Luigi Bonaventura’s “Behind the Edge” is a series of photographs documenting the vibrant, eye-catching facades of hotels in Jesolo Beach, a town in Venice, Italy. Sorry Bognor Regis, you were in the running, but your drab 1950s utopia just wasn’t what Luigi was looking for. Photographed in primarily static, symmetrical compositions, the buildings appear as [...]
In September 2010, visual artist and filmmaker Rä di Martino set out on a quest to photograph and document old abandoned film sets in the North African deserts. The project had started when she discovered that it was common practice to abandon these sets without tearing them down, leaving them fully intact and crumbling over [...]
For her project titled “Cut Food”, New York-based still life and food photographer Beth Galton, in collaboration with food stylist Charlotte Omnès, created a series of still-lifes showcasing dynamic cross sections of packaged food. “This series was inspired by an assignment in which we were asked to cut a burrito in half for a client.” [...]
With his photographic series “Things Come Apart & Disassembly Series,” Todd McLellan dismantles objects and pieces of machinery, like this bike, to reveal the hidden beauty within. The stunning visual creations will be published in a book, to be brought out by Thames & Hudson later this month. But you can check out more by [...]
We love behind-the-scenes photography, especially when it’s a film we’re so fond of. Over on Vintage Everyday, they’ve unearthed shots from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The film shot in 1973, followed the fortune of Sir Galahad and his journey into the nether regions of England on a holy quest. We particularly love the [...]
What the World Eat is an exciting photographic series on consumption habits across the world. Put together by artist Peter Menzel, he travelled across the globe visiting different countries to photograph families and what they eat for a week. The snapshots have all gone into a book called “Hungry Planet”. Fubiz has lots more.
Photographer Daniella Zalcman recently produced a series entitled New York + London – where she combined shots from both the cities to create these beautiful collages of the two great metropolises. Zalcman’s personal love letter to New York and London can be purchased in a limited edition book, which can be found on Kickstarter. Click [...]
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 [...]
