Photographer Reveals the Beauty of Female Body in Minimalistic Monochrome Photographs
We know nothing of the Instagrammer @eme.amala, except that she paints and photographs. Between symbolism and minimalism, the mysterious artist publishes, on her digital gallery, monochrome images where objects, bodies and heavenly landscapes merge. An account that will please the dreamers. Continue reading »
Pictures of The Runaways Go Surfing in April 1976
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The Runaways were an all-female American rock band that recorded and performed from 1977-1979. The band released four studio albums and one live album during its run. Among their best-known songs are “Cherry Bomb”, “Hollywood”, “Queens of Noise” and a cover version of the Velvet Underground’s “Rock & Roll”. Never a major success in the United States, the Runaways became a sensation overseas, especially in Japan, thanks to the single “Cherry Bomb”. Continue reading »
Creative & Beautiful Photos Of The Dogs At Home During The Lockdown By Ria Putzker
According to a photographer: “Hello, I am Ria Putzker, a 23-year old professional photographer from Austria and my favorite thing in the world is photography. My main subjects are all kinds of dogs! I love to show their unique personality and want to bring a smile to those people who look at my photos. Continue reading »
“Berlin Love”: Minimalist Architecture in Surreal Photography By Simone Hutsch
Berlin is a city in Germany that never stands still. This surrealistic series features a mix of popular pre-and post-war buildings. Continue reading »
Selection of Finalists for Bird Photographer of the Year 2021
Brian Matthews
These are a selection of the finalists of the prestigious Bird Photographer of the Year 2021 Photo Competition. With species from around the world, the shortlist offers a stunning look at birdlife across the planet. Highlights range from a face-off between a white-tailed sea eagle and fox in Japan, to a nuthatch landing in a garden in Solihull, UK. Continue reading »
Russian Photographer Takes Portraits With Real Animals And People Say Her Works Look Like They’re Straight From A Fairy Tale
These pictures are what dreams and fairytales are made of—Russian photographer Katerina Plotnikova (previously) creates beautiful portraits that balance between the real and surreal. While she nails lighting, composition, and other important aspects of the craft, arguably the most impressive feature of Plotnikova’s work is her feature of animals that we aren’t used to seeing in fine-art photography. Like a bear. Or a moose. Continue reading »
World’s Tallest Supermodel and Olympian Breaks Internet with Lady Dimitrescu Resident Evil Cosplay
This is Ekaterina Lisina, a bronze medal-winning Olympian with the Russian basketball team and now model, with what is surely the most 1:1 cosplay possible of Resident Evil’s Lady Dimitrescu. Continue reading »
“Vulnerable”: Photography Book’s Beautiful Portraits of Indigenous Peoples from Ethiopia to Remote Russia and Myanmar
It’s not easy to experience other cultures right now, but through a stunning new photography book you can get a beguiling insight into the world’s most colourful communities from the comfort of your own home. Continue reading »
“Life is Good”: Sensual Close-Up Photography by Alisa Karin
Close-ups, play on fabrics, fashionable creations… Alisa Karin’s Instagram account is light, sensual and fun. By placing women – and more precisely their mouth – at the heart of her compositions, the 22-year-old photographer plays with the diktat of the male gaze by diverting its codes. Continue reading »
Holi – A Kolkata Experience: Colorful Photo Series By Shubhayu Dasgupta
While speaking of Holi, the first names that cross our minds are Mathura, Vrindavan, or Barsana. And why not? These destinations have been giving away photo opportunities to thousands of photographers across the globe since the end of the previous century. But, when it comes to Kolkata- the City of Joy likes to take things into its own hands. Like many other Indian Festivals, Kolkata celebrates Holi differently altogether. Continue reading »
Cool Photos of Boston Girls of the 1970s
The idea that 1970s fashion was an expression of one’s personality replaced the everyone-follow-the-famous trend of the ’50s and ’60s. Clothes were made to mix and match with each other as well as across gender guidelines. Continue reading »
The Qajar Series, Inspired by The Studio Portraiture First Introduced to Iran in The Late 19th Century
These photographs are from a series of thirty-three portraits by Shadi Ghadirian, a contemporary artist who was inspired by the studio portraiture first introduced to Iran in the late nineteenth century under the Qajar dynasty (1794–1925). Continue reading »
“I Want to Believe”: Fantastic Rare UFO Photographs by Billy Eduard Albert Meier
Taken in 1975 by “Billy” Eduard Albert Meier, alleged extraterrestrial contactee and the founder of Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz- und Geisteswissenschafter und Geisteswissenschafter und Ufologiestudien (Free Community of Interests for the Border and Spiritual Sciences and Ufological Studies), these images purport to depict an interstellar visit by spacecraft from the planet Erra, two with a single UFO moving slowly over the town of Berg Rumlikon, in Switzerland on June 14th, 1975 at 1:16 and 1:20 pm, and four images depicting a single UFO in a forested hilly area of Schmidrüti, Switzerland on March 18th, 1975, from 4:45 to 5:40 pm. Continue reading »
Photographer Vitor Schietti Captures Dream-Like Forests of Falling Light
Brazilian photographer and filmmaker Vitor Schietti, captures enhancing illuminated foliage using light, and long-exposure techniques. Continue reading »
The World’s Greatest Gallery of Bread Butts
Who would have thought that bread could be so seductive? This gallery should almost be considered NSFW… Oh, and don’t forget to also check out bumblebee butts, and mushroom butts that we have featured previously! Continue reading »
Romanian Urban Explorer Captured An Abandoned Crematorium And Found Human Remains
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Photographer Cristian Lipovan (previously) is fascinated by abandoned places, devoting his time to urban exploring – seeking out intriguing and long-forgotten churches, schools and houses and documenting how they look after the people have all moved on. Continue reading »
2020 Travel Photographer Of The Year Awards Winners
From lockdown to landscapes and everything in-between… the winners of the 2020 Travel Photographer of the Year awards have been revealed.
Overall Winner – the Travel Photographer of The Year 2020: Vladimir Alekseev, Russia
Location: Svalbard
Artist Statement: Once on my expedition to Spitsbergen, there was a blizzard. Everything around was equally white. And suddenly I spotted this Arctic fox. He almost merged with the environment. Only his eyes and nose betrayed him.
Gear and Specs: Canon 5D Mark III, 60-600mm lens, F9, 1/320 sec, ISO 640 Continue reading »
Selena’s Rare Coca-Cola Photo Shoot, 1994
Al Rendon/National Museum of American History
Selena was a singer-songwriter who came to be known as the “Queen of Tejano music,” a popular form of music originating in Texas and taking influences from polka, rock, conjunto, and mariachi. Continue reading »
Breathtaking Winning Photos of The SkyPixel’s 6th Anniversary Aerial Photo & Video Contest
Here are the 2020’s winners of SkyPixel’s Aerial Storytelling Contest. SkyPixel was founded in 2014 and currently, there are six million members in their community. This year is the 6th Anniversary of the Aerial Photo & Video Contest. There are more than 26,000 submissions received from 136 countries for categories including Travel, Sports, Nature, Architecture, and Portrait. This year’s annual award was won by Karim Iliya for his photograph “Humpback Breach”, Congratulations to all the winners.
If you are interested in Drone photography, join the SkyPixel community, you can find a lot of inspiration. Here in this article, we are posting only winning photos, visit their website to view video entries.
Annual Award: ‘Humpback Breach’ by Karim Iliya
Humpback whales breach for a variety of reasons including communication, fighting, barnacle and parasite removal, waking up, playing and more. For humpback whales calves like this one, playing is an important way to build muscles and prepare for the long journey to Antarctica. Continue reading »
Budapest in the 1980s Through Fascinating Photos
From the 1960s to the late 1980s Hungary was often satirically referred to as “the happiest barrack” within the Eastern bloc, and much of the wartime damage to the city was finally repaired. Continue reading »
Zara Shoppers Are Complaining It’s Impossible To Shop Online Due To Weird Modeling Poses
Both hilarious and oddly wonderful, the Zara awkwardness has become somewhat of a social media hit with an entire Awkward Zara Instagram account dedicated to collecting and making fun at the weirdest Zara modeling pics out there. So let’s see what the fashion detectives have dug up… Continue reading »
Photographer Stijn Hoekstra Captures Empty Amsterdam During Curfew
Like many countries around the world, the Netherlands has introduced a curfew to slow down the spread of the virus and since January 23, between 9 p.m. and 4:30 a.m., Amsterdam looks like a ghost city. Continue reading »
Cool Photos Show What Bedrooms of Teenagers Looked Like in the 1980s
Desire, adoration, safety, identity and escape are all there on the teenager’s bedroom walls. In the 1980s, these teenagers were photographed in their bedrooms – the place where they go to dream.
So what did bedrooms of teenagers look like in the 1980s? Just check out these cool photos to see. Continue reading »
Sony World Photography Awards Announces Stunning 2021 Contest Category Winners
Sony World Photography Awards is one of the contests that always brings us lots of magnificent photos. The World Photography Organisation that stands behind it has just announced this year’s category winners and shortlist in the Open competition. And as always, it’s a selection of amazing images.
The contest recognizes winners in ten categories, and over 100 photographers were selected as shortlisted. Each winner receives Sony gear and competes further for the Open Photographer of the Year title and a $5,000 reward.
Category winner, open competition, street photography. Disinfection, a cinematic image documenting an employee of the health affairs unit of Ankara municipality in protective gear walking along the train platform while spraying it with disinfectant. (Photo by F. Dilek Uyar/Sony World Photography Awards) Continue reading »
The Spirit of Post-Apocalyptic Russia Through the Incredible Atmospheric Photographs of Alexander Sukharev
Russian photographer and urban explorer Alexander Sukharev likes to take pictures not only with his camera, but also mostly from the air with his drone: abandoned churches and military bases, monuments of socialist realism, crumbling houses in the lush blossom of the apple trees surrounding them, showing all the beauty and charm of the combination of death and life. Continue reading »
