I’m not sure how to explain my new love Agata Wierzbicka’s art. Maybe it has something to do with her use of sketchy lines and pastel colours, giving her work that unfinished quality that somehow makes me want to see more. Since discovering her work only a couple of weeks ago, I have already saved a catalogue on Pinterest – it was love at first sight, I tell you.

Agata is a Warsaw based freelance interdisciplinary designer. Combing design and art, she mainly draws digitally but loves using acrylic, oil and pencil, and mixing techniques. 

Is there any better time to let you in on my love for J. Quazi King‘s photography than now that he’s on everyone’s lips thanks to the Puma X Saint Heron photographs for the Word to Women campaign? Probably, but that’s beside the point. It started with that photo (above) and I went on an obsessive quest to find all the photos he had ever taken. I find his photography emotive – he brings out a side to his models that I do not see many photographers pull off. There’s a haunting connection between photographer and subject that is caught – an essence of  their personalities that is palpable in each photograph.

I discovered William Ukoh, WillyVerse (pictured above), on Instagram. He’s a wonderful Nigerian visual artist and photographer. I was immediately drawn to the pop of colours and clean lines.

Be it Architecture..

When you find out the photographer we’re presenting to you to today is named Amaal Said, you’d appreciate my pun-ny title more.

(There’s Amaal – a majority of her photography subjects are her friends.)

Amaal Said is 19. She’s gorgeous. She’s talented. This Danish-born Somali young woman is both a poet and photographer, which proves that theory that creative manifestations come in multiples (is that a real theory?)

I first discovered Amaal’s work via this interview with Dynamic Africa.