Nimbus – Berndnaut Smilde
Berndnaut Smilde is a Dutch artist who uses a mixture of photography and installation, but is perhaps best known for creating indoor clouds. In the artist’s own words, the ‘Nimbus’ series “present a transitory moment of presence in a specific location”, something which is underlined by their existence only in photos.…
GUERRIERS DES CIMES – Benjamin Guindre
Benjamin Guindre is a French photojournalist, who is also a keen paraglider. At age 18 he did his military service under a specialist unit that introduced him to paragliding. Some years later, now a photojournalist, he returned to document the unit now called the Mountain Commando Task Force.…
Film-to-digital camera conversion
It’s pretty straightforward to convert film photographs to digital – simply develop the film and scan the negatives. But what if you wanted the aesthetic afforded by a film camera, without the development costs and hassle?
Oliver Baker has spent quite some time disassembling a Leica M3 camera and fitting the guts of two different Sony digital cameras inside, in a completely reversible manner.…
Gloves
Dan Giannopoulous has been photographing discarded disposable gloves across London. Bad manners and callous disregard for the environment from the people of London but at least something good has come from it.
If you like this you might also like his series covering empty drug baggies.…
Developing Other Peoples Exposed Film
Chris Hughes has been buying used cameras that still have film in them. It’s like forgetting what’s on a roll of film and developing it but 100 times better. (via)
– Aidan…
Ball Experiments – Roy Wood
Just a taster of some work realised and shot in our living room, by fellow cohort Roy. Check out more of his work here. Oh and this is completely composed manually – yeah that’s right – those balls are floating.…
Sea Slug Antenna Jammers
Usually when sea creatures secrete an ink cloud, it acts as a distraction that allows for a quick exit from an impending predator. Inherently, sea slugs could never make that fast an exit – so the ink was always a mystery.…
Cubicle Apartments
‘Cubicle apartments’ – Hong Kong
A photo series published by the Society for Community Organization depicting outrageously small ‘apartments’. (source)(via)
Update 03/04/2020: Here’s a link to a National Geographic slideshow of an extended set of Benny Lam’s photographic study of ‘Coffin Houses’.…
Sometimes We Fly – Jared Ropelato
Sometimes We Fly by Jared Ropelato
This thing is a geyser, called the Fly Geyser, and believe it or not it’s actually only 5ft tall. Also this is by far the best photo out there, follow the link above to see more of Jared’s work.…