Documentary

Public Delivery: Project during Olympics in Sochi, Russia

Performances / 1 minute of reading

Produced in the Olympic Park in Sochi, Russia during the Olympics in 2014. Silence Was Golden is an on-going global performance series. Across the world, performers choose a word or a short phrase that expresses something important or meaningful to them and then spell it out of golden letter balloons in relevant locations. This site-specific […]

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Andreas Gursky’s sensational photos of North Korea’s mass games

Photography / 2 minutes of reading

Renowned for his large-format color photographs charting themes of globalized society at work and play, Andreas Gursky’s production employs the digital technology to capture and refine an astounding compilation of detail on an epic scale. The perspective in many of Gursky’s photographs is drawn from an elevated vantage point. This position enables the viewer to

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Photographer Thomas Struth visits both North & South Korea

Photography / 3 minutes of reading

In March 2007, Thomas Struth went on a first trip to South Korea. He spent time in the two largest cities, Seoul and Busan, and visited religious and cultural sites, important landscapes and shipyards. At the vast DSME shipyard on Geoje Island, one of the largest in the world, he photographed tankers under construction and

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Thomas Struth’s jungle photos may make you feel helpless

Photography / 4 minutes of reading

German photographer Thomas Struth has been taking pictures of forests in different parts of the world since 1998. By giving these images the title New Pictures from Paradise, he has endowed them with a special meaning as pictures of nature before the intrusion of humans. His attention focuses on wild nature while at the same

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Alec Soth’s Broken Manual – Somewhere to Disappear

Photography / 5 minutes of reading

Broken Manual by photographer Alec Soth is a compelling series that was created over a four-year period, from 2006-2010. They reflect Soth’s increasing interest in the mounting anger and frustration that some—specifically male—Americans feel with societal constraints and their subsequent desire to remove themselves from civilization. The resulting work is a group of portraits of

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Photographer Weng Fen’s girls stare into China’s future

Photography / 5 minutes of reading

Born in 1961, Weng Fen is a Chinese photographer and an active contemporary artist since the late 1990s. He is famous for creating works related to nature, humans, and urbanization. The artist is a native of the Hainan province and studied at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in 1985. First photos Weng

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Sunghee Lee’s mesmerizing photos of empty billboards in Thailand

Photography / 4 minutes of reading

The Empty Billboards is a unique series produced by France-based photographer Sunghee Lee. Originally from South Korea, the artist came up with the project as a way of promoting positive thinking. With so much negative energy in the world, the Panneaux would be the legacy that surely lives on after he is physically gone. Before

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Andreas Gursky from 1990 to present – His best photos

Architecture, Photography / 11 minutes of reading

Andreas Gursky, born in 1955 in Leipzig, Germany, is a renowned photographer who uses colorful, large-scale depictions of modern life. Living and working in Düsseldorf, Germany, he represents a revaluation of realism within contemporary photography through conceptual staging and digital image editing. The German photographer popularised photography focusing on day-to-day human activities in commerce, sports

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Heartbreaking: The abandoned animals of Fukushima

Documentary photography, Photography / 2 minutes of reading

 A day after a tsunami damaged a nuclear reactor at Fukushima in Japan on 11 March 2011, inhabitants living within 20km of the power plant were forcibly evacuated. They had to leave their personal belongings as well as their household pets and farm animals behind. Three days later, there was a hydrogen explosion at the

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Nadav Kander: 3 years taking photos of China’s longest river

Documentary photography, Photography / 3 minutes of reading

For his Yangtze photos Nadav Kander came to China several times in 2005 to 2007, visited 186 cities and traveled along the world’s third-largest river, from the spring in the Himalaya to the mouth. Humans are usually just portrayed as small figures next to a gigantic setting, either the river itself or one of the

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Photographer Timo Stammberger in subway tunnels without permission

Architecture, Photography / 1 minute of reading

Timo Stammberger (b. 1980) is a Berlin-based photographer. He is the first to document subway tunnels in his extensive series Underground Landscapes that shows the underground architecture from major cities like New York, Lisbon, Budapest, Berlin and others. Underground Landscapes The surprising element is that the subway tunnels that millions of people pass through every

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Bruce Davidson’s sexy & scary subway photos

Documentary photography, Graffiti, Paintings, Photography / 7 minutes of reading

Bruce Davidson was born on 5 September 1933 in Oak Park, Chicago. He began taking photographs when he was just ten years old after his mother built him a darkroom. He was got hired at Austin Camera as a stock boy. Davidson learned technical nuances of photography from Al Cox, including lighting, printing, and dye

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Martha Cooper shows her subway art photos in exhibition

Graffiti, Paintings / 3 minutes of reading

This Saturday, the exhibition of Martha Cooper and Nils Müller opened. The exhibition is running until the 8th of January, 2011. From Saturday, 3rd December 2011 to 8th January 2012, photographers Martha Cooper (US) and Nils Müller (DE) showed works at The Gallerian INC. in Bochum, Germany. Both are well-known for taking photos of graffiti

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