Amazing Photographs of Teenage Skateboarder Laura Thornhill Caswell in the 1970s
Laura Thornhill Caswell was born in 1961 in Dallas, Texas, where she grew up. She was an avid roller skater as a young child. The day she saw a skateboard, something changed, and she knew she was destined to ride. Continue reading »
Marilyn Monroe Hanging Out in a Pumpkin Patch, 1945
In 1945, fashion photographer Andre de Dienes developed a relationship with an aspiring young model named Norma Jean Dougherty resulting in a brief engagement and a huge portfolio of stunning photographs which helped to launch her career as Marilyn Monroe. Continue reading »
Captivating Vintage Photos of People in Encampment, Wyoming From Between the 1920s and 1930s
When her youngest child reached 4 years of age and the Nichols family committed to remaining in Encampment after the last of the mining and railroad work left town, Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962) purchased a storefront and established the Rocky Mountain Studio in the center of Encampment, Wyoming. Continue reading »
The Conceptual Portraits of Kyiv’s Youth by GORSAD Collective
Essentially, it’s become so simple and direct that youth subcultures from all over the world are getting their message out. Ukraine is one of the countries in the Eastern bloc that has become exciting and fascinating and these guys are offering us an intimate insider’s perspective on it, a type of grassroots media approach that the rest of Europe would otherwise have had to do without. Continue reading »
Campaign for National Parks Photography Competition 2021
This year’s competition focused on documenting the climate crisis, with stark images of extreme weather, wildlife in decline and pollution accompanied by images of hope and nature recovery.
Young photographer of the year. Species decline: Stonechat in New Forest national park by Fletcher Foot, aged 14. Continue reading »
Royal Meteorological Society: The Winners of Weather Photographer of the Year Competition 2021
The Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS) has announced the winners of its Weather Photographer of the Year competition 2021! This amazing image captured by Giulio Montini won the overall prize, and shows a foggy autumn day in the town of Airuno, Italy.
“Morning Fog”. This shot of a hilltop town in Italy on a foggy autumn day was named the winner. (Photo by Giulio Montini/Royal Meteorological Society’s Weather Photographer of the Year Awards) Continue reading »
Jodie Foster Holding a Lamb in a Promo Shoot for “The Silence of the Lambs”
Over the years, Hollywood has seen some of the best psychological horror films but no other film has reached the heights like the 1991 movie The Silence of the Lambs. Directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, the movie is adapted from Thomas Harris’ 1988 novel. It is often referred to as one of the greatest films to be ever made by critics. The plot of the film revolved around a young FBI trainee who is on a hunt for a serial killer. She seeks the help of imprisoned Dr Hannibal Lecter who is a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. Continue reading »
Stunning Vintage Black-and-White Photos of Edwin Smith
Kentish Town station, London
Edwin Smith (born Edwin George Herbert Smith) was an English photographer best known for his distinctive vignettes of English gardens, landscapes, and architecture. Continue reading »
Breathtaking Winning Images of The 2021 Drone Photo Awards
Photo of the year: Pink-Footed Geese Meeting the Winter by Terje Kolaas
The Drone Photo Awards is the largest aerial photography and video competition. The pictures come from all over the world and allow us to see the world with a little more height. Continue reading »
The Best Winning Photos Of Close-Up Photographer Of The Year 2021
Overall winner & Insects winner by Pål Hermansen
Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) is a celebration of close-up, macro, and microphotography. A global competition was created to showcase images that help us see the world anew. Over 9,000 pictures from 55 countries were entered this year across the nine categories. Continue reading »
Grotesque, Occult, and Bizarre Images by William Mortensen, the Forgotten Hollywood Photographer
Photographer Ansel Adams, whose beautiful black and white landscapes full of mountains still grace both museum and office walls, called fellow photographer William Mortensen “the Anti-Christ” for what he did to the art of photography. Continue reading »
“Captivate!”: Fashionable 90s in Amazing Nostalgic Photos
Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista, Paris, 1990.
Roxanne Lowit
The 90s are back! In a richly illustrated volume, which accompanies her first ever curated exhibition, Claudia Schiffer brings together legendary fashion photographers, designers and supermodels, whose visions captivated and shaped the decade. Continue reading »
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 »
