We’ve all had the chance to think about what home is, what it feels like to have a home, or even change our definition of home, over the past year or so.
The word “home” has a different meaning to everyone, even for the wildlife around us. The Greenpeace Photo Contest organizers are asking you to show them the true variety of what home can mean to Earth’s creatures.
Continue reading Greenpeace Photo Contest — last call!Consider yourself lucky. You get the chance to see images that were on show in Brendan Meadows’ exhibition IPSEITY at Liss Gallery in Toronto during the CONTACT Photography Festival. Take a look.
Continue reading Photos from Brendan Meadows’ IPSEITY exhibitionThe duality of Brendan Meadows’ images is undeniable but we first see the familiar artful lines and darkroom techniques found in the work of two important figures in American fashion photography, Harper’s Bazaar’s illustrator-turned-fashion-photographer Lillian Bassman and Berlin-born, Jewish photographer Erwin Blumenfield, whose portraits of American movie stars, society ladies, iconic Vogue covergirls dominated the culture from the 1940s to the 60s. [see photos from the IPSEITY exhibition]
Continue reading Ipseity, the duality of self, reflected through imagesVancouver-based artist Brendan Meadows has had a successful career as a commercial photographer taking pictures of celebrities, musicians and models for the last 10 years, but IPSEITY, his latest collection takes his work in a new direction and opens up new possibilities for the future of photography. [article and exclusive video interview below]
Continue reading Brendan Meadows uses digital solarization and darkroom technology to create a shift in photographySo this guy from LA sent me a bunch of photos of Ebie Wright, daughter of the late rapper Eazy-E who was a member of the straight-out-of-Compton, renegade hip-hop group N.W.A. Two days later he sent me another email saying that “the exclusive” was sold to a major entertainment news outlet.
Continue reading Why I didn’t publish photos of Ebie in tribute to her dad, rapper Eazy-EVIKINGS: The exhibition, Christian Dior or spectacular wildlife photos? It was hard to choose but the featured piece was so challenging that I couldn’t resist.
Continue reading Wildlife photographer exposes illegal rhino horn trade
Some of these images are powerful enough to make you weep.
Continue reading World Press Photo Winner: ‘An Assassination in Turkey’
Imagine this spectacular view while relaxing in the egg-shaped bathtub from the dizzying heights of the Four Seasons hotel at the top of the IFC tower overlooking Pearl River New City, China.
Continue reading Take a Bath on Top of the World at Four Seasons Guangzhou, China
The frequent appearance of hearts in his photographs may be interpreted as some kind of sign – a pending miracle, an awakening, a message from the universe – or just one great, big coincidence. Whatever the reason, artist Stephen Hues accepts that hearts just always seem to appear to him or he is drawn to objects that contain them.
