Photography

August 18, 2014

Digital Composites Capture Bustling Energy Along the Streets of Singapore

Shooting Singapore Street Composites is a collection of images in which photographer Danny Santos documented average scenes of strangers going about their daily lives along the streets of Singapore. The catch is that each image is actually a product of multiple photographs digitally merged together. For the 4-week project, Santos set up his tripod in various locations and photographed a single scene for anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour.

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August 16, 2014

Compelling Portraits of People Who Live Alone in the Forest

While most people all over the world live in a community with others around them, Russian photographer Danila Tkachenko captures those that choose to turn their backs on this lifestyle. His compelling series Escape documents people who instead live a solitary existence in the wilderness. They make their homes in the Russian and Ukrainian forest and fashion makeshift dwellings from the land.

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August 11, 2014

Jurassic Park-Inspired Wedding Photo Featuring Jeff Goldblum

Toronto-based photographer Adam Biesenthal may have just taken the most dramatic wedding photo ever with this shot featuring a Photoshopped T-Rex and Jurassic Park actor Jeff Goldblum. Taking a cue from the popular trend of wedding photos with the theme of running away from a dinosaur, Biesenthal perfectly captured the newlyweds' spirit of fun on their special day.

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August 5, 2014

Intriguingly Ambiguous Visual Narratives by Anna Gaskell

Mysteriously faceless youths dash playfully through the woods in New York-based photographer Anna Gaskell's series Turns Gravity. Intriguingly ambiguous, the cinematic photos provide fleeting glimpses of a puzzling visual narrative. Clothed in black, the young subjects frolic outside, at times engaging in lighthearted games, at times depicted in oddly anxious crouches or being pulled and pushed to the ground in a show of unexpected force.

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