and solemnly ritualistic. In elegantly-shot black and white photos – technically clear and unfussy – women with faces as impassive as kabuki masks (and sometimes, indeed, wearing actual masks) are depicted enacting little scenarios of power and contrast: light against dark; soft against spiky; innocent against corrupted; natural against artificial.

Nobuyoshi Araki is clearly a reference point in Blackie’s work and he shares the Japanese photographer’s interest in bondage themes, but also his dead-pan sense of humour. A more subtle influence, however, comes from the American Francesca Woodman. Woodman – who died by her own hand in 1981 - practised in her photography a kind of moody, backwoods surrealism, in which narrative has been siphoned away, leaving only a layer of queasy, erotic atmosphere and unanswered questions.

It is this same sense of the unknown – the feeling that something as banal as an ice cream cone can be utterly mysterious – mingled with a dark erotic impulse, that forms the heart of Marc Blackie’s work.” - Jim Anderson

Shannon Hourigan is a Los Angeles based Bachelor of Visual Arts graduate from the Queensland College of Art in Australia. She does some very interesting model shoots as well as some themed still life sets. Evidence is a fun set which makes use of some random autopsy/surgical tools, as well as a rather large bullet and some fake blood. You cant really go wrong with that.

At any rate her eye is great and her depth is awesome and her atitude is quite dark. She has some twisted ideas, and I love her for that.

I can across some John Santerineross art today randomly and I was pretty impressed. It’s some of the best dark art photography I’ve seen in a while that didn’t depend on heavy editing. He’s been called “The worlds leading neo-symbolist photographer of our time”, and for obviouse reasons. According to his bio, his inspiration comes mostly from his exposure to Catholocism and Santeria when he was younger.

I suggest checking out his portfolio. It’s very Giger-ish, only more of this world, and with less biomech influences.

… nevermind. It’s nothing like Giger at all.