Category / Photography

Jack Crossing

Jack Crossing surreal

My dad has a phrase for this kind of graphic design. That phrase is “hot shit.” The graphic design of London-based Jack Crossing. And his Flickr. (via bodega)

By Christopher on February 5, 2011 • surreal

Photocopied Walls

Photocopied Walls process paper multiples installation conceptual

An installation by Andrea Mastrovito using 3,307 individual black and white photocopies that were pieced together to create the view outside the gallery walls. Incredible. (thnx, chelsea!)

Love the concept of this modular LED film light by Davide Groppi. Each individual unit containing 10 slides can be attached to another for a potentially unlimited stream of photos or colors. (via mocoloco)

By Christopher on February 3, 2011 • lighting recycling

Clinton De Menezes: Procession (Exodus)

Clinton De Menezes: Procession (Exodus) political models miniature installation

Installation by South African artist Clinton De Menezes. (via behance)

By Christopher on February 3, 2011 • installation miniature models political

Christian Stoll

Photographed by Christian Stoll for Pricewaterhouse Coopers Magazine without the use of retouching. Just good old-fashioned anamorphic set design. (via lustik)

By Christopher on February 2, 2011 • abecedarian anamorphism installation

Maritime Incidents

Maritime Incidents immigration boats

German photographer Heiko Schäfer captured these delicate yet haunting portraits of wooden boats used by African refugees trying to enter the EU illegally via the Mediterranean. (via pitch design union)

By Christopher on February 2, 2011 • boats immigration

Snowpocalypse

So in case you haven’t heard Chicago got a few feet of snow last night. My son was thrilled to wake up to 6-foot snow drifts and snowmobiles zooming around on the street for his third birthday. I grabbed a camera and headed down to the lake for a bit this morning to snap a couple shots. As I write this I still can’t feel my face but it was fun to be out there in the middle of it.

By Christopher on February 2, 2011 • black and white Chicago snow weather winter

Congo Infrared

Congo Infrared war manipulated infrared Congo color

What you’re looking is not the result of Photoshop. This incredible collection of photos entitled INFRA from Eastern Congo was shot by 30-year-old photographer Richard Mosse using discontinued Kodak Aerochrome film. Mosse chose this infrared film to intentionally subvert traditional photos taken from the region to help draw attention to an often overlooked conflict.

INFRA; examines the conflict in Eastern Congo using Kodak Aerochrome, a recently discontinued film that was originally developed for military reconnaissance. These extraordinary colors are not the result of Photoshop. The project seeks a new strategy to represent Congo’s intangible conflict. Mosse chose to use this infrared aerial surveillance film out of context in order to explore how photography represents a place like Congo, a place deeply buried beneath its past cultural representations, from Heart of Darkness to Tin Tin. Infrared light is invisible to the human eye, and so the work alludes metaphorically to the conflict’s lack of visibility in our global consciousness, as well as (paradoxically) this endless war’s over-saturation in the mass media. Color infrared film portrays the world in a pink palette which the photographer uses to subvert the ways in which Congo and the African continent are traditionally photographed. He deliberately wishes to break the generic rules in order to question how we see (or don’t see) this war.

(via black harbor — at the time of posting this, the site appears to be down)