Half-ruined Abkhazia: 20 truthful and poignant photos

Truthful and kind drawings about the USSR of a Japanese soldier who spent 3 years in Soviet captivity

At first glance, Kiuchi Nobuo's drawings look simple and unpretentious - just watercolor pictures, more like comics. However, leafing through them, you gradually realize that in front of you is a real chronicle of a small era. The drawings cover the period from 1945 to 1948. Japanese prisoners of war lived sometimes hard, and sometimes even merrily; there are still more positive stories in the sketches. Surprising in them, perhaps, is the complete absence of resentment towards the victorious country and the overwhelming optimism that

Half-beast, half-pencils and not only: advertising of stationery from the German company Faber Castell

Legendary inventor Steve Jobs was convinced, "Creativity is just making connections between things." Looking at the new stationery advertisement of the famous German company Faber Castell, you understand that the funny posters are based on absolutely paradoxical associations. How the idea to transform colored pencils so strongly was born is unknown, but the fact that the result turned out to be memorable is indisputable

Half-humans - half-trees and half-birds: photo collages by Alexandra Bellissimo

Los Angeles-based photographer Alexandra Bellissimo goes beyond black and white photography. Her photo collages tell about strange creatures - half-people, half-trees and remind that we are all connected with nature: just someone has a wind in their head, and someone has a forest. However, it's not just about nature. We can say that the characters of Alexandra Bellissimo think differently. Half-human, half-human strife. Someone's judgments grow from one root, branching out and shit

People's artist Vasya Lozhkin: comic and truthful pictures about a merciless society and the problems of our time

The works of the talented Russian artist Vasya Lozhkin (real name Aleksey Kudelin) reflect the whole essence and essence of modern mankind, ridiculing not only his way of life, but also his behavior. And the plots invented by the author are full of an abundance of social, everyday, psychological and political problems so inherent in our reality

15 humorous and truthful postcards about women and relationships

Oh, those women! Sometimes they themselves cannot understand themselves, let alone the fact that for men their whims and moods are beyond comprehension. Perhaps a selection of our postcards will help someone understand each other better