Enigmatic Found And Staged Photos Create Haunting Depiction Of Female Identity (10 PICS)

Two dead trouts shoved into frozen cups. A bound acrobat suspended in darkness. A disco ball disrupting a woman's face. These are some of the bizarre and loaded images found in photographer Birthe Piontek's beguiling series, "Lying Still."

Piontek's project began as a visual diary, capturing the intimate details of her daily life during a particularly rough period. Over the course of five years though, the personal project expanded its scope, becoming an unlikely investigation of the self through found photography too.

Haunting beauty of abandoned mansions (17 PICS)

Dutch photographer Niki Feijen has criss-crossed the world looking for crumbling beauty lurking beneath a thick layer of dust inside long-forgotten buildings.

Feijen, who made headlines last year with his first self-published book of photographs titled Disciple of Decay, is now preparing to unveil to the world his latest project titled Frozen.

The new book, which is due to be released on September 17 at the Berliner Liste art fair in Berlin, features 184 pages of stunning interiors of abandoned mansions, mental institutions and churches from around the world.

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Wonderful Photographs By Izidor Gasperlin (12 PICS)

Izidor Gasperlin is a psychotherapist, a manager and an amateur photographer with short term experiences but a lot of enthusiasm.

He started with photography 2006, more seriously from 2008. In september 2010 he started sending his photos on international exhibitions.