Archive for the ‘Photo’ Category
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Before I Die >>> Community Chalkboard Art Project Where People Can Share What Is Most Important To Them
New Orleans resident and artist Candy Chang did what many people wish to do before they die, to make a positive impact on people’s lives…not to mention leave behind a piece that defined our times like a monument or statue. Her ‘Before I Die’ community chalkboard art project is just that having now spread from it’s origins in New Orleans to cities around the world. On it’s walls are chalk declarations, wishes, and dreams of passersby packed with humility and ...
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Alternative Perspectives >>> Reality Bending Surrealist Photographic Landscapes by Randy Scott Slavin
I admit, it’s nice to see some trippadelic nature photography where the image isn’t simply just mirrored. Unless you are Leif Podhajsky who has mastered this technique without it ever feeling redundant. Randy Scott Slavin on the other hand has developed his own unique style of photo manipulation that seamlessly combines hundred of panoramic images into vortexes, hoops, loops, and spirals that look so real, you almost second guess your own perception of the world. I guess that is the true beauty of them isn’t it? >>>
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‘Death Camp’ >>> Experimental Art Film From SHOWstudio Creates Vision Of Humankind’s Failures
On a darker note, SHOWstudio and director Joseph Lally recently made a sullen yet beautiful, violent yet elegant, abstract yet grossly realistic short film that is almost a scrapbook of footage, new and old, of some of humankinds lesser moments. Nevertheless, mistakes to learn from and visoionary filmmaking to admire: About ‘Death Camp’ The history of our planet is one of a death camp. The planet history is one of violence, corruption and conspiracy.’ Photographer and filmmaker Joseph Lally’s film Death Camptakes ...
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Faith Around The World >>> Photography By National Geographic’s Steve McCurry
Since his famous shot of the afghan girl with the piercing blue eyes that made the 1984 National Geographic cover, Steve McCurry has never lost his ability to use his lens as a powerful tool to capture the essence of humanity that lies beneath a multitude of different cultures. One series titled Faith is a beautiful reminder of one of these common human desires for belief in the unknown. The power of faith is evident in his photographs below making ...
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Joel Sartore Builds an Ark of Endangered Animal Photographic Portraits In Hopes to Save Their Lives
ORIGINALLY POSTED ON MSNBC’S THE DAILY NIGHTLY >>> Joel Sartore is a modern-day Noah, building a portfolio instead of an ark. The National Geographic photographer has taken more than 1,800 stunning studio portraits of endangered animals, many of which cannot be found in the wild anymore. By choosing a portrait style, Sartore says all of the creatures are showcased equally, putting them on the same footing. A National Geographic photographer’s biodiversity project aims to protect 6,000 species, illustrating why all ...
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Soatanana >>> Photography Series of Isolated Culture in Madagascar by David Buchmann
David Buchmann, an up and coming Danish photographer, is the perfect example of what I love about photo journalism style photography. Before seeing his photo series Soatanana, I was plagued with ignorance assuming Madagascar was an island filled with lemurs…and of course some people. Now, with just a few photos, my personal bubble as yet again been expanded. Not only geographically, but throughout time learning that Madagascar flourished with religious communities in the 19th century. Through Buchman’s will to adventure ...
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Infra Photo Series by Richard Mosse >>> Capturing Invisible Beauty In Visible Tragedy Of The Congo
Richard Mosse‘s photography is provocative yet beautiful. In his latest series, Infra, the juxtaposition of enchanting, candy-coated backdrops amidst unnerving Congo rebels create a sense of being caught in some strange jungle war zone dreamworld. However, this is reality. Armed with “discontinued military surveillance technology, a type of color infrared film called Kodak Aerochrome…Mosse discovered a disorienting and ineffable conflict situation, so trenchantly real that it verges on the abstract, at the limits of description.”(Trendland) Surprisingly, the bright spirit of humanity ...
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The Lights Go On Forever >>> Yayoi Kusama’s Mirror and LED Infinity Rooms
Inspired by the hallucinations of Yayoi Kasuma emerge a series of LED and mirror explosions confined to a space of a room but appearing as an infinite realm. Here’s more on the measureless beauty of Kasuma’s latest works from fastcodesign.com: Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama–who has notably lived in a psychiatric institution for the last four decades–has been obsessed with dots and infinity for her entire career, an inspiration she attributes directly to her hallucinations. Despite her plays on the motif in the past, it ...
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Intangible Brides >>> Kimiko Yoshida Transforms Herself Into The Timeless Brides Of Countless Cultures
Kimiko Yoshida‘s brilliant photographic portraits capture the timeless tradition of bridal costume reinterpreted by a plethora of cultures throughout history. Through Kimiko’s own unique artistic vision, her “vivid ensemble [not only] blends countless cultures, rituals, and mythologies to summon timeless female beauty – goddess to warrior to pop culture icon,” but also reminds us, somehow ironically, of the sheer breadth of human diversity and alikeness we share. From culture to culture ceremonial bridal dress is celebrated, yet evidently changes drastically in style, ...
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The People and Sacred Geography of Tibet >>> Photography
From author, John Vincent Bellezza, comes a series of sacred photographs that accompany several books he has written on Tibet. John has spent years in the country that is still fully alive with spiritual traditions where he “conducted formal interviews with many hundreds of residents in Upper Tibet…focused on various aspects of indigenous culture including but not limited to clan mythology and history, sacred geographic traditions, spirit-mediumship, and lore concerning the flora and fauna of the region.” >>> More from the author/photography on his ...
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Time-Lapse Firefly Photographs by Tsuneaki Hiramatsu
Like glowing night pixies, these time-lapse firefly photographs by Tsuneaki Hiramatsu light up the imagination in yellow speckled moonlit landscapes. >>> CLICK TO VIEW LARGER IMAGE
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Simen Johan Artwork >>> Dreamlike Animals On The Cusp of Nightmare
Are these animals real or fake? I’m not quite sure, but apparently that is the point. According to Flavorwire: “Johan’s series Until the Kingdom Comes explores the tension between the ideal and the grotesque, the real and the unreal and revels in the gritty underside of illusion. With glitter, crystal, pearls, beads, taxidermy, bones, cocoons, dead bugs, feathers and masses of hairlike fiber, Johan creates the landscapes of your dreams just as they threaten to slip into nightmare drawing you ...