Amazing flash street photography
Chicago-based photographer Satoki Nagata has produced a series of abstract, black and white street portraits of people caught in the winter elements. Nagata says that he lights his subjects from...
View ArticleKirsty Mitchell’s extraordinary Wonderland series – three years in the making
Danaus: A close-up of a model before a sunlit backdrop, peering through a veil of paper butterflies Kirsty Mitchell’s late mother Maureen was an English teacher who spent her life inspiring...
View ArticleBrad Pitt’s black and white portraits of Angelina Jolie
What do you make of these monochrome photographs by Brad Pitt? W’s creative director Dennis Freedman wanted a different perspective for the magazine’s feature of Angelina Jolie, one of the most...
View ArticleInspiring portraits celebrating five amazing women
Jaime Moore dressed up her daughter Emma as influential women in history to celebrate her 5th birthday – Amelia Earhart, Coco Chanel, Helen Keller, Jane Goodall and Susan B Anthony… Jaime writes about...
View ArticleThe point of these photographs? Real interaction…
Recently, French artist JR (whom Raffi Khatchadourian wrote about here) took over The New Yorker’s Instagram feed to document his new large-scale participatory art project, ‘Inside Out‘. JR and his...
View ArticleInstant and forever – surreal Polaroid art by Wendy Bevan
This is a selection of images from Inventory: 10 Polaroid Years, an exhibition featuring London photographer Wendy Bevan’s archive, currently on show at The Cob Gallery, London. Wendy Bevan is known...
View ArticlePhotographer explores resemblance in family members
(Twins: Alex & Sandrine, 20) Ulric Collette is a French-Canadian photographer who shoots quirky family portraits. In his photo series ‘Genetic Portraits‘, Ulric photographs family members and then...
View ArticleModels wear high speed milk as traditional 1940s pinups
London based photographer, Jaroslav Wieczorkiewicz, has created a 12 month calendar inspired by retro calendars featuring 1940s pinup girls. Except the girls aren’t wearing clothes—they’re wearing...
View ArticleAmazing (non-digital) dreamscapes by JeeYoung Lee
Resurrection It’s amazing to witness an artist who embraces one of their greatest limitations, turning it instead into one of their greatest advantages. For Korean artist JeeYoung Lee the question was...
View ArticleStefanie Schneider’s work with expired Polaroid film
Stefanie Schneider lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin. Stefanie’s scintillating situations take place in the American West. Situated on the verge of an elusive super-reality, her photographic...
View ArticleShelter dogs’ photobooth images encourage adoption
An animal rescue and adoption organisation based in Utah, U.S., came up with the idea that photobooth images just might help find new homes for the dogs from their shelters. The initiative was a great...
View ArticleThis photograph is my proof
Duane Michals (1974) This photograph is my proof. There was that afternoon, when things were still good between us, and she embraced me, and we were so happy. It did happen. She did love me. Look for...
View ArticleIn dog I trust
“On my thirtieth birthday, my wife left me,” Rafael Mantesso said. She took her cookware, furniture, photos, her decorations. She left me alone in an empty all-white apartment. The only thing she...
View ArticleThe story of the girl in Mary Ellen Mark’s iconic photo
Amanda and her Cousin Amy: Mary Ellen Mark photographed Amanda Marie Ellison, 9 (right), and Amy Minton Velasquez, 8, in Valdese, North Carolina, in 1990. (Courtesy of Mary Ellen Mark Studio and...
View ArticlePhotographer explores resemblance in family members
(Twins: Alex & Sandrine, 20) Ulric Collette is a French-Canadian photographer who shoots quirky family portraits. In his photo series ‘Genetic Portraits‘, Ulric photographs family members and then...
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