Held at the prestigious Palais des Festivals, Cannes, between the 21st and 25th April 2008, The Sony World Photography Awards proudly give tribute to photographers around the globe in all categories. From landscape to music, photojournalism to fashion, the Sony World Photography Awards showcases the world’s best images taken by the most renowned photographers as well as the yet undiscovered.
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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
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.
© 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.
Everything old is new again, especially when it comes to these very retro inspired sunglasses. Where normally tinted UV blocking lenses would cut the glare of the sun, these “Reed Screen Sunglasses” by Sang Jang Lee use the ancient eastern practice of reed screens to block the sun’s blinding glare. In case you are in the dark about reed screens, they are those roll up window blinds made of peeled reed stems. With pop out screens in various shades of shade and vibrant frames to match, these spectacles are quite the spectacle.
Designer: Sang Jang Lee
Via Yankodesign
The Whale Hunt website was developed as an experimental interface for storytelling. Given an epic real world story, with lots of content and lots of metadata, how can the narrative be faithfully retold? The project presented a number of interesting design problems, including: how to present a large set of photographs (3,214) online while keeping download times relatively brief; how to express both the topography of the entire narrative and the ways in which any single moment fits into that narrative; how to extract and reveal the many substories occuring within the context of the larger story; how to convey the many feelings experienced on the hunt (boredom, fatigue, curiosity, excitement, exhaustion, sublime beauty); and more generally how to restage an epic real world experience on the Internet.
Read more about this project here.
See the photo’s here.
See Johnathon talk at the TED conference here.
Look at accompanying photgrapher’s webiste of Andrew Moore here.
© Eric William Carroll
Eric William Carroll spent a year rescuing snapshots from one-hour-photo dumpsters and then drilling 35mm holes in them. There’s some pretty interesting self-reflection on the medium going on in this work (hence the title punctum from barthes’ camera lucida).
See more of this work here.
© Tony Cenicola / The New York Times
A cache of rolls of Robert Capa’s negatives, shot during the Spanish civil war and long thought to have been lost during Nazi occupation of Paris, have been discovered.
The New York Times:
“TO the small group of photography experts aware of its existence, it was known simply as “the Mexican suitcase.” And in the pantheon of lost modern cultural treasures, it was surrounded by the same mythical aura as Hemingway’s early manuscripts, which vanished from a train station in 1922.
The suitcase — actually three flimsy cardboard valises — contained thousands of negatives of pictures that Robert Capa, one of the pioneers of modern war photography, took during the Spanish Civil War before he fled Europe for America in 1939, leaving behind the contents of his Paris darkroom.
From what experts have been able to piece together from archives and the research of Mr. Whelan, the biographer (who died last year), Capa apparently asked his darkroom manager, a Hungarian friend and photographer named Imre Weisz, known as Cziki, to save his negatives in 1939 or 1940, when Capa was in New York and feared his work would be destroyed.”
Full story: The New York Times
Silvergrain.org publiceerde al een tijdje recepten voor ontwikkelaar, fix en andere prehistorische vloeistoffen. En ondertussen kan je die recepten, ook alweer een tijdje, al klaargemaakt kopen bij digitaltruth. Tot zover niets speciaals. Maar nu komt het (tromgeroffel): alle recepten zijn ecologisch, en dat is goed nieuws voor iedereen die zich ongemakkelijk voelt bij al die chemicalien. De ontwikkelaar blijkt op basis van vitamine C te zijn gemaakt. De wereld is er weeral een beetje beter door geworden.
Edward Burtynsky’s horror landschappen hebben er in november een film bij gekregen: Manufactured landscapes.
Jennifer Baichwal heeft, volgens het Burtynsky concept een documentaire gedraaid. De documentaire toont de invloed van de mens op het landschap en de natuur.
