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A Rare Glimpse of William Eggleston’s Polaroids

A Rare Glimpse of William Eggleston’s Polaroids

Art Photos

William Eggleston is often referred to as the godfather of color photography, and with good reason: he is largely responsible for raising the status of color photography to that of an art form, where previously it was relegated to the realm of advertising.

Behind The Walls Of Brazil’s Secretive Gated Communities

Behind The Walls Of Brazil’s Secretive Gated Communities

Photos World

Photographer Giovana Schluter grew up uneasy in one of Brazil’s many private neighbourhoods – artificial worlds built for the middle classes. So years later, she returned to a manufactured enclave just like the one of her youth, hoping to get to the heart of their emptiness.

Photographer Toby Coulson Stirs Up Intrigue In The Ordinary

Photographer Toby Coulson Stirs Up Intrigue In The Ordinary

Photos

With a portfolio spanning multiple photographic genres, it seems like no subject is too daunting for Toby Coulson to document. It’s probably his insatiable interest in the beauty and strangeness of the ordinary that makes the London-based photographer’s work so charming.

Moonless Moonlit Nights

Moonless Moonlit Nights

Photos

Commuters are generally too tired to notice the quickly passing scenery or the complicated reflections layered up on the short, fast train ride home from Tokyo to Yokohama. But photographer Yasunori Murayama pays attention. He captures multiple stories in single exposures.

Ukrainian Railroad Ladies

Ukrainian Railroad Ladies

Photos

Ukrainian Railroad Ladies is a series of portraits of women who work as traffic controllers and safety officers at railroad crossings in Ukraine. The women spend their long shifts in the little houses built specifically for them along the tracks.

No, You Don’t Really Look Like That

No, You Don’t Really Look Like That

Explainers Tech

Every digital camera uses algorithms to transform the different wavelengths of light that hit its sensor into an actual image. What makes the iPhone XS’s skin-smoothing remarkable is that it is simply the default for the camera. Snap a selfie, and that’s what you get.

Ferry Tales In Japan

Ferry Tales In Japan

Photos World

Far removed from the ultra-fast Shinkansens and myriad of metro lines that dominate Japan’s major cities, photographer Arnaud Montagard focuses his lens on a much more leisurely commute – Japan’s ferries.

Matt Rota

Inspiration
Matt Rota
Wild Juxtapositions Of Saudi Arabia Modern And Ancient

Wild Juxtapositions Of Saudi Arabia Modern And Ancient

Architecture Photos World

Few countries in history have experienced as sudden a transformation as Saudi Arabia. The discovery and exploitation of oil brought an unprecedented influx of wealth. Photographer Peter Bogaczewicz captures the past and present of the oil-rich kingdom as it undergoes dramatic transformation.

They Came From Outer Finland: The Town Where Everyone Saw UFOs

They Came From Outer Finland: The Town Where Everyone Saw UFOs

Photos World

Photographer Maria Lax comes from a northern Finnish town where UFO sightings were common – so she set about looking for answers. “I’m from a small town in northern Finland surrounded by a vast, sparsely populated wilderness. Most pass through the town without ever knowing it was a hotspot for UFO sightings in the 1960s.”

Days of Night/Nights of Day

Days of Night/Nights of Day

Photos World

Daily life, work and play, in the northernmost city in the world, Norilsk, Russia (also the 7th most polluted city in the world) — a fascinating, detailed photo report with 45 exquisite images by Elena Chernyshova.

A Space Shuttle On The Streets Of Los Angeles

A Space Shuttle On The Streets Of Los Angeles

Photos

In October 2012, the space shuttle Endeavour is on its last mission, a 12-mile creep through Los Angeles city streets on a 160-wheeled carrier. It was passing through neighborhoods and strip malls, headed toward its final destination, the California Science Center in South Los Angeles.

Post-War East Harlem Photographed By Leo Goldstein

Post-War East Harlem Photographed By Leo Goldstein

History Photos

Leo Goldstein began capturing East Harlem in 1949 after he’d joined the New York Photo League, a photo club that originated around the beginning of the Great Depression. Having remained largely unseen for the last 70 years, his photographs are now the focus of a new book, East Harlem: The Postwar Years.

Arctic: New Frontier

Arctic: New Frontier

Photos World

Yuri Kozyrev and Kadir van Lohuizen travelled through 15,000km of the Arctic Circle, investigating the startling effects of climate change on the land and its indigenous communities. If temperatures continue to rise, scientists expect that the North Pole will be ice-free in summer by 2040.

Joseph Ford

Inspiration
Joseph Ford
Stephen Shore’s Unorthodox Photography Teaches Us To Celebrate The Everyday

Stephen Shore’s Unorthodox Photography Teaches Us To Celebrate The Everyday

Art Photos

Though color film had already been used for decades, it was considered crass by the heavyweights of black-and-white photography and was most often used in advertising or by amateurs. Shore is often included in the cohort of artists that brought about the rise of color in the 70s, but not given credit for his prescience.

James Perolls’ Tale Of Sisterhood

James Perolls’ Tale Of Sisterhood

Photos

The photographer’s collaboration with illustrator Tallulah Fontaine and stylist Yeon You is a fictional story about two sisters in late-80s California, and the love, tension and grief that they share.

A Bird’s Eye View Of Children’s Diets Around The Globe

A Bird’s Eye View Of Children’s Diets Around The Globe

Food Photos

In the new book, Daily Bread: What Kids Eat Around the World, American photographer Gregg Segal has created a snapshot of the relationship between diet, culture, and location in a series of stunning portraits wherein the children are photographed surrounded by one-weeks forth of food.

Snapshots of Manchester In The 1960s

Snapshots of Manchester In The 1960s

History Photos

A series of photos of Manchester in the 60s, including Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester Central Station, The Scala cinema on Wilmslow Road, Ringway (Manchester) Airport, the Church of the Holy Name, the Manchester City Art Gallery, Piccadilly Plaza, Mancunian Way, Mosley Street and more.

Gallery: Teemu Jarvinen’s Sapporo

Gallery: Teemu Jarvinen’s Sapporo

Photos World

Finnish street photographer Teemu Jarvinen draws inspiration from the traditions of cyberpunk and film noir, so when he took his camera to Sapporo, Japan earlier this year, he inserted those influences into his images of the city’s snowy streetscapes.

A Photographer’s Parents Wave Farewell

A Photographer’s Parents Wave Farewell

Art Photos

Deanna Dikeman’s parents sold her childhood home, in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1990, when they were in their early seventies. They moved to a bright-red ranch house in the same town. Dikeman, a photographer then in her thirties, spent many visits documenting the idyll of their retirement.

The Shifting City: Shadows Of New York

The Shifting City: Shadows Of New York

Cities Photos

You might not always notice it, but under Manhattan’s bright sunshine, among the canyons of skyscrapers, stretches a secondary city. It unfurls throughout the day, and is gone by night: the city of shadows. They’re a photographer’s dream and a renter’s nightmare.

Adobe Unveils Photoshop Camera App For iOS & Android

Adobe Unveils Photoshop Camera App For iOS & Android

Apps Design Photos

Adobe today announced a new mobile app called Photoshop Camera, which “brings Photoshop magic directly to the point of capture.” Photoshop Camera is a new Sensei AI-powered app that automatically recognizes subjects in photos and suggests artist-created image filters to apply.

Bashir Sultani

Inspiration
Bashir Sultani
Photoprovocations By Russian Sergey Chilikov

Photoprovocations By Russian Sergey Chilikov

Art Photos World

Photography wasn’t given credence as a legitimate art form and even classic Soviet photography wasn’t included in museum exhibitions. In order to get their work seen, photographers started their own clubs, exchanging work with other clubs and organizing their own exhibitions and festivals.

Dystopian Photos Of London’s Bankers In Meltdown

Dystopian Photos Of London’s Bankers In Meltdown

Business Photos

Having been a fixture in and around the banks since the rumors of trouble first started circulating, photographer Stephen McLaren was embedded on the frontlines when what would become the 2008 Global Financial Crisis began to first take shape.

London Underground 1970-1980 By Mike Goldwater

London Underground 1970-1980 By Mike Goldwater

Cities History Photos

The first thing that strikes anyone who regularly rides on the London Underground is how clean it looks in Mike Goldwater’s photographs. Homeward bound tourists keen to recapture the thrill of minding the gap and cooling their heels on overcrowded platforms are not offered a range of signature scents.

Steve McCurry In Afghanistan

Steve McCurry In Afghanistan

Photos World

Steve McCurry has been one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for more than thirty years, with scores of magazine and book covers, over a dozen books, and countless exhibitions around the world to his name. These stunning photos were taken during his trip to Afghanistan.

Work, Protest And Play On The Streets Of Hackney

Work, Protest And Play On The Streets Of Hackney

History Photos

During the 1970s and first half of the 80s photographer Neil Martinson recorded the lives of those who lived and worked in Hackney, east London. At that time, children still played in the street and on old bomb sites yet to be developed.

A Rare Look At The Photography Of Andy Warhol

A Rare Look At The Photography Of Andy Warhol

Art Photos

While photography was central to Warhol’s artistic practice for 30 years, often as source material for his famous screen prints, his purely photographic works — in particular, his stitched gelatin prints of a single image printed multiple times and sewn together — only saw the light of day once while he was alive.

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