Category Archives: Photography

When the Warming Comes…

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Pablo Genovés is a Madrid and Berlin-based multi-media artist who uses found vintage postcards, prints and other ephemera to create magical, and disturbing, digital collages of European museums, palaces, performance spaces and theaters inundated by a rising tide of flood … Continue reading →

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Photographers: Know Your Rights

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Actor/activist Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the Gregory Brothers and the ACLU have produced an entertaining and informative little video , with the assistance of the animated ghost of Benjamin Franklin, to inform photographers about their legal rights. This timely film applies to … Continue reading →

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On Eurobus

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Eurobus is a compilation of digital photographs shot by artist/photographer Taylor Holland while traveling around Paris by bicycle. The book, published by Matmos Press of Montreal, is dedicated to the anonymous artists who design the over-the-top graphics that cover all of … Continue reading →

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Eye of America

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

For his audacious new project, Vanishing Cultures, Chicago photographer Dennis Manarchy is traveling around the United States creating astonishing, one-of-a-kind portraits of Americans who represent the vanishing cultures of the nation. Manarchy has created an amazing 35-foot-long camera called “Eye … Continue reading →

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Paris by Carousel

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

California-based, Barcelona-born photographer Pep Ventosa has created an otherworldly series of composite images of carousels and amusement park rides in Paris, Barcelona and California. Pep slowly circles the rides, taking dozens of photographs and then blends them into one phantasmagoric … Continue reading →

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Time is Nothing to the Traveler

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

After quitting his day job in San Francisco, Kien Lam bought a one-way ticket to London on Virgin, packed a bag and grabbed a pocket-sized Lumix camera. He proceeded to make his way around the world, along the way passing though … Continue reading →

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Made In Iceland

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

During the summer of 2011, Austrian photographer/cinematographer Klara Harden hikes solo for twenty-five days throughout the Icelandic countryside. The result was this extraordinary video that she created from her adventures. Even if you’ve have been fortunate enough to have visited … Continue reading →

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The War Against Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

California-based photographer Alan Sailer has been shooting-up colorful Christmas ornaments with a high-speed pellet gun and photographing the process utilizing a homemade air-gap microflash system. Sailer enhances the effects by filling the ornaments with jellos, beads, colored sands, Play-Doh and … Continue reading →

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Winter Wonderland

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Netherlands-based photographer Maria Netsounski travels the world capturing extraordinary shots of people, landscapes and urban scenes. In this exceptional series entitled, IR, she shoots everyday scenes and,using infrared technology distorts the colors with very dramatic and unusual effect. The resulting … Continue reading →

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Music, Photography and Google

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

This neat photo-set of iconic album cover locations was discovered on Google Streetview and put together by our friends at Whutdat.de. The paired photographs include Eric Clapton’s 461 Ocean Boulevard, the Beatles Abbey Road, Led Zepplin’s Physical Graffiti and more.

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