Recently in Needs Your Attention Category
The Morning News is featuring Hidden and Unfamiliar a terribly interesting series of photographs by Taryn Simon from her new show and book and an interview with the artist.
In her new show and book, “An American Index” (recently on display at The Photographers’ Gallery, London), she goes about documenting secret places in America that have rarely been seen by the public eye: the bureau of engraving and printing, a cryogenics facility, a hymenoplasty, a site for testing fireworks.
Definitely worth checking out.
I saw the link to The Explorers by Jennifer Zwick in my friend Kevin's delicious feed and I'm so glad that I did. It's an interesting short series with an even more interesting behind the scenes blog from when the series was created.
Lee & Sachi spent 2006 traveling around the world. They documented their experiences in 29 countries both in words & images on their blog. The images include some breathtaking panoramic pictures. Well worth checking out.
See their Flickr feed for larger versions of the panoramas.
via DSLR Blog
Jason Hawkes does amazing aerial photography. File Magazine is presenting a collection of his work and much of it is breathtaking. However I like this shot he took for a commercial advertising job of 400 Toyota Yaris cars making a giant St George's Cross. The effect is very cool.
Farm Worker What a great shot. The green of the crop rows and the tiny worker in the corner are just mesmerizing.
Blow Up This is an incredibly beautiful sunset shot. The silhouetted pier and fisherman are just wonderful.
The colors, tone and mood in this photo are inredibe. The house doesn't look haunted to me though, it looks sad. The last rays of the sun just coming through off frame make me think of the house in happier times when it was inhabited with (hopefully) happy people. Now it's looks sad and alone, without even ghosts to keep it company.
Rumor has it that cat pictures are the most boring and cliched photos on all the internet. This one doesn't come close to falling into that category. The detail, sharpness and expression are incredible.
This is a gorgeous, peaceful moment preserved.
Nuke La Louche (great name, excellent movie) captured some great stuff from Mardi Gras parades, specifically the Knights of Chaos floats (hopefully I've got that right) that feature George W. Bush leading everyone into hell and Michael Brown, Kathleen Blanco and Ray Nagin stirring up toxic gumbo in the Super Dome. Biting social and political commentary in the midst of a party is just the way I like it.
Also, read this column by Chris Rose in the Times-Pacayune.
