It was just a matter of time until I did a blog post about Prince (I am a big fan). Well here goes. When a musician can charge US$2,100 for a book and an ipod they are obviously doing something right. Last year Prince released a book of pho [...]
Posted by: Matt SamyciaWood on Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
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Polaroid stopped production of its analogue instant film a year ago, but a bunch of fans and former Polaroid employees in the Netherlands have decided they won’t take “no” for an answer. ‘The impossible project’ [...]
Posted by: Mathilde Salvert on Thursday, March 5th, 2009
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Seems it’s become a bit of an annual tradition for me to post the annual winner gallery from the World Press Photo Competition. So, without further adieu, this year’s winning photos.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, February 27th, 2009
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It’s that time of the year again; Obligatory “end of year” lists. Best of this, worst of that. Most fly by my eyes in a matter of minutes with little more then an “ohhh” or “ahhh” but The Big Pictur [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, December 29th, 2008
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During my daily Google search for “Phone Sex” I stumbled upon something slightly unusual given my expectations. Photographer Phillip Toledano, documented a photo essay of phone sex operators in their work environments along with [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, December 19th, 2008
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Another part of relaunching a brand with as many media touchpoints as ours is all the photography required! Beyond the endless portfolio shots of work is the need for headshots of our team. Enter Sven Boecker, longtime friend, client, colla [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
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It’s been almost a year since the first and only time I’ve been to La Habana, Cuba and since then the country has moved even further away from the isolationist history (imposed or voluntary) of the last 50 years towards globaliz [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, September 26th, 2008
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Fame and fortune oftentimes brings trouble for those not grounded enough to handle it. Hell, even then the most innocent and well-intentioned have fallen into the dark side. Probably tough enough for a human to stay on the straight and narr [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, September 15th, 2008
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Clients don’t always realize why the picture they took on their cellphone or old 3.2 MP digital camera can’t be blown up for use on a trade show booth. Even in the hands of a skilled photoshop artist the picture can only be blow [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, July 18th, 2008
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I have to admit that the name Pete Turner doesn’t didn’t mean that much to me. Names like Reid Miles and Francis Wolf are rightly given a lot of recognition from their association with the Blue Note style. But what about Impulse [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
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A few months back I wandered down to my usual watering hole, The Jazz Cellar, to see singer songwriter Jesse Harris perform. Normally a jazz venue, the Jazz Cellar is a remarkable live music venue of all styles. Harris played a a great set [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, April 7th, 2008
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Do you have some vinyl records lying around collecting dust? Well, it’s time to bring them out and join Sleeveface. This widely popular online phenomenon is where people post creative images of themselves with their vinyl sleeves. To [...]
Posted by: Steph Co on Friday, April 4th, 2008
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I’ve rocked both a Canon A620 and Nikon D70S for about two years now and love them both like children from two different mothers however the Canon is a consumer camera and thus makes significant compromises. (sort of like the slightly [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Friday, April 4th, 2008
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It’s not new to the web, but it’s new to me. Check out Rsizr (Resizer if you put the vowels back in). Its promotes itself as an app that “lets you intelligently resize your images” and actually works pretty well. It [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
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Yesterday was a beautiful day here in Vancouver. Blue sky, fresh snow on the mountains, some sun….. it was pretty inspiring, but today it was back to the gray overcast sky that is stereotypically associated with Vancouver. Enter a pre [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
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While in London for their design festival I visited an interesting interactive installation at the Beyond the Valley showroom. The installation was put on by SHOWstudios, who’s Head of Interactive Ross Phillips I met at the iDesign co [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Thursday, October 4th, 2007
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Flickr has become a pretty useful tool for me to post my photos to, but I don’t really consider how others might use my images (hence the reason why I don’t have any nudes up there!). Props to our friend Derrick for bringing thi [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Monday, June 18th, 2007
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Shorpy isn’t just any photo blog, it showcases photos from the turn of the last century up to the early 1940s. Some of the images are fantastic, especially the ones from the 1940s. For some reason I never imagined photography that was [...]
Posted by: Leigh Peterson on Friday, March 30th, 2007
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I came across LUMAS recently while surfing for home decor. They offer an incredible collection of photographic works by emerging, master and historical photographers. Here’s the deal: We created LUMAS with the hope of making the art m [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, March 23rd, 2007
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I’m starting to see a lot of interesting shots being taken of architecture with this new technique called HDR (High Dynamic Range). By combining photos of the same scene at different exposure levels, you are able create a surreal imag [...]
Posted by: Haig Armen on Monday, January 22nd, 2007
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Highly surreal images composed from a combination of ultrasounds and computer graphics for an upcoming BBC documentary called Animals in the Womb.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, November 24th, 2006
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When stock photography agencies aren’t folding into the now giant Getty collection, they are trying to gain the upper hand and wind the hearts, and dollars, of the image-buying hoards. Over the last several years Masterfile has gone f [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, November 10th, 2006
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It’s Monday morning and I had a bunch of cool blog postings I thought of over the weekend (stay tuned for a good game of bus chicken) and some cool ones I found this morning, but this one is HELLA-cool! (and I don’t use that wor [...]
Posted by: Steve Mynett on Monday, October 23rd, 2006
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Photoshop and photo manipulation at this point have very few limits; luckily, many people know this and continually produce amazing work. One of such organizations doing so is Brazil’s Platinum, FMD, who not only pushes composite phot [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Thursday, September 21st, 2006
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These are some surreal and stange portrait photographs of Dancers and Disco Queens by Danish photographer Morten Nilsson. I find the rigid and almost plasticine quality of the models as compelling as they are creepy. (via grow-a-brain).
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, September 8th, 2006
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We recently helped our friend Alessandro Tento set up his website featuring some absolutely brilliant photos from his travels through China. Enjoy.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, August 25th, 2006
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The Biomedical Image Awards 2006 is a striking display of shapes and patterns, and illustrates the microscopic structures of living organisms in a spectacular variety of ways.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
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Sure, the heat was out of control this weekend, but on Saturday it had nothing as the world’s greatest BMX riders took to Whistler for the second annual Red Bull Elevation dirt competition. When the dust settled, Corey Bohan, Luke Par [...]
Posted by: todd smith on Wednesday, July 5th, 2006
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You have iPhoto installed on your Mac and have billions of lovely, organized photos, right? You’d love to quickly and eleantly publish them to the Web like this or this, but PhotoShop’s Web Photo Gallery just isn’t cutting [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Monday, March 13th, 2006
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Okay, so “phenomenon” might be a little overstated, but there has been a pronounced trend online lately towards using or replicating a tilt-shift lens effect to make a normal photograph look like a miniature. Sam Javanrouh over [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
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“What’s remarkable is the total lack of ‘attitude’. They may scowl or make a face for the camera, but it’s just acting. When you’re done they’ll smile and bow and thank you so sweetly for photograph [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, February 6th, 2006
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Always a favourite topic of mine, check out this brilliant collection of Tokyo cityscapes. (via Coudal).
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, January 23rd, 2006
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Stumbled over this in the morning surf. I don’t know much about this photographer other than the fact that he has done music videos for artists like Perry Farrell and Garbage, and he snaps some very provocative and engaging pics. Has [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, December 6th, 2005
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Who better to promote the Lomo Horizon camera then the panoramic duo Kozyndan. They are the first participants in the Broaden your Horizon project presented by the Lomographic Society International.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
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A very fitting entry today at daily dose.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Monday, October 31st, 2005
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Chris Jordan’s exhibit ‘Intolerable Beauty – Portraits of American Mass Consumption’ is a beatuful presentation of worthless junk. Next time you need a new iPod, think about where your old one will end up. Who knows, [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, October 17th, 2005
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As he and his sons picked through the abandoned studio, they found thousands of dollars hidden away in film plate boxes. The true bonanza, however, was the discovery of more than 3,000 glass plate negatives. Having an interest in photograph [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, August 25th, 2005
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“I want to make fantastic, painful images to talk about the real world and the miraculous human body.” -Margot Knight
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, August 16th, 2005
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Amazing images of Mammatus clouds. Mammatus are pouch-like cloud structures and a rare example of clouds in sinking air.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, July 18th, 2005
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Hiding in the Russian Lomo warehouse, It was only a matter of time before someone stumbled upon this. This Soviet-era camera allows you to create a camera, slide projector, photographic enlarger, magnifying glass, and film viewer in one set [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, June 9th, 2005
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“Being a Pinhole photographer, Bethany’s view of the world is quite deformed. Her everyday surroundings are looked at with a Pinhole eye. Sugar cubes are like bricks and chicken-feet are tree-trunks. Inspiration comes from many [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Thursday, June 9th, 2005
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In North America we have the luxury of dumping our space junk into a nice big ocean. Russia does not have that luxury so instead, they dump there used rockets over remote sparsely populated farms. The debris has fueled a local economy selli [...]
Posted by: Brandon Tennant on Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
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Beautiful and haunting images of an abandonned amusement park in Japan. Check out the other gallery’s on the site as well, some amazing photography.
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, April 25th, 2005
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Michael Muller Photography One of my favourite photography sites. Not only does it have a great collection of celebrity photos, the site itself is deliciously fun to browse. Take a peek and you’ll see.
Posted by: Charlie on Friday, April 22nd, 2005
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The original and one-and-only Lomo LC-A camera has been taken out of production. According to the LC-A’s Russian factory, the LC-A has proven too expensive to continue given their existing structure. The beloved LC-A consists of 450 i [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, April 22nd, 2005
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The Snowsuit Effort isn’t like every trendy photoblog right now. Well it is in the sence that they post nice photographs each day, but instead of shooting clouds or powerlines, they shoot pictures of men and women living on the street [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
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Our wonderfully quirky, longtime friend and IBC photographer Sven Boecker has been kicking ass lately. His beautiful compositions for Hadley + Maxwell’s Décor project have recently been featured in successful exhibitions at Seatt [...]
Posted by: Mark Busse on Thursday, March 31st, 2005
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Imagine a plain old 35mm camera with a 170 degree built-in lens. Then add on the cool effects of a Colorsplash… what do you get? The new Lomo FISHEYE CAMERA! The worlds first 35mm camera with a built-in fisheye lens. Join the Lomo cul [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, March 14th, 2005
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Over a three month period 150 strangers were stopped on the streets of New York, Denmark and Copenhagen. They were asked what they were thinking the second before they were stopped. The Thought Project
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005
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Overshadowed is one of the most impressive photoblogs I’ve seen. Keith Kin Yan’s photography is incredible, the way that everything is so dark but seems to glow. His current series is ‘Overshadowed HK – series one [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, March 1st, 2005
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A couple of months ago, we stumbled upon a photoblog website out of Japan called fotologue.jp. Its clean and dynamic interface far surpassed anything that we had seen in the North American market. Basically, we wanted one for our own. So af [...]
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Friday, February 25th, 2005
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The international jury of the 48th annual World Press Photo contest selected a color image of the Indian photographer Arko Datta of Reuters as World Press Photo of the Year 2004. The picture shows an Indian woman mourning the death of a rel [...]
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, February 11th, 2005
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With winds of up to 110 km/h, i don’t even want to know what the temperature is. I am glad i am not in Geneva
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, February 4th, 2005
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This is a great site for the voyeur in everyone. How excited do you get when you discover a lost or discarded photo of someone’s grandmother vacationing in Tijuana? The ‘Notes’ section is brilliant.
Posted by: Ben Garfinkel on Friday, February 4th, 2005
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We are in the process of creating the soundscape for our new website. As inspiration for our sound designer Alan Wong Moon, we sent over these incredible photos of the Tokyo underground.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, February 1st, 2005
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A QTVR of the Tribute in Light in April 2002, photographed by Jook Leung. Check out some of his other QTVR panoramics. They are amazing!
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Monday, January 31st, 2005
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More than 116,000 people were permanently evacuated from the area surrounding the nuclear power plant, Chernobyl, on April 26, 1986. In May 2001, photographer Robert Polidori was granted access to document what was left behind in this dead [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Tuesday, January 25th, 2005
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These photos of high rise Hong Kong living by Michael Wolf make for excellent screen savers but leave us feeling a tad claustrophobic.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, January 18th, 2005
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Even though he’s an internet chat addict, he can shoot a wicked photo… Check out Aaron Ruell’s photography portfolio (He also plays “Kip Dynamite” in Napoleon Dynamite). He is pretty much better then a liger. H [...]
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Friday, January 7th, 2005
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It is not surprising to note that the recent round of postings at coudal.com seems to be preoccupied with the power of water and the absolute devastation it can cause. Check out these hurricane photos by Clifford Ross.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Wednesday, January 5th, 2005
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This photo blog is one of my favorites. Alot of the images are shot in the pitch black with a long exposure. I am particularly impressed by this image though, it was exposed for 171 seconds. Amazing stuff… No Traces
Posted by: Steph Tekano on Thursday, December 30th, 2004
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The National Press Photographers Association has just released the winners for the best photojournalism of 2004. Compelling and powerful.
Posted by: Kevin Broome on Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
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