hintaro Kago (駕籠 真太郎; Kago Shintarō), born 1969 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese guro manga artist. He debuted in 1988 on the magazine COMIC BOX Shintaro Kago's style has been called "fashionable paranoia". He has been published in several adult manga magazines, gaining him considerable p

Absurd, Anime & manga, Avant comic art, Erotic, Graphic novels, Grotesque, Hallucinatory, Perverse, Severe, Violent, Visceral

When Jacob A. Riis, a police reporter in New York, began his personal campaign to expose the misery of the underprivileged living in the crime-infested slums of the lower East side, he soon found that the printed word was not sufficiently convincing, and so he turned to photography by flashlight.

19th century photography, Dark, Depressive, Documentary photography, Egalitarian, Grotesque, In-your-face, Monochromatic, Political, Social realism, Social revolution, Urban

Christian Cacibauda is a poet and writer based in Seattle. A native of northern Nevada, he has traveled extensively in Europe and North America. He studied Spanish and art history at the University of the Basque Country (San Sebastán, Spain) and English at the University of Nevada, Reno--earning a B

Atmospheric, Dark, Distorted, Dystopic, Grotesque, Hallucinatory, Lyrical, Sensual

Bright, Grotesque, Surface, Surreal