With its venerable origins dating back to the earliest days of photography as we know it, the pinhole camera is a storied if not somewhat antiquated device. But in the hands of a master, its former glory is once again rekindled, and photographer Robert Mann is just that. He was generous enough to share...
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Jakarta is a city that doesn’t let one breath. Cars, motorcycles, noise, chaos, mess, dirt, smells, poverty, wealth, luxury, markets, malls and more malls, people, pollution – all mixed in a shaker. The Picnic Kit project is a result of photographer Sebastian Friedman observing and feeling the beat of the city. Completed during a...
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A blaze of light and the haze of sky, married to water in a sport too kingly for kings – photographer Miah Klein captures the ecstatic ache of big-wave surfing in a palate born from the sea itself. And while his action shots stir and his tube angles thrill, there is a reverence in...
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Since time immemorial, much of civilization’s most poignant art has occupied the nebulous crossroads of the sacred and the secular. New York artist Meg Hitchcock plumbs those depths one mile deeper with her inspiring collages of symmetric designs composed of holy texts. Borrowing in the most literal sense of the word from the scriptures...
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Add a dash of irreverence, two heaping tablespoons of wit, some primary color, and a burst of sardonic irony, and what do you get? No, not your grandmother’s babka recipe, but the magnificent images of the Russian artist Skinny Gaviar. But be warned, these clever toyings with the banalities of the everyday belie deep...
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Photos by Margaux Perrier 1. Destruction: Action de mettre à bas un édifice ou un ensemble architectural réalisé selon un plan déterminé (cf. démolition, dévastation, ruine). 2. Concret: Qui est solide par suite de précipitation, sublimation, fixation (cf. concrétion A). 3. Architecture: Art, science et technique de la construction, de la restauration, de l’aménagement...
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While many a photographer may wallow in sunshine, there are some equally at home dallying in the velveteen lack there-of. One such artist is Carles Rodrigo, a lover of light, but not yet wedded to it. In his series “Night Time,” we join him on a nocturnal jaunt to the dark side of the...
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To experience Amy Guidry’s series “In Our Veins” is to be treated to a vision, one in which a distinctly Western, distinctly American landscape, typically so stark and barren, is suddenly and surreally tenanted by a menagerie of viscera and animate remains. We find ourselves transported to a realm in which the borders between...
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