Spanish architecture firm A-cero has designed this house in the township of Las Rozas in Madrid.
You can find out more about this house as well as more A-cero houses at +Mood.
„Atmospheric, naturalistic, semi-candid editorial art nudes” by Los Angeles based photographer James Christopher.
More pictures by James Christopher at ModernCitizen.
Berlin Photographer Thomas Birke is creating incredible long time exposures of our world’s metropolises. Shooting analog large format 8×2 with a Sinar P2, his pictures stand out due to their enormous density and richness of detail.
I am most interested in density. My aspiration is to show at least a 1000 people or their traces on every picture. Be it the illuminated windows of their apartments, the light streaks of their vehicles or their clothes hung out of windows for drying. Even if you do not see people directly, you can see their footprint on the urban environment. An organism that is alive and breathing. One shall print the pictures in a 2×3 metre scale and be able to find another story on every square centimetre. The images should provoke interest on first sight, through colour, shape and proportions. But even if you examine them more intensively, you should never be bored.
You can view and download these and a lot more photographs in high resolution on Flickr. Mind you, if Thomas publishes his pictures with 10 megapixels on Flickr, this is under 2% of the original resolution of up to 600 megapixels which allows for 2 meter printouts at 300 dpi!
Be sure to check out Thomas’ blog where he writes about his progress as a photographer, his production process and his inspiration. Also, Thomas’ pictures along with some thoughts about his work are featured in the fourth issue of the The Velvet Cell Magazine.
The photos in this post are from Seoul (1-3), Hong Kong (4-13), New York (14-15), Berlin (16), Paris (17-19) and Tokyo (20-24).
London-based cameraman, editor and motion graphics designer Stefan Werc produced this atmospheric time-lapse photography of Tokyo by night.
The pictures are shot with a Canon 7D and edited in Adobe After Effects. Broadcast 2000 provides the sound track with the song “Get Up And Go”.
Watch this stunning work of Dentsu London and BERG. Asking themselves “…what might a magical version of the future of media look like?”, they used the iPad to create typographic holograms captured with long exposure photography as the iPad was moved through the air. They explain:
First we create software models of three-dimensional typography, objects and animations. We render cross sections of these models, like a virtual CAT scan, making a series of outlines of slices of each form. We play these back on the surface of the iPad as movies, and drag the iPad through the air to extrude shapes captured in long exposure photographs. Each 3D form is itself a single frame of a 3D animation, so each long exposure still is only a single image in a composite stop frame animation.
Read more about “Making Future Magic” at the Dentsu London blog and the BERG blog.
China in 12 Frames is a collaborative photoblog dedicated to the use of medium format film in China. Mostly shot with Lomography cameras like the Diana or Holga, the photographs have a nice artistic appearance and offer interesting views of China.
German photographer Christian Rolfes has launched an interesting photography project:
&&&.net is a stage for everyone who likes to strike a pose every now and then. A photography project that is all about versatility, bringing together people from all places and backgrounds. At the improvised multi-media shootings through a videochat, you become famous, and your environment becomes the set.
As Christian projects the videochat stream to a wall or other backgrounds and shoots the pictures with a regular camera, the photographs get a nice analogous even retro touch.To get some impressions of the shooting process and atmosphere watch the making-of:
You can follow the project at &&&.net.
Other view on the same country – Namibia, after Mongolia the most sparsely populated country in the world. On these pictures of German photographer Norbert Gräf you can literally feel the vast expanse of the landscape with only few traces of human settlement.
Be sure to visit Norbert’s other photo series at photography.graefdesign.com.
Spanish photographer Alvaro Sanchez-Montañes decided to explore the abandoned homes and ghost towns of the Namib desert after reading about the deserted diamond mines in Namibia. His photo series Desert Indoors documents the magical beauty and solitude of the abandoned houses which have gradually been reclaimed by the Namib desert.
Travelling the world over the last decades, photojournalist Steve McCurry has shot some of the most compelling photo portraits of our time. He is best known for his picture of the green eyed Afghan girl who stared out from the front page of National Geographic in 1985.
Here are some of my favorite pictures of Steve. Be sure to visit his website and his blog to get inspired by so many more great pictures.
A retrospective of his work is currently on show at the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, where he spoke about his methods and in more detail about a number of his pictures:
When walking in the street I’m opened up to a certain kind of person, a person who will speak to me in a very profound way, and once I find that person, I get very excited. I suddenly get very enthusiastic, and I think my enthusiasm is infectious and suddenly we have this chemistry, this sort of bond where I’m so enamoured with them and how they look and how the present themselves.
It’s actually a really quite an odd thing to walk up to a stranger and yet within a matter of seconds to be able to try and persuade them to actually stop what they were doing and to allow me to take their picture. I’ve sort of developed a way that is in part showing respect, plus there’s an element of humour to try and defuse the sort of embarrassing, awkward situation.
Read the full interview at Viewfinder.