Category: Photography
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Breaking the “Crazy Cat Lady” Stereotype by Photographing Grown Men with Their Adorable Cats
The term “crazy cat lady” gets bandied around fairly regularly, but not in this series by David Williams who captures men and their felines. David’s project is titled Men & Cats and breaks the “crazy cat lady” stereotype by photographing men in their homes and on the street with their cat companions. According to Williams: “I wanted to…
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Photo Series Featuring the World’s Hardest Working Dogs
The working dogs of the world tend not to get as much time in the spotlight as their house-pet brothers and sisters. Photographer Andrew Fladeboe, however, is working to remedy this injustice by treating these dogs with the respect and artistry they deserve. Though his photo series is called “The Shepherd’s Realm,” the dogs aren’t…
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A Sickly-Sweet Photoshoot Featuring Nude Models Covered in Honey
In his sticky new photo series, LA photographer Blake Little covers his subject in honey and then captures the results. Although it doesn’t look like the most comfortable photoshoot ever, the pictures produced from the series are rather impressive, with the gooey, dribbling honey cascading to the floor and elongating the subjects body parts. You…
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24 Place Names You’ve Probably Been Mispronouncing Your Whole Life
There’s nothing more irritating to a pedant’s ear and nothing more flabbergasting than realizing you’ve been pronouncing the name of so many places wrong, your entire life! Despite the judgment we exhibit toward people who err in enunciating, we all mispronounce a word from time to time, despite our best efforts. Likewise, almost all of…
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Portraits of Soldiers Before, During and After Going to War
Photographer, journalist and filmmaker Lalage Snow shot this series of portraits of British soldiers over a period of seven months, before, during and after their operational deployment to Afghanistan on Op Herrick 12. They speak of fear, being injured, losing a brother soldier, missing home, excitement, coming home, and what life is like on the frontline. Snow,…
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The Nearly Frozen Slurpee Waves of Nantucket
The record-setting winter of 2015 has left a lot of America with all kinds of remarkable images, most of them of snow and ice. But a photographer in Nantucket, Massachusetts, found something most of us have never seen – nearly frozen waves. Jonathan Nimerfroh was walking along a beach on the island recently when he saw…
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Gorgeous Photos of Rescue Dogs with Their Tattooed Owners
Photographer Brian Batista had a challenge – to combat the prejudices associated with people with tattoos AND to raise awareness for rescue dogs. So in a moment of pure genius, he decided to roll the two into one and take photos of tattooed hoomans WITH their rescue dogs! Brilliant. Brian writes more about this project,…
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Artist Photographs Women From 37 Countries To Show That Beauty is Everywhere
Mihaela Noroc is a photographer from Romania that quit her job and started a new life. Two years ago she took her backpack and camera, and began to travel around the globe, photographing hundreds of natural women surrounded by their culture. Her project is called “The Atlas Of Beauty”, which is about our planet’s diversity shown through the portraits…
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Beautiful Post-Pregnancy Photo Series Shows How Mothers’ Bodies Look After Giving Birth
As we all know, the majority of images we see these days are photoshopped to within an inch of their lives. The likes of Beyonce and Kim Kardashian even employ a full time “photoshop expert” to touch up all of their images. It is therefore a welcomed relief to see the work of photographer Jade Beall, who provides…
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Famous Photographers Pose Behind Their Iconic Images
They’re the world’s most iconic images. But unless you’re a photography buff, you probably have no idea who the people behind the lens of these photographs actually are. US photographer Tim Mantoani, however, aims to fix all that with his epic “Behind Photographs” series. Tim started this series in 2006, when he rented a 20×24 Polaroid camera (itself an…