photojojo:

There’s something truly special about a huge city at night. In his Urban Zoom series, Jacob Wagner made use of the trusty long exposure technique to capture the brilliance of the city after dark.

Long Exposure + Urban Metropolis = Urban Zoom

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thestarlighthotel:

Kirsty Mitchell’s late mother Maureen was an English teacher who spent her life inspiring generations of children with imaginative stories and plays. Following Maureen’s death from a brain tumour in 2008, Kirsty channelled her grief into her passion for photography.

She retreated behind the lens of her camera and created Wonderland, an ethereal fantasy world. The photographic series began as a small summer project but grew into an inspirational creative journey.

‘Real life became a difficult place to deal with, and I found myself retreating further into an alternative existence through the portal of my camera,’ said the artist. (read the rest here).

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7knotwind:

Alexander Brodsky
CISTERNA 

The Big City is always a Terra Incognita, regardless of how long one lives within, nor the extent one knows it. It’s studied thoroughly, every corner’s known, yet it withholds thousands of unknown and gorgeous places one’s never to see anyway.

The CISTERNA project is an attempt to express and draw reverence for the Big City, it’s hidden spaces and its constantly vanishing spirit.

Alexander Brodsky

Our times are bound with a strange paradox—we experience obvious deficit  of space yet witness its overproduction. Our city is a perfect example of this.  The endless construction devours the voids, digest the past and creates new realities imposed upon us. These realities often oppress us, deprive us of air, freedom, and moreover—of our right of forming the city, as the cityscape is the basis of social interaction.

Lefebvre wrote that society is born not only in the material, but also in the imaginary space of the city. All of us, together or one by one, build up our cities via our imagination. We learn to find in the countless existing spaces locations called by Lefebvre and Faucault “heterotopic,” which can serve as a testing grounds for various forms of city life.

Alexander Brodsky’s CISTERNA is an example of such experiment. The artist is doing “space production” in the existing space of the cistern—new, other, outstanding. His invasion is almost unnoticeable—few trembling curtains on the  walls of Collector Gallery. This place turns to be free, and this gives us an opportunity to experience the now rare feeling of emptiness, the emptiness as a form, where art steps out of the ideological confines, implied meanings, imposed boundaries. In Russian the void, the emptiness is something let loose and thus capable to let in—let in new stories, events, meanings and us, the spectators, prepared for a new spatial experience.

Yulia Aksenova

photos: Yuri Palmin

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pilferingapples:

odditiesoflife:

Unique Vintage Hand Portraits, 1917-1937

Hands are extremely expressive, communicating both mood and emotion. Each of these portraits from yesteryear are all part of different private collections, some with very interesting stories behind them. 

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This is for ALL MY ARTIST KIN
YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE YOU KNOW WHY THIS IS.

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bbvvss:

rcruzniemiec:

Silver Lake Operations Lake Lefroy, Western Australia, 2007

From the work Residual Landscape by Edward Burtynsky

Nature transformed through industry is a predominant theme in Edward Burtynsky’s work. As he describes it: “These images are meant as metaphors to the dilemma of our modern existence; they search for a dialogue between attraction and repulsion, seduction and fear. We are drawn by desire - a chance at good living, yet we are consciously or unconsciously aware that the world is suffering for our success. Our dependence on nature to provide the materials for our consumption and our concern for the health of our planet sets us into an uneasy contradiction. For me, these images function as reflecting pools of our times.”

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allesandersen:

Alois Kalvoda (1875 - 1934): Skupina olší / A Group of Alders.

Oil, 1897.

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razorshapes:

Olaf Otto Becker

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leslieseuffert:

Natsumi Hayashi

 ”A sweet-looking Japanese girl who, one day, decided to take self-portraits..of herself levitating. She can be spotted in and around Tokyo, equipped with her SLR and her self-timer. When she feels the moment strike, she presses the shutter button down and then, quite literally, “jumps” into place. What I love most about her shots is that they don’t feel forced. Natsumi has a way of making us feel as though she naturally levitates throughout life. When I asked her how others react to her jumping around Tokyo, here is a funny story that she shared. “One day, when I was jumping at a famous sightseeing spot in western Tokyo, workers at a souvenir shop were frightened by how I was jumping. They were whispering things like ‘Is the girl mentally ill’ and ‘Do we need to call the police?’ “So I stopped jumping and apologized to them by saying, ‘I am taking jumping photos for my wedding party’s slide show.’ Their faces turned bright red, and they said things like ‘Oh dear!’ and ‘Congratulations!’ and even ‘Keep jumping!’ 

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brain-food:

Cramped Apartments in Hong Kong

In the middle of last year, The Economist released rankings for the world’s most livable cities, and Hong Kong was found at the top. What many peopledon’t know, however, is that there is a percentage of Hong Kong residents living in rather horrid conditions.

In an attempt to draw attention to the issue, human rights organizationSociety for Community Organizationrecently commissioned a series of photographs showing what a number of unacceptable living spaces look like when viewed from directly overhead. (Here’sa larger versionof the photo above.)

According to the SoCO, over 100,000 people live in tiny “cubicle apartments” in the city. These are 40-square-foot living spaces created by dividing already-small apartments into multiple units.

Residents go about their lives in these confined spaces, sleeping on one corner, eating in another, storing their belongings in a third, and perhaps watching a TV that’s found in a fourth.

SoCO’s wide-angle photographs capture how cramped these spaces really are by showing everything within them in a single frame. The images were likely captured by simply fixing a camera with a wide-angle lens to the ceiling, and then triggering a shot remotely (the photographer cannot be seen in the image).

In each photo is a QR code that directs viewers to a petition to the Hong Kong government. (via PetaPixel)

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razorshapes:

Gigi Cifali

Absence of Water (2012)

These images are part of a project called “Absence of Water”, which documents derelict lidos and baths in England. The Series is an historical archive and draws attention to the increasing number of public swimming pools that have closed in the last few decades. Deserted of human life these decaying landscapes provoke a profound feeling of human absence and nostalgia for a lost past. Having been built in the late Victorian period, public lidos and baths were at the peak of their popularity in the 1930s. Gradually, living conditions and tastes have changed, resulting in a drop of attendances, leaving the public pools uneconomical to run. Many fell into decay and were demolished. Symbols of civic and architectural pride in Victorian times, today only a handful of them remain as a representation of bygone era.

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