Iconatomy: Seamlessly Merged Photos of Past and Present Movie Stars
George Chamoun, a Swedish jewelry design student at the Konstfack University of the Arts, spent a very, very long time looking for the perfect photographs to make this project: “Iconatomy” is a photo series that seamlessly merges two celebrities from two different eras of movie-making. The result is an amazing display of eerie similarities between...
Reflections: Touching Photographs Of People As They See Themselves
My coworkers and I were recently talking about the concept of one’s “internal age”– the age that you perceive yourself to be at, rather than the age you actually are. In this award-winning ad campaign for an Alzheimer’s drug for Novartis, photographer Tom Hussey captures the complex emotion of jarring self-perception in a series of...
The Invisible Man: Eerie & Enigmatic Photos Without A Subject
Barcelona-based art director PoL Úbeda Hervàs has been taking photos without a subject– his enigmatic series, titled “i’m not here,” shows neither hide nor hair of the elusive photographer, but instead only suggests his presence with the shadows, shoes, and reflections that he leaves behind. I think the additional touch of leaving his shoes in...
Rich Plumes of Color: Photographing Ink Underwater
I’ve posted these free ink desktop wallpapers from Alberto Seveso before, but the Italian designer has released a brand new series of underwater macro photography: titled “a due Colori,” the photos feature two different colors of ink, swirling in rich plumes of color around each other. There have been many imitations of this kind of...
Sign Language: Photographing Vintage Signs
Mark Shur has been documenting these lovely vintage signs around him in a series titled “Sign Language” on his Flickr– the faded and rusting letters create new textures for these familiar letters. It’s also a great way to study vintage typography and to get inspiration for color palettes. All of these signs remind of the...
Jaw-Dropping Beauty In The Wisteria Tunnel
Someone take me to Japan right now– these amazing photos of endless flowers are from the Wisteria Tunnel at Kawachi Fuji Gardens, in Kitakyushu, Japan. The flowers look dense yet ethereal, hanging down in their neat rows of color; the other photos of flowering trees are presumably from different parts of the same garden. Click...
9 Eyes: Astonishing, Unexpected Photos from Google Street View
9-eyes.com is a single-serving Tumblr site run by artist Jon Rafman which sources all of its images from a single place: Google Street View. Each photo is retains the familiar, slightly distorted panorama stitched together from the 9 directional Google cameras (hence the name) that take snapshots of streets and pathways all over the world....
Sky Series: Flawless Photos of Sunrises and Sunsets
New York-based artist Eric Cahan waits for the perfect moments to capture these serene shots: his series of photos, titled “Sky Series,” are flawless studies of light and color in the sunrise and sunset hours. Every photo appears as a simple gradient of colors, but the more you stare into the sky, the more you...
Glowing Trails of Light: Light Painting With Fireflies
These photos of light trails are more than man-made light painting photographs– these are slow-shutter and multi-exposure composite photos of fireflies floating about in their nightly mating ritual dances. Photographer Tsuneaki Hiramatsu has been taking these photos in the Maniwa and Okayama Prefecture in Japan during the summer rainy season, where the fireflies come out...
Tree, Line: Ingenious Photographs Of Where The Horizon Ends
Welsh artist Zander Olsen took this amazing series of photographs titled “Tree, Line,” which looks deceptively underwhelming, until you realize that he has crafted the photos in a specific and precise way: the tree trunks are wrapped in a white material that perfectly matches the horizon behind them. The result is the unbroken line of...
Dreamy and Whimsical Underwater Photography
Elena Kalis captures whimsical and otherworldly scenes with underwater photography– her playful photos feature women and children suspended in the dreamy depths of Bahamian water, surrounded by props and costumes. Every photo is a world of its own: sometimes they are tableaus from Alice in Wonderland, sometimes they show dancers in mid-motion, and sometimes they...
Masque of the Animals: Ingenious and Witty Paper Masks
Linus & The Feel Good Factory is a one-man operation based in Hong Kong, where paper props and masks are used to humorous effect in photography. I was particularly fond of his “Masque of the Animals” series, which features different interpretations of paper animals– sometimes they meekly feed from his hand, and at other times...
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