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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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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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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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Funny and Fashionable: Zoo Portraits by Yago Partal

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Fashion has always been a way to tell the world who you are, or who you’d like to be. People even dress up their pets. Perhaps to make them look better or to turn their beloved ones into a fashion accessory. I’m not sure but this way of dressing up was one of the inspirations that made photographer Yago Partal create the Zoo Portraits series. This funny series shows us animals in clothes. A simple yet intriguing idea. And somehow the clothes really suits the animal. It immediately gives it a personality. Like how we tell the world what we are supposed to be. For me a striking example is the rhino in the leather jacket. I see him stepping on his Harley, right after the photo was taken, and drive back to his favorite biker bar. Just a funny series that reflects our own fashion sense in a subtle way.

Yago Partal’s website: www.yagopartal.com

The complete series can be found here: www.zooportraits.com. (also to order prints)

 

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After Lights Out by Julien Mauve

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If you want to see the grandeur of the amazing starry sky nowadays you would have to travel to some of the more remote places on earth. That used to be different. I have heard stories that people would go out and visit friends in evening where there was a full moon. So you could see where you where going at night. Today, in the age of technology the nights are illuminated from both moon, starts and men. We’ve created a night sky that is clouded with light, covering up the stats. True light pollution.

Julien Mauve and assistant Pauline Ballet created a series called After Lights Out. The series shows scenes of dark places illuminated by only one light. A beacon of hope in the surrounding darkness. It shows quite the opposite of the light pollution we have in the western world. It shapes light into a rarity in an otherwise so very well-lit world.

What if darkness in our world once again overtook the night and as an affect, transforming even the most insignificant light into an exception – a mystical phenomenon ?

Julien Mauve’s website: www.julienmauve.com

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VIDEO: Beijing Silvermine – Thomas Sauvin

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Beijing Silvermine is a unique photographic portrait of the capital and the life of its inhabitants following the Cultural Revolution. It covers a period of 20 years, from 1985, namely when silver film started being used massively in China, to 2005, when digital photography started taking over. These 20 years are those of China’s economic opening, when people started prospering, travelling, consuming, having fun.

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The Center of the Universe by Jim Vecchi

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This photo series by Jim Vecchi is breaking the rules of composition; placing the subject dead center. But in many cases in art, breaking laws provokes and creates an interesting piece of  attention grabbing art. This series is called The Center of the Universe. He created this series as a memory of the hours he spent looking at everything. As a child he simply spent hours inspecting ordinary objects, such as poles, columns, wires. The focus was entirely on the subject. The surrounding landscapes would blur and melt away in color and motion. So all and all he tried to recapture that magic feeling he had inspecting things as a child. A wonderful and colorful series. That really captures the imagination and make you look at something you’d ordinarily don’t pay much attention to. And on top of that it makes you look at the unsharp worlds created behind the subject. Abstractions of real life.

Jim Vecchi’s website: www.jimvecchi.com

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