Photography

September 17, 2019

Spectacular Smeared Sky Photos Are Impressionist “Paintings” for the Digital Age

Photographer Matt Molloy has something in common with Impressionist painters. For the better part of a decade, the Canadian creative has crafted sky photography that look like paintings from the defining artistic movement. Depicting daylight and nighttime, the images appear as though they were manipulated with a brush and highlight brilliant hues that are smudged into artful changes of color—just like the painters of the late 1800s.

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September 16, 2019

Photographer Captures Portraits of Strangers He Met on the Streets 25 Years Later

Self-described “documentarist” Daniel Meadows has made countless contributions to contemporary photography. In addition to influencing the creative field, however, his work has also played a pivotal role in a much larger realm: British society as a whole. Daniel Meadows: Now and Then, an eye-opening exhibition at Oxford's Bodleian Libraries, explores how the Gloucestershire-born figure has captured “the extraordinary aspects of ordinary life.” Now and Then gives viewers a comprehensive glimpse into Meadows' practice.

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September 6, 2019

Eye-Opening Photos of Hong Kong’s Packed “Vertical Graveyards” on Hillsides

Based in London and Singapore, Finbarr Fallon is a RIBA-nominated photographer known for his architectural imagery. In his long-term photography project Dead Space, he uses his architectural sensibilities to create evocative imagery. In this set of twelve photographs, shot over the course of five years, Fallon immortalizes Hong Kong's vertical graveyards. With space at a premium in the densely packed city, these cemeteries built into the surrounding mountains loom ominously over Hong Kong.

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