Collections of portraits taken from hidden places around the world. Take a look at these portraits and ask the simple question- why do they look the way they look? There are now officially over 7 billion people in this world and each one has a story that is reflected with each wrinkle and each expression. You’d be surprised at what you’ll find. In this world of 7 billion, everyone is interesting.
Was looking through more of Irene Werning’s work and I just HAD to post these. These posts are a simply comparison between old photos and new. Simply fascinating to see how people have grown. It really makes you think about their stories and how they have come to look like the way they do. Check it out
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I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today… A few months ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future.
2010 ONGOING PROJECT…
by the way, this project made me realise Im a bit obsessive…WILL BE IN NEW DELHI, INDIA IN NOVEMBER WITH THE PROJECT. LOOKING FOR SUBJECTS THERE, PLEASE EMAIL ME YOUR PICS TO backtothefuturepics@gmail.com
What an epic fail.
So i arrived to Shanghai fashion week and although all the posts/magazines/posters say that SH fashion week was open to the public, it certainly was not! So I am super super annoyed but oh well. What can you do.
Here is a great set of photographs done by Irena Werning caleld the ‘Little School in the Andes’
These rural schools in the Andes Mountains of Argentina 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 boys and girls that attend them are isolated in their communities and cut off from the urban civilization of an otherwise fast-pace developing country. Through teachers and books they get an imperfect glimpse of that remote urban culture. For some, emigration to the cities is a future option but for many their future is tied to their land, their families and their ancestral routes. A few very powerful routines dominate the daily existence of these students aside from working the land with their parents every day after school. Football for boys and long hair for girls function as status symbols replacing those consuming goods and articles that dominate teenage life in the cities of the globalized world.
I am absolutely blown back by these sets of photos.
Dutch photographer Gerco de Ruijter recently got in touch with an extraordinary series of aerial photographs called Baumschule—some of which, he explains, were taken using a camera mounted on a fishing rod.
The series features “32 photographs of tree nurseries and grid forests in the Netherlands.”
“How abstract can a landscape become while remaining a landscape?” de Ruijter asked himself. “I tried to find the answer to this question during extended travels, by searching for a fully natural landscape, not manmade, and lacking any cultural presence. I found these ‘natural-born’ sites in New Mexico—deserts formed by rocks and sand and all forms of erosion. A barren landscape, too, with scarce vegetation.”
absolutely inspiring. I will definitely be taking pictures when i get to italy. TOO EXCITED
He describes how the process worked: “On top of this rod is a 2.5″ x 2.5″ camera with a wide-angle lens. A self-timer is adjusted to give me enough time to telescope the rod and manoeuver the camera above the subject. The frame of the image begins in front of my own shoes and measures roughly 30′ x 30′.”
photos via bldgblog
Luke Bynre
dreaming of my travel photos
Its 2:27 am right now and amongst these past 4 days I’ve only napped, not slept, and I have seriously wiped out the whole Netflix collection of instant movies in order to keep me awake. Lets see amongst the good movies I’ve seen are: An Education, The education of Charlie Banks, War Dance, About a Boy (OK…), City Island, I like Killing Flies (AWESOME), Cleopatra and I’ve rewatched Moulin Rouge and Chicago. please don’t ever watch Blood:the last vampire and Dragon hunters.
Back to the old grind.
see you soon
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daydreaming
stumbled upon these on 500 photographers, a weblog of some of the most amazing photos i’ve ever seen. each series tells such an interesting story.Especially now that i’m taking that architectural photography, good photography, good prints are truly hard to come by.
Carrie Levy
Carrie Levy, 1979, USA, studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York and later received an MFA from the Royal College of Art in London. At a young age she released her book 51 Months. 51 months was the length of the prison sentence her father received when Carrie was sixteen, during this period she started photographing her life and the effects of her fathers incarceration. Her photography evolved and became more and more conceptual, however the experience of her father’s incarceration keeps coming back in her projects. Her series Untitled was still based upon the stories of her father. In her latest series she has photographed men in submissive, vulnerable and passive role. She shows us that females can as well objectify the male body. Carrie has exhibited her work extensively troughout the world. The following images come from the series You Before All, Impaired and Untitled.
Sohei Nishino, 1982, Japan, has made 100 thousands of images, yet only has 12 photographs in his portfolio. The way he works only permits him to finish three images in one year. He walks in a city for a month or longer, photographing all the buildings from every possible angle. In the following months he hand prints a selection of several thousand images to piece them all together with scissors and glue to make one single map of that city. It resembles an aerial map. However, the map is not a precise geographic recreation, but shows all the iconic features and landmarks. In the last stage of his work he photographs the end result, creating one image that is full of detail. He used the same technique for two images in color that show an imaginary nightscape and an Island. The following images are from the series Diorama Map and the images Night and i-Land.
Nathalie Daoust
Nathalie Daoust, 1977, Canada, concentrates in her photographic work on unveiling the secrets hidden beneath the apparent stability of life. Daoust first got recognized in 1997 with her project New York Hotel Story which was published as a book. Since then she traveled the world to Japan, Brazil and Switzerland amongst other places to create conceptual projects. In her series Tokyo Hotel Story she explores female sexuality and subversion of gender stereotypes. She spend several months in one of the biggest S&M ‘love hotels’ in order to show the “universal desire to escape reality and create fantasy worlds that often oscillate between dream, reality and perversion.” The following images come from the series Tokyo Hotel Story, Frozen in Time, Switzerland and Entre Quatre Murs, Berlin.
Txema Salvans
Txema Salvans, Spain, 1971, is a documentary photographer with a special interest in how we humans spend our free time. He enjoys the positive interaction he has with his subjects making it possible for him to get a look at the physical and mental spaces of leisure where everyone is looking for happiness. His series Spanish Hits (De Carretera) is a journey through the Mediterranean coast stopping at the places where entire families enjoy their leisures on a small beach between the sea and concrete. In his series Spanish Roads he focused on the suppliers of leisure. On the outskirts of the city he photographed prostitutes and other suppliers of services by the road in unhabitable spaces that are nonetheless lived in. The following images come from the series Spanish Roads, Spanish Hits and Welcome Aboard.
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