Tag: Photography
“It’s a representation of the evil and the beautiful, a reflection of the human condition,” says LA-based Austrian photographer Sabine Pearlman about her series AMMO — selects of 900 cross-section images of various bullets, as documented in a World War II bunker in Switzerland. It’s actually less of a metaphor on the human condition than it is a […]
After the Supreme Court struck down DOMA as unconstitutional, happy same-sex couples from around New York headed off to tie the knot at the City Clerk’s office. Congratulations! Check back every Friday for a new photo essay. See the photos in the gallery above. (Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Behold the beach season in Odessa, Ukraine, where all your beach needs are attended to by an ever-adapting class of beach-side vendors on the beach! Want some hot boiled corn? Take a picture with a monkey? Buy some salty fish from the one that looks like Kate Bush the militant sea-captain? Pet a snake. Balloons, also. There […]
Whoaaaaaa. Yes, this interactive photo of the surface of Mars, taken by the Curiosity rover, is 1.3 billion pixels large. Go, look at it, zoom and scroll around. Look at all the locations NASA bookmarked for you–“Laser shots,” “Wheel tracks,” “Bird-shaped rock!” That’s an image of Yellowknife Bay above. Fuck, this is awesome. Atlantic Cities […]
People who choose to devote their lives to manicuring and preserving creepy animal corpses are fascinating. Photographer Mike McGregor, who grew up surrounded by stuffed animalia and sport-hunting, explores the relationship between taxidermists and their mounts in his photo series Preserve, as highlighted by Wired. While his subjects (all shot in their northeastern U.S. businesses) seem like a pretty […]
London-based photographer Martin Usborne is back with a hypnotic new photo series of his favorite canine muses. Just as penetrating and otherworldly as The Silence of Dogs in Cars, here’s a new portrait series — Nice to Meet You. Tormented, complicated, all-knowing, and mysterious, there’s a certain something about these dogs that’s eerily human. They beg the […]
We love Boogie. The Belgrade-born, Brooklyn-based photographer’s black-and-white photos and true grit and access has fascinated us for years. Then, he went color. Now he’s on that wet plate collodion on black plexiglass. Boogie’s ongoing DEMONS portraiture series is eerie and expressive, but it’s also a poised departure from his photojournalist style — Just click the tabs on his website: NYC, […]
Anechoic chambers–sealed-off rooms designed to prevent the intrusion or reflection of sound or radio waves–can be astoundingly beautiful places, it turns out. Though some chambers are filled with gray, institutional acoustic foam, others use otherworldly blue spikes like the ones above, which are designed to absorb and deaden any sound or electromagnetic waves that may […]
For some enhancers of public and private property, street art and graffiti stickers are an important tool in the arsenal. London is covered with them. Click through gallery above. (Photos: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
You know photographer Nate “Igor” Smith from his blog Driven By Boredom. He says he’s been lucky to make a living shooting the streets, the parties, the babes, the craziness, and New York’s not-too-subtle definitive moments — but what he would like do now is to make you The Great American Road Trip Zine. To celebrate his […]
