“First impressions were of awe,” says photographer Adam Docker. “You feel like you have arrived in some long lost tribe only ever seen on [BBC documentary] Planet Earth or read about in a Jules Verne book.” Docker, who took these stunning photographs, recounts his first visit to a Bajau sea gypsy village on the island [...]
In his photographic series Vanishing Spirits Phoenix-based photographer Ernie Button explores what happens after the last drop is drunk in his macro photographs of evaporated single-malt Scotch. Not unlike the recently featured work of Jason Tozer, Button turns the minute details of stained glass into curious landscapes and colourful terrain. Click the pic to see [...]
Delving deep into the mining communities of the American West, photographer Bryan Schutmaat has captured the aging locals and the atmosphere of the once thriving, now dilapidated mining towns where they reside. Cold, white light is thrown all over raggy hillsides, beaten up mobile homes and weathered faces in what is an incredibly moving series. [...]
Tokyo’s stylish Harajuku district will soon be home to an unusual pop-up photo booth—customers will walk away not with photos, but with 3D printed figurines of themselves. The customer is first 3D scanned in a process that requires them to stand still for 15 minutes. A 3D model of the customer is then refined on [...]
Australian photographer Shantanu Starick is trying to travel the world, for free. How? We’ll let Starick explain. “As a professional photographer I’m trading my services for a few days, photographing any subject, in return for the necessities: Food Shelter Transport Occasionally people trade personal necessities, items of clothing, equipment, flights etc. This is discussed before [...]
After spending a year in New York, Thai photographer Benz Thanachart found Thailand’s anti social subway rides needed to be changed. So he came up with Smartphone, a project designed to bring out a reaction in people. “I got into the subway, shouted out a random word that is completely unrelated to the situation and [...]
In 2009, the British Council invited Olivia Arthur to teach a two-week photography workshop to a group of women in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Arthur has spent much of her photographic career documenting facets of the East/West divide, but was unsure whether or not this teaching post would lead to a project of her own. Nevertheless, [...]
Guangdong is considered to be the home of the world’s manufacturing. The province’s economy is roughly the same size as Turkey or Indonesia’s and makes up 12 per cent of China’s total output. But, beneath the surface of this industrial powerhouse is a more human story. One that involves thousands of migrants from the rural [...]
We were brushing up on our photography history recently and came across this little gem of an image. The oldest known photograph of a person, 1838 – a Parisian getting his shoes shined shot by Louis Daguerre. It was taken in the middle of a busy street, but because the exposure time was over 10 [...]
The Byberry mental hospital was a turn of the 20th century institute for the mentally ill. It has since become a byword for brutality in healthcare. The hospital was turned over to the state in 1936 and was renamed the Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry. Conditions in the hospital during this time were poor, with [...]
