Photography

December 30, 2016

Interview: Photographer Captures Images of Uncontacted Tribe in the Amazon

Brazilian photographer Ricardo Stuckert was in for a surprise as his helicopter was diverted over the Amazon due to a rainstorm. Stuckert, who is working on a project to photograph Brazil's uncontacted peoples, was with Indigenous people expert José Carlos Meirelles in the Acre region of north-west Brazil, near the Peruvian border, on their way to shoot a different tribe when they unexpectedly spotted a longhouse.

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December 26, 2016

11 Modern Women Who Travel Through Time With Their Vintage Fashion

As much as we wish it were true, time travel just isn’t possible—so in the meantime, we’ll have to settle for fashion as a way to live in a different era. Some women have cultivated their hair and dress so meticulously that you’d think you're looking at someone alive long ago. But miraculously, they’re all modern women whose attitudes and style exude the past. All decades have their defining features.

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December 16, 2016

Quirky Artist’s New Ingenious Mashups of Two Totally Different Photos

Creative director and Instagram star Stephen McMennamy sees the world differently from the rest of us. For him, seemingly disparate people, places, and things are the recipe for his playful mashups that create fictitious hybrids from unlikely fusions. His popular #ComboPhotos series features two images spliced and carefully positioned together so that they produce one believably unbelievable form. In McMennamy’s wild imagination, anything is possible.

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December 13, 2016

Mermaid Swims in a Sea of 10,000 Bottles to Spotlight Plastic Pollution

Photographer Benjamin Von Wong is an expert at turning his creativity into a project with a larger purpose. His activism continues with a new series that highlights the impact of plastic pollution. Mermaids Hate Plastic exemplifies how art can be used to highlight broader issues. Von Wong began the journey by thinking about a way to make the “boring” topic of plastic pollution into something eye-catching and dynamic.

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