Tom Robinson is an English photographer born in 1981 who finds himself most at home in parts of the world that are nothing like his home. Together with his Canon 5D II, he has travelled extensively through South East Asia, South & Central America and the result is a collection of stunning photographs that immediately makes you want to pack your bags.
Dutch Scarlett Hooft Graafland graduated from the Royal Academy of Art in Hague in 1999. She then completed postgraduate studies in Belzalel, Jerusalem and a Master’s in sculpture at Parsons, New York. But, what really has caught the world’s eyes are not her sculptures but her photographs. Graafland is fascinated by remote, unusual and sometimes even inhospitable locations which she documents with her analogue camera. She then prints them straight from the negative and never uses Photoshop. Some places she has gone are Salar de Uyunu in the Bolivian Andes, the largest salt desert in the world and the Arctic plains of northern Canada where she travelled with the Inuit across the sea ice of Igloolik. She has also taken photographs of Southern China and the lava fields of Iceland.
Based in Lawrence, Kansas, 25-year-old photographer and video director Niel Krug has already made a great reputation for himself. His work often touches on a rough, vintage, psychedelic feel as he talently captures the simple beauty of
landscapes as well as the female form. Over the years he has collaborated with bands such as My Chemical Romance, Ratatat, Devendra Banhart, Ladytron, The Horrors and First Aid Kit among others. What you see up here though are three photographs from his series ‘Children of the Light’. Yummy!
Isabel Martinez photography is a reflexion of different aspects of human experience. Perception is a recurring theme within her practice. She approaches the medium as a means of visual transcription for ideas reflecting come to the forefront of much of her work.
Ahn Sun Mi is a young Korean photographer who lives and works in Paris. Through her self portraits she invites the viewer to her private universe where the bounderies between dream and reality are difficult to find. Slightly surrealistic, very much imaginative and completely delicious.
Alison Brady is a New York-based photographer whose work is both compelling, funny and sometimes disturbing. She is inspired by ‘the faded middle-class coziness’ as well as desires and sexual compulsions. Brady exhibits nationally and internationally and her work is featured in many private and public collections such as Elton John’s collection and the West Collection.
When I first saw ‘Stellar’ I knew I had stumbled across a little bit of pixie dust. And dust it was (although mixed with confetti) as I later found out when I started to read about this series of mind-boggling animated GIFs. The artist behind it is called Ignacio Torres, a Texas-born photographer and filmmaker who set out to visualize the theory that ‘all humans are made of cosmic matter as a result of a star’s death’. Read more…
The amazing photos you see up here are not the result of Photoshop but were made with infrared aerial surveillance film, originally developed for military reconnaissance. They were taken by Richard Mosse, a 30-year-old photographer from Ireland who chose to use this film out of its normal context in order to explore how photography represents a place like Congo, a country ridden by conflict and war. Infrared light is invisible to the human eye, and so the work alludes metaphorically to the conflict’s lack of visibility in our global consciousness, as well as (paradoxically) this endless war’s over-saturation in the mass media.
The My little Dead Dick is the name Taiwanese-American Patrick Tsai and Chinese Madi Ju photo diary which lasted from the summer of 2006 to the summer of 2007 – exactly one year from the first day they met. Patrick Tsai and Madi Ju continued working and living together until their break-up which happened on the same day as the big earthquake in Western China in the summer of 2008. Today they are both renown photographers with different individual projects, but to me this is still the most beautiful thing they’ve ever done.
Russian digital designer Anatoly Zenkov boomed on Internet when he released his IOGraph (formerly known as MousePath), a simple app which he created to brighten up routine work on the computer. But, what we like the most are his photographic series ‘Persistent Pyramides’.
New York-based photography studio Floto + Warner consists of Jeremy Floto and Cassandra Warner, a married couple making excellent photography togheter. Their colorful series ‘Smoke’ was done in abandoned buildings in Nevada’s bare but beautiful desert. We love it!
Lissy Elle is a young photographer based in Ontario, Canada whose dreamy photography leaves few untouched. A definitive must-stop on Flickr.
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