Korean artist Jiyen Lee has created a series of hypnotizing digital collages that present people going up and down stairs, as seen from a bird’s eye view. Each puzzling assemblage features an unidentifiable traffic of pedestrians on an endless journey. It also remains unclear whether they are actually ascending or descending the steps in front [...]
Rut Mackel’s “The Ugly Truth” explores the ugliness and the beauty that exist within each of us. For the project the models were asked to hold a piece of framed clear glass and press their face against it to get various face distortions. Speaking about the project Rut said, “Face is a symbol of personal [...]
In the 90′s, New York-based photographer John Schabel took on a voyeuristic project involving people seated on planes, as seen through the aircrafts’ porthole windows. The series, titled Passengers, reveals intriguing portraits of the unknowing travellers powerlessly waiting for their flight to takeoff. Some of them appear to be anxiously preparing themselves for the trip [...]
French photographer and film director Éric Valli has spent the last 20 years trekking in the unforgiving high Himalayas, with his trusty Leica always at hand. The photographer, who has spent most of his career working for National Geographic Magazine and The Sunday Times, is a specialist at capturing far-flung places. The focus on this [...]
In Europe and the US, the concept of street photography tends to eschew visions of hipsters taking pictures of hipsters looking particularly hipsterish. However, over in Africa, the meaning has developed into something a lot more poignant as this series by Anthony Kurtz shows. “In the summer of 2011, I volunteered with an organization in [...]
Spanish photographer Eduardo Rubio has the arduous job of traveling the world documenting the people and places he sees. Over on his Behance page he’s created a category called ‘Life’ in which he presents the images he has taken that most capture us in our myriad forms. It’s a moving series that helps remind us [...]
When photographer Emiliano Granado finally set foot on dry land after five days aboard the MS Explorer of the Seas the first thing he said was “Thank God that’s over”. With a camera full of photographs and a thankfulness for getting home those words would go on to become the title of a series that [...]
Have you ever wondered why humans have a groove above the upper lip that seems to have no purpose whatsoever? This groove, known as the philtrum, tends to go un-noticed unless it is not completely formed, resulting in a cleft palette. With the help of a CGI created from high quality human embryonic scans during [...]
Resilience, determination and good old fashioned chutzpah intermingle in this tale of age defying octogenarians. This documentary featuring ageing table tennis champions with a shared age of 703 is a heart warming ode to the perils of growing old. Eight entrants compete for the World Championship Ping Pong title in Inner Mongolia. And they’re all [...]
Darragh Casey’s current series ‘Shelving the Body’, focuses on the traditional role of the shelf as a device to display, portraying people alongside objects relevant to their own lives and personalities. Via his website: “This project aims to disrupt our habitual relationships with furniture and reassess the idea of the ‘user’. This subversion, initiated through [...]
