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Illuminating photography: From camera obscura to camera phone

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The origins of the cameras we use today were invented in the 19th century. Or were they? A millenia before, Arab scientist Alhazen was using the camera obscura to duplicate images, with Leonardo da Vinci following suit 500 years later and major innovations beginning in the 19th century. Eva Timothy tracks the trajectory from the most rudimentary cameras to the ubiquity of them today.

Created by Eva Timothy and Andy London.

Learn more at TEDed: ed.ted.com/lessons/illuminating-photography-eva-timothy

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Time Travel by Flóra Borsi

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A dream perhaps of many. Traveling through time. Hungarian photographer Flóra Borsi used Photoshop to ‘see’ some of the biggest artists, musicians and moments in western history first hand. She created images that shows her in the presence of these famous persons and moments. Capturing Elvis on stage, sneaky taking a shot of Marilyn Monroe in a bathroom or documenting the civil rights movement. Where would you love to be? You can recreate history if you are as photoshop savvy as Borsi is.

I hope her next series will show us the results of this fantastic way of traveling through time. That would really make for an amazing series.

Flóra Borsi’s profile on Behance: www.behance.net/yayuniversal

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Flóra Borsi’s profile on Behance: www.behance.net/yayuniversal

 

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The Little Prince by Matej Peljhan

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In this series, called The Little Prince, Slovenian photographer Matej Peljhan lets a 12-year-old boy with muscular dystrophy play again. He lets him do things he wouldn’t be able to do in real life because of his muscle disorder. The boy, Luke, is walking, skating, sporting and even breakdancing. The photographer has made this kid a kid again through this wonderful series.

I’ve seen and even used this style of creating a scene by laying the person, or in my case a baby, down on the floor. It opens up all kinds of possibilities. On PforPHOTO we have seen this technique before in the series Honkey Kong.

Matej Peljhan’s website: mate.1x.com

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India Song by Karen Knorr

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Perhaps a dream of many. Having a majestic animal we like to see at a safari holiday or while visiting a zoo as a pet. Letting them walk around your house as if they were a normal house cat. And since we are dreaming, why not make your house look like a palace, museum or some other architectural wonder of a place. Karen Knorr visualized exactly that in her series called India Song.

Karen Knorr’s website: www.karenknorr.com

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Letting Go by Femke van Veen

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Dutch artist and photographer Femke van Veen‘s new series is pretty colorful. Her series shows toys. Toys she used to play with. But with aging comes letting go. And that is the title of this series. Letting Go is partly an homage to her younger years and an attempt to let go of her past. Let her past be represented by memories. So for the last time she played with the toys and created this wonderful series. The way she painted the toys in the exact colors of the background is like a representation of her letting go. Let the physical all blend away in the back, fade into the past.

“In order to let go, I had to face my fears. I had to learn that memories will always remain in your head. Even when your belongings are of living their own lives. This is their chance to shine for the last time, before they will be kept safe in my head.“

 

Femke van Veen’s website: www.femkevanveen.com

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Femke van Veen’s website: www.femkevanveen.com

 

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Drive by Shooting by Johnny Tergo

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Google Streets eat your hearth out. Photographer Johnny Tergo combined the mapping style of google with the drive by shooting we know out of those certain neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Which happens to be the photographers home town. Tergo drives around in a car tricked out with strobes. He shoots LA’s pedestrians. Some photographs look to be straight from a hollywood movie. His strobes help to achieve this effect. The side mirror of the car can be seen in each image. It reminds us of being in a car. Looking at people whom we come across as we drive along the streets of Los Angeles. The series is called Passenger Side Window. The complete series now consist out of 62 photographs. Visit his website to see the complete set.

“I am Constantly seeing interesting people whom I have the urge to photograph while driving past them on the streets. I built a series of interesting images of people on the street without the individuals knowledge, just as I saw it before me. I accomplished this by building a custom rig in my truck that is made up of generators, strobes, a digital capture station with remote fire capability and of course a mounted camera. This method also allowed me to light the images without having to set-up a series of lights for each individual portrait. In essence I built myself a driving studio.

In this series I seek to explore the interplay of environment and the individuals that occupy the space.“

Johnny Tergo’s website: johnnytergo.com

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The Art of the Streets – Architecture by Nicholas Alan Cope

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Color can distract. That’s why some photographers choose to shoot in black and white. I’m not sure if this is the reason why Nicholas Alan Cope photographs architecture in black and white. But it sure makes you look at the things he wants you to see,  the lines and compositions. The art of the streets. And in some photographs the black seems to fade. To show us a white pallet of lines and shadows. Almost neoplasticism like the works of painter Piet Mondriaan. Except of course, without the red, blue and yellow. Nicolas Alan Cope takes the seemingly ordinary and photographs it in such a way that perhaps makes you look differently the next time you visit the mall or park your car in those giant concrete parking garages.

Nicolas Alan Cope’s website: cope1.com

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Nicolas Alan Cope’s website: cope1.com

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The New Trend in Product Photography?

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A creative way to stand out from the crowd online is to make your images unique. Special if you will. Online clothing stores are spreading like wild-fire. And the only way to show your clothes is through the wonderful medium of photography. American apparel had some controversy surrounding its photography. That’s one way to attract attention. Another way is to step into the realm of movement. And GIFs are a neat way to add that extra flavor to your product photographs.

The Hill-side did just that. A really nice way to attract some attention. Movement always works. Except it does bring up the question if this really fits in the world of photography. It almost enters the realm of film. Or we can see it as an appropriation of the works of Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904).

The Hill-side’s website:  www.thehill-side.com

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