Lucas Simoes was born in 1980 in Brazil. An independent artist, he studied architecture and design in Brazil and Italy. Many of Lucas’ pieces are heavily layered as he cuts away at different …

One year ago, a New Mexico-based photographer Wes Naman was wrapping Christmas gifts with his assistant and started goofing around with the scotch tape. The artist immediately had an idea that after a year developed into the "Scotch Tape" portrait series, where volunteers put the tape around their faces to create terrifying and just absolutely hilarious expressions. Noses and lips get bent, and Wes also likes to stretch people's eyebrows to make the eyes pop out - the final results are so bizarre that hardly any retouching is needed!

‘Proxy’: a collection of abstract portraits, unfettered by proximity, meditating on distance & distortion. By Seb JJ Peters. Almost an extension of his catalogu

Malmö, Sweden-based artist Miles Johnston portrays subjects whose figures are in states of flux, whether through fragmented bodies, multiplied faces, or limbs contorted into impossible positions. Often depicting Johnston (previously) or his partner, the graphite portraits distort typical anatomy in a way that balances the familiar with the unknown and visualizes the thoughts and emotions otherwise hidden inside the mind. Whether set against a trippy backdrop or quiet beach, each piece portrays the experience of the body “through a kind of internal metaphorical language,” the artist says. More

Black and white photography has a way of letting the viewer really experience the image. Composition, light/shadow, texture and tonal qualities all become more obvious and important when color is absent.

Kim Asendorf explores the diversion between structure and chaos in this series of geometric self-generated mistakes.

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Kensuke Koike adds nothing and takes away nothing from the portraits he alters—just rearranges the parts.

The elusive imagery in Andy Denzler’s paintings (featured previously) is not so much the product of what is there, but what is not there. The Swiss artist has developed a signature technique that i...

Albuquerque-based commercial photographer Wes Naman has discovered how to draw out the best of the worst in his contortionist portrait series Scotch Tape. Inspired by a silly moment while wrapping presents, Naman recruited family and friends to be transformed by his mutant use of office supplies. Simultaneously horrifying and hilarious, each smashed nose and stretched lip provides zombie-esque plastic surgery that one cannot look away from. Never taking more than 10 minutes to apply his effect, Naman uses photography to stretch and squeeze everyday people into fantastically freaky creatures.

"Grid distortion". Series of 3 laser cut prints in plywood, 594 x 420 mm.

“A photo from the past carries more emotions than a contemporary one” the Berlin-based artist tells us. From collage to art installation, he handles it all

New collage art by Matthieu Bourel.

Famed for its surrealist sleeve design, Hipgnosis also took rock portraiture into altered states. In our recent May issue, Adrian Shaughnessy reviews a recently…