Tag: photography
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Man Spends More Than 3000 Hours Colorizing Old Black & White Photos Of Famous People
Mario Unger is a photographer and digital artist from Austria. Last year his main work was restoring and colorizing old photographs. Mario told us that is reason for doing all of this work was to bring the past back to the present. He loves B&W photography, but for some images he thought that color was…
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Instagram Account Features How All Instagram Photos Are All Starting To Look The Same
Have you noticed that your Instagram feed has become a bit the same recently? Photos of people taken from the same locations with similar poses? Well you’re not alone. Insta Repeat is an account dedicated to highlighting the ‘visual sameness’ of many Instagram pics, tracking the ‘trends’ of influencers who see where the likes are…
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Photographer Captures Synchronistic Images in Soviet Era Swimming Pools
If you’re a Wes Anderson fan, then photographer Maria Svarbova’s latest series titled In the Swimming Pool will be right up your alley. Maria is fascinated by the sterile, geometric aesthetic of old swimming pools, especially those built during the Socialist Era in her native country of Slovakia. Each scene she photographs is highly controlled,…
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His Wife Left Him & Took Everything Except His Dog So He Created This Photo Series
What do you get when you put together an illustrator, his Bull Terrier, and some white walls? An imaginative series of portraits starring the adorable pup, of course! Rafael Mantesso has turned to Instagram to document his doodling adventures with his dog, Jimmy Choo (named by his ex-wife, who was a stylist). After his divorce,…
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Malaysian Artist Uses Genius Photography Trick When Taking Photographs With Superheroes
Malaysian artist Wire Hon creates fun scenes with superhero figureines from the Marvel and DC Comics franchises using only his smartphone and the magic of forced perspective. According to his Instagram – “everybody needs a hobby…” and this is Hon’s idea of fun. The screenplay involves the whole family – his wife and children are…
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Woman Continues to Hilariously Recreates Celebrity Instagram Photos
Celeste Barber isn’t your ordinary comedian. Her ongoing series #CelesteChallengeAccepted parodies the weird and outlandish ‘selfies’ of celebrities, in Barber’s own style. According to Barber: “People are really supporting it – I didn’t really care for how it would be perceived, I just started it for my friends who I knew would love it. I…
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Photographer Comes Up With Ingenious Methods To Take The Best Photos
Brazilian photographer Gilmar Silva has started a brilliant behind-the-scenes series called LUGARxPHOTO (“place and photo”), that shows what happens behind the scenes of his professional photoshoots. The first picture shows the various tricks that Silva used in order to take the image, and the second one reveals the final result which is sometimes hard to…
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Shocking Aerial Photographs Reveal The Stark Difference Between The Rich And The Poor
Aerial images by drone photographer Johnny Miller reveal the dramatic divide between rich and poor in cities in South Africa, Mexico and India. The photos are part of Mr Miller’s Unequal Scenes project, which he started in April 2016 to challenge people’s acceptance of inequality. The South African-based photographer says: “From the minute you land…
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Grieving Wife Gets Photographer To Photoshop Images of Her Late Husband Into Her Maternity Photographs
On December 14, 2017, Stephanie Maynetto-Jackson lost her “twin flame” and husband, Stuart Jackson, in a fatal motorcycle accident. The 28-year-old was pregnant at the time and had an almost 2-year-old son, Dominic, and a 6-year-old stepson, Maliq. The mom from Oahu, Hawaii, knew her life would never be the same, but she remained focused on…
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Artist Captures Baroque Images By Photographing Her Subjects Underwater At Night
The ‘muses’ photo series by Christy Lee Rogers could be more easily compared to Caravaggio’s baroque paintings than any conventional piece of contemporary photography. The Hawaiian visual artist produces her colorful, luminous works by submerging her subjects, a barrage of bodies, in water at night and photographing them using the refraction of light. In an…