Howard Schatz has an immense body of work. Over at World Press Photo you can see his series titled “2nd Prize Stories” — photographs of boxers before and after fights.
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My photographs serve as modern dioramas of our new natural history. Within these scenes I explore our paradoxical relationship with the “wild” and how our conflicting impulses continue to evolve and alter the behavior of both humans and animals. We at once seek connection with the mystery and freedom of the natural world, yet we continually strive to tame the wild around us and compulsively control the wild within our own nature. Within my work I examine the primal issues of comfort and fear, dependence and determination, submission and dominance that play out in the physical and psychological encounters between man and the natural world. Increasingly, these encounters take place within the artificial ecotones we have constructed that act as both passage and barrier between domestic space and the wild.


The photographs in this series are constructed based on real stories from local newspapers and oral histories of intentional and random interactions between humans and animals. The narratives are set in and around Matamoras, a small town in Northeast Pennsylvania that borders a state forest.

Fantastic images from Amy Stein melding narrative interludes where animals and (primarily in this series) suburban existence meet. These photos make me think about the split-second hush that falls upon citizens here in L.A. whenever we spot a coyote.

These otherworldly photos by Ryan McGinley are stunning. The use of color and landscape in conjunction with his subjects — beautiful.
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Beautiful abstraction and lines using minimal light from photographer Chih-Han Hsu.

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halo is a handy light-writing tool, preserving the techniques and gestures that graffiti artists use with spray cans. It is possible to change the color and the brightness of the led to change the graffiti’s styles. If the light doesn’t have enough battery, users simply have to shake it to have energy again.

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These light paintings are the work of acclaimed photographer Dean Chamberlain. Exploring the medium of photography using a highly original technique, which includes radically extended exposure times (up to 5 hours), the artist “paints” the light onto each element in the frame, methodically and delicately illuminating the composition inch by inch. Using a variety of light sources and an extensive palette of colors, Chamberlain creates deeply luminous yet mysterious documents of the human experience.

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Really fun series by Romain Laurent — never did I see a more whimsical approach to a dutch angle.

[Romain Laurent via TDD]

What makes a Londoner? Place of birth, place of work, a certain accent, a particular attitude? Living here, dying here? Finding fame and fortune here? Look around these walls and you’ll find all these things, and many more. We’ve rifled through the vast archives of Getty Images to unearth a multifaceted selection of photographs of the capital from the past hundred years or so, but this time with the emphasis on the capital’s inhabitants.

You can get a taste of this exhibition currently happening at the Getty Images Gallery via a slideshow on Telegraph.co.uk. Some fascinating images — everything from child endangerment, fascist rallies, to British celebs.

Fantastic piece on modern-artist Cassandra Jones over at Accidental Mysteries covering some of her latest pieces recontextualizing and manipulating amateur found images. Watch the video below, about 3 mins in they start to show bits from her “sunset” piece she did as a Carnegie Mellon student.

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If thoughts of Leicas and big lenses get you all warm and tingly down under, Tokyo Camera Style is your one-stop shop for delicious images to get you going. If the majority of these photos are even semi-recent, it’s fascinating to see that the variety of equipment, namely all the film cameras still being strongly utilized in Japan.

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