excusez-toi:

Hank’s Camera Lenses (x)

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matthewnewton:

Enrique Metinides, an accident and crime scene photographer for La Prensa in Mexico City, has a new book out called 101 Tragedies of Enrique Metinides (Aperture). The collection features tragic, often poignant images of life and death in Mexico City, like the one pictured above, captioned:

Colonia Doctores, Niños heroes, Mexico City, 1966: “This woman did not have money to buy a coffin for her child, who had been killed when a bus ran over him. She went to a coffin shop near the hospital and started praying and begging, crying for help. After some time, she was surrounded by people, who asked what happened. Together, they each gave a little bit of money to help her out. With that and a discount from the coffin maker, she was able to buy a coffin and bury her child with some dignity. She had to walk nine kilometers with the coffin to her home”

[via Slate]

(Photograph: Enrique Metinides)

Decided to buy this book to help me out with dissertation stuff and because I ADORE Metinides. I’ve had his other book out from the uni library for nearly a year now and I have the overwhelming desire to steal it because it’s not in print anymore and costs about £100. Although this one may satisfy my addiction enough to avoid hefty fines.

My mum is also incredibly lovely and chipped in for it because she think it’d help me and she knows I’m crazy stressed.

SO excited to get it on Thursday :D

callallhiswildworksyourown:

copperbadge:

humansofnewyork:

I am a street photographer in New York City. Several months ago, I was approached by a representative of DKNY who asked to purchase 300 of my photos to hang in their store windows “around the world.” They offered me $15,000. A friend in the industry told me that $50 per photo was not nearly enough to receive from a company with hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. So I asked for more money. They said “no.”

Today, a fan sent me a photo from a DKNY store in Bangkok. The window is full of my photos. These photos were used without my knowledge, and without compensation.

I don’t want any money. But please REBLOG this post if you think that DKNY should donate $100,000 on my behalf to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. That donation would sure help a lot of deserving kids go to summer camp. I’ll let you guys know if it happens.

Sometimes it’s like companies don’t realise the internet exists.

“If we put it far enough away, there’s no way that will come back to bite us on the ass!”

Don’t fuck with HONY, motherfuckers.

Nope, that’s not ok.

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Another photography business biting the dust! Oh dear :/

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photographyweek:

Above All by Michal Karcz

View more of Michal’s photography on his website.

“This picture contains three shots mixed together in Photoshop. This is I what do with my pictures, to create a fantasy version of the Earth. This picture contains photo of a mountain path in West Tatra Mountains and includes the clouds structures, and the main, high peak is Ama Dablam shot in Himalayas.” – Michal Karcz

Image copyright Michal Karcz and used with permission.

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omgjerryblossom:

Shizuka Yokomizo
Stranger, 1999

From The Photograph as Contemporary Art by Charlotte Cotton: 

Yokomizo sent letters to the inhabitants of houses into which she could photograph from street level  She asked the strangers to stand in front of their windows at a certain time in the evening with the lights on and the curtains open.  The photographs show the people who followed the directions posed in anticipation of being photographed by an unknown photographer.

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ikenbot:

Elements

“Starting at Kalapana, Hawaii I walked for two hours right to the place on the coast where active lava flows were touching the ocean.

I was overwhelmed about the scene: Hot air touched my face as I stood at the edge of the cliff, steam drifted away by the strong wind, thunders in my ears as the waves crushed on the melted stones and water fought with fire.

I stood and watched the lava flows started to glow as it became darker. I wanted to express what happened there. All four elements – water, fire, air and earth came together at that point to show how they’re playing the game. — Jennifer Vahlbruch

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