Pieter Hugo shot the series ‘The Hyena & Other Men’ in Nigeria. Pieter was captivated by the first pictures of the ‘hyena men’ that he came across randomly. He went to live with them on the periphery of Abuja in a shantytown – a group of men, a little girl, three hyenas, four monkeys and [...]
Chris Buck has built a career creating images that fall outside the box. But his series of celebrities, titled Presence, currently on view at Foley Gallery in New York City until Feb. 24, could be considered to be “outside the frame” as well. In essence, Buck plays a game of hide-and-seek with his famous subjects, [...]
On April 23, 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke took his third and final jaunt on the moon. He and fellow astronaut John Young took the Lunar Rover exploring in the Descartes Highlands, and while they were there, Duke left a token on the surface of the Moon — a portrait of his family. The [...]
Michael Wolf has done what we all have done ever since builders started putting houses, and their windows closer towards each other. The German born photographer, currently living in Hong Kong has created a series called Window Watching – in which he used his skills as a photographer to capture what his neighbours get up [...]
Dave Brown is probably best known for playing Bollo the gorilla in The Mighty Boosh, but he is also a graphic designer and photographer. He has a new exhibition of portraits of 50 well known comedians at London’s Strand Gallery. Entitled Tough Crowd, the exhibition features the likes of Adam Buxton, Bill Bailey, Julian Barratt, [...]
It is true that we live in an age where film projectors are switching to digital and people are no longer needed to run them, so New York City based photographer Joseph O. Holmes decided to take photos of the people working, what he calls “The Booth.” Taking over a year and traveling to theatres [...]
The Great Smog of ’52 or Big Smoke was a severe air pollution event that affected London during December 1952. A period of cold weather, combined with an anticyclone and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants mostly from the use of coal to form a thick layer of smog over the city. It lasted from Friday [...]
As the world’s largest online retailer, Amazon needs somewhere to put all of those products. The solution? Giant warehouses. Eighty to be exact. Strategically located near key shipping hubs around the world. The warehouses themselves are massive, with some over 1.2 million square feet in size (111,484 sq m). And at the heart of this [...]
French photographer Stephane Vetter captured this outstanding time-lapse of the night sky using a Sigma 8 mm fish-eye lens, meaning that what you see in the video is a true representation of the entire visible sky. Titled Leonid and Zodiacal Light, the brief but jaw-dropping clip was shot November 17th of this year and includes [...]
Dunescape is a collection of beautifully abstract photos of the Namib Desert by photographer Shawn van Eeden. The series exhibits a number of images that highlight the undulating sand dunes of the vast African desert. The way the sunlight beams down on the waves of dry lands results in a brilliant play of light, which [...]
