Instantly Into The Instant
Ryan Nabulsi’s Into the instant series is truly abstract and random. About his work Nabulsi says: “Photography is more than pointing the camera at things and then displaying those discoveries to the world. That time for photography has passed into the hands of those with access to a camera phone. And as new people find themselves [...]
Photographic Installation Using Forced Perspective
Tex Jernigan produces photographic social artworks using forced perspective, illusion, and ingenuity in the tradition of John Pfahl and his Altered Landscapes. In his outdoor installation in Redlake, Arizona, a project done in collaboration with Dominique Karwoski, Jernigan goes back to a keystone of human understanding, to the recognition that man at certain points synthesize [...]
Ramblers Bone – A 30 Day Road Trip To Explore America
American born photographers Mikael Kennedy and Sean Sullivan set out from Los Angeles, CA, deep into the heart of the country on a 30 day road trip to explore America. In a project titled Rumblers Bone, Sullivan and Kennedy, both veteran travelers of the American highways, log thousands of miles in just a few short [...]
Smart Phone Remote Control For Digital Cameras
TriggerHappy Camera Remote ($69.99) for Nikon and Canon DSLR Cameras is a patent-pending camera remote to control your DSLR or high-end point-and-shoot camera with an iOS or Android device. TriggerHappy consists of the Unit (a one meter cable with a very small, embedded signal processor that connects you camera to your phone) and the App to control [...]
“Blow Up” Your Mind
Blow Up ($120) showcasing the first collaborative publication by Pool – an Australian photo collective. A showcase of the dissimilar perspectives and common ideals of an artistic collective, the first issue of Blow Up has been created in collaboration with Maud. The design concept is based upon incorporating the idea of a collective of artists [...]
A Sense Of Mystery And Danger In Urban Life
“Anthony Jones is one of the few remaining photographers who still looks for the beauty in everyday objects and places, who looks for the abstract in the concrete and captures images that have the flavour of urban life,” writes Roger Watson about fine art photographer Anthony Jones. These black and white architectural photographs though they [...]
Canon AE-D Mirrorless Camera System Concept
When I first saw the concept of the Canon AE-D Mirrorless Camera System by David Riesenberg, I immediately felt in love with the “film look-a-like pop out” (see secon image from above). Riesenberg explains his concept as the following: “Like many others, I too have been waiting for quite a while for Canon to release [...]
Limited Area By Robert Schlaug
The series Limited Area by German photographer Robert Schlaug deals with human limit experiences. In a time when one considers the possibilities of humanity for unlimited, the individual human experiences its limits and its limitations in daily life on a daily basis: “Sometimes we think we run into a wall, stand in front of a [...]
Interview: Joel Evey – Art Director Urban Outfitters
Joel Evey is a Designer based in Philadelphia and being Urban Outfitters print art director for a while now. He’s the man responsible for some fancy and high quality print products for them. Evey combines well thought out considered design and typography with images to create exciting pieces of work. PROFILE Name: Joel Evey Age: 29 [...]
China – The Winners And Losers
En route in China (Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3-7757-3336-6, €39.80), where the social differences are as vast as the country itself. China is one of the fasted growing economies worldwide, but the effect of this growth aren’t felt the same way throughout the country. Swiss photographers Monika Fischer (*1971) and Mathias Braschler (*1969) decided to take [...]
Frozen Water By Heidi Romano
At the centre of her photographic practice Heidi Romano is looking for the unknown in the familiar. The micro environments found in frozen water are an experiment in visual juxtapositions in form finding of the perceptions we have of water. Melbourne based photographer, Unless You Will founder and graphic designer Romano explains her series Frozen [...]
Unless You Will Have A Slightly Different Perspective Of The World
Unless You Will, curated and founded by German born photographer Heidi Romano, is an online journal that showcases a vision within photo-based art. 20 issues, more than 24 months and 130 artists presented in UYW. Romano says, “I still have big dreams of where I would like to take UYW.” This year there are a [...]
La Résidence By J.H. Engström Awarded World’s Best Book Award
J.H. Engström‘s La Résidence has been awarded World’s Best Book Award. Engström was up against 540 nominated books for the prize, which has been organised by Stiftung Buchkunst (German Foundation for Book Art) since 1963. La Résidence is comprised of 29 snapshot-like triptych gatefolds interspersed with Engström’s typically restrained pictorials on borderless double-page spreads and [...]
Instamatics By Antonio Lopez
Instamatics (Twin Palms Publishers, ISBN: 978-1-931885-94-2 , $79) collects some of the best photographs from renowned fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez. The compendium includes the most creative and innovative of those images, spanning the 1970’s. Lopez began shooting with a Kodak Instamatic, the simplest and cheapest model he could find, cataloguing his life and his finds of [...]
Shadowplay by Sara Farid Amin
Shadowplay (The Velvet Cell, ISBN 978-1-908889-03-4, $11) by Iranian photographer and graphic designer Sara Farid Amin is a series of photographs, focusing on the buildings and cityscapes in her hometown – Tehran – on weekend mornings when it was quieter and devoid of so many people. What is particularly interesting about Amin’s photographs is her [...]
Interview: Véronique Sutra – Eyes In Progress
Véronique Sutra, ex Manager of Multimedia at Magnum Photos, just created Eyes In Progress, which is a program of workshops and masterclasses provided by Masters of photography such as Patrick Zachmann (documentary), Jane Evelyn Atwood (storytelling), Joan Fontcuberta (contemporary) and other great names. Sutra says, “With Eyes in Progress, I wanted to create a program [...]
Incase Camera Collection
The Camera Collection by California-based bag and case company Incase has been expanded and redesigned to include a full range of innovative bags for professionals and hobbyists alike. With styles designed for those who shoot and travel with high volumes of gear as well as options for point-and-shoot photographers looking for functional carrying and storage [...]
Lomo LC-A+ Silver Lake Camera
This limited edition Lomo LC-A+ Silver Lake Camera (€379) comes in luxurious elegance. The camera exudes timeless beauty that matches the classic appeal of our beloved automatic snapshot camera. Stunning in its metallic coat and wrapped in genuine brown leather, this edition also comes in a specially designed wooden collector’s box and with Russian-made Minitar 1 lens. [...]
Fred Herzog – A Pictorial History Of A Time And Place That No Longer Exist
Fred Herzog–born in 1930 in Germany and moved to Vancouver in 1953–is considered a pioneer of color photography. Herzog’s bold use of colour in the 1950s and 60s set him apart at a time when the only art photography taken seriously was in black and white. His early use of color make him a forerunner [...]
Excerpt Magazine – Visual Pressed Against Visual
Some time ago I have been writing about Excerpt magazine, a free quarterly online photo-based magazine that challenges the archetypal magazine structure by constructing new formats. Now there’s Issue 2 (PDF 8.2 MB) online, in this special issue 30 people have responded to the cover image by Izabela Pluta with an image or moving image [...]
Suddenly Your iPhone’s Even Cooler Than You Thought It Was
With iPro Lens System ($199) you can take professional-grade photos wherever you take your iPhone. The idea behind the iPro is not to offer you another camera, but enhance the one you already have. Your iPhone. The quality Fisheye and Wide Angle Lenses by Schneider Optics easily twist on and off and let you capture [...]
Department Of Urban Betterment
John Locke is a New York based artist and his last project DUB 002 is an attempt for urban betterment. Locke provided some telephone booths with an individual book library, where he encouraged the people in sharing the initial selection of books. He concentrated mainly on pay phones as they are both anachronistic and quotidian. [...]
Flooded – Pitch Black, Freezing Water and Stale Air
London based fashion, portrait, and still life photographer Joanna Paterson recently finished her series ‘Flooded’, which can be seen over at Black Dog Represents. Therefore Paterson collaborated with a stylist to create sets in which they installed contemporary furniture and textiles into the flooded basement. Truly a challenging space to work in, pitch black, freezing water [...]
Relics Of The Cold War
Relics Of The Cold War (Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3-7757-2534-7, €35) by Martin Roemers is an older work. Roemers wrote back in summer 1983, “I’m on holiday with a friend in Germany. We’re walking through a wood in an easterly direction. It must be there. Through the trees we see something grayish. We can’t go any [...]
