26 posts tagged “photography”

Just breathtaking: http://www.zenaholloway.com/

I love those 'The Earth from The Air' books. I'm such a geek for lanscape photography! These beauties below are of remote houses. I sure need a few weeks R&R in one those!

See more beautiful 'from above' shots and other landscapes at http://phottle.com/blog/

I work in book publishing so it's pretty safe to say I'll never have much spare cash to enjoy holidays in luxury resorts (unless I suddenly develop a desire to work my way to the top of my profession!). Nevertheless, I have expensive taste and Kiwi Collection is a wonderful site to spend my lunchbreaks browsing. They specialise in luxury travel. These are my favourite staircases and views from luxury hotels and resorts around the world.

Mike Newton brings new life to boarded up homes: http://www.woostercollective.com/2007/02/bringing_new_life_to_boarded_up_homes.html

kevin carter

The prize-winning image: A vulture watches a starving child in southern Sudan, March 1, 1993.

Carter's winning photo shows a heart-breaking scene of a starving child collapsed on the ground, struggling to get to a food center during a famine in the Sudan in 1993. In the background, a vulture stalks the emaciated child.

In March 1993 Carter made a trip to southern Sudan with intentions of documenting the local rebel movement. However, upon arriving and witnessing the horror of the famine, Carter began to take photographs of starving victims. The sound of soft, high-pitched whimpering near the village of Ayod attracted Carter to a young emaciated Sudanese toddler. The girl had stopped to rest while struggling to a feeding center, wherein a vulture had landed nearby. He said that he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that the vulture would spread its wings. It didn't.

Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away. However, he also came under heavy criticism for just photographing — and not helping — the little girl: "The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene."

Carter was part of a group of four fearless photojournalists known as the "Bang Bang Club" who traveled throughout South Africa capturing the atrocities committed during apartheid.

Haunted by the horrific images from Sudan, Carter committed suicide in 1994 soon after receiving the award.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Carter and http://pinguy.infogami.com/blog/vwm6

War doesn't determine who is right, war determines who is left.

– Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), English philosopher, author, 1950 Nobel Prize-winner in Literature

I hope 2008 is the year I finally get to see the Northern Lights with my own eyes. Pictures from 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

It's hard to open Time or National Geographic these days without coming across one of Steve McCurry's breathtaking photographs. I hope he's made a lot of money out of this because he deserves it!

http://www.art-dept.com/artists/mccurry/index.html

http://www.stevemccurry.com

Beautiful shots from South East Asia at: http://www.asa100.com/

Be warned - the website plays some horrific music in the background so you might want to turn your speakers down low.

There are few things in life I hate more than Pete Doherty and London scensters, but somehow Hedi Slimane's photographs seem to make it all much less obnoxious and horriffic. See more at her diary (http://www.hedislimane.com/diary).

Some great portrait photographers I've come across recently are:

http://www.tristancasey.com/

http://www.erwinolaf.com/

http://www.marktucker.com

http://marcoguerraphotography.com/