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For Yen Magazine, photographer Rebekah Campbell teamed up with artist Ben Giles to create a beautiful set of collages that overlaid Ben's color-bursting flowers over Rebekah's stellar photography. This isn't the first time Rebekah has collaborated on a project with an artist but she calls it her favorite so far. Redheaded model Lauren Isabeau was the muse in the photos which featured her in a variety of sweet and seductive poses. While in one photo, the model's outstretched arms are covered with a waterfall of daises, in another, a flock of birds come to rest serenely on her arm. The collaboration couldn't be any more perfect for Yen's Creative Issue.

You could say that the two might not have ever found each other if it weren't for social networks. Rebekah and Ben discovered each others work through Flickr and then started having...

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Ukrainian artist and art director Alexey Kondakov creates surreal digital collages that fuse history with modern life. He superimposes subjects from classic paintings by artists like Hayez, Caravaggio, and Bourguereau, placing them in subway stations and bars located in his hometown of Kiev. The project is titled 2 Reality.

Kondakov frees the nymphs, royals, and goddesses from the confines of their original compositions and inserts them into a much different world. Thanks to his fantastic photo manipulation skills, they blend into the cityscape, and it seems like you might see them whenever you take the train.

This amusingly ironic mashup shows that not quite everything has changed between the times in these paintings and contemporary culture. It's how Kondakov had the idea for the series in the first place. He visited a museum and saw a painting of...

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California-based collage artist Eugenia Loli fuses vintage photographs to create fantastically surreal compositions. Her colorful scenes often depict people in strange lands that conjure vivid dreams, where outer space is just outside our window and entire cityscapes are at the bottom of a cave. In essence, they seem to communicate a feeling of wanderlust as subjects experience new places.

Loli wasn't always an artist. She originated in the technology sector, but left it behind in order to make these new, visually-exciting worlds. Her collages start with a "base" image, and it's used as a way to develop an entire piece. "Most of the time," she writes, "I try to 'say' something important via my art, but other times it's just about doodling." Loli sees her work as a still frame of a surreal movie and invites viewers to make up the plot.

Phone cases, shower curtains, tote bags, and...

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Artist Helen Ahpornsiri's intricate collages are made from a variety of pressed ferns foraged from the English countryside. Inspired by her surroundings, the Sussex resident gathers ferns, dries them out and arranges them in beautiful configurations. With her delicate touch, hundreds of leaves turn into the magnificent wings of a moth or the spindly legs of a beetle.

Ahpornsiri uses natural materials to create pictures of other shapes from the natural world, including images of a bird, sea horse and butterfly. Part of the intrigue of her work is the sheer variety. She skillfully chooses ferns across a spectrum of colors, textures and patterns, arranging them in surprising configurations to achieve stunning results. The artist actively shares photos of her most recently completed creations on ...

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Germany-based graphic artist Matthias Jung dreams up wildly imaginative buildings that defy architectural logic and the laws of physics. Using photo materials that he's collected, Jung rearranges different components into fantastical collages of surreal houses that could only exist in an alternate dimension.

Contrasting architectural styles are combined with natural elements in unexpectedly harmonious ways. Buildings are stacked on top of each other in jumbles; trees sprout from the roof of a house; needle-thin poles support the weight of a modern-looking creation. These creative collages, which the artist calls "architectural short poems," invite viewers to visualize new perspectives on how we live....

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Using a vivid imagination and a sharp eye for gathering plants, Bridget Beth Collins turns relics of nature into beautifully lush collages that form delightfully whimsical scenes. The Pacific Northwest artist forages materials for her pictures from the area surrounding her Seattle home and arranges the pieces into intricate shapes that create a distinctive sense of depth. With her touch, flower petals can transform into regally feathered birds, berries can become sea creatures, and leaves can turn into human faces.

Collins' love of nature was fostered at a young age, when she traipsed through magnificent mountain meadows during backpacking trips and let her imagination run free in her backyard every afternoon. She pretended she was a fairy and gathered plants to press in books at home. Now, as an adult, Collins continues to be inspired by nature. She says...

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Sao Paolo, Brazil-born artist Vik Muniz is debuting a new series of shredded collage work on January 16, and you're getting a sneak peek! The artist obsessively collects vintage photographs and postcards and then shreds and collages these pieces to create bold new imagery magnified to a staggering scale. They're for his recent Album and Postcards from Nowhere series for Ben Brown Fine Arts in Hong Kong, his second solo exhibition there. You'll remember Muniz as the artist who takes unusual materials like dust, sugar, chocolate, diamonds, caviar, and toys and assembles them together until he makes familiar images. Who could forget his junkyard masterpieces?

Muniz is known to be a compulsive collector, he's amassed a treasure trove of anonymous...

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German artist Matthieu Bourel works in collage to create characters and scenes that we've never seen before. In his series titled Duplicity Serie, he fractures vintage photographs and arranges them in multiple ways over a single composition; pieces of the image are extracted and expanded, and someone's face might appear several times in different iterations.

The visually compelling works have elements of surrealism in them. While they're realistic portraits of people, Bourel has transformed his subjects so that their faces look like masks or puzzle pieces. Each slice of a nose or an eye fits within another similar shape, but they don't create a clear and coherent portrait. Instead, they are disjointed with a slightly eerie feel.

Bourel writes that he's interested in the "power of images and their combinations," and he certainly...

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Tokyo-based art director Sato Masahiro, more commonly known as Q-TA (@qta3) combines materials from vintage encyclopedias and magazines to create seamless, boldly creative collages. Using both digital and analog methods, the collage artist thoughtfully merges the unlikeliest elements, resulting in beautifully bizarre, surreal works that somehow fit together perfectly.

"Although each of my work does not have a particular message in it, some keywords are fragmentally placed in each of it," Q-TA said in an interview with Revolution 360. When asked about the focus on children in many of his collages, he explained, "I hope my audience feels some kind of nostalgia as well as surprise and elation as they feel when they read...

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The artistic collaboration known as Miss Bugs - made up of a Wales-born girl and a Bristol-born guy (Miss and Bugs) - has recently completed a new artwork using their trademark style. Titled Chained To The Mirror, this large portrait measures at least 5 feet tall and over 3 feet wide. It's comprised of surgical razor blades that float in resin on top of aluminum. Beneath the hundreds of tiny objects is the portrait of a woman whose gaze is fixed on something that's in front of her.

Most of this striking image is cast in monochromatic gray tones, but Miss Bugs has also peppered some color throughout the composition. Bright pinks, blues, and yellows accent one of the most impressive characteristics of Chained to the Mirror - the gorgeous patterning of blades that are meticulously layered and arranged on the aluminum. They flow in waves...

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Natural Act is a collection of creative photo collages in which Turkey-based photographer Merve Özaslan merged multiple images into intriguing narratives. Using vintage black and white photographs, the artist blended color elements into the scenes to create unexpected visual stories. Viewers are invited to investigate how the surprising alterations change the meaning of the work.

Özaslan seamlessly worked fragments of nature into the shapes of bodies, buildings, and window frames. For example, we see a chef peering out the door of his restaurant with gigantic daisies unexpectedly hovering behind him, and in another image, two beauties in bathing suits sit on a diving board perched high above the treetops. As a result of this intervention, the old-fashioned events are boldly interrupted by the modern, color components which creates a strong...

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A French creative who goes by the name Mister Blick fuses vintage black and white photographs with colorful illustrations of flowers. The monochromatic pictures depict men at war, and we see them among the trenches and fighter jets. But, instead of guns in their hands, Blick has seamlessly replaced them with luscious blooms. It gives the illusion that the soldiers are fighting with these larger-than-life petals and stems rather than bullets.

The juxtaposition between the two different source materials creates striking combinations, and the flowers beautifully accent the wartime photos. This also allows Blick to combine fantasy and reality; once the realistic elements are blended together, they form surreal images that could be out of a dream....

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Using fabric as her paint palette, Kenyan-based artist Sophie Standing produces gorgeous portraits of animals on her sewing machine. The one-of-a-kind pieces are constructed by first sketching the image onto a canvas and then appliqueing an intricate collage of fabric on top. Standing then stitches linear details over her work using a variety of colored threads. This creates a painterly look to the piece that's a combination of meticulous technique and gestural, emotive marks.

Here, we see that Standing has used an extensive collection of fabrics to cover the hide of a large rhino. Some are bold floral patterns while others are geometric, and they seamlessly blend together and flow throughout the animal's body. Dark-colored thread defines its wrinkles and shadows to give definition to the form.

You can see some of the process of Standing's work below. While she specializes in...

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Portrayals of famous people have always been a staple of film and TV. In this fascinating series called Famous People in Fiction, Reddit user VictorVan assembles collages that show how famous historical and fictional figures have been portrayed on the big screen. In each image, the top half shows a photograph or artistic rendering of the famous person, while pictures and names of the different actors can be seen underneath.

Each character has physical characteristics that are instantly recognizable. Marilyn Monroe, for example, is an unmistakable blonde beauty in all depictions of her, while Albert Einstein is usually portrayed as an aging man with his iconic mustache and wild hair.

Looking at these collages and the many depictions of the same famous person, it's clear that both filmmakers and viewers are drawn to works with these familiar faces. Our...

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For Yen Magazine, photographer Rebekah Campbell teamed up with artist Ben Giles to create a beautiful set of collages that overlaid Ben's color-bursting flowers over Rebekah's stellar photography. This isn't the first time Rebekah has collaborated on a project with an artist but she calls it her favorite so far.