Photography: We finally celebrate the brilliant mind of Kevin van Aelst

Date
23 October 2013

Occasionally on our daily It’s Nice That safari of creativity, we come across a big beast who we assume has long since graced these pages only to find that for some inexplicable reason they’ve slipped through the net. So it gives me great pleasure to present the work of Kevin van Aelst. For four years his weird and wonderful photographs illustrated the The Medium section of The New York Times and his work has also appeared in titles like Time, Wired, and Scientific American.

Some of this work you may have seen before, but there’s still a time and a place to celebrate a creative talent who combines limitless imagination with excellent execution. So whether it’s USB sticks poked through a pullover to create a cemetery or the world’s time zones represented via broken biscuits, now is that tine and here is that place. If you know the work remind yourself of its brilliance, if you don’t prepare to be delighted…

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Kevin van Aelst: World Time Zones

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Kevin van Aelst: Driving At Night

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Kevin van Aelst: Apple Globe

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Kevin van Aelst: Splash

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Kevin van Aelst: One Heart Beat

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Kevin van Aelst: Blue Tape

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Kevin van Aelst: Tesseract

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Kevin van Aelst: Right Ring Finger

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Kevin van Aelst: Left Middle Finger

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Kevin van Aelst: Left Pinky Finger

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Kevin van Aelst: Right Index Finger

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Kevin van Aelst: Right Middle Finger

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Kevin van Aelst: Right Thumb

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Kevin van Aelst: Left Ring Finger

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Rob Alderson

Rob joined It’s Nice That as Online Editor in July 2011 before becoming Editor-in-Chief and working across all editorial projects including itsnicethat.com, Printed Pages, Here and Nicer Tuesdays. Rob left It’s Nice That in June 2015.

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