Shashasha Brings The Works Of Asian Photographers To The World
Shashasha (free download with in-app purchase) is an iPad app that's making it possible to look at highly sought-after photobooks for just $0.99 per copy. According their website Shashasha starts with a capital of roughly $100,000 to reproduce classic photobooks that are no longer in print in digital form. If you consider that for example …
Ondu Wooden Pinhole Cameras
If you already know a thing or two about pinhole and large format photography, this is the perfect camera for you! It uses a standard 4" x 5" film holder that is secured snugly on the back with strong magnets. The camera has a 0.30 mm pinhole, a focal length of 60 mm and a …
Interview: Patrick Rochon, Light Painting As Art Form
To Patrick Rochon, light painting is an expression of our true self. "I have reasons to believe that our bodies emits light and that we've been, in a subtle way, light painting all along," Rochon says. Light painting is a photographic technique in which exposures are made by moving a hand-held light source or by …
I’m Google By Dina Kelberman
I’m Google is an ongoing tumblr blog by Baltimore based artist Dina Kelberman in which batches of images and videos that Kelberman cull from the internet are compiled into a long stream-of-consciousness. "My work comes out of my natural tendency to spend long hours collecting and organizing imagery from the internet, television, and other commonplace …
She Dances On Jackson By Vanessa Winship
In She Dances On Jackson (Mack, ISBN 978-1907946363, $50) the award-winning British photographer Vanessa Winship travels through the realms of the American Dream. For over a year Winship travelled across the United States, from California to Virginia, New Mexico to Montana. The illustrated book presents a conversation, a lyrical and lilting interaction between landscape and …
Car Crash Studies – Between Beauty And Destruction
"After the commonplaces of everyday life, with their muffled dramas, all my organic expertise for dealing with physical injury had long been blunted or forgotten. The crash was the only real experience I had been through for years," says J.G.Ballard. Car Crash Studies by photographer Nicolai Howalt is a thought provoking study of automobiles that …
Korea – Korea: A Photographic Exploration Of A Divided Country
Capturing Dieter Leistner’s photographic exploration, the new book Korea - Korea (Gestalten, ISBN 978-3-89955-487-8, $30) tells a true story between North and South Korea without making judgments. Until 1989, both Germans and Koreans suffered the same fate of living in a divided land. The historical reasons for the separation of Germany into east and west …
NYLPT – Remixing Our Urban Environments
Jason Evans celebrates happenstance in this stunning app, NYLPT ($5.99) presents a unique viewing, remixing of our urban environments, as he proves every single day on his Daily Nice blog. Randomly generated sequences of Evans's street photographs collected in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo – double exposures made in camera on film – are combined with …
Views On Vegas
In the end of 2012 Daniel Rettig and Hendrik Schneider visited Las Vegas, the glittering metropolis in the Mohave Desert, for seven weeks with the aim to create an unusual portrait of the city and its people. Most visitors only stay for a few days and barely feel the need to leave the Strip and its …
In The In-Between – Journal Of Digital Imaging Artists
In the In-Between is a web-based platform dedicated to the discovery and discussion of photo-artists working across the wide spectra of contemporary digital media and imaging. It was founded on the idea that computer-based imaging is and will continue to be among the defining characteristics of 21st century photography. In-B is designed to serve as …
This Has Been Photography
"In an age where ‘everyone is considered to be a photographer’ the ambiguous and enigmatic nature of photography, as an ‘ordinary’ and everyday cultural practice alongside its existence as an institutionally sanctioned art form, are magnified and accentuated that much more now photography can exist in digital and networked form," writes Dr. Jane Burton in …
CineVise System – Durable Grips Combined With GorillaPod
The CineVise System ($279.95) is a set of 3 vise durable grips combined with the GorillaPod Focus tripod and Ballhead X that turns your DSLR or digital camcorder into a pro-style rig, allowing you to clamp down securely where a normal tripod just won't do the trick. If you're going to hang your camera off the side …
Fade To Black Photography Magazine
The team behind the award-winning British Journal of Photography launch an international quarterly magazine for the iPad, dedicated to a new generation of image-makers who embrace the convergence of photography, video and multimedia. Fade To Black hits the App Store and the first issue is available free to download. Featuring interviews with image-makers working in …
The Fusion Plate – A Camera Accessory
"A good Shoulder Strap by which to securely carry your camera, and a tripod for steading your shot are two accessories that are vital to most photographers. The problem has been that using one and then changing to the other can be a real pain," explains David Fliger. The Fusion Plate ($75) allows you to …
Photography In The Age Of Web 2.0 And Smartphones
"How to photograph a subject or an event that does not occur in the real world, but only on the computer monitor?" German designer Kevin Bergt asked himself this particular question in his Master thesis at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences Dessau in Design: Zeitreise durch den digitalen Raum (Journey through the digital space). Photography …
Brixton Antique Cognac Leather Camera Bag
The handcrafted Brixton Antique Cognac Leather Camera Bag ($429.99) by ONA is as sumptuous as it is functional. Made with Italian-tanned leather the camera and messenger bag sports a light wax finish that develops a rich patina over time. The camera bag is a true beauty that’ll only get better with age. The side weather flaps …
How Do We Deal With Our Increasing Load Of Collected Visual Memories?
Now that's a question! "Paradoxically, the more images we gather nowadays the more they disappear, their abundance makes them invisible," explains Peter Basma-Lord. One can simply not sort, select nor present these memories to anyone. Communication designer Stefan Landrock adds that "the light which was once captured with a great many devices is now hidden in …
Eichhorn – A Combination Of High-Quality Compact Camera And Action Camera
The concept camera Eichhorn (Squirrel) by German designers Katharina Walter and Marc Wahl is a combination of high-quality compact camera and action camera. It is designed in square format to create a distinctive brand recognition and for people who love sporting activities or just enjoy nature to take beautiful photos out in the field. The …
Interactive Light Sculpture That Visualizes The Emotional Impact Of Movement
The object and installation is called Fiet, built out of hundreds of cones which emphasize the motion of the surface. The points of the cones move closer to each other or expand when the skin is moving. All this happens by the influence of sounds surrounding the object. You will see the sculpture become stressed …
Inspired Eye – A Photographic Magazine
Inspired Eye is a bi-monthly digital magazine by photographers for photographers. Olivier Duong, a Haitian-French-Vietnamese fine art documentary photographer based in south Florida and documentary photographer Don springer, are kicking things off with the first issue, available for free. In it you will find many views and interviews that stimulates your artistic sense. "We are …
First Online Photographic Museum – An Open Vision Of Many
The Photographic Museum is the first Museum actually accessible to everyone from every corner of the world for free. It's a online Museum filled with the best photos shared within an artistic community where everyone will be free to display their talents as well. A space where visitors will have the chance to participate and exchange …
Desert Realty – The Grey Area Between Realism And Fantasy
Desert Realty (Chronicle Books, ISBN 978-0811-8582-3-6, $24.95) is a stunning architectural collection of surreal photographs. Glorifying ordinary structures and subverting the conventions of traditional landscape photography through digital manipulation, like he says ‘the grey area between realism and fantasy’, Ed Freeman gleefully guides us through a dreamscape of palm trees and lurid skies, bringing the desert and …
Pelican Unbreakable Watertight Hard Case
Pelican's unbreakable 1514 Watertight Hard Case ($169.99) with dolly is made for the hard traveling photographer. Besides sporting a corrosion proof hard case the medium size Pelican is watertight, airtight, dust-proof and chemical resistant as well. It has a 0.25" (6.4 mm) neoprene o-ring, ABS latches that seal perfectly and includes an automatic purge valve …
