+ JR, a self-described undercover photographer, has just completed another portion of his 28 Milimeter: Women series – this time in slums of Kibera, Kenya. JR and his team of locals covered more than 2000 square meters of rooftops and train cars with portraits of the women of Kibera. When the train cars pass through [...]
+ Alison Brady Incredible photographs from NYC based artist Alison Brady. Taking the ordinary and making it grotesque. Great write up on Alison at Shape+Colour HERE. Alison’s personal site HERE. + PDN’s 30 2008 A couple of favorites from PDN’s profile of 30 up and coming contemporary photographers. Dustin Snipes. More of his work HERE. David [...]
+ Abandoned HBO soundstage for The Wire HERE. The guy who takes these pictures has an interesting livejournal (with a bunch of abandoned baltimore shots) HERE.
“In March 1993 Carter made a trip to southern Sudan. The sound of soft, high-pitched whimpering near the village of Ayod attracted Carter to a young emaciated Sudanese toddler. The girl had stopped to rest while struggling to a feeding center, wherein a vulture had landed nearby. He said that he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that the vulture would [...]
1) Simon Hoegsburg – We’re All Gonna Die Simon Hoegsburg, a photographer based out of Copenhagen, Denmark, stiched together an amazing 100 meter long photograph of 178 people walking from a train station. Some of the people in the photograph look ridiculous. Be on the look out for confused dude on a bike wearing [...]
Home of the Vain is the personal website of photographer Nikola Tamindzic. Tamindzic is most well known for his NY nightlife photography and association with the gossip website Gawker.com. Tamindzic set up Home of the Vain to showcases his new work which is mostly in the form of really nice looking portraits. …I can’t seem [...]
I’m going on a break until the new year. Thanks to everyone for reading in 2008. See you in 2009. I’ll leave you with a few pictures and a download. 1) Ralphie Calender I doubt anyone will care about this, I just think it’s pretty funny. Me and my girlfriend took a ton of pictures [...]
1) The Big Picture’s 2008 Year in Review The Big Picture is the best blog on the Internet right now. They’re doing a “Year in Review” event in 3 parts. They posted the first installment today so go check it out. Here are a few of my favorites. Check out the entire series HERE. 2) [...]
1) Genesse Hotel Suicide The photograph was used in a psychological study. It seems that only 4% of students who look at the photo actually notice Mary falling to earth in the center of the shot.