Andy Warhol: Photographic Portraits Displayed For First Time Lost Then Found
A collection of never-before-seen photographs of pop artist Andy Warhol are set to go on display for ten days in New York, beginning on May 3rd. The title of the exhibition, Lost Then Found, alludes to the fact that the photos were forgotten in a storage cabinet for over thirty years before they were discovered. …
The Real Toy Story By Michael Wolf
Buzz Lightyear is a fictional character in the Toy Story by director John Lasseter. Buzz Lightyear's name was inspired by Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Along with Woody, a cowboy doll, they have to withstand and overcome a lot of troubles in a boy's room. His often repeated catchphrase is "To infinity ... and beyond!" …
Exposed – Portrait Photography By Bryan Adams
Bryan Adams divides his time between music and photography. Many people are not aware of the latter case. In the late nineties 1959 born Adams became curious about making photographic self-portraits for his album covers, and so chose to pick up the camera himself. That serendipitous decision was the beginning of a successful photographic career, …
Please Don’t Smile By Malte Wandel
Malte Wandel lived for nine months of 2011 in Ghana. Among the other countries he also travelled through were neighbouring Burkina Faso and Togo. During his journeys, he produced a comprehensive series of portraits of people he met and in some cases also got to know personally. Some he photographed spontaneously, while others he visited …
Rewilding By Cass Bird
Over the past ten years, Cass Bird has established herself as one of the foremost portraitists of contemporary America. Her photographs of young women and men casually draw attention to the fluid expression of gender roles and androgyny in today's youth culture, and to what she has described as "the convergence of alternative lifestyles with …
Women by Paolo Morales
Morales says, "I use the camera as a tool to construct relationships and the photographs become the evidence of those relationships. My pictures of women are motivated by the desire, absence of and search for a romantic relationship." Paolo Morales is a photographer and BFA candidate at the Art Institute of Boston. He has exhibited …
Portrait Of Silence
Portrait Of Silence (Bangkok and Ayutthaya Through the Architect’s Eyes of Praditchya Singharaj, Li-Zenn, ISBN : 978-616-7191-36-2, $40) by Architect and Photographer Praditchya Singharaj discovers the hidden beauty in familiar scenes in Bangkok and Ayutthaya. Praditchya studies and understands the soul of nature and the environment his "subjects" are located. Nithi Sathapitanonda writes about Praditchya: …
Videorative Portrait of Randall Okita
What is a truly realistic portrait? This question inspired a project by artist Sergio Albiac about going beyond physical appearances and attempting to render the interior world of a human being, through memories, emotions, relationships and personal story. All of it organized around a portrait painting metaphor: brushes loaded with meanings instead of paint would …
Dreams – The Unreal World Of Michał Giedrojć
Michał Giedrojć is an artist-photographer from Poland. In his works he gives you the possibility to get to know his visions, his perception of world, the unreal world, focusing on human being. Giedrojć explains to me, "My photos represent my own, subjective look on specific persons and on the world. There is no objectivity or …
Moving Portraits by Lee Jeffries
A lot of people try to add a WOW factor to their portrait photographs by completely changing the angle that they shoot from. But as you can see in the moving portraits by british photographer Lee Jeffries sometimes just the camera at the eye level of the subject is enough. It is amazing how much …
Phil Sharp – Black and White Portraits
Phil Sharp is shooting fashion, editorial and music for the most part. He was born in suburban west London, grew up in the Midlands and after a couple of years of hi-jinks in New York City has now made his home back in London. Sharp also has an extensive Flickr stream of over 2,000+ photos …
Black and White, Surf, Beach and Snow …
Rob Cusick comes from a background of beeing part of what he shoots: Action Sports. He grew up surfing and knows his subjects as well as the local breaks. Cusick graduated in 2008 from the Hallmark Institute of Photography and from that on he is on a mission to document his surroundings. He has a …
Rural Schools in the Andes Mountains of Argentina
Argentina living photographer Irina Werning documented rural schools in the Andes Mountains. The Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range. The schools are true frontier outposts: the few scattered windows looking out to the civilized world that are available in the far off northwest corner of the country, home of the indigenous Kollas. "The …
Echoism Making People Symmetrical
"Echoism" is a project by artist Julian Wolkenstein and plays with the notion of your own identity. What do you look like? What are the things that make you look like you - your identifying features? If you are made symmetrical, do you consider yourself more beautiful, less so, or is it just weird? Or …
