Nothing lasts forever - it is all like a wheel...

In mid 2007 a real estate agent, John Maloof, won a box of older negatives at an auction house in Chicaco. He was on search for a book he was about to write about his neighbourhood in Chicago. What he found however did not really help him with his book about Chicagos NW Side, but was nevertheless quite amazing.... Read More...

Tags: Photography, Street Photography, Black & White

Rust to dust - Urban Exploration photography

Urban Exploration or UrbEx, how it is called by "insiders" is all about finding old, abandoned buildings and locations and photographing them. But it is all about the ruins of modern civilization. Old hospitals and Asylums are a preferred location, even better than old manufacturing sites or bunkers. The spookier the story behind the subject, the better. Read More...

Tags: Legality with photography, Urban Decay

A stop motion short film.

And the more cinematographic way of photography.

And what a photographer can learn from it.

Stop Motion and time laps movies or, animations based on single shot photography are nothing new. They date back to 1892, when Katrina White and Emily Wilkinson brought a toy circus to live.
There is a wealth of movies out there on the internet, and a vast majority is certainly found on youtube. It is very interesting to say the least browsing these type of movies. Some creators are coming up with amazingly creative ideas.
But what else can we learn from assembling photographs into a film format? Read More...

Tags: Photography, Camera, Short Movie

Photographing African Wildlife from an unusual perspective.

Will and Matt Burrad-Lucas are two wildlife photographers, that tried to push their photography to a new frontier. As they say in their blog: "The modern world of wildlife photography is saturated with thousands of talented photographers producing a huge number of incredible photographs. As a result it is difficult to produce original shots without really pushing the boundaries and striving for new perspectives. Often, this means putting the camera into places that may at first seem impossible." Read More...

Tags: Art, Camera, Photography, Wildlife Photography

New York City Street Photography a la 1940.

Just a few days ago I stumbled across this phenomenal slideshow about Street Photography in New York City by Guideo Steenkamp, a Berlin based photographer. The video takes you to NYC in 2008 and somehow Guido manages to make it in a very strange way look and feel like in the first half of the last century - if it wasn't for the cars, the cellphones and the overall more modern look of the city. The soundtrack of the video certainly helps this impression, but even without it, that old feeling is still left with the viewer.




His website www.guido-steenkamp.com is worth checking our for everybody interested in street photography.

Tags: Art, Photography, Street Photography, Short Movie

African fine art wildlife photography by Nick Brandt.

Reading a photography magazine, I stumbled across a report about photographer Nick Brandt. Nick found a passion for east African wildlife photography in the mid 1990's, during his time as a director in the music video world. He was shooting the "Earth Song" video for Michael Jackson when he discovered the east African animal paradise. Nick Brandt realized that this paradise is short of its extinction. Taking trips from Nairobi through southern Kenya to Arusha in northern Tanzaniaa few years apart, he saw that the free roaming animals became significantly less in between his journeys. So he decided to capture this paradise to be soon lost on black and white film. Read More...

Tags: Art, Photography, Fine Art Photography

The art of photography in a brilliant short movie.

A long time ago I discovered this great video on youtube. It is the short movie Spin from Double Edge Films.



The storyline is told by a great short film underlayed by fantastic beats. And the photography in this film stroke me. There is great photography in every great movie, however, this was aboslutely down my alley. Read More...

Tags: Art, Photography, Short Movie

Philip Toledano's photography

The other day I found an email from my dear friend from Singapore in my inbox. She knows about my love to photography and decided to share this link. A link from an astonishing photographer who manages to capture an amount of soul in his images as I have rarely seen before. Maybe it is the story behind his images what makes them so brilliant, maybe it is the story inside the image itself. It is probably a combination of both. Read More...

Tags: Art, Photography