Journalism

Rafael Neff’s Libraries

May 13, 2012
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Rafael Neff’s Libraries

Rafael Neff’s photo series is based off of some the most beautiful libraries around the world. Many of the libraries shown resembles the infamous and inspirational Sistane Chapel by the Great Master Michelangelo. Credit to the photographer Rafael Neff for capturing them in such a manner, and to the firms that designed them.
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Cynthia the Mannequin

April 30, 2012
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Cynthia the Mannequin

The Great Alfred Eisenstaedt published a photo spread in 1937 that made a mannequin named Cynthia a celebrity overnight. She became so popular that her wardrobe consisted of the finest dresses, shoes, and jewelry. She was created and molded by Lester Gaba, who called his revolutionary mannequins, ‘Gaba Girls’. Cynthia turned out to be...
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Lucas Foglia

April 30, 2012
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Lucas Foglia

Lucas Foglia is an american photographer whose work beautifully depicts the human relationship with land, capturing an fundamental essence of life that has often faded away.
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Vintage Superhero Portraits

April 28, 2012
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Vintage Superhero Portraits

Imagine if Superheroes took the time to go to the mall on a Sunday afternoon and reflect on what they do for a living by having their portraits taken. The Italian company Foto Marvellini incorporates Marvel, DC, and Japanese characters in this peculiar series.
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Bartosz Matenko

April 24, 2012
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Bartosz Matenko

Hailing from Szczecin, Poland, Bartosz Matenko is a documentary photographer who isn’t afraid to run with the best of them. Graffiti is a deep love of mine…it was the original artform that first opened my eyes to this larger world of art at a very young age, and before I even had my driver’s...
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Timothy Archibald: Echolilia

April 3, 2012
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Timothy Archibald: Echolilia

Timothy Archibald is a commercial photographer based in San-Francisco who struggled to connect with his five-year-old son Eli, who had been diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Out of this tension was born Echolilia, a hauntingly beautiful collaboration between father and son that delicately stretches the boundaries of the photographer-subject relationship, and delves into new...
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Daniel Beltra

April 2, 2012
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Daniel Beltra

Daniel Beltra is a passionate environmental photographer based in Seattle, Washington who spent two months documenting the devastation wrecked by the Deepwater Horizon Gulf Oil Spill from an airplane. Visually arresting, powerful and compelling, his images reveal the destructive effect of mankind on his environment, and use the transformative power of art to initiate...
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Aging Villains

March 29, 2012
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Aging Villains

Federico Chiesa is an Italian commercial photographer that has created a series based on aging 70s and 80s iconic cult villains. Featuring such stars like Darth Vader, Freddy Krueger and so on. Federico gathered up his crew and recreated the characters by redeveloping their makeup, wardrobe and special effects.
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Cedric Arnold

March 27, 2012
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Cedric Arnold

Cedric Arnold is a photographer whose powerful portraits of ordinary Thai men, from Buddhist monks to boxers, shamans and policemen, give an amazing insight into the traditional practice of yantra tattoos.
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Tomoki Momozono

March 26, 2012
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Tomoki Momozono

Tomoki Momozono is a killer Japanese sports photographer who manages to make even the beastly sport of Sumo wrestling look poetic.
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Sergey Maximishin

March 20, 2012
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Sergey Maximishin

Sergey Maximishin is a Russian photojournalist whose unapologetic images capture the gritty reality of life, from the frozen edges of the Crimea to the brickfields of Afghanistan. He creates no false heros, constructs no illusions, but rather captures the raw elegance of his subjects and their dismantled empire.
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Corey Arnold

March 19, 2012
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Corey Arnold

Corey Arnold is a photographer and commercial fisherman, whose Fish Work series document seven years of work as a deckhand. As once curiously intimate and triumphant, his images offer a spectacular insight into life on the high seas.
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Thilde Jensen

March 13, 2012
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Thilde Jensen

Thilde Jensen is a fascinating Danish photographer whose emerging career was tested when a severe bout of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity forced her out of her urban life and into a survivalist way of life – camping in the woods and having to wear a respirator when interacting with modern society, say at the supermarket...
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Lalla Essaydi

March 11, 2012
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Lalla Essaydi

Lalla Essaydi is a Moroccan-born artist who explores the complexities of the Arab female identity. In Les Femmes du Maroc, she constructs elaborate scenes of confinement in which her subjects defy their isolation through islamic calligraphy inscribed on their skin, their clothes, and their sumptuous surroundings. Essaydi’s powerful images critically address customs in Muslim...
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Simon Davidson

March 10, 2012
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Simon Davidson

It’s no secret here at the EK HQ, that I have a desperate and debilitating addiction to speed. Not the illegal drug (because EK would never endorse the use of controlled substances nor would we know how or where to obtain them), but the urge to go fast in any motorize four or two-wheel...
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Claire Martin

March 7, 2012
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Claire Martin

Claire Martin is a documentary photographer who initially started her career in Social Work, but later changed her focus to photography after realizing the change that she could assist in bringing about through her work behind the lens. Martin’s work has jolted her to international notoriety for her ongoing photo documentation and essays of...
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Where Humans Dwell.

February 18, 2012
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Where Humans Dwell.

Greer Muldowney is currently a photography professor based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Muldowney has exhibited her work internationally in the United States, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and France.
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Junku Nishimura

February 16, 2012
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Junku Nishimura

Junku Nishimura is a Japanese photographer who I like to categorize as an organic artist. With a Leica M5 in his hands, his journalistic approach reminds me of the original black and white forefathers. Majority of his photos are captured in rural parts of Japan.
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Monsieur Cauchetier

February 7, 2012
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Monsieur Cauchetier

Raymond Cauchetier is a French photographer and a legend in his own right.  His images from many of the seminal films of the French New Wave are  among the most iconic of all set photos.  His work helped define an era in French filmmaking that changed the world of Cinema forever.
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