Tag: Photography
ANIMAL stopped by the reception for “Brooklyn Photo Show,” with work by 15 Brooklyn-based photographers spanning 13 years. Ok, I stopped by the show and it was damn solid and I’ll spare you the art speak this time. Beautiful graffiti. Genesis P-Orridge. Rooftop mornings. Jesus dragging a cross through the streets. Neatly packaged weed. Rats flying through the […]
Where ever there are skateboarders, there are cops determined to make sure they don’t have any fun on public property, and consequently, there are DIY skateparks. Photographer Rich Gilligan has spent the last five years traveling the world and documenting DIY skate culture, and in a long-ranging interview with Co.Design, he describes his process and inspiration. […]
As Soviet Union let out its dying breath, there were massive hoards of angry, hungry citizens pitching tents in Moscow, right at the Kremlin walls. In 1990, these protestors lived in makeshift cities for six months. They questioned their government as it rattled apart. Their signs called for justice, answers, logic… FOOD. But doesn’t it sound familiar? Long […]
Richard Mosse’s fascinating Congo project’s latest incarnation at the Venice Biennale looks fascinating. Mosse had traveled all over eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, infiltrated armed rebel groups, and documented devastated, terrorized communities. Since 1998, 5.4 million people died from war-related incidents. No one cared. Mosse shot all this with infrared-detecting aerochrome film originally developed for military camouflage detection purposes. […]
Drifting through the notoriously polluted waters of Homebush Bay in Sydney, Australia, the Floating Forest seems like something out of a surreal Hayao Miyazaki film — or at least, a deliberately crafted art piece. What makes it so magical is that the foliage sprouting from this 102-year old transport vessel came into being by its own […]
In a vacant New York City water tower, four experience designers created a modern speakeasy called the Night Heron. It was only open for an eight week run, each night risking arrest — the owner of the building never knew of the bar’s presence. Guests were led on a trespass journey through a series of vacant […]
American master of analog color photography William Eggleston shot this photo of his camera bag for the June issue of the Wall St Journal. This retrofitted leather number is just one of his three camera-filled bags. This one contains 13 different Leica cameras and a few Canons. Photography is expensive. Eggleston’s photography is expensive. Ironically, this bag of elite film camera equipment […]
Vast, lonely, and completely unwelcoming to human life, Antarctica feels like a foreign planet. Yet, its menacing natural beauty are what make it so alluring. It’s quite the conundrum. Luckily, we’ve got the stunning photos of Hamburg’s Lars Focke to give us a glimpse into the Antarctic void — minus the risk of freezing to death or […]
With bodegas being such an integral part of our daily routine and survival in New York (What is “grocery store?”), these photographs of Berlin’s bodegas/food-marts/internet cafes by Ichwohnehier are very endearing. They’re also beautifully shot. So pretty. Stroll like you’re lost in Friedrichshain at 4am looking for a place to send an email and buy a […]
Whether or not these photos instantly trigger flashbacks of your repressed, guilt-ridden Catholic youth, there’s something about Billie Mandle’s Reconciliation that’s both sad and quite lovely. Hoping to capture the “relationship between the tangible structure of the confessional and the intangible ritual of the space,” Mandle, who is a Catholic, began photographing confessional booths all around the U.S. […]
