Tod Kapke

Need a break from your mundane day or week? Feel like crawling under your desk and hiding for a while? Maybe Tod Kapke’s work will brighten things up a bit; an illustrator and photographer based who knows where (anybody?), Tod’s work covers an immense visual range, from high-key studio shots to outdoor nitty-gritty city shots that look to be taken with a either a Holga or an older medium format camera. His sense of humor, a little on the darker side at some points, shines through as well.

Things get even wackier when you dig into his illustration section — I’m particularly fond of the oddball shriner meets teddybear moment in the fifth shot in. Perhaps the most interesting part of Tod’s website, though, is the process section. Meant to be a look behind the scenes of how some of Tod’s shots were created, his process comes across in true artistic fashion, leaving me somewhere between “what the heck is that?” and “excuse me, I’d like to borrow an ounce of genius please…”