Surreal photos

Photographer John Dykstra says he believes in the power of perspective. His surreal photo style is created entirely with practical effects and simple

An independent and invaluable voice in the world of photography, The Guardian’s Sean O’Hagan offers his wide-ranging views on words, images and the increasingly overlooked key to creativity.

Tony Luciani is his mom’s primary caregiver. When she got dementia, he decided to record her memories.

Ukraine-based photographer and image manipulation artist Diana Dihaze brings into existence a world that's somewhat like our own, except darker and at times more frightening, using and combining the familiar elements of our world and turning them into implements of terror or the surreal.

The Lumen Prize is an international award that celebrates the very best fine art created digitally. The goal is to focus the world’s attention on this exciting, emerging genre of fine art. Lumen Prize 2012 winners will be announced on October 19. This gallery contains the shortlisted images, which will be part of The Lumen Prize Exhibition that starts touring the globe in January 2013.

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We absolutely love every single surreal photographer/artist that we write about, but much of their work tends to be rather melancholy or down-right dark. Not so with German art director Robert Jahns (a.k.a. Nois7 on Instagram), whose beautiful and adventurous images will inspire you and brighten your day. His images are surreal, but many of them are only subtly dream-like or unreal – it all looks like a normal photograph until you spot that one mystical detail that takes his image into the…

My name is Monica Carvalho, I’m a Swiss-born photographer & digital artist based in Berlin.

When Artists create, they make their worlds. Some create happy worlds, full of sense and discovery, some adventurous lands full of magic and fantasy, some creepy and eerie worlds full of monsters and fear. That's the power of creativity. Every artist has to learn how to use it.

Tony Luciani is his mom’s primary caregiver. When she got dementia, he decided to record her memories.