Fashion Historian Shows How Modern Fashion Photographers Borrow From The Past
By juxtaposing iconic fashion images from the past and the present on her blog, fashion historian Lilah Ramzi beautifully illustrates this industry's cyclical nature. Her Part Noveau series reveals how images from the past serve as roots for the fashion elements of the present.
This Is What Happens When You Put Dogs In A Photo Booth
Photographer Lynn Terry found out that placing two pit bulls in a photo booth is not a bad idea at all. With perfect timing, she managed to capture something really special – Bumper showed her affection for her friend Willis by licking him. This first photograph was shared thousands of times on social media.
Spectacular Photography Of Ancient Traditional Honey Hunters In Central Nepal
Honey hunting is an ancient tradition of the Gurung tribespeople in central Nepal that involves gathering twice a year to risk their lives collecting wild honey from the world’s largest honeybees high up on Himalayan cliffs. U.K.-based documentary travel photographer Andrew Newey spent two weeks capturing this dying tradition, which is under the threat of...
Stuff Being Thrown At My Head: Absurd And Funny Self-Portraits By Kaija Straumanis
U.S.-based photographer Kaija Struamanis apparently has a head of steel and a great sense of humour, both of which she demonstrates in her self-portrait series “Stuff Thrown At My Head.” The series captures her sudden, though planned, collisions with random objects, be they books, glasses or even pumpkins.
Father Of Six Captures Heartwarming Childhood Moments In B&W Photographs
French photographer and father of six Alain Laboile has dedicated his artistic energy to documenting the everyday life of his beautiful family. Even though many parents photograph their children as they grow up and become familiar with the world around them, there‘s something peculiar and deeply gripping about Laboile‘s black and white photographs.
A New Wave Of The Sleeveface Trend Occupies The Internet
The sleeveface phenomenon is an awesome internet trend that looks like it just won't go away. The idea is simple: take a vinyl record sleeve and augment your face or any other part of your body and your environment with it by creating an effective optical illusion. Sleeveface.com has become a home for the quirky...
Rare Photography Of Russian Empire In 1910s Glow In Splendid Colour
It is almost incomprehensible that these colour photographs were taken in Russian Empire a century ago, even before the beginning of World War I! Such early years as 1909-1915, the years that these pictures were taken, are deeply engraved in our imagination as the world of black and white. Therefore these rare images by trained...
4-Year Old Girl Creates Stylish Paper Dresses Together With Her Mother
For the past 9 months, the @2sisters_angie Instagram profile has been displaying the unexpected fashion design talent and skills of a 4-year old girl known to us only as Mayhem. Together with her mother Angie, the girl creates beautiful gowns solely from many different types of paper.
Why We Rescue: Happily Adopted Pets With Their New Families Across USA
Photographer Theron Humphrey, together with Purina One, spent a year documenting happily adopted dogs and cats with their new families across the United States. The ‘Why We Rescue’ project aims at changing people’s perception of shelter pets, which the mainstream media usually portrays as having significant health and behaviour problems.
Artist Unites Watercolour And Photography In Her Extraordinary Self-Portraits
Massachusetts-based artist Aliza Razell creates tickling self-portraits that explore philosophical abstractions through the merged mediums of watercolour and photography. Using Photoshop, Razell unites the two mediums in her Anesidora (explorations of the Pandora’s Box myth) and Ikävä (the Finnish word meaning the feeling of longing) series.
Inmates Write Letters To Their Past Selves In Spine-Chilling Portraits By Trent Bell
Photographer Trent Bell asked 12 courageous convicts in the Maine prison system to handwrite sincere letters to their younger selves before they were sentenced and took raw portraits of them with their letters in the background.
“Holy Men” Of India In Divine Portrait Series By Joey L.
Canadian commercial photographer, director and publisher Joey L. has had a lifelong interest in endangered cultures and traditions and rare religious practices. He recently enriched his stunning “Holy Men” portrait series by travelling to the Indian city of Varanasi (one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world) for the third time and capturing...
