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Through Our Eyes pictures taken by young migrants in Greece

August 13, 2019August 13, 2019 NewsEditorArt and design, Culture, Europe, Global development, Greece, Migration, Migration and development, Photography, Refugees, World news0 comment

Teenage asylum seekers document daily life in a camp on Samos Island This collection of photographs taken by teenage asylum seekers in Samos offers an intimate and powerful portrait of the hardship they face at the islands refugee camp, which was built for 650 people but is home to more than 4,000. The camp is one of five registration centres, or hotspots, for asylum seekers on the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/12/through-our-eyes-pictures-young-migrants-samos-greece

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Zack Seckler’s best photograph: wild Iceland from the air

July 18, 2019July 18, 2019 NewsEditorArt, Art and design, Birds, Coastlines, Culture, Environment, Glaciers, Iceland, Photography, Wildlife, World news

The pilot flew me around the volcanic coast in his tiny homemade plane with the door open and me hanging out taking pictures I shot this off the southern coast of Iceland, from a ultra-light aircraft, in the days before drones were ubiquitous. I love the stark nature of the Icelandic landscape and its contrasts. Deltas form from glacial meltwater running down towards the shoreline, picking up silt and different materials along the way to create these ribbon patterns. Theres all sorts of wildlife too birds, beautiful wild horses, seals.…

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‘There aren’t many fairytale endings’: behind the bleak immigration exhibition

July 2, 2019July 2, 2019 NewsEditorArt, Art and design, Culture, Migration, painting, Photography

The work of 75 artists from over 15 countries is being shown at a tough, timely exhibition looking at displacement and migration on a global scale Last Wednesday, the ongoing border dangers faced by migrants while attempting to find asylum in the US. Its a sad day to talk about this, there arent many fairytale endings, said Massimiliano Gioni, the artistic director of New Yorks New Museum, the same day. Together with associate curator Natalie Bell, hes assembled a timely new exhibition focusing on the history of migration in America.…

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Moonwalk and 9/11 photographs part of ‘global visual memory’

June 15, 2019June 15, 2019 NewsEditorCulture, Photography, science

Results of 12-nation survey show that some iconic images are better known than others From the spacesuit-clad form of Buzz Aldrin on the moon to the middle-distance gaze of Che Guevara, some photographs really are seared into the publics mind all over the world, research suggests. While some images have long been hailed as iconic, experts say there has been little research to show that certain photographs are widely recognised and what people read into them. An international study by a researcher in the Netherlands set out to examine just…

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Cindy Sherman: I enjoy doing the really difficult things that people cant buy

June 9, 2019June 9, 2019 NewsEditorArt, Art and design, Cindy Sherman, Culture, National Portrait Gallery, Photography

Ahead of a major London show, the artist talks about her childhood, therapy and her tricky relationship with success Perhaps the most intriguing exhibit in Cindy Shermans forthcoming retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery is the first, Cindy Book, a family photo album she began making when she was just six years old. It comprises 26 snapshots pasted on pages torn out of a school exercise book and placed inside stapled-together plain covers that are now stained and discoloured with age. For all sorts of reasons, it is a good…

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A Street Photograph From Every Year Since Its Inception (1838-2019)

June 2, 2019June 2, 2019 NewsEditorart 2, black and white, colorized, compillation, history 3, Photography, street photography, vintage

In 1838 or 1839 the first photograph of figures in the street was recorded by Louis-Jacques-MandÃ© Daguerre in one of a pair of daguerreotype views taken from his studio window of the Boulevard du Temple in Paris. And with it, street photography was born. In this fascinating compilation by Guy Jones, we see a street photograph for every year since it’s ‘birth’ from 1838-2019. Read more: https://twistedsifter.com/videos/street-photograph-for-every-year-since-inception-in-1838/

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The big picture: the Rwandan Daughters project

April 8, 2019April 8, 2019 NewsEditorafrica, Art and design, Culture, Photography, Rwanda, World news

Portraits of Rwandan rape victims and their children reveal the aftermath of the genocide 25 years ago Today marks 25 years since the onset of the Rwandan genocide. In just 100 days, between 7 April and 15 July 1994, seven in 10 Tutsis living in Rwanda were murdered by their Hutu neighbours. As many as 1 million people, including 10,000 Batwa pygmies, died. Whats less well known about those terrible months is that up to 250,000 women were raped. Many were infected with HIV and later died of Aids-related illness.…

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4 Years Ago, I Saw A Ridiculous-Looking Picture Of A Cat On A Glass Table, And Turned It Into An Under-Cats Project (24 New Pics)

March 19, 2019March 19, 2019 NewsEditorandrius, Andrius Burba, Animal photography, burba, Cat, cat photography, cats, colour, from, full-page, funny cats, glass, Photography, Photos Of Cats, under-cats, under-cats colour, underlook, underlook photos, underneath

“Underlook” project started four years ago when I saw a ridiculous looking picture on the Internet. It was a cat sitting on a glass table that was photographed from underneath. I decided to level up the idea and photograph it professionally to see those paws in hi-res and that is how the “Underlook” project was born. More info: getunderlook.com | Instagram #1 British Shorthair #2 Maine Coon 3 reply #5 British Shorthair #6 Selkik Rex Longhair A cat that is gentle, sociable, and loves cuddling! The Selkirk Rex is a…

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The Intriguing Story Behind the Most Iconic Photo of the Great Depression

February 26, 2019February 26, 2019 NewsEditoranalysis, art 2, black and white, great depression, history 3, nerdwriter, Photography, top, video essay

The story of how Dorothea Lange created perhaps the most iconic photograph in American history. A video essay by the Nerdwriter. Read more: https://twistedsifter.com/videos/dorothea-lange-migrant-mother-history/

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Instagram Support Didnt Help Me To Get My Stolen Account Back So I Decided To Mess With The Thief In The Only Way I Could

January 10, 2019January 10, 2019 NewsEditor700-page, account, business account, instagram, instagram support, iwona, Iwona Podlasinska, Photography, prank, pranks, Social Media, social media network, social media prank, social-issues, stolen account, stolen instagram account, sucks, support, verified, verified account

My name is Iwona and I’m a photographer from Poland. My Instagram account after I got it verified in October 2018 and before it got stolen The thief uses my account to spam my followers But I can do this! I can change the name and bio to send the message to my followers, and that’s exactly what I did And I also get messages like this… 12Kviews Read more: http://www.boredpanda.com/stolen-instagram-other-iwona-podlasinska/

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Urban Density: My Photo Series That Shows The True Side Of Living In Hong Kong

January 10, 2019January 10, 2019 NewsEditor#architecture, buildings, buildings in hong kong, China, city architecture, city photography, crowded, densely-populated cities, Dietrich Herlan, full-page, hong kong, Hong Kong public housing, macau, old buildings, Photography, Urban Density, urban photography

In these ‘Urban Density’ series, I explore the urban landscape of Hong Kong And Macau. Like Hong Kong, Macau is a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China, and crowded apartments similar to Hong Kong can be found. #1 reply #2 reply View More Replies… #3 reply View More Replies… #4 reply View More Replies… #5 reply #6 reply View More Replies… #7 reply View More Replies… #8 reply reply View More Replies… #11 reply View More Replies… #12 reply View More Replies… #13 reply View More Replies……

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9 Photography Tricks Advertisers Use to Make Food Look More Delicious

December 18, 2018December 18, 2018 NewsEditorart 2, behind the scenes, compilation, design 2, Explainer, Food, how its made, Marketing, Photography

Photographing food in a studio creates unique challenges. The bright studio lights and lengthy setup times for the perfect shot means food sits around longer than usual. That’s why many commercial photo shoots include ‘food stylists’ that use tricks and hacks to make the food last longer (e.g., not melt) and appear even more delicious than real life. Read more: https://twistedsifter.com/videos/photography-tricks-advertisers-use-to-make-food-look-delicious/

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50 Of The Most Incredible Photos Of The National Geographic Photo Contest Of 2018

December 8, 2018December 8, 2018 NewsEditorfull-page, grand prize, national geographic, national geographic photo contest 2018, People, photo contest, Photography, Places, Wildlife, Winners

Jassen Todorov, a violinist and professor of music at San Francisco State University, whose aerial shot shows a vast boneyard in Southern California’s Mojave Desert. The area is well known for storing retired aircraft, where the dry air keeps corrosion away before they are eventually dismantled and scrapped for parts. What many are unaware of, however, is the huge stretch of land nearby that is set aside for recalled vehicles and is filled with row-upon-row of Audis and Volkswagens that cheated emissions tests between 2009-2015. “I have flown and explored…

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At long last, pet portraits with background blur are possible on the iPhone XR

November 9, 2018November 9, 2018 NewsEditorbokeh, halide, iPhone, iPhone Xr, Photography

The new iPhones have some great new photography features, but the XR lacks a couple, for instance portrait mode for non-people subjects, owing to its sadly having only the one camera. So last year! Fortunately third-party camera app Halide is here to help you get that professional-looking bokeh in your doggo shots. There’s more to this than simply the lack of a second camera. As you know, because you read my article, The future of photography is code — and the present too, really. What’s great about this is that…

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Flickr cuts down storage for free users, for some interesting reasons

November 3, 2018November 3, 2018 NewsEditorconsumer-tech, flickr, Photography, Tech

Flickr is cutting down on storage for free users.Image: LightRocket via Getty Images Flickr found new ownership under Smugmug earlier this year, and inevitably, that comes with changes. The image hosting service has made a big one: Free accounts will be limited to 1,000 photos from Jan. 8, 2019, a significant cut from the terabyte of storage that was previously offered to users. SEE ALSO: Apple’s new MacBook Air is fine. Just fine. If you’ve reached 1,000 photos, you won’t be able to upload any more. If you’re already over…