NASA Just Released Some Absolutely Spectacular New Photos Of Jupiter
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gabriel Fiset
The stunning, enhanced-color image above, featured in a news release by NASA, is based on a photo of Jupiter’s south pole captured by the Juno spacecraft on December 11th, 2016. Juno’s citizen science camera has been snapping glorious images of the gas giant ever since it arrived in orbit around Jupiter last July. The images are then released to the public, which has been turning them into even more magnificent works of space art. Continue reading »
Photographer Andrei Mihai Captures The Little Ballerina Levitating On The Streets Of Bucharest
Andrei Mihai (previously featured) is a talented self-taught photographer currently based in Bucharest, Romania. Andrei focuses on portraiture, street, wedding and ballet photography. He started takin photos in 2012. For his latest series Mihai captured amazing photos of Anca Berteanu in different urban areas. Continue reading »
Australian Photographer Put A Giant Mirror In A Salt Flat
Since 2003, Australian photographer Murray Fredericks has made at least twenty journeys to the center of Lake Eyre, a desert lake with an extremely high concentration of salt. Fredericks drags all of his equipment out into the barren landscape, capturing the dramatic sky reflected in both the inch-deep water and his rectangular mirror. The images are breathtaking color-based works, my favorites featuring a double horizon locked within the mirror and the water below. Continue reading »
Extraordinary Black And White Portraits Of Celebrities Taken By Irving Penn
Isabella Rossellini
Best known for his fashion photography, Penn’s repertoire also includes portraits of creative greats; ethnographic photographs from around the world; Modernist still lifes of food, bones, bottles, metal, and found objects; and photographic travel essays. Continue reading »
Photographer Elsa Bleda Captures Istanbul In Neon Colors, Foggy And Cinematic Nightscapes
Elsa Bleda is a multi-talented 28-year-old artist, photographer, art director and actress who was born in France and currently lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa. As a stranger in the night, she explores the cities she calls home, shedding a light on the abandoned nightscapes she encounters. Bleda has a unique aesthetic that is both cinematic and dystopian. Continue reading »
Old School Audition Polaroids Show Famous Actors When They Weren’t Famous
The vast majority of famous actors started out as not-so-famous. Only a few were famous as kids and stayed that way into adulthood. But for the rest, they had to go through the same grind that all actors in Hollywood do: dozens and hundreds of auditions, and often just as many rejections. Continue reading »
The Lost Photos Of Barcelona Give Up Their Secrets
After a 16-year search, the pioneering photographer behind a mysterious collection of images that have been hailed as ‘Spain’s response to the work of New York’s Vivian Maier’ is being celebrated in Barcelona.
Tom Sponheim, from Seattle, visited Els Encants market during his trip to Barcelona in the summer of 2001. Whilst browsing the stalls, he stumbled across a box of brown envelopes containing a series of negatives. Due to a keen interest in old photography, Sponheim purchased the envelopes for the equivalent of $3.50. Continue reading »
“Hell On Wheels” – Amazing Photographs Of The NYC Underground In The 80s
In 1979, there were 250 serious crimes reported in the New York subway system – per week. There were six murders in the first two months alone. No other subway in the world was more crime-ridden and infamous. Continue reading »
Serbian Photographer Creates Beautiful Scenes Of ‘Slavic Mythology’ Tales That Will Blow You Away
Slavic mythology is an inexhaustible source of inspiration, this has been proven again and again by various photographers. This time you will see an amazing work of Marko Stamatović from Serbia. His images have been made with great care as he and his studio made all the costumes themselves, traveled to Kopaonik Mountain just to get that perfect shot. Continue reading »
These Guys Hide A Dildo In Every Instagram Picture
If you’re the type of adult who goes straight for the Where’s Wally book in a dentist waiting area, then this is for you. So that you can pretend to be a bit more grown up, this version of the classic searching game is with a dildo instead of Wally. A group of four mates decided to create the Instagram account Subtle Dildo, and it’s actually quite…hard? to find the flesh coloured rubber schlong. Continue reading »
Bewitching Photos Of Late-Night Tokyo That Look Like A Movie
These photos by Masashi Wakui capture the color and mood of late-night Tokyo. As the “witching hour” approaches around 11 or 12 pm, the Tokyo begins to transform. The city sorts itself between those who plan to stay in the city all night and those who must go home. The last train leaves at 12:30 pm, after which Tokyo becomes a lonely island of neon lights and cinematic moments. Continue reading »
2017 National Geographic Travel Photographer Of The Year – Nature
Enter today for a chance to be named the 2017 National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year. Each year, photographers around the world send National Geographic Travel gorgeous images that captivate and astonish. The judges are looking for photos that tell the story of a place and travel moments that inspire.
Lost in white
This photo captures the moment that I, along with 3 other Sami reindeer herders become a little lost while migrating with 350 reindeer. They were rounded up from a section of forest around 30kms south of this point. Our goal was to take them, via rivers, northwards to pastures new using the network of rivers and lakes that flow through Sweden. This was taken on Randijaur lake, Jokkmokk, Sweden. (Adam Cunningham-White/ National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Contest) Continue reading »
Rare Photographs Of The Beatles On Holiday On Tenerife Island Before They Became World Famous
In April 1963, just a few weeks before Beatlemania, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr took a holiday in Tenerife, Spain. It was the last time they would spend such carefree days without being recognised. They lazed around San Telmo Lido and got themselves a sun tan while John Lennon and manager Brian Epstein choose to holiday in fashionable Torremolinos. Continue reading »
Disney-Inspired Princesses Painfully Project Real World Problems In Photo Series
Much of your personality is shaped by your surroundings as a kid. Growing up, you could have picked up some behaviors from the people around you and perhaps even from watching many Disney films.
Alcoholism
For her class project, photography major at Antonelli Institute Shannon Dermody decided to educate adults on real world problems using familiar childhood role models. Continue reading »
Photographer Josef Ibarr Captures Close Portraits Of People After Eating Habanero Peppers
To talk about chile (chili peppers) in Mexico is to talk about identity. Not only have they been grown since pre-Columbian civilizations but there are, at least, 64 different varieties of homegrown chiles in our territory. Chiles and tortillas are vital ingredients in our gastronomy just as bread and wine is to the French tradition. Chile adds another dimension to our palate and is that spark which gives our identity that rough, explosive, intrepid character. This holds up to the old adage: you are what you eat. Continue reading »
4 Sisters Take A Picture Together Every Year – Watch How Time Has Changed Them 40 Years Later
Nicholas Nixon first took a photograph of his wife and three sisters back in 1976.
It looked like a typical family photograph, but he saw something truly special amongst the Brown sisters. He saw a beautiful project and a special bond.
Ever since that first photograph, Nixon has made it a yearly tradition to take a photo of the Brown sisters. The project would be a very intimate look at sisterhood and how time affected our lives and relationships. Although time may change our appearance and our bodies, it never changes the love shared amongst sisters. Continue reading »
Photographer Karen Jerzyk Turns Abandoned Spaces Into Surreal Fairy Tales
Photographing abandoned spaces has exploded in popularity in recent years. For photographer Karen Jerzyk, however, finding those spaces is only the first step. She transforms each one into what she describes as a “dark fairy tale” scene. Continue reading »
Japanese Photographer Spends His Life Shooting Women’s Thighs
Introducing Yuria, a mysterious Japanese photographer who makes a living by taking photos of women’s thighs (“futomomo” in Japanese) – over 30,000 photos to be precise. Yuria is a self-proclamed “Futomomo Artist“. Continue reading »
Big Brother Makes His 5-Year-Old Sister’s Dreams Come True With Disney-Themed Photoshoot
In a moment that would make any parent cry, a 13-year-old approached his mum with the idea of dressing as Prince Charming and surprising his little sister with a princess themed photo shoot. And since their mom Christina Angel is a photographer, she was more than happy to acommodate the cute request, posting a message about how it all went down. Continue reading »
Before & After: Photographer Captures Musicians & The Toll Of Performing
Devin, The Color Morale. Photo by Brandon Andersen
Have you ever looked at your favorite musicians while they are performing your favorite hits and thought to yourself, they look a lot different on stage doing their thing then they do off stage, in interviews and such. Continue reading »
Artist Replaces Billboards With Photos Of The Landscapes They’re Blocking
In a cinematic experience animated by driving along Gene Autry Trail, viewers will encounter a series of billboards featuring photographs of the very mountains towards which they are heading. Each photograph is unique to its position along this route and at a certain point as one approaches each billboard, perfect alignment with the horizon will occur thus reconnecting the space that the rectangle of the billboard has interrupted. Continue reading »
Stunning Street Photos Capture Simple Joys Of Life In New York Right After WWII
Born in 1905 and raised in Detroit, American street photographer Todd Webb led an adventurous life. After losing his money in the Stock Market Crash of 1929, he spent time fruitlessly prospecting for gold until returning to his hometown and picking up a camera in 1938. It was there he found his calling. After working as a Navy photographer during WWII, Webb moved to New York City and, in 1946, started documenting post-war New York. Continue reading »
8-Year-Old “Siberian Snow White” Surprises Modeling Agencies With Unique Beauty, Gets Flooded With Offers
Meet Nariyana – an 8-year-old albino girl that is stunning modeling agencies from all over. Nicknamed the Siberian ‘Snow White’ because of her stunning pale hair and fair complexion, Nariyana lives in Yakutia, Siberia. Out of her whole family, she is the only one with blonde hair and the first albino from both sides of the family. Continue reading »
Texas Husband Poses Semi-Naked In A Lumber Yard For A Very Provocative Shoot – Before Presenting The Images To His Lucky Wife
Mud splattered, semi-naked and posing suggestively with power tools – these are not ordinary scenes from a lumber yard. Jonathan LeFleur, from Dallas, Texas, the subject of the picture series, was taking part in a ‘dudeoir’ shoot photographed by his brother-in-law Josh Melton. Josh proposed the shoot after Jonathan came to him for advice about getting his wife Alexandria an anniversary present. Continue reading »
Breathtaking Aerial Photography Of South Africa From Above By Zack Seckler
Zack Seckler is a 37-year-old fine art photographer who was born in Boston and currently lives and works in the suburbs of New York City. For his latest series “Aerial South Africa”, Zack took to the skies 2,000 miles above South Africa for seven days in a two-seater sport plane. Continue reading »
