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January 23, 2014 Andy Cush

British photographer Alastair Philip Wiper took these photos at the slaughterhouse of Danish Crown, the world’s largest pork exporter. They’re are brutal. Here’s what he says about the photos, on Dezeen. The reality is that the society we live in craves meat, on a massive scale. Where there is a demand there will be a supply, and […]

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Andy Cush

Photographer Keith Goldstein says his series of photos of people looking up at the construction of 1 World Trade Center are about seeing how people “reacted to what they were seeing –a place where people perished and a new place that was being rebuilt out of the ruins.” Goldstein works in the financial district, and […]

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January 22, 2014 Marina Galperina

Christopher Morris is best known for his photographs of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Chechnya and the drug war in Colombia, but in the 1980s, he was a 22-year-old photo agency intern from Florida. These are some rare, recently-discovered, previously unpublished photographs on Time LightBox today. This is how he got his start. A […]

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January 21, 2014 Marina Galperina

Yesterday, oligarch mom, socialite and pretend art person Dasha Khukova has been featured in an editorial on a Russian site Bruno 247, highlighting her achievements in the art world and as editor of Garage Magazine. Also, her taste in art furniture, apparently. The editorial photograph shows Dasha Zhukova eloquently nested upon a chair made to […]

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January 15, 2014 Marina Galperina

Francisco Negroni’s photographs of the Cordón Caulle erupting in Chile and weather dramatically happening are very dramatic. Wow. Now that’s what we call weather. According to our staff photographer, these very sleekly exaggerated nature imagery was captured with a combination of slow shutter and digital composite and “I could do that in the office right now.” Brb. (Photos: Francisco Negroni) […]

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Marina Galperina

“My story is about something really beast-like, wild and dirty inside these pretty creatures and how it suddenly comes out,” photographer Sasha Mademuaselle tells DAZED. There are hundreds of photos, many channeling that wild something, reminiscent of every big party in every big place, but what ties them together are the chosen details — the […]

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January 14, 2014 Andy Cush

Allen Henson, a photographer who’s made a name for himself in part by taking pictures of topless women around New York City, found out this week he’s being sued for $1.1 million by the company that owns the Empire State Building. Henson photographed model Shelby Carter atop the iconic building in August, an act the […]

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January 8, 2014 Marina Galperina

Photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer travelled to the world’s most volatile and controversial borders for his photographic survey Confrontier, recently profiled by Wired. With a panoramic film camera, Wiedenhöfer documented the view of an illegal Israeli settlement in Westbank as seen over the wall separating it from a Palestinian refugee camp. He photographed the construction site of the border fence between […]

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January 7, 2014 Marina Galperina

“Nudity is not published in China,” Beijing-based photographer Ren Hang told Pas Un Autre. “An exhibition was canceled, someone spat at my work, cameras getting confiscated by the police, and almost going to jail.” Ren Hang’s photos contain a lot of nudity, but it’s not really pornographic titillation. Pop mysticism? (Erupting in clusters of birds) Pop physics? (Arranged in […]

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October 14, 2013 Marina Galperina

“Bring back fur! All colors and races,” writes renowned artist Marilyn Minter. She just posted a preview of her new series on her Facebook page. Titled Bush, Mound, Muff, Pelt, Beaver, Thatch, Carpet, and Fur, the c-prints feature a variety of proudly furry mounds, in her signature sensuous light and tone. “Young girls are getting lazered,” Marilyn Minter […]

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