multiple layered images of ballet dancers from UK-based photographer jan mansy
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bieber face
From: Simon Dempsey
Date: Thursday 31 March 2011 12.37pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: No Subject
Did you draw Justin Biebers face on all the images in my stock images folder and save them over my files?
it’s him again: the world’s most sarcastic and annoying graphic designer david thorne (via my mate ‘sallie’)
blue
a new piece of work from perhaps one of the most interesting photographers at work in the netherlands, right now: anouk kruithof, she has a new exhibition opening today at the university in amsterdam and her new work ‘becoming blue’ is a series of portraits of people dressed in blue, shot with a timer whereby kruithof intervens to change the mood of the people being portrayed…
the great tohoku earthquake
a touching personal photo blog and long diary post on the aftermath of the tsunami in japan and how the locals are struggling to pick up their lives and move on…
farmers
i first came across this striking series by young photographer ‘louise te poele’ back in 2008, made in a barn on a cold day, shot at night with a flash and some very harsh close-up crops, it portrays the people of a small rural community letting their hair down in a very uncompromising and unflattering manner, she has now published a very uncomprising and striking book of her ‘farmers’ series
the enormous format (difficult to see here) is almost a half meter tall (48cm) and the blemishes and yellowed teeth spring right out of the deep black pages at you… the book is worth getting hold of to experience the effect fully, scary and beautiful…