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WORLD’S MOST WIRED Photographer David Breashears There is a moment in Al Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth when the former vice president brings out a cherry picker and extends his graph of climate change stats–literally off the chart and …

Like so many trades staring down the barrel of digital dominance, analog movie projectionists and their equipment might soon be a thing of the past. But before they’re completely gone, photographer Joseph O. Holmes is racing to find as many …

English artists Mishka Henner and David Oates’ supercut short film pulls together clips of photographer characters in movies from famous films like Blow Up, Salvador, and other not so critically-acclaimed films like Harrison’s Flowers.

From diving dogs to professional mermaids, embarrassing self-portraits to wigs made of water, 2012 proved to be the year of the viral photo series.

Nick Frank likes to summarize his approach to photography with one phrase: “Reduce to the max.” Get to the point. Remove all distractions. It’s a framework that lends itself well to Frank’s series on subway stations in Munich, Germany, where …

Some photos just draw you in and you can’t figure out why. Sometimes it’s actually the not knowing that’s the attraction. That sense of confusion is exactly what the 354 Photographers collective out of Belgium is aiming for with their …

The most shocking and hardest to watch scene in the new HBO series Witness comes when photojournalist Eros Hoagland runs up to a car in Juarez where a young Mexican man sits dying after just being shot. It’s a scene …

In the age of autonomous electric cars, personal analytics and ubiquitous sensors, we will pay the piper at the end of the month. That much won’t change. But we’ll all be billed for a lot more charges than we are …

From purpose-built pavilions that stretch architectural norms, the human race experienced the wonderment of X-rays, Belgian waffles, alternating current, clothing zippers and ice-cream for the first time. Today, the biggest news to come out of the World’s Fair is that it still …

In 2008 photographer Jonathan Saruk was embedded with U.S. forces but left to find stories that other journalists were not covering–that gave a more complete picture of life in Kabul. He photographed a game show, a driving school and also …

Stephen Mayes argues that the rise of digital changed the very nature of photography by moving it from a fixed image to a fluid one. Photography is less about document or evidence and more about community and experience … and …

One big problem with renewable energy projects is that they have to go somewhere. They have to occupy a part of the very environment that their proponents are often trying to save. Photographer Jamey Stillings beautifully captures this tension in …

Each month, we’ll propose a scenario and present some ideas and concepts. Then it’s up to you: Sketch out your vision and upload your ideas (below). We’ll use the best suggestions as inspiration for a future Found page, giving kudos …

Many people see pot up close, but few have seen the illusive (and illegal) places where it comes from. That’s why the photo project Grassland by H. Lee (a pseudonym) is a small, and timely, coup. Lee spent an entire …

In addition to universal healthcare, Mounties and Rush, Canada can now add swapping guns for cameras to their list of wholesome bragging rights.

When Robert Burley photographed Kodak Canada’s final employee meeting in the parking lot on the last day of manufacturing in 2005, he assumed it was an isolated act of corporate downsizing – the winding down of one facility to safeguard …

Most people are too groggy in the morning to pay attention to their cereal, but Ernie Button is not like most people. He specializes in noticing the small details others miss, and over the past decade has built an impressive …

For years, Portland artist Dan Gluibizzi has been harvesting images of nudes, exhibitionists and swingers from the blogging site Tumblr. He saves JPEGs, makes formal image groupings, arranges them in Photoshop, projects them and finally traces and paints them.

For Svjetlana Tepavcevic, her series of seed photos, Means of Reproduction, is about seeing the beauty of the mundane and staying aware of life’s origins. A perspective influenced by living through the Bosnian War in her early 20s.

Sitting there in the sand, mostly naked, with chairs, towels and belongings delineating territory, beach goers tend to form small fiefdoms with their friends and families. It’s a phenomenon that Spanish photographer Lucia Herrero has exploited in her excellent portrait …