Photography

June 25, 2013

Enter the Slightly Surreal World of Stephen Criscolo

Today, I found and fell in love with the slightly surreal photography of Stephen Criscolo. A recent high school graduate, Criscolo is now attending the University of Georgia and studying Photojournalism. Like many young talents, the 19-year-old is completely self-taught. As you can tell by his photo manipulation skills, he's equally comfortable behind the camera as he is in front of his computer.

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June 6, 2013

Mesmerizing GIFs of Living Movie Stills

Prometheus Tech Noir is a blog that features a growing gallery of captivating animated gifs created exclusively from movies. There are countless memorable scenes throughout film history but sometimes all it takes to move an audience is one visually stunning moment. Tech Noir captures those moments in an endless loop of isolated motion. Like the astounding cinemagraphs of Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg, these “living movie stills” (as Tech Noir likes to call them)

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June 3, 2013

Intriguing Family Portraits Feature Treasured Objects

Grandma Ilva, Mario's wife Generally when a person hears the phrase ‘family portrait,' images of happy, smiling faces come to mind. However, when photographer Camilla Catrambone considered this concept, she had a different idea for how to portray her family. In her series Portraits of My Family, rather than arranging a group of people on the family room sofa, Catrambone collected a variety of each individual's belongings.

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May 30, 2013

Hong Kong’s Incredibly Dense Apartment Buildings

In Architecture of Density, German photographer Michael Wolf takes the massive, busy city of Hong Kong and narrows it down to the smaller details of its high-rise apartment buildings. By eliminating the sky and cropping in on just specific sections of the buildings, Wolf transforms the repetitive rows of mesmerizing patterns and textures throughout the city into flat abstractions.

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