All Things Art & Photography
In the vast Kalahari Dillon Marsh found some epic bird nests in a series he calls: Assimilation
In the vast barren landscapes of the southern Kalahari, Sociable Weaver Birds assume ownership of the telephone poles that cut across their habitat.Their burgeoning nests are at once inertly statuesque and teeming with life. The twigs and grass collected to build these nests combine to give strangely recognizable personalities to the otherwise inanimate poles.
via the web site
SHIMPEI TAKEDA’s series Trace documents radiation in the soils via sites he picked in Japan. He rigged up a unique method to expose photographic paper to the soils radiation content. Like some sort of shaman/scientist he makes the invisible visible and records all his methods in this haunting project of Japan’s contamination and loss.
“Hardly anyone outside of Japan had heard the name “Fukushima” until last year, now it’s known around the world disgracefully. The nuclear fallout covered precious land where ancestors passed away. As the reading on the radiation meter climbed uncomfortably, it was such an odd and terrifying experience to collect soil samples as I felt like gathering somebody’s ashes.”
Viviane Sassen is a fashion photographer who lives in Amsterdam but her heart beats for Africa. What I like about her work is how she somehow weaves the personal & fashion with street & high art. It’s always what she does not show you that makes you want more. See her series Ultra-Violet and her Sketch Book
via the artists web site
The ironic title does not prepare you for this haunting series about youth traveling by trains and on the lam.
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity: The Photographs of Mike Brodie (aka The Polaroid Kidd)
A Period of Juvenile Prosperity depicts the gritty youth subculture of freight train hoppers and squatters. From 2004 – 2009, Brodie created a prolific body of work which introduces viewers to an alternative lifestyle based on the constant movement of train travel across America.
via Yossi Milo Gallery
The World Photograhy Awards were announced with Norwegian photographer Andrea Gjestvang taking the top L’Iris d’Or prize for her series of youth portraits who survived the July 2011 massacre on the island of Utoeya, near Oslo.
via the web site
List of winners