Creative Allies gives passionate art students, designers, creative types, writers, photographers, videomakers and fans (Allies) the opporunity to work with their favorite bands. Allies can from anywhere in the world upload their creations inspired by music. The creations can be licensed by the musician it was made for.
Musicians on the other hand can post requests for whatever they need made, and allies can browse jobs to find something that strikes their creative chord.
Fascinated by the incredible hearth of culture that is NYC, strategic planner and hobbyist photographer Friko Starc set out to document it at its rawest, most candid form. For three years, he took portraits of strangers and passers-by at five Manhattan corners in what became The Corners Project, an inspired cross-section of New York’s living matter.
Frico made 5 books of portraits. By sitting for days at a time on one spot, he captured a glimpse of that amazing mosaic that is New York.
AR-Yulia is a new project by New-York based photographers (Pamela) Reed + (Matthew) Rader. AR or Augmented Reality is the compositing of the physical real word environment with virtual computer-generated imagery to create a mixed reality for the user.
What do you need? Scissors, your face, a computer with a webcam and the latest version of Adobe Flash.
The LAPP is a one-shot long time bulb exposure Photography, performed additionally with movement of light. LAPP originates on a real-time basis directly in front of the camera. Created between opening and closing the shutter. LAPP is descended from light drawing and has been developed in its own art form. As the evolution of light drawing, it is complemented with additional elements in the form of light figures, colors and light-forms to create such a special view.
The LAPP images are made by Jan Wöllert and Jörg Miedza,from Bremen, Germany. They have been working together since 2007 but neither are full-time photographers.
The Workspace project is an ongoing attempt to examine the quasi-private spaces people carve out of their public work lives. Such spaces represent a tug of war between personal expression and comfort on the one hand and the unyielding demands of work on the other. The long-term accumulation of the tokens of that struggle, over years or even decades, can be formally beautiful in a very human and touching way. The project is part of a larger series by Joseph O. Holmes, in which he asks friends and strangers to open up private spaces to his camera.
Because he documents a space exactly as he finds it, never arranged for the camera, the Workspace project is necessarily a spontaneous process.
The 50 States Project has brought together 50 photographers from across the USA. Each photographer lives in one of the 50 States and during the year long project each photographer will represent the State where they currently live. Every two months the photographers will be sent an assignment by e-mail, they then have two months to produce one image in response. The images must represent both their style and their State.
The first assignment, (“People“), was sent on 2nd January 2009. The second, (“Habitat“), was sent on 1st March 2009. The third, (“Landscape“), on 1st May. The fourth, (“Industry”) on 1st July. The remaining assignment will be announced on 1st November 2009.
By the end of the project there will be 300 images which hopefully represent the talent of the photographers involved and have something to say about the USA today.
Results Under Actions is a text-based project and is designed with mobility and adaptation in mind. Transportable wall structures are used to display narrative footnotes or historical slogans that embody the stories of our built environment. Each is a graphic source with minimal text, presented to encourage many, varied and unique interpretations.
At the center of this project is a system of display panels that are connected into thin, long wall structures. These are displayed in pre-determined public places and is being documented from varied perspectives. The documentation preserves not only the wall as it is presented, but also the reaction and responses of the public.
The relationship between photography and static digital architecture is undeniable, as is the case with cinema and animated digital architecture. At this year’s Mundos Digitales conference, 3 D artist, Alex Román reviewed the main aesthetic features in this field, the need for photorealism, the structure as protagonist and the importance of its environment, the language of films and photography, as well as the techniques used to intentionally bring together the seventh art and architecture.
The above short film is footage from his project “The Third & The Seventh”. There are more teasers where this came from. Check it out!
The humidity trickled down the back, the sun kissing the five-foot-way of the shophouse, the skies spilled a clumsy mash of clouds. Beneath the white walls of the shophouse legendary lensman Steve McCurry resided. He was engaged in a critique session with one of his students from his master class. Little did he realise the next person he was to evaluate was himself.
Even if you’re not interested in photography, chances are you’ll recognize National Geographic’s Afghan Girl, published twenty-four years ago as the cover for the magazine. Shot a year earlier by Steve on Kodachrome color slide film, the Afghan Girl was immortalized eternally as the most recognised photograph in the history of the magazine. The iconic photograph captivated viewers all over the world, with its remarkable ability to reflect the bitterness of the war through the Afghan Girl’s piercing emerald eyes. It would be safe to conclude that this photograph has become the symbol for the 1980s Afghan conflict.
Our interview with the Philadelphia native eats into Steve’s lunch (Japanese, for the curious stalker), in the serene hall of the shophouse, accompanied by a couple of polite aides by the corner. He didn’t appear to mind our interruption. Perhaps the many years of venturing in war- and poverty-stricken cities have trained him well. After all, after dodging a bullet or two, sushi must be a luxury.
The interview began in the most unusual manner with Steve asking the questions first. Astute as ever, he had noticed a tattoo which escaped the fabric of my top as I reached for my pen from behind. It didn’t take long before my photographer, Joan Leong, and I found ourselves flashing our tattoos at him. His reputation for being an unassumingly candid lensman with the profound gift of encapsulating the human condition in whomever, whatever, whenever, displayed evidently at that point. In less than 5 minutes, he made two women he has just met share their stories with him.
In Singapore for his exhibition, The Unguarded Moment, on display at the Asian Civilisations Museum, held in conjunction with the Month of Photography Asia 2009, Steve handwrote his own answers. Click here to view this exclusive interview.
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