Samuel Marshall is one of those photographers who go very far to get some original photos. At least, to get photos of places most people do not visit. It means taking some risks with the police and other security people, it means taking some risks. But you get to see some astounding pictures. You will…
Category: Portfolios
Michael Kircher
Often, shooting a photography is a matter of choosing the angle. This is confirmed by the flying heron photograph presented to us by Michael Kircher. Here is a bird shot from high above (while birds tend to appear from below to us, mere mortals). Nevertheless, it is shot against a patch of blue sky (which…
Aurora borealis
Terje Sorgjerd spent a week in the cold nights of Kirkenes and Pas National Park (near Russia) to collect images of the aurora borealis phenomenon before assembling them frame-by-frame into a single video. The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.
Markus Bruckner
Some photographs are more challenging than others and it has been a long time since I decided to include one of them here. Markus Bruckner offered an excellent opportunity with a great work which is fully abstract despite being real photography. The Real Stripes series was shot in 2008/2009 (published in 2009). It was shot…
Jon Cornforth
Colorful landscapes and vivid wildlife photographs. This is Jon Cornforth’s style of photography. Actually, I selected on mountain scape that shows what comes from time spent watching nature best face. Jon Conforth web site.
Stuart Griffiths
Stuart Griffiths is a photographer who, like so many other documentary photographers, excels in reaching out to a large scope of various subjects. Working repeatedly on projects which involved meeting with people who are army crazy, which in his eyes is something quite strange, he built a rather strange portfolio (“Army Barmy“) where you will…
Benoît Feron
Today, nearly exactly two months after the ousting of Hosni Moubarak, here is a photograph of an Egyptian policeman that has been selected in Benoît Feron’s photo gallery. This picture is touching for the softness of the smile and the eyes of this uniformed man. The work of Benoît Feron is well adapted to such…
Peikwen Cheng
Gai, which means to build or to transform in Chinese, explores the dramatic physical transformation of China as it takes its place on the world’s stage. China is building itself (or should we say “rebuilding itself”). Peikwen Cheng is actively documenting this situation with an eye for architecture, composition, construction and structure. Peikwen Cheng’s web…
Suren Manvelyan
Suren Manvelyan is a physicist having graduated in the field of Quantum Chaos. He started to photograph when he was 16. If you visit his web site, you will notice that he is working on many fields and that this is his greatest strength. However, I was stopped by his Saxophonia series. The photo above…
America in Color from 1939-1943
This come directly from the archives of the Library of Congress and it is one of the color photopgraphs captured by the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information. There were very few photographers using color at this time and they document Depression Era for the farmers’ communities. Source: Denver Post blog. The photographs and captions…
Elisabeth Taylor, a star goes off
Today, Elisabeth Taylor died at the age of 79. A true star if there was one, she has been the center of attention for many photographers. Elizabeth Taylor8 in. x 10 in.Buy This Allposters.com
Jim Kazanjian
Photography? Painting? Pictorial art? Definitions are difficult to apply to what Jim Kazanjian does. I won’t even try. But you must absolutely visit the gallery of his dreamscapes. Photographs from 2006-2008.
Andy Drewitt
Photojournalism is not only about documenting war and front page events. Diamond Creek Donkey Shelter is the sanctuary for a motley herd of donkeys who, for most of their lives, have toughed it out as victims of neglect, ill health and even torture. There, Andy Drewitt brought to light the adventure of this Donkey Shelter.…
Jim Patterson
Jim Patterson‘s photography is a colorful one, a joyful one. The eye is pleased be it in front of his landscape portfolio or in front of his underwater photography portfolio. Technically speaking, for the Joshua Tree National Park picture displayed here, he used “a 30 second exposure at ISO 800 in order to get the…
Laurent Baheux
I don’t doubt that some of the readers here already know Laurent Baheux. But I really wanted to bring his work back to the front and help some people discover it too. French sports photographer, Laurent has been working relentlessly on a very personal research that I consider as quite different from the most usual…
Goodbye Discovery
As you certainly know by now, the Discovery space shuttle is currently flying its last mission, during which it will rendez-vous with the International Space Station (ISS) which has been assembled by several countries in low Earth orbit in the recent years. To honor it, I have the pleasure to present a few stunning pictures…
Breaking a Pentax Spotmatic F apart is still art
Todd Mclellan has broken an old Pentax Spotmatic F to make a visual representation of its entrails. The simplest things make a nice little piece of photography.
Gustave Le Gray
For once, I will change from contemporary photographers to present the reproduction of a specially ancient photograph taken on a glass negative and printed on albumen silver paper. From the beginnings of photography, pioneers had to find and discover techniques that we are essentially applying without even thinking about it. Gustave Le Gray was one…
Daniel Winters
Photographing a show is quite a difficult exercise, but when it is about performing arts or dance, there are many opportunities. So, I appreciated a lot Daniel Winters work with the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. YLovePhoto: What -according to you- makes a good or a bad photographer?Daniel Winters: A good photographer uses a…
Christoph Gielen
We live in developed countries but is this development sane? Christoph Gielen photographs our world to show Human life sprawling over the earth planet and how we tend to transform it into something utterly different. Question: What do you consider your worst weakness in photography and how you try and correct it? Answer from Christoph…
Dulce Pinzon
Immigrant workers are often seen in a negative light, sometimes in a condescending way. But they are also people who accepted to take considerable risks, who proved their courage in deciding to leave everything else behind to change for a new world. In recognition of this fact, Dulce Pinzon chose to associate them to the…
Roberto Boccaccino
When Roberto Boccaccino shots pictures, he is framing the crisis of the world or of Man. He is seeking a meaning, he is bringing the world to our eyes to share the feelings of his subjects through the feelings of the photographer. This is documentary. Question: What do you consider your worst weakness in photography…
Tim Mantoani
Sports photography is an exercise which often seems well (too well?) framed and limited. Tim Matoani adopts a slightly off tone for his portraiture of sportsmen (like for most of his other portraits by the way). Suddenly, the environment puts the athlete on a pedestal while giving him or her a background so much different…
Tim Laman
This is always a great pleasure when I find a wildlife or nature photographer whose work is really varied and exposes many aspects of our wonderful world. This is exactly the case for Tim Laman; It is difficult (no impossible) to choose one picture which would be really representative of all its work. So, I…
Brian Skerry
Brian Skerry is one of these underwater photographers who make you feel that this is technically easy to shoot whale sharks (like the one below) or a bluefin tuna, or a seal pup. Don’t let his work fool you. He masters a lot of techniques in a demanding environment, but gives us wonderful pictures of…