40 Years of Photographing Street Art

How do we archive works of art that are inherently temporary? For four decades, Martha Cooper has used photography to memorialize and record public works of street art and graffiti.

Read full article here...
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/martha-cooper-40-years-of-photographing-street-art-around-the-world

See more of Martha Cooper's photos here....
http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/2017/04/20/martha-cooper-solo-exhibition-reveals-many-unseen-action-shots/

https://www.instagram.com/marthacoopergram/?hl=en 

https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/3kbnmv/documenting-the-70s-golden-age-of-nyc-graffiti-culture

Three Videos to Warm the Soul X

When We Were Knights
https://vimeo.com/167054481

HuF NYC
https://vimeo.com/176817356

Stylo G x Jacob Plant “Bike Engine”

https://vimeo.com/183252171

The Body Modifiers

Humans have been altering their bodies permanently for thousands of years. Tattoos, piercings, and scarification have been practiced to demonstrate tribal allegiances, to show a life history, to say a constant prayer, to give a warning, or simply to act as an amazing work of art.....

SEE FULL AMAZING GALLERY HERE...
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2015/02/body-modifiers/385122/

Days of Night/Nights of Day

Elena Chernyshova truly captures a remote Russian mining city...Norilsk.  I love when art meets documentary photography...enjoy. (full screen recommended)

SEE PHOTOS HERE...
https://www.lensculture.com/articles/elena-chernyshova-days-of-night-nights-of-day

War, street and Travel Pics 2014

In Syria, Three Years of War
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/03/in-syria-three-years-of-war/100701/

2014 Sony World Photography Awards

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/03/winners-of-the-2014-sony-world-photography-awards-part-i/100700/

And a really good documentary on street photography...(easy to download it)...here's the trailer... 

Everybody Street

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwjal7Dk2As

Carnival 2014 Around the World

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/03/carnival-2014-around-the-world/100691/

Best Wire Photographer of 2013

Incredible photographer...Muhammed Muheisen... 
See images here...
http://lightbox.time.com/2013/12/10/muhammed-muheisen-time-picks-the-best-wire-photographer-of-2013/#1

AP Photographers Covering Syrian Conflict
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgJEr9feOiY&feature=share&list=PLpP3Ux9QU0k6XdmLU1NQD-YjP8EWHB321&index=4

Pulitzer Prize Winning Photos by Muhammed Muheisen
http://www.ap.org/states/tester/syriaap/index.html

21 Roads of a Lifetime

Breathtaking photos of some amazing road trips...

 Ruta 40, Argentina

 The Atlantic Road, Norway

 Going-to-the-sun-Road, Glacier National Park, Montana

 White Rim Road, Canyonlands National Park, Utah

SEE MORE HERE...

http://twistedsifter.com/2013/03/roads-to-drive-before-you-die/

ALSO...

40 Maps That Will Help Make Sense of the World

Alvin Langdon Coburn

 Art photography by the late Alvin Langdon Coburn...

See more great images here...

http://www.geh.org/fm/coburn/alcoburn/coburn_sld00001.html

That Tree

A photographer takes a photo a day of just one tree...exceptional work...Full size images here...

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/05/08/that-tree-a-photo-a-day-by-mark-hirsch/6021/

Three Videos to Warm the Soul VII

 
With a focus on Africa here are some incredible videos and of course I saved the best one for the last.

PS: Play these videos on your HDTV for maximum enjoyment!

60 Seconds in Congo
https://vimeo.com/67959620

Sahara Wonderland
https://vimeo.com/10151351

Rwanda
https://vimeo.com/57465392

Here's a link to Three Videos to Warm the Soul VI
http://ajarnmike.blogspot.ca/2012/11/three-videos-to-warm-soul-vi.html

2013 National Geographic Traveller's Photos

 The view from our hotel room in the San Blas district of Cusco. This area of town overlooked the rest of the city and gave us a breathtaking view as the sun and rain mixed one evening. Blake Burton.

 On the way to Ergaki, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. Twilight away the lights of one of the bases. Alexander Nerozya

Eruption of the Cordon Caulle, Chile. This was taken from Antillanca mountain. However despite the distance, the sound was awesome and was the most incredible experiences of my life with my uncle, who accompanied me that night. Rival Gustavo

SEE MORE INCREDIBLE PHOTOS HERE...

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/05/2013-national-geographic-traveler-photo-contest/100516/

ALSO WORTH CHECKING OUT...

Smithonian Magazine's 2012 Photos of the Year
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/03/smithsonian-magazines-2012-photo-contest/100466/

2012 National Geographic Traveler's Photos...
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/08/winners-of-the-national-geographic-traveler-photo-contest-2012/100353/

Sebastião Salgado in Siberia

Beautiful photos of the Siberian Indigeneous people the Nenets....Enjoy!
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/dec/07/photography-sebastiao-salgado-genesis

Additional information on the Nenets...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/tribe/tribes/nenets/index.shtml

Inspiring Photo Essays

The Cute Adventures of Oscar the Globetrotting Dog

The Young Girl Who's Best Friends with African Wildlife

New Electrifying Palette Knife Portraits by Françoise Nielly

 

BEST PHOTOS OF THE DECADE

Truly an amazing decade...
http://totallycoolpix.com/2010/12/best-pictures-of-the-decade-the-noughties/

Also see the 2013 Sony  World Photograph Winners...
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/02/the-2013-sony-world-photography-awards/100454/

Finally here are the...World Press Photo Winners of 2012...
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/02/world-press-photo-contest-2012/100246/

A Bird's Eye View of the World

 

See more of George Steinmetz's images here:

http://www.georgesteinmetz.com/index.php

The Multimedia videos are also worth a look...

http://www.georgesteinmetz.com/multimedia/empty-quarter

A Traveling Photographer

Even more proof that it doesn't matter what camera you have...it's the eye that matters...Kevin Russ photographs the American West armed with a simple IPhone camera...beautiful work...

Watch slideshow and video here...

http://vimeo.com/56803464

See more here...
http://kevinruss.tumblr.com/

The War Tourist

Bored with his job, a Japanese truck driver decides to travel to Syria, Afghanistan and other hot spots as a war tourist...

Excerpt:

"I'm not a target for snipers because I'm a tourist, not like you journalists," he told a reporter. "Besides, I'm not afraid if they shoot at me or that they might kill me. I'm a combination of samurai and kamikaze."

Fujimoto won't even wear a helmet or a flack jacket.

"They are very heavy when it comes to running and it's more fun to go to the front without anything. Besides, when they shoot it's fun and exciting."

Fujimoto said his employers don't know he's in Syria.  "I just told them I was going to Turkey on holiday; if I'd told them the truth, they'd tell me I'm completely crazy."

But though some might doubt his sanity, no one can question his financial foresight, which is rooted in the sadness of his personal life.

Fujimoto is divorced, and says "I have no family, no friends, no girl friend. I am alone in life."


READ MORE HERE...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/toshifumi-fujimoto-syria-war-tourism_n_2400576.html?utm_hp_ref=world

Subway by Bruce Davidson

 

"I wanted to transform the subway from its dark, degrading and impersonal reality into images that open up our experience again to the color, sensuality, and vitality of the individual souls that ride it each day."  Bruce Davidson

See more incredible images here...
http://everyday-i-show.livejournal.com/194622.html

Three Videos to Warm the Soul VI

 

Very cool stories...nothing short of amazing.

Finding Benjamin

https://vimeo.com/34589969

American Dream

https://vimeo.com/53917349 

In South America

https://vimeo.com/53673455 

SEE MORE AMAZING VIDS HERE.