China has a population of over 1 BILLION people (*said with Dr. Evil pinky*). Internationally-published freelance photographer and travel writer Tom Carter has traveled extensively throughout the 33 provinces of China documenting the 56 wide-ranging ethnic groups that compose the vast nation, collected in his book CHINA: Portrait of a People. This book is the most comprehensive collection of imagery of [...]
There’s nothing like the smell of a book from the library (as Carrie Bradshaw says), or admiring a good magazine from cover to cover, reading every article (even when you have to skip to the back for the continuation), and soaking in every ad or pictorial. With the world being heavily technology-driven, we’ve almost forgotten what printed matter on ACTUAL [...]
The moment as a 9-year-old boy when John Gettings discovered his father’s stash of Playboy magazines in a locked chest in their attic, is the moment that shaped him as a photographer and was also the inspiration for his Polaroid series. From that moment in the 60′s, not only did his love for women (obviously) form, but his [...]
X-rays. They’re so hot right now. First, sexy skeletons, now sexy flowers? Ok, maybe not, but yet another post about using x-ray machines creatively. Hugh Turvey has been fascinated since childhood with getting underneath the surface of things, and you can’t get any more ‘under the surface’ than an x-ray. Turvey first experimented with x-ray [...]
Whatever your opinion is on birds (personally, they freak me out), you have to appreciate the work in Andrew Zuckerman‘s “Bird” series. They’re beautiful, colorful pieces of our feathered friends/foe. But what’s most shocking and interesting about these pieces is that they are 100% real photographs, not paintings or digital creations. The colors are so vivid, the textures [...]
This is 2010 and most photographers use the 2010 technique of digital images and photoshopping to produce their end result. But Atlanta-based photographer Tierney Gearon is a bit more old school when it comes to technique. In her ”Double Explosure” series, Gearon does not use any digital technique, although you can could definitely achieve this effect with digital enhancement [...]
Such a simple idea with a pretty neat end result. Commercial photographer Joshua Scott has taken the title for First Place winner for “Food & Still Life Photography” at the 2010 APA/NY Awards, with his Pop Faces series. The creation process is interesting. For the series, Scott finds images of pop culture icons, crumples up the picture, and [...]
The iPhone and Summer pretty much go hand-in-hand – to call your girls to go to the pool or your boys to meet for a movie. And JD Hancock has brought the two together in a series of photos that creates the ultimate summer scenes with miniature figures, using the ultimate gadget, the iPhone. Hancock transforms [...]
Looking out of a window at an incredible view is an amazing thing. Sometimes you catch a glimpse of your reflection in the glass, creating a whole new view. Travel, portrait and advertising photographer Jasper James has taken the idea of this optical illusion and has made a conscious effort to create beautiful portraits to add to his photographic [...]
This ain’t your parent’s hipstermatic… The good folks over at Mashable put together 10 really amazing pictures taken from folk’s iPhones. take a peek. Via
