Photography

July 26, 2016

Beautiful Portraits of Modern Women Giving New Meaning to Traditional Ukrainian Crowns

Photography is one of the best ways to preserve traditions, and that is just what Slavic workshop Treti Pivni (translated as Third Rooster) is doing with their series of women and children in traditional Ukrainian headdresses. The team is made of photographers, stylists, and makeup artists who are smitten with Ukraine, and use photography to share the beauty and unique customs of their homeland with the rest of the world.

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July 14, 2016

Macro Photos of Entire Cityscapes Captured Within a Single Drop of Rainwater

Photographer Dusan Stojancevic depicts metropolises contained within tiny droplets of rainwater. For the past 15 years, he has revealed minuscule cityscapes that hide in the beads of liquid. Towering buildings, expansive bridges, and glittering lights are reflected in the tiny dots sitting on metallic surfaces. They’re visually divorced from the actual piece of architecture they’re echoing and instead offer a surreal look into seemingly alien worlds.

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June 23, 2016

Eye-Opening Aerial Photos Explore the Division Between Wealth and Poverty in South Africa

Cape Town-based photographer Johnny Miller shows the gap between the rich and the poor quite literally with his photo series Unequal Scenes. Captured using an Inspire 1 drone, Miller’s images highlight the physical differences between the living situation of South African residents, where the picturesque homes and the tin shacks are separated by nothing more than a line down the middle.

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May 23, 2016

“Millennials of New York” Hilariously Parodies the Melodramas of Generation Y

Chances are, you're familiar with Humans of New York, Brandon Stanton's public art project that reveals the inner lives of the Big Apple's everyday strangers by pairing evocative photographic portraits with personal quotes. But Millennials are a strain of humanity all their own, and now, there's a parody project to shed light (and laughter) on the young generation's particular gripes and stereotypical fixations.

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