Amazing Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Spanish Harlem in the Mid-1980s
Spanish Harlem, New York’s oldest barrio, is the U.S. mecca where Puerto Ricans first established themselves in the 1940s. One of America’s most vital centers of Latino culture, Spanish Harlem is home to 125,000 people, half of whom are Latino. Continue reading »
DEKOCHARI: The Youth of Japan Customise Their Pushbikes in Extreme Ways
According to Matthew McQuillan: “This subculture is a precursor to the popular Dekotari (customised trucks). Before they can afford to buy a truck to decorate and of course get driving licenses. Young people form crews of locally like minded people. Status is dictated by who has the most extravagant and complex design. Continue reading »
A Russian Photographer Gazes at Our Excessive Consumption
Daria Piskareva’s day job requires her to wake up early. It’s also given her the opportunity to see St Petersburg while it is half-asleep, delicate, and full of unlikely treasures. She splits her time between St Petersburg and Pikkolovo, a small village in the Leningrad oblast. “St Petersburg and I are a total match,” she says. “It’s enigmatic, frivolous, and fluid.” Continue reading »
Fascinating Winning Photos Of the 2021 Siena International Photo Awards
Photo of the Year: Hardship of Life by Mehmet Aslan
Photo above: This little boy’s father Munzir lost his right leg when a bomb was dropped as he walked through a bazaar in Idlib, Syria. His son Mustafa was born without lower or upper limbs due to tetra-amelia, a congenital disorder caused by the medications his mother Zeynep had to take after being sickened by nerve gas released during the war in Syria. Mustafa will need special electronic prostheses in the future which, unfortunately, are not yet available in Turkey.
Siena International Photo Awards announced 2021 Photo Awards in 12 categories. The photo “Hardship of Life” by Turkish photographer Mehmet Aslan is the overall winner of the Siena International Photo Awards (SIPA) 2021. Continue reading »
The Goblins Will Get You If You Don’t Watch Out – 1920s Nightmare Fuel
The monsters under your bed and in the wardrobe are coming to get you in this series of images from the 1920s. ‘The Goblins Will Get You If You Don’t Watch Out’ is a photo story in which a little girl being abducted from her bed by hellish creatures. It becomes even more vivid when you view them their original stereoscopic format. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Photos of 2021 Epson International Pano Awards
Open Photographer Of The Year by Joshua Hermann, USA
Here are the Best Panoramic Photos of 2021 by Epson International Pano Awards. The Pano awards are the largest photo contest for Panoramic Photography. The overall winner for this year is Joshua Hermann from the USA for his Misty Cypress Tree Panorama. Continue reading »
Beautiful Photos of Brigitte Bardot During the Filming of “Les Femmes,” 1969
Les Femmes is a 1969 sex comedy film co-written and directed by Jean Aurel, starring Brigitte Bardot and Maurice Ronet. It recorded admissions of 505,292 in France. Continue reading »
Portraits of Swiss “Halbstarken” Girls With Very Big Hair in the 1950s and 1960s
Halbstarke is a German term describing a postwar-period subculture of adolescents – mostly male and of working class parents – that appeared in public in an aggressive and provocative way during the 1950s in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Later, the term sometimes described youths in general. Continue reading »
This Brilliant Dad Shoots Classic Pictures Of His Daughter Inspired From Old Oil-Paintings
Bill Gekas is a renowned photographer from Australia who is known for his classic recreation of portraits very much resembling some old oil paintings. Just like any other father Bill started shooting his daughter but his talent and extremely creative senses sparked the idea to recreate these classic old paintings and the result to no one’s surprise became a huge sensation. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Images of The WildArt Photographer of the Year 2021
Gold Award Winner: Jan Piecha, Germany
Here are the winners and highly commended photographs from WildArt POTY BACKYARD Competition 2021.
BACKYARD is the 8th of the ten WildArt categories and accepted entries during August; it is the concept of the category judge and wildlife photographer Rebecca Nason from the United Kingdom. Rebecca is a birder and wildlife photographer who now lives on the Shetland Isles where she runs Shetland Seabird Tours with her partner. Continue reading »
25 Winners & Finalists Of LensCulture 2021 Street Photography Awards
1st Place Series: Reflections Inside the Seoul Metro by Argus Paul Estabrook
Here are the winners and finalists of the LensCulture 2021 Street Photography Awards.
On the heels of a global pandemic, with cities around the world reopening little by little, we wondered what the 2021 Street Photography Awards would show us. Would images be celebratory, with photographers reveling in the closeness of passersby after more than a year of solitude? Or would they remain eerily quiet and uncertain? Continue reading »
Amazing Photos Capture Street Scenes of New York City in the 1990s
At the dawn of the 1990s, New York City was in an unremittingly bleak state. Following two decades of continuous decay, 1990 brought yet another all-time record high in violent crime and to this day, 1990 and the three years that followed remain the most homicide-plagued stretch in the city’s last five decades. The 1990s had quickly positioned itself to become the city’s worst decade yet. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Photos of The Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021
Overall winner – Creation by Laurent Ballesta
The Natural History Museum has announced the 2021 winners of its 57th annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The awards started out as a magazine competition in 1965 and have continued to run annually since. The photographic competition and its touring exhibition aim to inspire a love of the natural world and to create advocates for the planet. Continue reading »
Haunting Photographic Self-Portraits by Francesca Woodman From the 1970s
Francesca Woodman (April 3, 1958 – January 19, 1981) is best known for photographing herself. But her pictures are not self-portraits in the traditional sense. She is often nude or semi-nude and usually seen half hidden or obscured – sometimes by furniture, sometimes by slow exposures that blur her figure into a ghostly presence. These beautiful and yet unsettling images seem fleeting but also suggest a sense of timelessness. Continue reading »
“Nude” Photos of Pastel-Colored Urban Tokyo by Rumi Ando
Tokyo-based photographer and retoucher Rumi Ando creates unsettling urban landscape photography of Tokyo. Seemingly nostalgic yet out-of-place, Ando has retouched each of her photographs, painstakingly removing all evidence of human life except for the buildings they’ve built. All windows, A/C units, antennas, ducts—”noise” as Ando calls them—have vanished, leaving only the skin of a city: a nude Tokyo. Continue reading »
Dramatic Art Photography By Sukron Mamun Which Will Leave You Speechless
Some eternal bliss in the name of photography or photo art however you may call it. Meet Sukron from Indonesia who does wonders with his incredible style of photography. Continue reading »
John Thomson’s Remarkable Photographs of China from the 1870s
Portrait of Young Manchu Woman in her Wedding Dress.
John Thomson (1837-1921) created work that was ground-breaking and pioneering. Far more pioneering than an innovative coiffure or a teen’s product placement on YouTube. Continue reading »
Fabulous Portrait Photos of Celebrities Taken by Patrick Lichfield
Jacqueline Bisset, circa 1960s
Born 1939 in Oxford, Thomas Patrick John Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield was an English photographer and a first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II, his mother Anne Bowes-Lyon (1917–1980, known as ‘Princess Anne of Denmark’ after her second marriage) having been a niece of the late Queen Mother. He inherited the Earldom of Lichfield from his paternal grandfather. In his professional practice he was known as Patrick Lichfield. Continue reading »
Highlights of The Royal Society of Biology’s Photography Competition 2021, from Ants Feasting on Honeydew to Zebras Drinking in The Savannah
Winner: Mutualism. Thane, India
The mutualistic relationship between ant and aphid. The ants consume honeydew excreted by a yellow aphid, and in return the ants protect the aphid from other organisms such as red mites. (Vishwanath Birje/Royal Society of Biology) Continue reading »
The Winning Images of The Female in Focus Photography Awards 2021
The Female in Focus award from 1854 Media and the British Journal of Photography addresses the gender imbalance in photography. Globally, 70-80% of photography students are women, yet they account for only 13-15% of professional photographers. This selection of work demonstrates a tapestry of women’s experiences from around the world
Camo 2.0 4415 – single image winner
‘Beauty and greatness do not belong to the gods alone’ (African proverb). Beadwork in hair inspired by beads worn and treasured by the artist as a child growing up in Kenya. There, the more colourful the beads, the more beautiful one’s hair was deemed. Accessorising hair with beads is common in beauty cultures across Africa (Thandiwe Muriu/Female in Focus 21) Continue reading »
Poetic, Emotional and Minimalist Photographs by Kersti K
Kersti K is an incredible photographer from Sweden. Speaking about her work, she doesn’t want her portfolio to be genred or categorized under any section, words so spontaneous and poetic just like her photographs. Crediting this beautiful planet for all the good things around her, Kersti produces such deep and moving photographs. This is one of the interesting interviews we had made in recent times. Continue reading »
Stunning Images Of The National Geographic Traveller Photography Contest 2021
The Grand Prize Winner: Iceland by Andro Loria
Here are the winners of the National Geographic Traveller Photography Competition 2021 in Wildlife, Urban, Food & Travel, People, and Landscape Categories. Continue reading »
Vintage Snaps Capture Life at Venice Beach in 1970
The smell of the ocean, the feel of sand on your feet and the burning of incense bring back the memories of a golden era in Venice Beach. These vintage snapshots were taken by Howard Gribble that show life at Venice Beach in 1970. Continue reading »
Spectacular Winning Images of The Nature Conservancy Photo Contest 2021
The Nature Conservancy is proud to announce the winners by category of our 2021 contest. Check out the images that amazed our judges the most—and the winner of this year’s People’s Choice Award, selected by you!
People’s choice award: Prathamesh Ghadekar, India. Just before monsoon, fireflies congregate in certain regions of India. Sometimes milllions of these insects can be found on a few special trees like this one. Thirty-two photographs of this tree were taken and later stacked in Adobe Photoshop, creating this image. (Photo by Prathamesh Ghadekar/TNC Photo Contest 2021) Continue reading »
“Mercury Ahead!”: The BepiColombo Mission Has Captured Its First Views of Planet Mercury
The closest approach took place at 23:34 UTC on 1 October at an altitude of 199 km from the planet’s surface. Images from the spacecraft’s monitoring cameras, along with scientific data from a number of instruments, were collected during the encounter. The images were already downloaded over the course of Saturday morning, and a selection of first impressions are presented here. Continue reading »
