Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
Photographer Andrew Brooks and partner Andy Brydon have teamed up to explore the forgotten or unknown scenes in some of Europe’s most storied cities. The duo finds their way into industrial ruins, underground tunnels, abandoned windmills and even active places that most citizens never see. To them, there are stories [...]
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Italian photographer Stefano Bonazzi’s series of “Smoke” images displays nude female bodies evaporating into smoke with the help of digital editing. The surrealist black and white photos create a dark and even sinister ambiance with the use of billowing smoke. Dark and light gradations between smoke and background make for [...]
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Urban spelunking, whether illegal or sanctioned, is a young trend in the world of human exploration. We’ve celebrated it in our study of Abandoned Places (10 Creepy, Beautiful Modern Ruins), and the Japanese artist Hoichi Nishiyama has his own take on urban archaeology. Nishiyama has released an iPad app that [...]
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As the trains pass by at night, the light they shine burns slowly into the lens of photographer Aaron Durand. His obsession with trains and their cultural iconography has led to many photographic studies, our favorite being the slow shutter images of trains in the night. As trains approach, Durand [...]
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Irish-born photographer Richard Mosse has a rare perspective on a part of our world that remains mired in tragedy. Mosse has traveled through the Democratic Republic of the Congo to document an on-going conflict that includes child soldiers, sexual violence and a death toll that some estimates place as high [...]
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During a quiet night in rural Japan, photographer Tsuneaki Hiramatsu discovered a field and a forest aglow in a strange green light. Upon closer inspection, Hiramatsu saw thousands of fireflies illuminating the brush and the trees beyond. Fortunately for us, Hiramatsu had his Nikon handy, and captured a series of [...]
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3D projection mapping has been one of the fastest growing art frontiers of this young decade. While projection art is new to many, its history dates back even to mid-1990s with the photographic work of Jim Sanborn. Sanborn’s series titled “Topographic Projections and Implied Geometries” imposes geometric forms on large [...]
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The exotic, illuminated creatures known as Noctiluca scintillans are about as close as we get to magic in the developed world. In an act of defense, these tiny marine organisms glow bright blue when approached, a way of alerting their neighbors that a predator approaches. We humans appreciate them for [...]
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Our appreciation for light painting is always growing– as is the photographic talent of Andy Hemingway. We first covered Andy Hemingway’s light graffiti in May of 2011, and we’re thrilled to see more work out of this light painting artist Hemingway has continued to develop his skill and his collection [...]
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