Photoshop disasters

Couldn’t wait to post this one. The name explains itself. “Photoshop disasters“. Funny disasters with photoshop. Have a great time! 

“OMG dude look as Rachel Bilson’s legs they’re uhhh like totally whoa. Yeahhhh! (sound of smoke being inhaled). Whoa! she’s like uhhh some sort of sideshow. You know what would be (more smoke-related noises) totally amazing: we should uhhhh put like an inexplicably fake umm shadow behind her, so she’s like a warp-legged captain of a rubber sheet. Whoa! Yo Art Director didn’t we order a pizza?”

Gregory Crewdson

In Aperture latest issue we find an interesting interview with Gregory Crewdson on one of his more recent projects “Beneath the roses”. The article handles the way he works behind the scene and how he produces his photograps.

Kyle Cassidy’s “Armed America”

© Kyle Cassidy

Kyle Cassidy travelled for more then 15.000 miles across the US with one question: “Why do you own a gun?” This is a good question because most of these guns are not easily reconcilable with the notion of self-defence. Their place should be more like in the Armed Forces. “Armed America” holds all those answers why they keep them at home.

“Zima” by Luis Belmonte Diaz

Yeterday, I came across the work of Luis Belmonte Diaz’s “Zima” (winter) photographs. I love the way he capters this longtime winter around the city.

© Luis Belmonte Diaz

Also other series such as “Gdansk” are worth looking at.

© Luis Belmonte Diaz

More of his work you can see here.

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Zesde Fotobiënnale in Luik

Op de Fotobiënnale in Luik tonen bijna vijftig hedendaagse fotografen hun kijk op de wereld. Een goede gelegenheid om stil te staan bij het aanzien van die wereld – en bij de stand van zaken in de fotografie.

Fotobiënnale Luik gaat over de hele wereld
door Duncan Liefferink

Territoria. Dat is het thema van de Zesde Internationale Biënnale van Fotografie en Beeldende Kunsten in Luik. Het is een brede paraplu waar heel veel onder past. Vijf deeltentoonstellingen op verschillende locaties in de stad, ieder voor zich al van volwassen omvang, belichten verschillende aspecten van het thema. Jonge en gevestigde fotografen uit alle windstreken geven hun kijk op de mens in zijn dagelijkse omgeving, op de stad en ommelanden en op de grote wereld van oorlog en machtspolitiek. Hoe breed de paraplu ook is, het valt niet mee iedereen eronder te houden, maar er is veel moois te zien in Luik.

Eroticism + Polaroid = Tickl

In their own words : “Sweet, unadulterated eroticism, from cover to cover, with no interruptions for newsflashes or other irritations: this is what TicKL stands for.”
Find out more about this initiative by clicking picture below

Guide to Unique Photography

The Belgium Issue: Intro

Our neighbours. Belgium. A wonderful country. A country populated with Flemish and Wallonians, feuding over the language. A country full of melancholy, a place where time seems to stand still. Drive from Wallonia to France and you will see why. Belgium, a country with illustrative language and statues that can tell a tale or two. Poetic and surreal, but above all, a country with phenomenal photographers. For us, the inspiration for our Belgium Issue. A combination of up-and-coming talent and well-established photographers such as Stephan Vanfleteren and Carl De Keyzer, with strong national as well as international orientated work. Enjoy.

Jochem Rijlaarsdam, Peter Bas Mensink, Roy Kahmann. GUP

Anti-terrorism campaign

Hasn’t the Metropolitan Police (London, UK) taken lessons from the past? If you ask me, this is more like fear mongering propaganda. Below you can see their latest “Anti terrorism” campaign.

Whippets

 
© Jo Longhurst

I came across this series of pictures by Jo Longhurst a few weeks ago. Although I’m not a big fan of dog pictures like say William Wegman and Ellion Erwit did make them, these took me by surprise.

“My work with the British show Whippet - a dog bred to an ideal standard - focuses particularly on the evolution of the visual image of the Whippet, and the construction of human identity through the shaping of the figure of the dog.