The ‘Real’ New York: Gritty Scenes Of NYC Street Life In The 1970s
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The photographer and documentarian Camilo José Vergara uses photographs as “a means of discovery, as a tool with which to clarify visions and construct knowledge about a particular city or place.” Pictures, for Vergara, are the starting point in asking questions or linking to other images or investigating new territories and ideas. Continue reading »
Dystopian Lighthouses By Adrian Labaut Hernandez
Lighthouse designs portray a feeling of sadness and depression, as they are rarely used, only a few people stay there, who are the workers and they can only listen to the sound of the sea and dwell into a more gloomy state. Adrian Labaut Hernandez, with his Dystopian Lighthouses, poses a question towards this perception. Continue reading »
City Footbridge Gets People Closer To Nature
A skywalk is seen slithering through a litchi orchard in Xiangmi Park in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, giving local residents a chance of getting close to nature. Continue reading »
When LIFE Magazine Received Pics Of Still-Unknown Marilyn Monroe, They Replied “WTH Is Marilyn Monroe”
The photos were taken in 1950 with a still unknown Marilyn, by a Life Magazine photographer Ed Clark, at the suggestion of a friend of 20th Century Fox telling of the new hiring of the studios. Continue reading »
Polish Photographer Creates Amazing Slavic Pagan Themed Photoshoot And Proves Slavs Have Amazing Culture
Have you ever browsed some internet forums and heard some teeny kids from the west how Slavs have no culture? Well after this amazing photo shoot their mouths will be closed for good, Slavic fusion in a series ‘Pagan Poetry’ made by Polish photographer Marcin Nagraba and all costumes made by Agnieszka Osipa. The model is the photographer’s mother and by all means having a ‘babushka’ in this photo shoot just gives even more Slavic feel to it. Continue reading »
Two Spain-Based Photographers Playfully Interact With Geometry Of Architecture In These Images
Daniel Rueda and Anna Devís Benet are two young Valencia-based architects and photographers. Their architecture photography artistically deviates from typicality by introducing the human factor in a fun and creative way. Instead of solely focusing on geometry and details, they turn every photograph into a playful interaction between themselves and the featured piece of architecture. Continue reading »
Scenic Aerial View Of Terraced Fields In Guizhou, A Mountainous Province In Southwest China
A series of aerial images of Guizhou in southwest China has recently been released. The beautiful landscape of terraced fields resembles fingerprints. The stunning photos were clicked over Yueliang Mountain rice terraces, located in Qian Autonomous Prefecture of Miao and Dong, southeastern Guizhou. Continue reading »
This Infinity Book Store Looks Like An Endless Tunnel Of Books
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This bookstore and library in Yangzhou, eastern China, has transformed its space into an endless space of books, with some clever mirror trickery. Continue reading »
African Souls: The Amazing Photographs Of Animals By Manuela Kulpa
The “African Souls” series of the German photographer Manuela Kulpa, who captures the African animals with a very particular look and rendering. Some beautiful photographs through which she seeks to express the beauty, the strength, but also the fragility of wildlife and our environment. Continue reading »
The Spectacular Winners Of The 10th iPhone Photography Awards
The iPhone Photography Awards has announced the winners of its 10th annual contest. The event saw iPhone photographers from 140 countries across the globe saw some great stories conveyed through photographs. With thousands of pictures carrying multiple stories from around the world, Apple chose some of the most distinguishing ones as the winners across multiple categories. Continue reading »
City Perspectives: Breathtaking Photography Of Hong Kong ‘Anthills’ By Victor Cheng
In part of his ‘City Perspectives’, Victor Cheng talks strategies for capturing minimalism and clean lines in a city as bustling and diverse as Hong Kong, and shares how his background in multimedia and communications informs his photography. Continue reading »
You Can Sleep In These Owl Cabins In France For Free, And Their Interior Is As Good As Exterior
An adorable cabin built to resemble three forest owls is now ready for campers in the Bordeaux region of Southwestern France, and it costs absolutely nothing to stay the night. It’s part of an initiative encouraging city dwellers to get off the grid and experience nature, and we can’t lie – we’re dying to go for it! Continue reading »
McDonald’s Launches New Clothing Line
McDonald’s is getting into the fashion game. Seriously. Continue reading »
Bees Under The Macro Lens
The female leaf-cutter bee with pollen she has collected.
These macro images by Alejandro Santillana are being showcased in the Insects Unlocked project at the University of Texas at Austin. Continue reading »
Creative Mom Paints On Skylight To Make Her Daughter Go To Kindergarten Class
When her three-year-old daughter refused to go to kindergarten, a mom from south China’s Guangzhou city went creative and started painting on their car’s skylight to entertain her child. Continue reading »
Woman Flawlessly Retakes Her Study Abroad Photos, 30 Years Later
“Thirty years later in Strasbourg, France. I was wearing a mini skirt and couldn’t mimic the pose.”
California-based photographer Lisa Werner traveled to Europe this summer to meet up with relatives, making stops in France and Germany. Before the trip, she scanned some old photos from when she took a language course there from 1986 to 1987. She made it her mission to retake the photos in the same locations, which she says was surprisingly easy. Continue reading »
“Geometric Variants”, An Optical Illusion Photography Project By Erika Zolli
Known for its surreal and dreamlike vision, Erika Zolli’s photography combines the compositional force of abstraction with the emotional power of magical realism, leading those who look to a very particular and completely new aesthetic. Continue reading »
Toilet Timer: The Anatomically Significant Sand Timer For Procrastinators
Adam Stephey and Elliot Worth from Normal, IL have one helpful tip to improve your life: spend less time doing your (ahem) “business” in the bathroom. That’s why they created a product called the Toilet Timer. Continue reading »
The Explosive And Twisted Illustrations By Mike Hughes
A selection of colorful and explosive illustrations by Mike Hughes, a Scottish artist based in Edinburgh who has collaborated with many famous brands, revealing here a trashy and twisted universe that mixes junk food, skateboarding and pop culture. Continue reading »
Stunning Digital Surreal Art By Mikhail Batrak
Mikhail Batrak is a Ukrainian artist whose work examines the relationship between perception, Surrealism and empiricism. Continue reading »
A Look Back At Playboy Bunny Girls
Two Bunny Girls from the Playboy Club and two Penthouse Pets from the Penthouse Club prepare to take part in the annual Good Friday waiters and waitresses race in Battersea Festival Gardens, London, 28th March 1972. (Photo by Ian Showell/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Continue reading »
Japanese Artist Nobuhiro Nakanishi Creates Fantastic Layered Drawings
The passage of time affects everybody but rarely do we reflect on what this means. Japanese artist Nobuhiro Nakanishi created a series of artwork which does exactly that. Continue reading »
Artist Gianluca Gimini Reinterprets Vintage Italian Brands As Sneakers
How do you preserve historical visual culture in an endless sea of new imagery? How can you interest newer generations in older design? Italian designer Gianluca Gimini believes the solution is footwear. Yes, you read that right: Gimini’s project Sneakered is an effort to preserve and promote Italian designs by transposing vintage product packaging onto contemporary shoes. Continue reading »
The Fantastically Sculptural Architecture Of Cyril Lancelin
Fantasy homes require architects with imagination and daring, qualities which French architect Cyril Lancelin clearly has in abundance. Continue reading »
Beautiful Australian Landscape Oil Paintings By Graham Gercken
Graham Gercken is an award winning Australian landscape painting artist who was born in 1960. He is a self-taught artist who loves to paint with oil paint. Continue reading »
