Category: Photography
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When a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Tightening America’s Gun Laws
This photo is from 1997 in Australia. Mick Roelandts, a firearms-reform manager, looks over prohibited weapons that were handed in under the Australian government’s buy-back scheme. 700,000 guns were bought back. Percentage-wise, that’s the equivalent of 40 million guns in the US. 20 years on, and the breaking news is that dozens of people have…
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Playboy Playmates Recreate Their Covers 30 Years Later
To celebrate the life and death of Playboy Founder Hugh Marston Hefner at the age of 91, we thought we’d look at an interesting series by photographers Ben Miller and Ryan Lowry for Playboy. In this series, a number of Playmates were given the opportunity to recreate their iconic covers, some 30 years after their release. …
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Girl From Belgium ‘Escapes’ to Ethiopia to Spend a Week With the Surma Tribe
Photographer and Travel blogger Marisa Papen recently wanted to experience a new culture. Something radically different from her cosy life in the heart of Belgium. So along with photographer Jesse Walker, Marisa caught a plane to the Omo Valley in Ethiopia and spent a week living with the Surma Tribe. Marisa tried to integrate herself…
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Stunning Images From the 2017 Bird Photographer of the Year Awards
The Bird Photographer of the Year 2017 has just closed, and the stunning photo above by Alejandro Prieto Rojas was declared the overall winner. For its second edition, this photo contest was dedicated to the photography of birds. Organized by Nature Photographers and the British Trust for Ornithology, the Bird Photographer of the Year contest is dedicated to raising public awareness…
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Photographer Finds Locations Of 1960s Postcards and Compares Them With Photos of Today
Photographer Pablo Iglesias Maurer was recently sitting at his desk when the postcard picture of a matchbox caught his eye. It was a picture of resort complex built in the 1960s and got Pablo to wondering how the place looked now. As a result of this series of events, Pablo produced his latest series called Abandoned…
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Children Create “It”-Themed Photoshoot And It Will Give You Nightmares
If you’re like us, watching Stephen King’s movie “It” scared you half to death when you were younger. In a masterful recreation of the film, 17-year-old Mississippi photographer Eagan Tilghman has released pictures of a creative photoshoot he did with his 3-year-old brother Louie, and the results look nightmarishly realistic. Eagan dressed Louie up as Pennywise…
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Instagram Account Exposes the Boyfriends Forced to Take the ‘Perfect’ Girlfriend Photo
We’ve all seen the photos before. The ‘perfect’ Instagram photograph taken at luxurious location A, followed by another pose at spectacular location B. But who takes those photos? The boyfriends of course! Boyfriends of Instagram seeks to expose these boyfriends, in a series of hilarious photos showing them going to ridiculous lengths to capture the perfect…
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Insomniac Photographer Captures Haunting Photos of an Empty Central Park
Insomnia – we’ve all had it at one time or another – whether it was caused by consuming too much coffee, too much sugar, or having too many things on your mind. When New Jersey-based photographer Michael Massaia experienced a major bout insomnia back in 2007, he started a series of photographs which focused on…
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10 Women Who Changed the World We Live In
It’s surprising to us that in this day and age we still need to have an ‘official’ day to recognise and champion women and women’s rights. Nevertheless, International Women’s Day has come and gone for another year and gave us the opportunity to reflect upon how women have changed the world we live in. Throughout history, many…
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The Top Photos in the 2017 Birth Photography Competition (NSFW)
The International Association of Professional Birth Photographers (IAPBP) has just announced the finalists and winners for the 2017 competition, which celebrates “the beauty of birth and the skill of birth photographers”. The contest is split into three categories: labor, delivery, and postpartum. When we presented you with the 2016 finalists, it was one of our most viewed blogs for 2016. Many…