There’s something eerie about a clown-striped fumigation tent on a dark, residential street. It evokes a sense of the uncanny–a mood that photographer Robert Benson went to great lengths to capture in his new photo series.
If you’re ever broken down on the side of an American highway and a woman with a light meter around her neck stops her car and approaches you, don’t be afraid. She’s not there to rob or hurt you. It’s …
In their project Geolocation, Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman scan the public Twitter feed for tweets that are geotagged and then travel to those locations to take pictures where the original tweet was sent.
While flashy animations and interactions are fun to play with on the web, photographers don’t always need to think big-budget to tell their story online. With just a little bit of HTML and jQuery, photographer Adrian Nettleship takes viewers inside …
Most double exposure projects are clichés, falling flat because the gimmick trumps the content. Not so in the case of Stephanie Bassos and Timothy Burkhart.
Photojournalist John D. McHugh is tired of having his images stolen. That’s why he’s just come out with an iPhone app called Marksta that lets photographers place a watermark on their mobile photos.
As photographic careers go, Jonas Bendiksen’s has been pretty barnstorming. A member of the prestigious Magnum photo agency, awards, international solo shows, big clients such as National Geographic. Why on earth then would he choose to take a job at …
Annie Marie Musselman claims she’s not one of those “weird, overly spiritual dream-catcher people,” but says her time at the Sarvey Wildlife Care Center has shown her an intimacy with wild animals–an intimacy that’s reflected in her striking photo series, …
It’s one thing to take a Canon EOS-1D X or a Nikon D4 out on a snowboarinding shoot and pop off 10 frames a second. It’s a completely different thing to take a film Hasselblad with you and wait for …
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 …
Christmas means a lot of different things to a lot of different people – religion, family, charity, presents. For photographer Jesse Rieser, Christmas is a time to cast an almost anthropological eye over the “monuments to merriness” assembled by Americans …
Chris Buck’s celebrity portraits are like Zen koans, they are of the subject but do not show the subject. He’s photographing celebrities’ presences rather than their appearances, if that’s possible, by having them hide within his photos.
After a loud outcry from people across the internet, Instagram seems to be backpedaling on the changes to their new terms of service. But even if they agree to back off, some photographers say they’ve been left with a bad …
Gideon Mendel doesn’t have a Facebook account. He “never really found a voice on Twitter” and his website doesn’t have a bio. But his use of Instagram to cover the Nigerian floods that were being largely overlooked by (American) media …
Last Christmas, photographer Wes Naman and his assistant Joy Godfrey were wrapping presents in Naman’s photo studio when Godfrey randomly put a piece of scotch tape on her nose and pulled it into an awkward position. Seeing the silliness contained …
What would you order up for your final meal on Earth? Photographer Henry Hargreaves reimagines the last suppers of condemned inmates.
Breaking Bad’s Walter White will go down as one of the most popular heroes-turned-villians in television history. For five years now, White and Bryan Cranston (who plays him) have created a cult-like following among groupies – resulting in geeky forms …
At first glance Caulton Morris’s photos in his Upside series look like a gimmick. Headstands are the new selfies. And there’s a certain amount of truth to that. But his reasons for making the photos make them more than …
The day after Hurricane Sandy, Colin Gray and a group of buddies crossed the Williamsburg Bridge on foot to get a first-hand look at the damage caused by the storm. When they saw the empty streets and abandoned subway stations, …
Currently the food eaten by astronauts is produced on Earth, but according to NASA’s Advanced Food Technology Project, the “duration of future missions may require a portion of the diet to be grown, processed and prepared in the space habitat.” …
Whether your fancy is the M248 SAW or the FN M240B, which is the U.S. armed forces current-issue medium machine gun, there’s a firearm for everyone at the Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot & Trade Show. There’s also a dynamite crew …
For the photo series Momentum, photographer Alejandro Guijarro shoots the chalkboards used by various quantum mechanics professors around the world, including those at UC Berkeley, Oxford, Stanford, Cambridge and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Those chalkboards, instead of …
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 …