Photographers work on the red carpet after the screening of the film “Mad Max: Fury Road” out of competition at the 68th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, May 14, 2015. (Photo by Regis Duvignau/Reuters)

Members of the O’Neill and Gallagher families from Sydney, Australia take to the water at the 40 Foot for a Christmas Day Swim in Ireland on December 25, 2022. (Photo by Alan Betson/The Irish Times)

Swimmers take part in the annual Christmas Day swim in Porthcawl, Wales, England on December 25, 2019. (Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images)

A demonstrator wearing a mask is seen during a protest against the government's restrictions amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Berlin, Germany, August 1, 2020. (Photo by Christian Mang/Reuters)

An art installation is on display at Gentle Monster's Multi-brand Space – Haus Nowhere Shanghai on March 20, 2024 in Shanghai, China. (Photo by Wang Gang/VCG via Getty Images)

The Hot air balloon is flying at the Warsteiner International Hot Air Balloon Show in the Arnsberger Forest National Park on September 2, 2011 near Warstein, Germany. Approximately 200 hot air balloons are scheduled to take part in the nine-day event sponsored by the Warsteiner brewery. (Photo by Mathis Wienand/Getty Images)

Maine-based Robert Dowling Jr. creates wonderfully whimsical stories with a slightly surreal touch. The self-taught artist, who works primarily in acrylics and oils, often paints characters with their faces covered or turned away. Love art like this that both children and adults can enjoy in their own unique way.

Photographer Jonathan Icher has developed a very literal and very bizarre expression of national pride, one that involves body paint, fine cuisine and modelesque facial expressions. May we present "Fat Flag," an inexplicable series that pairs a photographic subject with his/her respective painted flag and national fare.