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“The photographs in this picture gallery may look like they been Photoshopped or assembled with dead insects, but the ants in these images are very much alive. Russian photographer Andrey Pavlov spends hours setting up fairytale scenes. He studied ants, and saw that they all follow a very specific path when they’re working. So he put his props on their trail, and photographed the insects interacting with his miniature ‘stage sets’.”

“Ant Tales” Photo Series by Andrey Pavlov

Hong Sungchul’s current body of work is “A visual representation of what ties humans together from the earliest stage of life—the umbilical chord. These strings (…) are staggered in his works and interlace to reveal a final representation—one of support or loneliness.”

Images Printed on Elastics by Hong Sung Chul

Deconstructing Ways by Isidro Blasco (it will be at Mullins Street and Market Row until January 31, 2012.). Photos via [JAM Project]

Art & About Sydney is the city’s annual public arts festival that’s basically like one big, open-air art gallery. Projects by Australian and international artists are creatively re-imagining the streets, turning the city into a giant canvas.

This year’s artists include Rebar (San Francisco), Brook Andrew (Sydney-Melbourne), Barry McGee (San Francisco), Magda Sayeg (Austin), curated by Amanda Sharrad and Justine Topfer, with individual projects by Isidro Blasco (New York), Heidi Axelson, Hugo Moline and Adriano Pupilli (Sydney) and Sarah Langdon and Emma Pike (Sydney).