Featured Artist: Leila + Olive
Nicole Rallis is an artist and gardener from New York City, “a place where every bit of green stands in stark, beautiful relief to concrete backgrounds.” Her love of illustration and plants forms the...
Stitch Magic
PHOTOGRAPHY BY GRACE NUTH
I encountered intentional sewing as a concept when my Gothic-literature-loving mother gave me Barbara Michaels’s Georgetown trilogy, which explores the possibility of human emotion and, indeed, magic actively embedded into objects—a...
The Sinking World of Andreas Franke
Article taken from Issue #27 || Summer 2014
Print || Digital
Austria native Andreas Franke is not only an avid diver and long-time professional photographer, but a magician who conjures his own worlds. After photographing the Austrian shipwreck Baron...
Asako Iwasawa’s Nocturnal Imaginings
Japanese artist Asako Iwasawa’s work depicts nighttime gardens and plants that seem more fairy tale-generated than stemming from earth and soil. “What do plants dream of ?” is the title of one of her pieces,...
In A Lover’s Eye
For the Outlander television series, costume designer Terry Dresbach created an ensemble for Geillis Duncan that included a brooch containing Bonnie Prince Charlie’s eye as a secret sign of her political allegiance to the Jacobite...
Into The Forest
We asked a few of our favorite forest photographers to tell us about some of their most enchanted woodland images.
Garett Mensching
I discovered this tree while walking on a misty, rainy, but deeply inspiring afternoon...
Witchcraft Unveiled: Capturing Magic Through Collodion Wet-Plate Photography
For nearly a decade, photographer Ken Miner has used collodion wet-plate photography to capture witch Brianna Shambrook and document the evolution of her craft.
This historical process involves exposing an image onto treated glass or...
Rebellion, Nature, and, Above All, Beauty
Feature Image:
Beauty and the Beast, by John Dickson Batten © Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
With a passion for nature and real rather than idealized notions of beauty, Britain’s Pre-Raphaelites were the rebels of the...
The Magical Stag Portraits of Max Ellis
Photographer Max Ellis may live in London, but he keeps one foot firmly in the Otherworld through his surreal and majestic photographs of stags, rutting and standing in the misty countryside, the glowing dawn...
Power and Isolation of Circe: The Artistic Journey of John William Waterhouse
Feature Image:
Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses (1891), by John William Waterhouse
Image Courtesy Wikimedia CommonsOnce upon a time there was a talented young painter who fell in love with a beautiful sorceress. This love...