Small cardboard people

Anton Tang, a talented artist and blogger from Singapore, has taken to the habit of photographing plastic “cardboard people” in typical, everyday settings and environments. The special thing about these photos is that they add life to the tiny characters, and that gives you the impression that they all have a story to tell. The photos themselves are absolutely stunning. The right combination of lighting and angles makes the “cardboard people” look average-sized and not small.

 

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World Press Photo of the Year 2012

This powerful photograph by photographer Samuel Aranda was introduced today as the World Press Photo of the Year 2012. The description reads,

A woman holds a wounded relative in her arms, inside a mosque used as a field hospital by demonstrators against the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, during clashes in Sanaa, Yemen on 15 October 2011.

The image was selected from 101,254 photos that were submitted to the World Press Photo 2012 competition by 5,247 photographers in 124 countries. You can check out all the other winners in the different categories on The Big Picture and over on the World Press Photo website.

Photo by Yuri Kozyrev: Rebels in Libya are attacked by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s tanks.

Photo by Ray McManus: A rugby match played in the rain between Old Belvedere and Blackrock.

Photo by Jan Dago: In Tahrir Square, a child is propped atop an adult’s shoulders, fully clad in military uniform, in a peaceful effort to ask President Hosni Mubarek to step down.

Photo by Tomasz Lazar: In Harlem, New York, a protestor is arrested at a demonstration against police tactics and income inequality.

Photo by Alex Majoli: In Cairo, protestors cry in rebellion at Tahrir Square in response to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek’s speech about refusing to step down.

Photo by Stephanie Sinclair: Tahani, a child bride in Yemen at the age of 6, poses with her husband, 25 years old at the time of their marriage. They are joined by another child bride, Ghada, and her husband.

Photo by Alejandro Kirchuk: A married couple of 65 years, Marcos (89) and Monica (87) live everyday together through the added obstacle of Monica’s diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease.

Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba: Chieko Matsukawa finds her daughter’s graduation certificate in the rubble in the aftermath of Japan’s earthquake in 2011.

Photo by Lars Lindqvist: At the port of Ishinokmaki, boats are stranded atop the piers in the wake of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Japan.

Photo by Johnny Haglund: A girl in the Democractic Republic of Congo goes fishing in the Congo River. She carries the fish in her mouth, a common practice, because it is less likely to slip out of her grip.

Photo by Paul Hilton: Thousands of shark fins are sorted through in China, where shark fin soup is a very popular meal. It is reported that 90 percent of sharks have disappeared because of the international demand for the dish.

Photo by Brent Stirton: Two rhinos meet, one of which survived a vicious dehorning by poachers in South Africa only a few months ago.

Photo by Ilvy Njiokiktjien: A sergeant in South Africa demonstrates how to operate a gun to a group of white youths at a camp dedicated to go up against Nelson Mandela’s culturally mixed “rainbow nation.”

Photo by Adam Pretty: Silhouettes of divers practicing at the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai, China during the 14th FINA World Championships.

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Celebrity Photo Booth!

Who doesn’t love seeing the silly side of our favorite celebs? Photographer Yu Tsai captures their countless, crazy expressions in these black-and-white shots. He must have a great rapport with his celebrity clients… Yu Tsai is an American photographer working out of Los Angeles and New York. His beautiful photography has been featured in magazines like Flaunt, Harper’s Baazar, Marie Claire, V Magazine and Vogue Japan. Here he shoots some of today’s hottest actresses and singers.

Anne Hathaway

Lenny Kravitz

Alicia Keys

Diddy

Leona Lewis

Sam Rockwell

Evan Rachel Wood

Ewan McGregor

Lea Michele

Christina Ricci

Kristen Stewart

Ke$ha

Minka Kelly

Rose McGowan

Katy Perry

Janet

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MODEL-STUDENT or STUDENT-MODEL

Aaron K is an Auckland based fashion, beauty and celebrity photographer. For over ten years he has been creating original and engaging imagery for a wide variety of advertising and editorial client. Today we present his  great project “MODEL-STUDENT / STUDENT-MODEL. He says: “The aim for this shoot was to draw attention to the fact that young high-school age girls are regularly portrayed as more mature, sexually assertive women by the fashion industry.” Ejoy the photogallery!

 

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Celebrity Camera Club

Famous folk taking photos

Celebrity Camera Club  is an exclusive club for photography lovers who collected hundreds shots of celebrities taking pictures with  their favorite photo cameras. This Amazing photogallery containing pictures of cinema’s legends as Sean Connery, Audrey Hepburn, Marylin Monroe, James Dean, but also contemporary celebrities from show business, so … Enjoy…!!

Sean Connery with an SLR

Audrey Hepburn being photographed by Fred Astaire

The Queen with a Leica

Marilyn Monroe with Nikon Camera by Bert Stern

Madonna with what looks like a Canon g12

Richard Avedon and Fred Astaire

Angelina Jolie with a large format bellows camera

David Bowie with a Hasselblad

 

Paul McCartney self portrait with a twin reflex camera

Arnold Schwarzenegger with an SLR

Michael Jackson with an SLR

  Mick Jagger with a Polaroid ( Image by Baron Wolman)

James Dean with a Rolleiflex

Bob Dylan with a Nikon SP Rangefinder

Jimmy Hendrix with a Polaroid

Buzz Aldrin shot by Neil Armstrong (who you can also see in the helmet reflection). Buzz is holding his Hasselblad and Neil is using one to take the photo.

Audrey Tautou with a Leica m8.

 

Kate Moss with a Holga

Leonard Nimoy and a Nikon F

Sofia Coppola and a Canon Canonet QL 17 GIII.

Liz Taylor and a Rolleiflex

Drew Barrymore and a Polaroid

Angelina Jolie with a Canon 1D Mark IV

Ringo with a Pentax SLR

Grace Kelly taking Frank Sinatra’s photo with a Hasselblad.

Emily Blunt with a Contax G2

Milla Jovovich with point and shoot by Chris Floyd~

Natalie Portman and a Rolleiflex

Brad Pitt with a Leica M3

The McCartneys by Linda. Can’t identify the camera though…

James Dean taking a photograph of Anna Maria Pierangeli with a Rolleiflex

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis with an SLR

Johnny Depp with a Polaroid.

Stanley Kubrick with a rangefinder.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and a MF camera.

Karl Lagerfeld + Fujifilm GA645Zi

Robert Plant and Jimmy Page with Nikon F2s

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Big Appetites | Christopher Boffoli

Christopher Boffoli does what every child likes to do; playing with food! His miniature men explore eatables out of a new, unknown perspective. Thus an applecake becomes a building site, noodles become a viewing platform and a cornet is reconstructed to a tent.

The images have a strength and a personality of their own. But they are most often exhibited with captions that lend an extra bit of energy to the concept, and of course, often reinforce the laug

Caption by Artist: Once again, owning an exotic pet was proving to be nothing but trouble.

Caption by Artist: Though they’d be reticent to admit that they were cliquish, Harvey was obviously at the top of the pecking order.

Caption by Artist: If they’d only realized that the killer was right there in the crowd.

Caption by Artist: 422 days without an accident at the chocolate quarry.

Caption by Artist: They would always work together to open the foil, but then fight over who got to sink the knife into the pristine peanut butter.

Caption by Artist: It was the first cookie climb without supplemental oxygen.

About Big Appetites Christopher says:
The genesis of my Big Appetites series of fine art photographs was in a lot of the media I was exposed to as a child. There were so many films and television shows that exploited both the dramatic and comedy potential of a juxtaposition of different scales: tiny people in a normal-sized world. It is a surprisingly common cultural theme going back all the way to Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels in the 18th century and perhaps earlier.

I think it is especially resonant with children because as a child you live in an adult world that is out of scale with your body and proportions. And you constantly exercise your imagination around a world of toys that are further out of scale. As a child I was an avid collector of Matchbox cars, a model railroader and a builder of models (cars, ships and airplanes). I was fascinated, as many children and adults are, with tiny, meticulously detailed things.

When I began shooting some of the very earliest images in this series, around 2003, food was a conscious choice as one of the components as it can be very beautiful – in terms of texture and color – especially when shot with available light and macro lenses. Combining what is essentially food and toys makes the work instantly accessible to virtually everyone. Regardless of language, culture and social status, almost everyone can identify with toys from their childhood. And whether you eat with a fork, chopsticks or your hands, everyone understands food. Sitting down to a meal makes us feel most human.

The sensual experience of eating accesses primal instincts that stretch back to the earliest days of our evolution. Whether we are reflecting on the comfort food of childhood, celebrating food’s tremendous diversity, or obsessing over calories and nutrition, cuisine is one of those rare topics that most people can speak about with authority and yet largely without controversy. So the choice of food as a backdrop of the environments of the Big Appetites series is certainly calculated.

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Steve McCurry

The major exhibition dedicated to Steve McCurry‘s collection of over 200 photographs selected from his vast repertoire based on over 30 years of extraordinary career as a photographer and reporter. Alongside some of the icons of McCurry, such as the famous portrait of the Afghan girl with green eyes, will be presented for the first time the most recent works, from 2009 to 2011: the project roll with the last pictures taken around the world using the last film produced by Kodak. There are also recent trips to Thailand and Burma with a spectacular series of images dedicated to Buddhism, an unpublished work on Cuba and, in the year when we celebrate the 150 th anniversary, a selection of his “Italian pictures”, a tribute result of repeated stays to Italy later this year in various cities and regions, especially for the event. The care of the exhibition and the project construction are a major player in the design and culture of the image in Italy, Fabio Novembre. The photos were chosen not with space-time criteria, but similarity of subjects and emotions, looking for common threads and unthinkable ties that bind people and places albeit in different latitudes. The exhibition is designed as a nomad village with a series of volumes that interpenetrate each other to restore that sense of humanity that breathes McCurry’s photos.

La grande mostra dedicata aSteve McCurry raccoglie oltre 200 fotografie selezionate dal suo vasto repertorio frutto di oltre 30 anni di straordinaria carriera di fotografo e di reporter. Accanto ad alcune delle icone di McCurry, come il celebre ritratto della ragazza afgana dagli occhi verdi, saranno presentati per la prima volta i lavori più recenti, dal 2009 al 2011: il progetto the last roll con le immagini scattate in giro per il mondo utilizzando l’ultimo rullino prodotto dalla Kodak. Sono presenti anche gli ultimi viaggi in Thailandia e in Birmania con una spettacolare serie di immagini dedicate al Buddismo, un lavoro inedito su Cuba e, nell’anno in cui si festeggia il 150° anniversario, una selezione delle sue “fotografie italiane”, omaggio all’Italia frutto dei ripetuti soggiorni effettuati nel corso di quest’anno in varie città e regioni appositamente per questo evento. La cura della mostra e il progetto di allestimento sono di uno dei maggiori protagonisti del design e della cultura dell’immagine in Italia, Fabio Novembre. Le foto sono state scelte non con criteri spazio-temporali, ma per assonanza di soggetti e di emozioni, cercando i fili comuni e gli impensabili legami che accomunano luoghi e persone seppure in latitudini diverse. L’allestimento è pensato come un villaggio nomade con una serie di volumi che si compenetrano tra loro per restituire quel senso di umanità che si respira nelle foto di McCurry.

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