Category: Photography
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Flesh Love: Photographs of Vacuum-Wrapped Tokyo Couples
On a kitchen floor in Tokyo, Japanese photographer Haruhiko Kawaguchi spends 10-20 seconds photographing couples that he meets in nightclubs. He arranges them like pieces of meat inside bags meant to store futons and blankets. He then seals their conjoined bodies inside the bag using a household vacuum that sucks out all of the air.…
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Incredible Transformation of Ageing Faces Back to Youth
It takes merely seconds for a number of elderly, aged faces to quickly revert back to their youthful glow in these incredible, animated transformations. Originally posted as a full video, the series was recently transformed by GifCraft into a collection of lively GIF files. The two images are perfectly aligned and, as a yellow bar moves…
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Photographer Captures Vertigo-Inducing Images From The Roofs Of Skyscrapers
‘Rooftopping’ is an on-going photo series by Tom Ryaboi, in which he scales towering skyscrapers to capture vertigo-inducing images from a death-defying perspective. Ryaboi’s images show him and his friends performing terrifying feats like dangling their feet over the edge of buildings, balancing on narrow ledges, and hanging from rails—while also showing the backdrop of a beautiful urban…
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What Famous Celebrities Would Look Like as 1920s Criminals
If you liked “NYC Artist Shows Us What Famous Celebrities Would Like as Normal People” which has been viewed more than 4 million times (HERE and HERE), and enjoyed 40 Candid Mugshots of Dapper Criminals from the 1920s, you’ll LOVE Michael Jason Enriquez‘s “What Famous Celebrities Would Look Like as 1920s Criminals”! Michael gives us a glimpse…
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Surreal Photo Manipulations by Caras Ionut
Photo artist Caras Ionut lives in the world of Photoshop where he digitally assembles surreal landscapes and portraits using largely his own photography. These are some of my favorites but you can see much more over on 500px. Ionut also offers all kinds of tutorials and workshops available through his website. And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a…
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Switcheroo: Quirky Portraits of Couples Swapping Clothes by Hana Pesut
Switcheroo is an ongoing portrait project by Canadian photographer Hana Pesut where fashionably dressed couples are asked to swap clothing for a pair of portraits sent against an identical backdrop. While the premise is pretty simple, the results are often highly amusing because of all the subtle details and unusual juxtapositions. Giant feet crammed into tiny high…
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Kylli Sparre’s Surreal Conceptual Photography Influenced by Dance
After years of training to become a professional ballet dancer, artist Kylli Sparre realized it wasn’t the path for her and instead channeled passion for dance into photography and image manipulation. The influence of her past career is immediately apparent when viewing her conceptual photographs that depict posed figures, taunt with energy, at the peak of choreographed…
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Documenting a Pregnancy with 40 Weeks and a Camera
In a series entitled Proyecto Pyokko, freelance photographer Sophie Starzenski took self-portraits in front of a full-length mirror to document her pregnancy. The idea is simple and well executed; and the last frame will surely bring a smile to any face. Born in Buenos Aires in 1985, Starzenski learned the art of photography at the age of 18 studying with…
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40 Candid Mugshots of Dapper Criminals from the 1920s
Between 1910 and 1930, a series of 2500 ‘special photographs’ were taken by the New South Wales Police Department. As curator Peter Doyle of the Justice & Police Museum in Sydney explains: These ‘special photographs’ were mostly taken in the cells at the Central Police Station in Sydney and are of men and women recently plucked from…
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Mamming: The Latest Social Media Craze, Involving… BOOBS!
First there was planking. Then tebowing. Then came owling. And hopefully we’ve all forgotten that Miley Cyrus twerking thing. Now the latest craze to hit social media is called “mamming”. And yes, it involves your BOOBS. For the uninitiated, mamming involves taking a photo of your (clothed) breasts sitting on anything. They could be perched on a…