10 Digital Artists: Photography Meets Digital Art
The line between traditional photography and digital art is blurring in the ever-evolving realm of visual expression — these talented photographers use digital technologies to take their craft to a new dimension, going beyond capturing the moment and creating new stories.
The advent of digital tools has revolutionized the way artists capture, manipulate, and convey their visions, transcending the boundaries of traditional mediums. The flexibility and immediacy digital photography provides opens up a realm of creative possibilities, and we’re all for it.
From experimental techniques that push the boundaries of perception to evocative compositions that resonate with emotion, these photographers showcase the limitless possibilities that digital technology offers.
Whether you are an artist looking for inspiration, a curator working on an exhibition, or a digital arts fan looking to discover digital artists, this list is for you.
We gathered a list of 10 talented photographers who invite us to explore new worlds and untold stories through their lens, creating stunning works where photography meets digital art.
Scroll to learn more about them! Here’s the featured artists:Pelle WaldronGisel FlorezPaulo VilarinhoRenée CampbellYuYuSean MundyBrian GoldfarbSuji ParkReuben WuAlessia MocciaLet's be friends on Instagram!
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Pelle Waldron is a New York-based photographer who works with analog as well as digital photography to capture the charm in everyday moments. While his personal photography is often of anonymous people on the streets, he works with a wide range of clientele from local brands and musicians to corporations like Pandora Jewelry.
The photographer began with primarily shooting portraits of people on the street in Brooklyn with a 35mm film camera before experimenting in the digital realm, and currently practices between the two. He is compelled by the science of photography and the way light is used and the way it can be manipulated to tell alternative stories of what’s being captured.
From layering images to manipulating light and colors to find new meanings and create different worlds, Pelle Waldron utilizes digital tools in post production to enhance and alter his photos.
At the base of his art lies a great appreciation of human connection and a fascination towards simple moments becoming magical when shared — and his art brilliantly reflects to the viewer his love of humanity.
“I feel lucky to have had my coming of age as a photographer in a time where there are extraordinary advancements in digital photography – it affords an enormous amount of creativity with what you can do when digital art intersects photography.”
“Exploring paths of light & wave through lens in a post-digitized era.”
Gisel Florez is a New York-based artist and leader of artistic initiatives. She creates conceptual art by incorporating analog camera work with video techniques. The artist explores our interconnected nature within the space of existence through the visual study of waves.
Her work is recognizable for distorted, flowing, glistening representations of our world which tell stories of challenges, desires, and love.
Gisel Florez also explores new paths towards autonomy for creatives in web3 as a co-founder of WOCA collective (Women of Crypto Art), New York Ice Cream Gallery (NYICG), and art advisor to TheVerseVerse, the digital poetry gallery that utilizes blockchain technology to amplify the value of poems as works of art.
She is a RISD Alumni photographic affinity leader and has been working on special projects with New York Times Style Magazine, Uber, Disney, HelloFresh, among others. Her art has been featured in gallery exhibitions and blockchain events such as Winkleman Gallery, Cryptovoxels, and NFT.NYC.
Follow Gisel Florez’s work to appreciate the beauty found within light and time!
Paulo Vilarinho is a visual artist from Portugal, best known for his manipulated photography work. His art is deeply inspired by pop art, street art, surrealism, and abstract expressionism movements, showing a singular mixture between order, beauty, and chaos.
The artist has been represented in multiple art collections worldwide, and has been awarded Aveiro’s National Painting Award by Forum Aveiro Papelave and Sacramento Art Gallery. His work has been exhibited in SWISSARTEXPO, the Contemporary Art Fair in Zurich as part of the collective project by the Swiss Art Gallery, ARTBOX.
We love his ongoing series of work entitled Recycled, in which the artist revisits old masterpieces from the Renaissance until Neoclassicism eras to extract personages or sceneries. He uses Digital Photographic Manipulation to modify and mix them to create new possibilities in an unexploited context and invites the viewer to become his accomplice.
“To this purpose I also introduced what I consider “the magical enigma” of Surrealism and mixed it with a small dose of Pop Art’s contemporary irreverence. All this mixture between different art periods and technics intents to work catalysing the observer to travel within his own visual memories (from Art History) searching for the originals and then recycling them with a whole new interpretation.”
Renée Campbell is a photographer, mixed media sculptor, and Ai artist based in Sydney, Australia. She is best known for her botanical fine art macro photography, in which she finds hidden worlds between flower petals.
The artist has been drawn to macro photography since high school, and enjoyed capturing details by getting up close – she appreciates the individuality of each flower while inviting the viewer to beautiful floral worlds.
She has exhibited her work at various solo and group exhibitions in Sydney and New York, including an exhibition of emerging artists at Sotheby’s and the Australian Consulate General in New York City.
We’re big fans of Renée Campbell’s explorations using machine-learning – she feeds the AI her macro floral photography to create magical landscapes that convey a variety of textures, tones, and emotions.
“Flowers make me happy! My work is a meditative search for beauty in the macro world of flowers. I focus in on each blossom or leaf until I find the points of distinction, where a balance between form, colour, light and detail bring a sense of calm.”
Reuben Wu is a National Geographic photographer and artist who uses technology and the concept of time and space to help tell compelling stories about the world we inhabit.
His work is featured in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and MoMA. He is also a leading artist in the web3 space, creating highly sought-after NFTs of his photography.
After pondering how he can creatively capture our world, Reuben Wu came up with his signature style in which he attaches a light to a drone and traces geometric shapes above remote landscapes. Thereby showing familiar places under an unfamiliar light, the artist depicts our world unbound by time and space.
Fascinated by the idea of what a drone could be, “not just a flying camera but also a flying paintbrush,” the artist is also intrigued by how these images only appears in long exposures, as if they exist on a plane of existence which is invisible to us, and only captured over the course of a few seconds with a camera.
His art is heavily influenced by ideas of planetary exploration, chiaroscuro painting, and science fiction – and it’s brilliant.
“We’re bombarded everyday with beautiful photos of our world. I needed to go beyond that, and pose the question: How can I change my own perception of our planet, and make it seem new and unexplored? Many describe my work as ‘otherworldly’ but my aim ISN’T to produce alien-looking images, it’s actually to remind people that this is our own planet, and it’s all we have.”
YuLiang Liu 劉·昱良, better known as YuYu or cyberYuYu in the art world, is a multidisciplinary visual artist from Taiwan. The artist is currently based in Berlin, exploring alternative cultural and historical moments through the use of contemporary technology and photography.
Since the NFT boom in 2021, YuYu's work has gained international recognition and got exhibited worldwide including in New York, Tokyo, Paris, Madrid, and Amsterdam. His work has been featured in an auction by Sotheby’s as part of curation from NFT Asia.
We love his collage art for which YuYu examines and decontextualizes masterpieces of Western Cultural history to emphasize race inclusion, gender representation, and nude art. The artist includes himself in these classic works to highlight the ostracization of queer people from social and cultural narratives.
Inspired by the very nature of blockchain technology and decentralization and creating in the rapidly evolving Web3 space, YuYu is an incredible artist to follow for thought-provoking and unconventional artwork that challenges conventional definitions of art.
“Blockchain provides creators with tools we never had before. Queer art throughout history has been a victim of erasures, today we have the ability not only to directly monetize our work but simultaneously secure its ability to endure through time.”
Sean Mundy is a photographer and digital artist from Montréal, Canada. He creates conceptual imagery through photography and digital manipulation that wanders in the line between light and dark.
The artist experiments with the medium of conceptual photography to create a sense of beauty inspired by pain and darkness. He often involves fire in his art and explores self-doubt and questions of identity through an allegory of burning. His works depict tension and uncertainty while keeping minimal aesthetics.
He has exhibited work in solo exhibitions at the Mortal Machine Gallery in New Orleans and IMPLY Official in Hong Kong, and at group shows including in the NFT Art Gallery, 0x Society, in Montreal. He is also a producer and songwriter, and often includes his original scores in his video and animation works of digital composite and photographic images.
Sean Mundy’s work pulls from the surreal and the symbolic while remaining rooted in reality, and we’re huge fans!
Brian Goldfarb is a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is best known for his slightly surrealist photos of the world reimagined — often playful, sometimes dark, always surprising.
His work has been featured in several art fairs and exhibitions, including the Governors Island Art Fair, “We’re Still Here…” outdoor portraiture exhibition, The Other Art Fair, “Why Not Art?” pop up gallery, The Independent Photographers “Super Talents” NFT gallery, and ArtExpo.
The photographer has been recognized by the ND Awards, AAP Magazine, International Photography Awards, One Eyeland, and London International Creative Competition, and has been a semi-finalist in The Travel Photographer of the Year competition.
In addition to his surreal photography, Brian Goldfarb also specializes in shooting portraits and headshots, capturing engaging and authentic portraits for his clients.
The photographer often utilizes digital manipulation to layer his images to create surreal worlds in which he tells stories of fear and anxiety or childlike curiosity and joy – follow his work for surreal glimpses of a maverick’s world!
Suji Park, also known as mooncrystalight, is a Korean photographer based in Dax, France. She sometimes turns a film photo into a kaleidoscope, makes them sparkle, glisten, and amaze.
The artist’s focus is abstract, dreamlike landscapes, and portraits.
Her practice involves creating animations of her analog photography – they often adopt dark aesthetics and moody vibes, enhanced with enchanting sound score. Her creative expression is unique, mysterious, and gentle.
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Award-winning photographer, art curator, and futurist Alessia Moccia takes traditional street photography into a surreal new genre with her collection inspired by dynamism and alienation through NFTs. She was born in Italy and is currently lives and works between Miami and New York.
Playing with ordinary reality and making it surreal, her work that turns the ordinary into the extraordinary has been featured in art shows in Miami, New York, and Dubai among others.
As a growing number of photographers contributing to the dynamic genre of street photography, Alessia Moccia enters the territory with a dreamlike and distinctly imaginary eye, offering a surreal addition to the tradition of street photography.
She is the creatorof the DAMN collection: “A Surreal Tribute to NYC's Hidden Extravagance.” Taking streets of the concrete jungle as setting, the artist prompts us to question our identities and ponder the existence of true transparency: “Are we all merely human, or do hidden personas shape our souls?”
Inspired by web3, the artist creates a futuristic vision of the city through overlayed galaxies, moons, and planets on the city's sidewalks.
“My photos are heavily altered; it is an intentional manipulation of the image, a precise color choice, and all the elements are chosen on purpose. I use photography to support women, inclusivity, and equality.”
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