Upgrade Your Camera Gear
Did you ever wanted to upgrade your camera gear in style? Korean based Park in Style takes custom lens and camera body work to a whole new level. What you see above is a Nikon 300mm lens kit that Park in Style disassembled, painted, and then reassembled to look like a Canon lens! Down below [...]
Wolf Tide by Corey Arnold
Wolf Tide is a series of large format photographs culled from his experience working as a commercial fisherman in Alaska to rural encounters with unsuspecting wildlife and dramatic landscapes abroad by Portland based photographer Corey Arnold. Wolf Tide is an exploration into Arnold’s unique lifestyle which captures multiple expressions from the serene tranquility when tides [...]
Incredible Compactness Comes With Great Functionality
If you’re a videographer who likes the compact size of DSLRs and don’t want to use a large rig you’re going to love this one. Believe me, there isn’t anything as small and lightweight as the The Pocket Rig ($299). With this super small, lightweight video stabilization solution you can shoot photos and video simultaneously. [...]
Sequentially Yours by Elliott Erwitt
In this unique book entitled Sequentially Yours (Taschen, ISBN 978-3-8327-9578-8, $85), photographic legend and gifted storyteller Elliott Erwitt presents a series of vignettes—juxtapositions of two or more images made within short intervals—he gives you a sense of what happens next, the end point being sometimes comic, sometimes poignant, and often with a wink. “The characters [...]
The Dark Lens – Star Wars Iconography Set To A Post-Apocalyptic Landscape
The Dark Lens (Éditions Xavier Barral, ISBN 978-2-915173-70-3, €39, ) by French photographer Cédric Delsaux is one part fantasy and one part reality. In Dark Lens, Delsaux transports Darth Vader and the whole gamut of Star Wars iconography to a post-apocalyptic, urban-suburban landscape of endless parking lots, highrises and wasteland interzones, vacant of ordinary human [...]
Industrious by Grob, Hiepler and Brunier
This image above is the first from the project Industrious by photographer duo Hiepler Brunier. The former working title of this project has been “Hans”, but after 1 year, 13 countries and 16 locations all around the world the project finally was entitled “Industrious”. The series itself is a large-scale project for the centennial anniversary [...]
Pico Flex Dolly Smooth Motion Movable Video Tripod
Today we’ve got a guest post by Chris McConnell, the brainchild behind Daily Tekk, who recently featured get addicted to … on his The 100 Best, Most Interesting Blogs and Websites list. “Have you ever seen behind-the-scenes footage of a movie where the camera is mounted on what looks like miniature railroad tracks? You can [...]
Glitch Textiles – Seemingly Endless Flood Of Images
“56. What makes good glitch art good is that, amidst a seemingly endless flood of images, it maintains a sense of the wilderness within the computer.”— Hugh S. Manon and Daniel Temkin, Notes on Glitch These textiles by Phillip Stearns are a collection of woven and knit blankets produced using images generated from short circuited [...]
Incase DSLR Pro Pack
If you’re into photography need more than just a strap to carry your camera gear around, you’ve got to consider the Incase DSLR Pro Pack ($149.95). The DSLR Pro Pack is a stylish photography bag, offering compartments for an iPad and a 15″ MacBook Pro. Further you’l get a main compartment that can store your iPhone, [...]
Unintended Consequences by Irby Pace
The photographs in “Unintended Consequences” by Texas based multi-project oriented artist Irby Pace come from camera equipped devices in Apple Computer stores. “On a daily basis people are leaving their portraits behind on iPhones, iPads and iPods. Customers are disregarding their own discretion and abandoning these photographs,” says Pace. Since these images are anonymous the [...]
Lady and the Tramp by Jaqueline Bradley
Jacqueline Bradley is a Canberra based artist who makes sculptural objects. Her work explores ways of engaging with the surrounding environment, ideas of home and a sense of place. These objects take the form of sculptures, installations and costumes, made from building materials, household objects, fabric and wallpaper. She currently works from her studio at [...]
A New Balance Of Stability Camera Strap
Designed for your SLR, Cinch by Luma Labs ($70) provides a new balance of stability and long-term comfort with unprecedented flexibility and versatility. It lets you carry your camera across your body, off of one shoulder, or just around your neck. Cinch’s shoulder pad is reenforced with mil-spec mechanical stretch webbing and easily holds over [...]
We’re Living In A Material World
We all can’t deny that we’re living in a material world. The photographic series Material World by fine art photographer David Welch takes influence from the Marxist concept “Objectification”. Welch explains, that “… this concept marks a transformative relationship between humankind and nature where individuals manifest their activities into materially existing forms. To Marx, these [...]
Fish-Work – The Bearing Sea by Corey Arnold
The photographs in FISH WORK – The Bering Sea (Nazraeli Press in conjunction with Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, ISBN 978-1-59005-306-5, $65) by photographer and Alaskan commercial fisherman Corey Arnold capture moments from Arnold’s grueling retreats as a crew member aboard a fishing boat to the Bering Sea. The book, his life long project, has [...]
Behind Photographs – Archiving Photographic Legends
For the past five years photographer Tim Mantoani has been working on his personal project photographing and archiving photographic legends. The result is a wonderful compiled book: Behind Photographs ($60) features 158 photographer portraits shot by Tim Mantoani on 20×24 Polaroid–each of the photographers is holding their most favorite or iconic image–behind the scenes images, [...]
Empty And Abandoned Music Boxes
Music Boxes is a photographic project by Luis Diaz Diaz that has been selected for for Brussels photography and architecture Biennial back in 2010. Diaz revisits the open air stages used for orchestras and concerts during the yearly local festivals in rural Galica, in northern Spain. “These simple constructions, put in place by the people [...]
Hoop Dreams by Casey Dunn
Casey Dunn is a sixth generation Texan and based in Austin. He’s an architectural photographer whose personal series, Hoop Dreams, goes way back into his childhood dreams while photographing the abandoned hoops and rims on his journeys. Casey Dunn explains, “When I was 8 years old my dad came home with a fiber glass basketball [...]
Vintage – New York In The 80s
The set NY in the 80s by Steven Siegel contains beautiful photographs of the 1980s-era of New York and sets us back in a time before internet and mobile phones. Siegel says, “I’ve been photographing the streets and subways of New York for the past 30 years. When young people today look at my shots [...]
It Only Comes In Stereo
The photographic series Stereo I by collaborators Juan Caguicla and Christina Dy shows a nice mix of photography and the more artistically traditional craft of painting in the form of very large prints. Both saying, “The dynamic of the imagery in both Stereo I and II are one and the same. Both showcase one’s aesthetic [...]
Exactitudes – Striking Dress Codes Of Various Social Groups
Exactitudes is a long-term photo project by photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek. Since 2004 they have systematically documented social groups and their appearance. Inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, they have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 16 years. Each of their series is [...]
Places, Strange and Quiet by Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders—painter, actor, writer, and one of the most successful contemporary filmmakers around—has assembled a fascinating series of large-scale photographs taken from 1983 to 2011 in countries all over the world, gathered in the exquisite volume Places, Strange and Quiet (Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3-7757-3148-5, €24.80). His image repertoire of neglected industrial buildings, vacant lots, cemeteries, [...]
Four-Bladed DSLR Helicopter
In the spirit of adventure the HPQ-2 ($1.795) from Rotor Concept comes fully assembled and 100% ready to fly. The HPQ-2 is the larger version of the HPQ-1 and the quadcopter is foldable and comes with a 28×8.5×8.5 inch metal carrying case. My only concern is, that the package lacks a way to monitor your [...]
Shape Shifter™ Backpack by Think Tank
If you have a 17″ laptop and a lot of photo gear you’ll have for sure difficulties in finding the perfect backpack. And of course no backpack is perfect for everything. I always wanted to have a backpack that fits in-between the two extremes of a light and sporty camera backpack and a massive one [...]
Transfers – A Moment Of Alleged Silence
If you like the imperfection of Polaroid Transfers, you will definitely enjoy the fine art photography of Israel-born photographer Yaniv Waissa. Talking to Waissa, he explained his Transfers concept as the following: “I’m going on a journey towards the unknown, towards a personal and collective experience–physical and emotional. I’m searching for the specific moment in which [...]
