Marilyn Mugot Captures the Eerie Grandeur of Hong Kong at Night
Like any living thing, a city looks different when it sleeps. The usually populated streets are suddenly sparse and laden with a dark, voluminous void. And there is poetry in...
Category "Photography"
Surf’s Up: Warren Keelan’s Stunning Seascapes Will Make You Yearn for Summer
The sea is an incredible place. It’s almost like an entity – vast, undulating, everchanging. It exudes a feeling of power and an uncanny calm. Sometimes to swim in the...
Ken Hermann and the Art of Controlled Explosions
I’m hesitant to say it, but explosions are damn cool. Everyone likes marvelling at fireworks in a cold field, where your breath hangs in front of you like mist. The...
Nicolas Rivals Lights Up the Night with La Linea Roja
A beacon in the cool, dark night. Warm and bright, filled with drama, these lights transform the space around. French photographer Nicolas Rivals installed these red lights in wild, natural...
Take a Walk Down Alphabet Street with Lola Dupre
Producing a typographic series is a staple job of graphic designers. Aside from drawing letterforms digitally or on paper, designers occasionally find characters in existing objects, or build them somehow....
The Sublimely Beautiful World of Rosie Anne Prosser
Photographer Rosie Anne Prosser grew up on her parent’s farm, which has been in the family for 100 years. The countryside has always been a feature in her life and...
National Portrait Gallery to Exhibit 100 Portraits by William Eggleston
William Eggleston is widely credited as being the original proponent of colour in art photography. The myth goes: before then, art photography was monochrome. His seminal exhibition showed the world...
Getty Images Unveils the Power of Stock Photography
‘Millions of Images. Endless Possibilities’ is one of the most inventive advertising campaigns I’ve seen this year. It was created by Brazilian agency AlmapBBDO for their longtime partner Getty Images...
National Geographic’s ‘Found’ is a Veritable Treasure Trove of History
National Geographic has long been renowned for its spectacular and awe-inspiring photography. To coincide with their 125th anniversary back in 2013, they launched Found, a blog showcasing a wide array...
All the Trees are Pink, and the Sky is Cyan
These photographs by New York-based photographer and graphic designer Paolo Pettigiani present Central Park in a novel way. At first they appear to show the trees full of blossom, but...
Martin Parr For One is Celebrating the Selfie Stick. Or is He?
The selfie stick has become a ubiquitous symbol of tourism, and to some is equally indicative of the endemic narcissism at the heart of it, that endeavours to place ourselves...
Rueben Wu’s Landscapes are Lit by an Otherworldly Light
Rueben Wu is a talented chap. When I stumbled across his excellent photographs I found he was also a founding member of electronic pop band Ladytron – hailed by Brian...
Welcome to the Stardust Motel: Sunny Memories of Holidays Gone By
Anna Carey must have an excellent memory. She hasn’t seen the Australian motels her models are based upon since childhood, but builds them retrospectively in extraordinary detail, happily allowing her...
Satoru Aoyama’s Embroidered Photographs Bring the Past to Life
Black and white photographs perpetuate a myth about the past, that is understandable from a psychological point of view. They are drained of colour, and colour is such a signifier...
The Curious Beauty of Photochrom Postcards
Photochrom, invented in the 1880s by Hans Jakob Schmid, an employee of Swiss printing company Orell Gessner Füssli, was one of the early techniques for colourising black and white negatives....
Now Here’s a Challenge: Walk Across Ireland Without Passing a Pub
Back in 2012, artist David Blackmore set himself the seemingly impossible challenge of walking from Mizen Head in the south of Ireland to Malin Head at the northernmost point, without...
Innovative Duo is Breathing New Life into Pinhole Photography
Anyone with a keen interest in photography will know that a simple pinhole camera can be constructed from a whole host of household objects. And, providing the basic principles of...
Do Look Down: Sebastian Erras, Instagram Shoegazer
German photographer Sebastian Erras has travelled to some of the most beautiful cities in the world; Paris, Vienna, and Rome to name a few. And while the vast majority of...
Colour Photography from a World in Black and White
There’s an interesting retrospective of Saul Leiter’s photographic work on at The Photographers’ Gallery in London. As someone who shied from the limelight, you may not have heard of Saul...
Where Real Meets Surreal
It may be hard to believe, but a place exists between reality and surreality. And Erik Johansson can take us there. Fuelled by his unbridled imagination, this Swedish photographer tears...