Tag: Photography
Yesterday, the new photography app Belowrez became available. At this point many of our beloved photography apps have become a dime-a-dozen sort of ordeal, offering little more than the option to make your photographs look like they were taken with a terrible camera, perhaps underwater, or quite possibly taken in a different century altogether. Now is the right […]
Ever since artist Dash Snow’s death at the age of twenty-seven from an alleged overdose, his artworks have continued to gain notoriety, continuously emerging in several posthumous group shows. From his teen years onward, Snow–also known as SACE by his graffiti peers–took hundreds of instant Polaroid photographs to recall whatever acts of hedonism he had engaged […]
Although revamping signs for the homeless is not a novel idea, Kenji Nakayama and Christopher Hope’s ongoing project is effective. The Massachusetts-based artists remake these signs in their entirety, adding beautiful topography and catchy colors to the solicitations for charity. Paired with interviews and heart-wrenching quotes of life in the street, the project showcases the perks of a good presentation. […]
“I don’t want to show my life to the public this way anymore,” Nan Goldin swore in 2010. “It’s cost me a lot and I don’t want anyone to know anything about my life today.” Not sure what’s changed, and to be fair, her upcoming new show in East Hampton spans from the ’80s to […]
For his current project “Please Mind the Gap,” photographer Weilun Chong took portraits of commuters at the Mass Rapid Transit stations in Singapore and Hong Kong. Instead of minding the aforementioned gap, he’s pausing to catch strangers passing through, from subway car to platform, from vessel to vessel, from one arbitrary moment of their life to the next. […]
Every July, gray-haired bearded old men come to Key West, Florida to drink, fish, arm wrestle, run with the bulls and read Hemingway in order to be crowned Best Hemingway by the Hemingway Look-Alike Society. It is very official. Photographer Henry Hargreaves‘s project Becoming Hemingway recreate an iconic Hemingway portrait by Yousef Karsh from 1957. It’s very deep: I told […]
After Destination DSW had invited well-known Australian photographer Stephen Dupont to curate an exhibition as part of the Reportage Photography Festival, one would expect the artist to have freedom of choice regarding what works he would like to include. This time, not so much. Nearly half of the images selected by Dupont didn’t sit well with event coordinators, even […]
Earlier today, around fifty people gathered outside the Russian Consulate General near Central Park to protest President Putin’s anti-gay laws. From banning pride parades for the next 100 years, to making any public mention of the existence of LGBT criminal “gay-propaganda” to declaring that anyone visiting Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics — athletes included […]
Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer is the the latest film from Wild Style director Charlie Ahearn. The aptly entitled documentary offers a glimpse into the life of Shabazz, a notable photographer who’s well known for his unique stylings of subjects and the access he was able to achieve while documenting old school NYC street culture. ANIMAL spoke to Ahearn […]
For his project Touching Strangers, photographer Richard Renadli says he wanted “to create spontaneous and fleeting relationships between complete strangers.” To do so, he approached people who had never before met, and had them pose together as intimately as if they’d known each other for years. The results vary from painfully stiff and awkward to […]
