American actress and model Karrueche Tran at the 2017 BET Awards at Microsoft Square on June 25, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Maury Phillips/Getty Images)
American actress and model Ming-Na Wen attends the ceremony honoring her with a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California on May 30, 2023. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for Disney)
A baby pangolin sits with its mother inside a cage prior to their release into the wild in Sibolangit, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, April 27, 2015. The anteaters are part of dozens of live pangolins and around five tons (11,000 lbs) of pangolin meat ready to be shipped abroad confiscated in a police a raid last week. (Photo by Binsar Bakkara/AP Photo)
The strength of a weaver ant carrying fruit in Indonesia in the last decade of August 2024 is equivalent to the average man or woman picking up a minibus. (Photo by Ridho Arifuddin/Solent News)
Artist Richard Stipl was born in Czechoslovakia in 1968 and now lives and works both in Canada and the Czech Republic.
Working initially as a painter, Richard Stipl has recently turned to making sculpture. Considered an exceptional talent in technical terms, Richard stands apart from his contemporaries through his uncanny ability to breathe a vital and invigorating “life force” into his art works, regardless of media.
Stipl is included in many important public and private collections worldwide.
In this January 7, 2016, photo, conservationists of Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation hold a baby orangutan rescued along with its mother during a rescue and release operation for orangutans trapped in a swath of jungle in Sungai Mangkutub, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Last year's forest fires drove orangutans closer to the river bank, where they had to live in an over-populated swath of forest as thin as 30 meters wide along the river. (Photo by Dita Alangkara/AP Photo)
A person dressed up as Damien Lavey of Monster Prom attends the 2019 New York Comic Con in New York City, New York, U.S., October 3, 2019. (Photo by Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)
A pool ingeniously filled with clear water in the middle of Lake Kerniki in Greece enabled this shot of feeding pelicans. (Photo by Bence Mate/Close Up Photographer of the Year 2020)