“The Lonely Astronaut”: Melancholy Photography Series by Karen Jerzyk
According to a photographer Karen Jerzyk: “As a part of her “The Lonely Astronaut” photographic series (started in 2017), I used the empty New York City streets as a futuristic dystopian backdrop to accompany a single lone astronaut during the covid pandemic. Using my friend’s 12-year-old daughter, Kiera, in the astronaut suit, I visited otherwise extremely populated areas like Times Square, The Brooklyn Bridge, and Chinatown.” Continue reading »
Amazing Vintage Photographs of Linemen on Utility Poles at the Turn of 20th Century
Most people don’t think much about the wooden utility poles in their neighborhood. However, they rely on them each day—utility poles support overhead power lines, cable services, streetlights, and other public services in the area. As it happens, these important structures were created by mistake. Continue reading »
Istanbul Photo Awards 2021 Winners
The winners of this year’s Istanbul Photo Awards, organised by Anadolu Agency, have been announced.
Photo of the Year 2021 & Single News First Prize. Mohammed Shajahan’s photograph titled Mom Love, selected from among nearly 15,000 photographs submitted from different parts of the world, won the Photo of the Year 2021 award. (Photo by Mohammed Shajahan/Istanbul Photo Awards 2021) Continue reading »
“One Day with Salvador Dalí”: A Surreal Photo Shoot of Salvador Dalì in His Seaside Villa, 1955
Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
In 1955, photographer Charles Hewitt visited Salvador Dalí and his wife (and muse) Gala at their home to shoot photos for a British editorial magazine called Picture Post. The famous artist posed up showing his surreal personality and didn’t miss this opportunity to shock his audience. Hewitt ended up titling the photoshoot simply as “One day with Salvador Dalí”. Continue reading »
Beautiful ’60s Fashion Photography by Henry Clarke
Model in pink dress, 1960
Born in Los Angeles in 1918, Henry Clarke, a renowned fashion photographer, discovered his calling in 1945 whilst working as an accessorist at Condé Nast in New York. During an encounter with the Cecil Beaton during a photography session at Vogue’s studio, Clarke was entranced by the photographic image. He promptly abandoned his fashion job, borrowed a Rolleiflex camera and began taking pictures. Continue reading »
Abandoned As A Baby Due To Albinism, Xueli Grew Up To Become A Vogue Model
1 in 20,000 people worldwide is born with a genetic condition called albinism, and you’d think people should be aware of it by now, given how easily accessible information is nowadays. Continue reading »
“Light And Its Form of Absence”: Architecture Photography by Andres Gallardo Albajar
Andrés Gallardo Albajar is a self-taught photographer from Spain, living in Estonia at the moment. He got his first camera in 2012, and photography has been his passion ever since. Continue reading »
The Velvet Kingdom: Diverse Regions of Southern Europe in Cinematic and Melancholy Photoworks by Henri Prestes
Photography series created in diverse regions of Southern Europe, crossing through its misty fields, snow mountains and small villages, exploring narratives of solitude and melancholy. Henri Prestes is a Portuguese fine art photographer based in Southern Europe. Continue reading »
Georgian Photographer Makes “Autoportrait” Series To Convey Her Feelings Towards Art
According to Tika Jabanashvili: “Photography has become an integral part of my life for the fourth year in a row. Art has always been my guide to life. At first, I danced, then I played in the theater, but under certain circumstances, I completely lost my art. Continue reading »
Winners Of The Emerging Talent Award By The Independent Photographer
Here are the top 10 photographs of the Emerging Talent Award photo contest by The Independent Photographer.
The Emerging Talent Award is designed to bring exposure and discover the best upcoming photographers of all ages, backgrounds and working in all photographic fields. Fine art, landscape, street, documentary, portrait, still life: There were no boundaries and we wanted you to release your creativity in as many inventive ways as you could imagine!
1st Prize: Junko Akita
“The child in a cabin window with the reflection of the magnificent Norwegian landscape beyond is a gorgeous metaphor for both childhood and identity. Beyond the extraordinary light and composition, the gaze and expression captured here at once combine innocence and strength. Locking eyes with this girl through her sister, the photographer, is a powerful experience and a privilege.” – MaryAnne Golon, the Competition Judge. Continue reading »
Artist Used Neural Network To Create These Portraits
Claudia Fuggetti’s research sees the creation of images as the endpoint of a visual investigation balanced between the real and the unreal, intending to propose new reading keys to interpreting the contemporary. Continue reading »
21-Year-Old Michelle Pfeiffer Photographed by Jim Britt, 1979
In 1979, lots of people were standing in front of garish purple-pink backgrounds, but few ever did it as well as Michelle Pfeiffer did. Continue reading »
Photographer Shows The Ephemeral Beauty And Dignity Of Faded And Withered Fruits
Tangerine
According to Jürgen Novotny: “Which feelings do we encounter when we face beauty? Is there really a connection between the perception of beauty and the notion of time? Based on high-resolution scans I made of dried fruits my photo series “Decent Decay” very well shows that those fruits reveal a beauty all their own.” Continue reading »
Photographer Spent Two Weeks In Iceland To Shoot The Recent Fagradalsfjall Eruption
According to a photographer Erez Marom: “I just came back from shooting the recently-erupted Fagradalsfjall volcano. In just two weeks I witnessed the volcano evolve from 1 fissure to a whopping 8, at its climax I had eruptions all around me, which was a fantastic experience. I’ve visited about 7 volcanoes around the world during my decade-long career as a pro-nature photographer, and this might have been the most beautiful eruption I’ve seen. Continue reading »
Photographer Captures a Dark Carnival Themed Photoshoot to Create Couture Clowns in Abandoned Creepy Nature
According to a photographer Tara Mapes: “Step right up! Welcome to the Dark Carnival! I love creating themes for my photoshoots. I’ve shot old 80’s movie themes to over-the-top candy rainbow dolls. When I am planning a shoot, location is so important. For this one, I wanted to find an old abandoned area with a forgotten look. I knew I wanted to shoot in the river with a throne and to find an old tunnel or bridge.” Continue reading »
Photographer Shows The Behind-The-Scenes Of Pitch-Perfect Instagram Photos, Again!
There’s more to photography than meets the eye. Every professional photographer knows that it’s almost never as simple as just snapping an odd shot and then editing it in post-production. A scene and setting must be well-thought out, then there are intricacies like lighting, composition, angles, pose, and other things that make the picture pop. Continue reading »
Graveyard of The Bikes: Aerial Photos of China’s Failed Share-Cycle Scheme Show Mountains of Damaged Bikes
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Handlebars tight in snaking rows of colour, thousands of abandoned bicycles line an open field outside the city of Shenyang, relics of a shared bike mania that has overwhelmed China’s cities. The turquoise, blue and yellow bicycles, arranged in long lines, some piled on top of each other, bear the logos of the companies that dominate China’s bike-sharing sector – Hellobike, Didi and Meituan. Continue reading »
Photo Series Shows Pandemic Emotions, Starts Mental Health Talks
Following a deeply personal loss, Donna Bridgewater, a photographer and lecturer based in Birmingham, United Kingdom, started a local photography project that captures strangers on the street revealing their personal thoughts and feelings on living in a pandemic world. Continue reading »
Incredible Colorized Photos Show What Life of the U.S. Looked Like in the 1930s and ’40s
Street kids at play, Georgetown, Washington D.C., Summer 1935
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, the “Black Tuesday”, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Continue reading »
Amazing Rare Photographs of the Montparnasse Train Wreck in 1895
Roger Viollet/Getty Images
This extraordinary accident occurred on October 22, 1895 at Montparnasse, then known as Gare de l’Ouest. The drive of the express train from Granville to Paris, hoping to make up time for its 131 passengers, increased the train’s speed and the air brake failed. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Images of the 7th Fine Art Photography Awards
Nominee, Conceptual, Amateur. ‘Extinction – No One Left to Follow’ by Justin Peters
The winners of the 7th Fine Art Photography Awards present a surreal assortment of shots from sci-fi styled snaps of subways to spectacularly sublime landscapes. We’ve handpicked our highlights from this year’s massive collection of celebrated images. Continue reading »
“Future Cities”: Distorted Cityscapes by Ruben Frosali
Born in a small town near Florence Italy, but based in Tokyo since 2006, RubenFro (Ruben Frosali) is a visual effect artist and director, specialized in volumetric captures and particle-based dynamic environments. Continue reading »
“The Neon God We Made”: Filipino Photographer Explores Cyber Manila in Neon Noir
According to Lucius Felimus, Manila’s cyberpunk photographer: “My name is Jaime Javier, but I also go by my artist moniker Lucius Felimus.
Being an architect by trade has trained my eye for buildings and urban environments. I started photographing architecture and cityscapes as part of my course requirements back in college. However, it was only in the summer of 2019 that I really took photography seriously. Continue reading »
Jack London’s Extraordinary Photos of London’s East End in 1902
Men sleeping in Green Park.
In 1902 the American author Jack London visited his namesake city – at the time when it was still the largest in the world. In a book that became to be known as The People of the Abyss he described the time when he lived in the Whitechapel district sleeping in workhouses, so-called doss-houses and even on the streets. Continue reading »
Vikki Dougan: Seductive Sex-Bomb Whose Daring Backless Dresses Inspired the 1950s Women’s Fashion
Actress and model Vikki Dougan earned her nickname “The Back” thanks to the dangerously low-back, curve-hugging dresses she wore in the 1950s and 1960s. Dougan’s alluring back has even inspired a song written by folk music legends The Limelighters whose lyrics passionately request that she “turn her back” on them. Continue reading »
