home movies series: dinner!
March 11th, 2010
I thought this was photomotion video (made with the Rebel XT) was really cute, and also the photography in it was great!
52 suburbs
March 5th, 2010
Australian photographer Louise Hawson has taken on a massive project, and I think it’s an amazing idea. It’s called 52 Suburbs. Here’s the description from her website:
My name is Louise. I’ve lived in Sydney for over 30 years but have never set foot in most of its 600 plus suburbs. Now I’m on a mission to explore and photograph one new Sydney suburb a week for a year in search of the beauty in the ‘burb. Care to join me?
What I really like about this project is the way she juxtaposes images together that match, and especially how she interacts with the people she is photographing. She’s not just passively walking around, she’s actually engaging with the people in the neighbourhoods she is visiting. It makes for some great photos!
Check out some of the pink series from the Randwick suburb below:
the paper eaters: long live the photo-story!
March 4th, 2010
If you happen to live in London, you should check this out! Or even volunteer because they’re looking for contributors and assistants. It looks awesome and I so wish I could attend, here’s the text from the website explaining what it’s all about:
1 – 29 Apr 2010
Location: The Ultralounge, SelfridgesEncapsulating the punk DIY aesthetic, The Paper Eaters: Long Live the Photo-Story! makes a defiant stand against the digital world.
Artist duo The Girls (Andrea Blood and Zoë Sinclair) adopt the roles of editors-in-chief of a photo-story magazine with a difference. While the Ultralounge at Selfridges is transformed into an 80’s inspired den, where they will create three photo-story magazines. Selfridges’ staff and customers are taking part in shoots, and will be invited to contribute ideas and shape the stories as they are shot. Each issue will be compiled using traditional cut and paste techniques, and include contributions from guests from the fashion and art world.
You’re invited to relive the 80’s by interacting with the drive-in photo-story viewing booth, customised 1980’s make-overs, a dry ice dance floor – or even take a lead role in a photo-story for the magazine.
noticings
March 2nd, 2010
Noticings is the game of noticing the world around you. It’s a photo challenge of sorts, where you tag and post your images and get points for meeting certain criteria. The rules are constantly changing, but as they stand now, they are as follows:
| 5 |
Noticing something near someone else’s noticing. Where ‘near’ is within a 100m radius. |
| 10 |
Noticing something. |
| 10 |
Your first noticing in a neighbourhood. |
| 10 |
Noticing something lost. Tag your photo with ‘lost’ to be scored correctly. |
| 20 |
Noticing a typo or misspelling on a sign. Tag your photo with ‘typo’ to be scored correctly. |
| 25 |
Noticing a face in an object. Tag your photo with ‘hellolittlefella’ to be scored correctly, and optionally add to the Hello Little Fella group. |
| 30 |
Being first player to notice something in a neighbourhood. |
| 50 |
Noticing something every lunchtime for a working week. Where lunchtime is between 12pm and 2pm, and a working week is Monday to Friday. |
| 70 |
Noticing something every day for a week. Where a week is Monday to Sunday. |
Pretty fun, right? It’s a great way to look more closely at your environment and see the cool and interesting things around you, as well as compel you to take more photos in an effort to get as many points as you can! I love photo challenges like this because I find that having a goal and a criteria to stay within forces you to think a bit more rather than randomly snapping photos, and usually gets me to take a lot more thoughtful and better photos.
Check out noticings, sign up today and start taking more photos!
staple street project by chris zedano
January 19th, 2010
Chris Zedano is a portrait photographer currently based in New York City, and he’s been working on his Staple Street Project for a couple years now. I love street photography, and his work is great, so I wanted to share.
Also cool to note, the photographs from this project have been accepted into a group exhibition at AFF Berlin Gallery, part of the European Month of Photography in Berlin in November 2010.
Check out some samples below, and the Staple Street Project site for more!
everything i have, simon evans
December 29th, 2009
Again, not technically photography (medium is pen, paper, scotch tape, and whiteout) but wouldn’t it be a great photo project idea, to photograph everything you have and turn it into one huge piece of art? Check out artist Simon Evan’s work Everything I Have and get inspired to catalogue all your material possessions:
where the wild things are forts
December 29th, 2009
Just saw this on Booooooom! (and We Love You So) and I had to post about it since I loved the movie, Where The Wild Things Are forts photo contest. There were so many good ones, it was pretty much impossible to pick favorites, but check out some that I liked below and definitely go to the sites to see even more. Doesn’t this make you want to build your own?
graphic intersections: submission
December 15th, 2009
Came across this cool project called Graphic Intersections from The Exposure Project, here’s the explanation from the website:
Graphic Intersections is a collaborative project loosely based on the old Surrealist and Dadaist game The Exquisite Corpse. Designed to unite disparate artists in an interconnected photographic relay of images inspired by one another, this project strives to emphasize a system of response entirely rooted in unmediated visual reaction.
The first photographer made a photograph, which was subsequently forwarded to the second in line. The 2nd then, based solely on their own visual, emotional, intellectual or philosophical response, in turn made photographs in artistic reaction to the one they were given. The artists involved were not given any written material to accompany the photograph, nor did they know whose image they were responding to. This was designed to propagate chance, or as the Surrealist’s put it, exploit “the mystique of accident.”
Ultimately, Graphic Intersections to challenge the bounds of sequential, narrative imagery, while simultaneously fostering stronger lines of artistic affiliation.
Check out the previous project, and submit to the new one, there’s still time!
its nice that zine: if drawings were photographs
December 13th, 2009
Found this via My Love For You Is A Stampede Of Horses. It’s a zine from It’s Nice That, called If Drawings Were Photographs. Apparently the idea behind the zine is “Tom gave drawings to Rob and Rob tried to make them into photographs.” I think it’s hilarious, the photos and the drawings are both great. Check out the link to purchase the zine, and see some samples from it below:
upside downy face
December 13th, 2009
I saw this awhile back but I just stumbled upon it again. Upside Downy Face is a photo series by photography studio Bruton Stroube. It’s pretty funny, and mildly unnatractive. Check out the site for the whole series plus extras, and below for some of my faves:
PS: If you ever thought about watermarking your images online, this is a much classier and more effective way of getting the same point across. Just sayin’.
