I'm amazed by Kodak's first digital camera from 1975. Instead of saving the data on a card it used a standard cassette. It took 23 seconds to record the digitized image to the cassette. The design is beautiful too, only engineers can design this way.
Large-scale color photographs from 2005 to 2006 reflect the ritual adornment and spirituality of masquerade in Nigeria, Benin and Burkina Faso in West Africa. These portraits of masqueraders build on Galembo's work of the past twenty years photographing the rituals and religious culture in Nigeria, Brazil, Cuba, Jamaica and Haiti, as well as the homegrown custom of Halloween in the United States.
Thilafushi was created to keep Maldives pure, but with tons of garbage arriving by boat every day, its toxicity threatens the existence of the Maldivian paradise itself. Photo by Mohamed Muha.
Arthur Pollock has been shooting photographs in New England for the past thirty years and at The Boston Herald for the past twenty. He was featured in Hamburger Eyes and came out with a teaser zine last year which was a run-up to his first published volume of work due out in 2010 on Unpiano Books.
Poul Beckmann was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1949 and then emigrated along with his family to Canada. He uses a 70s-era macro lenses with an exceptional ability to record detail and reveal features often missed: the glitter of compound eyes, fingerlike appendages flanking the mouth, coats of iridescent fuzz.
Joel Tettamanti was born 1977 in Cameroon and lives now in Switzerland. He studied graphic design and photography in Lausanne and then went on to work extensively throughout Europe, especially in Switzerland and France.
The last entry this year. A photo project by Photographer Jon Feinstein from NYC, called Fast Food. Happy new year everybody.
"There's this weird relationship that we as Americans have with fast food," says Feinstein, who titled each image with the given item's fat content, in grams. "I made a project where the food mostly looks disgusting, yet some of it is still strangely enticing—probably because the branding is so embedded in our psyches." He adds, "I may eat it on a lower frequency now."
This is a relatively boring interview with French Photographer Christian Caujolle. What makes this video still worth looking is the interviewer him self, nobody less than il maestro Enrico Bossan asking the questions to be asked.
An exhibition of photographs by Dean Rogers opens this weekend at the Wapping Project in London, depicting the locations where nine of our cultural heroes were killed in car crashes and what they must have seen in their very last seconds.
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The largest tower, at 808 meters when completed in approximately 2010, will stand in Dubai, of course. British photographer David Hobcote photographed the work in progress from a helicopter.
Paolo Verzone (VU) followed Michel Platini wherever he went at the end of January. The UEFA president's schedule was at the time mainly filled by an official visit in Russia for the final of the Independent States Community and Baltic countries Cup in St Petersburg. See it here
