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Taking photographs in snow always looks awesome.

These photographs, by Gabriella Rizzello and Murray Ballard, have been produced to raise money for diabetes sufferers. A combination of landscapes, still lives and interiors, the main thing I like about them is just the nice tones you get from photographing snow…

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Lisa Elmaleh

“good old honest and straightforward landscape photography…”

I really like these photos from Lisa Elmaleh. I’m not sure why, but landscape photography seems to losing some of its dignity and respectability. Perhaps it is Flickr, or the over-conceptualisation of photography, but landscapes have become a bit of a guilty pleasure of mine. I love making them, but hate showing them. There is something beautiful and simple in these photographs that starts to make me feel better about liking landscapes.

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John McLean, City

“The intention of this body of work,” says Maclean “is not to document specific cities or individuals – it is an endeavour to construct my own city through photographs.”

”City is a place pieced together by utilising both photography’s assets and its limitations – it is consciously photographic. The resulting worldview is a sparsely populated, absurd theatre. A stage set of caves, screens, portals and ambiguous landscapes. A city built on the foundations of an inherently surreal medium that can’t help but veil, dislocate, displace and abstract.”

Manipulation?

Stepan Rudik was disqualified from the World Press Photo awards due to manipulation of his image to remove the detail of a shoe from the image, raising huge questions about what is acceptable within the photographic community.

This is the final image, edited and submitted:

Which was edited from this original image:

The small detail that was edited out was the foot between the thumb and forefinger. Personally, that detail doesn’t bother me, and to edit it out is fair enough. What bothers me more is the apparently acceptable overall manipulation from this bland and meaningless image to what was finally submitted, not the little foot. If they can ban someone for removing a small foot, surely they should ban them for the removal of about 80% of the rest of the image through cropping?

Full story HERE

Is Photography Over?

Introduction to lectures held by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

I spent a month and a half living in Bangkok over the summer accompanying my girlfriend who was working there at the time.

I arrived less than a week after the troubles between red shirt protesters and the Thai army erupted, ending in bloodshed and a nation divided and under close control.

Despite this, in the short time between the end of the violence and my arrival, the traces of what happened had almost completely disappeared. The residents of Bangkok returned to life as though nothing had happened, and the street sellers took their wares back to the curbs that only a few days before had been covered in burning tires and pools of blood. In fact, the only signs of mourning from the people of Bangkok seemed to come from the regular crowd that gathered outside the Central World shopping plaza, laying flowers in front of the burnt out shell of one of South East Asia’s largest malls.

British photographer/artist in his own personal attack on US army bases

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Another play about with TimeLapse, this time adding in some Beethoven for that full cinematic effect.