There is a lot of collage on the (collage) blog Strange Form of Life.
(Collage blog.)

Ian Van Coller

From artist's statement: "The institution of domestic service, so ingrained in South African culture, is a complex arena of interaction that brings individuals together who would otherwise stand on opposite sides of an enormous gulf in ethnicity, culture, education and poverty into an intensely intimate, personal and sometimes awkward interdependence." (Additional statement here.)

Interior Relations is Ian Van Coller's portrait series of South Africa's domestic workers. The portraits are taken in the domestic setting, where cultural identity is typically left behind. The photographer asked them to wear their preferred clothing, giving them a cultural voice in the very place where identity is restricted for them daily.

Rebecca Horne's images have a voyeuristic quality that I really enjoy. Reading her statement confirmed my feelings about her use of household objects to symbolically represent intimate relationships; not remnants of an intimate encounter between humans, but the objects themselves becoming medium to emotional tensions. The images that really grab me are the ones that let the viewer bear witness to something that feels slightly inappropriate. The one with a slice of bread under a table makes me feel guilty, an ordinary event turned into a peep show of sorts.

Alex MacLean's aerial photographs portray a history of human intervention with the landscape, the interaction of natural and constructed environments. One of the first things that comes to mind when I look at his images is the extent to which we have shaped our environment, and the effects of growing industries and population. There are many images on his site that are elegant studies from this unique perspective, showing us that human activities can seem harmless and stunning from above and even symbols of our destructive industrial past can be made beautiful by a skilled artist.