Artist Dietrich Wegner covers babies in (fake) tattoos of corporate logos from companies like Lego, Gap, and Sony, turning them into tiny crawling billboards. By creating friction between two conflicting ideas, Wegner said the images become “a meditation on how our identities evolve and how we declare them”.
Wedding photographer Jason Lee couldn't take his daughters to see his mother when she was diagnosed with cancer, so he came up with the idea to take these creative photographs of his daughters to post on his blog.
http://www.oddee.com/item_98153.aspx
Breath-taking photos don't take themselves. Photographers put their lives at risk to bring home once-in-a-lifetime shots.
Artist Berndnaut Smilde combines sophisticated lighting and meticulously controlled interior atmospheric conditions with simple smoke machines to create these awesome images.
These rich, sinuous photos are the work of Italian artist and photographer Alberto Seveso. They're a bit like the prettiest lava lamp you've ever seen.
Entitled “Un Petit Monde”, this playful series of photographs by Kurt and Edwige Moses is delightful.
German artist Martin Klimas uses splatters of paint positioned on a scrim over a speaker. By turning up the volume, the vibration of the speaker sends the paint dancing as he shoots it through the lens of his Hasselblad camera.
Swiss-Italian photographer Christian Tagliavini created this imaginative series entitled “Cardboard Ladies”. (via petapixel.com)
Dennis Maitland takes urban photography to new heights by taking pictures of himself leaning down the side of rooftops in this daring new series. (via theinspirationgrid.com)
New York photographer Ira Fox took advantage of a rainy day puddle, using the reflection to capture images of people passing by.
French artist Philippe Ramette does not need Photoshop to create his displays. He uses what he calls “sculpture-structures” to get amazing photos.
This is a photographer living life on the edge.
Photographer Jean-Francois Fortou builds giant and miniature sets with standard building skills, no technological tricks. The resulting complimentary photographs have a way of tricking the eye.
Photographer Mark Mawson published these neat underwater ink photographs, part of a series entitled Aqueous Fluoreau.
Sometimes reality is better than imagination. See more at Ivan’s site here.
Using a mechanical contraption, Macro-photographer Heinz Maier captures these incredible images of water drops in motion. [via]
I can only dream of being as lucky as this kid. [Ed Note: Guarantee he charges way above the going rate, though. Panda bears are such ripoff artists.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/nyregion/18about.html?_r=2
Robert Taylor was arrested for taking pictures in the NYC subway. Let's be clear: it is definitely NOT illegal to take pictures in the subway. Cops will tell you that it is, but they are wrong, and if you take it to court, you will win.