Posted in Photographers, Photography on June 30, 2007 | No Comments »
© Joey Lawrence
Impressive work by Joey Lawrence a very young photographer (only 17 yr old) located in Ontario, Canada. Browse the galleries, and you will be amazed on the diversity and quality of his talent.
Art is in your perception of things. An art gallery is only ink on paper displayed in fancy frames until you [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on June 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
By chance I came across these three short videos of Alec Soth in Youtube.
While most portraits photographers claim the need to connect with the subject, to know the person you are photographing, Alec’s view is quite the opposite. He refers to it like to take an image of the space that separates the subject from [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on June 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Child trafficking in Gabon © Kalpesh Lathigra
From Native Americans to the Anglo-Afgan war to the Tsunami “after” landscapes to people portraits to child trafficking in Africa, the work of Kalpesh Lathigra is just fascinating.
Kalpesh Lathigra was born in 1971 in London. Kalpesh studied Law at University before dropping out to pursue photography. He went to [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on June 19, 2007 | No Comments »
© David Sacks
Professional photographer and contributor to Getty Images, David Sacks, not only has exquisite style for his commercial work but also shares a significant amount of his time to work for charities. In turn he uses these images as stock photography for Getty: both sides win. The series “performers” and the images at his [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on June 15, 2007 | No Comments »
From the Series Cubelife © Phillip Toledano
Beautiful photography by Phillip Toledano (a.k.a Mr.Toledano). Among all his great work I find particularly interesting the following series:
Cubelife - “I am fascinated with the idea of anonymity and what better place to find it than in a office”-Mr.Toledano
People - “I wanted each shot to be part [...]
Posted in Photography on June 11, 2007 | No Comments »
For the first time in history, a magazine publishes a series of photographs to illustrate distinct covers of the same issue. Twenty different July covers of Vanity Fair shot by Annie Leibovitz depict major world leaders and celebrities meeting one another in support of Africa, and passing the message to each other in a photographic [...]
Posted in Photography, Photography sites on June 9, 2007 | No Comments »
© TED
From TED, one of the most incredible technologies I have seen in a long time: Seadragon. It will certainly change the way we interact with digital visual information and will have large impact in the use of photography. The video talk by the author of this software, Blaise Aguera y Arcas -now at Microsoft- [...]
Posted in Books, Photographers, Photography on June 7, 2007 | No Comments »
by Alessandra Sanguinetti
To portray an animal is to name it. Once named it acquires a new life, and then, is spared death. Each sacrifice gives us back a disturbing image of the border we cross when we end a life, and what it entails to have sole dominion over another living creature. It is possible [...]
Posted in Photoblogs, Photographers, Photography on June 6, 2007 | No Comments »
© Jörg M Colberg
Always a fascinating source of inspiring photography, interesting readings and smart comments. I have not figured out how it is possible for J.M. Colberg to keep his photoblog so active and so charming while working full time as a scientist and building his own excellent body of photographic work … [...]
Posted in Photographers, Photography on June 4, 2007 | No Comments »
© Aleksandra Vajd and Hynek Alt
Beautiful work by Aleksandra Vajd (Slovenia) and Hynek Alt (Czech Republic). Both graduated from the Department of Photography at FAMU in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2001. For the past five years they have been working as a collaborative team. Their work has been featured in group and solo shows at [...]
