Photographer Henry Hargreaves created this amazing series, called Band Riders. In it he explores the requests made by the film and music world’s elite on how to organize their dressing room, and what kinds of food and drink to provide backstage during a show. In the case of Frank Sinatra – the image on this [...]
We love photo essays here at Apowl. But we love photo essays about the unexpected more – as is the case of writer and surfer Gai Shtienberg and his documenting of the life of an ultra-orthodox Jewish man’s life as he balances his devotion to religion and his irrepressible affinity for surfing. Shtienberg followed 34-year-old [...]
As far as theme parks go, there isn’t really anything too surprising or out of the ordinary going on here at the Hacienda Nápoles. But take a closer look and you’ll realise this isn’t no ordinary theme park. The Hacienda Nápoles theme park is situated on grounds that once belonged to Colombia’s (and perhaps the [...]
Boxing has fallen a long way over the past 100 years. Back when men were men, boxing matches were among the most celebrated and attended sporting events across America. The Library of Congress has a jackpot of boxing photos from the early 1910s that perfectly capture the strangeness and simplistic beauty of the bygone sport. [...]
If you were looking for a more interesting way of capturing photos, why not strap your camera to a kite? This is a relatively old form of photography, but one that has, in recent years taken on a new dimension, thanks to ambitions of a few keen amateurs and advancements in digital technology. Over on [...]
The Scenic Route to Nowhere, Happy End #3.1, Mexico, 2010 / Grumman Albatross, no official report as used for drug trafficking, locals say all survived. Photographer Dietmar Eckell tells the story of a genuine miracle. In his series titled ‘Happy End’ he captures the moments in aviation history where planes went down and everyone walked [...]
In eastern Russia, a couple of photographers, known by the names Liudmila and Andrey, adventured up the fiery mountain of Plosky Tolbachik, which has been spewing lava after being dormant for 36 years. They set about capturing the size and power of the lava flows – but for non-scientists like us, it’s a change to [...]
Images Connect is an international photo project by photographer Henny Boogert that explores the similarities and differences between the places students call home around the world. Boogert visited 10 countries to capture all of his images: Kenya, Russia, Moldova, Cuba, Bolivia, the Philippines, India, Hong Kong, Italy and his home country of the Netherlands. And [...]
Photographer Vincent Glielmi sheds a fascinating light on the people who attend the comic conferences across the world. These people are the ones who come dressed as their favourite characters from books, comics, and films – but in this setting take on a far stranger and more unusual context. Click the pic to see more.
The winners of Sony’s World Photography Awards have been announced, and the winner of the Current Affairs category was Russia-born Ilya Pitalev, a photographer who works for RIA Novosti, a Russian and international news agency. His series on North Korea reveals how the regime celebrates it’s on going dominance of the state, and the lengths [...]
