Totally in love with these amazing photographs of lifeguard shacks in Southern California. They’re … the essence of summer.
Photographs by California based photographer Amir Zaki.
I learned about the work of Dutch artist Levi van Veluw through a friend over the weekend. At first glance, you would think they are simply photographs, manipulated by a skilled retoucher; however, they aren’t. These are actually photographs taken of the artist after he has created these elaborated landscapes on himself. Each piece was constructed by him, on his head/face, and then carefully photographed. There is an exception; however, that being a piece he did that was made from 3600 pieces of root veneer (the one he’s standing next to).
I highly encourage you to check out more of his phenomenal work at his site. Also, you can see a video of one of his pieces here.
Some work from a young Canadian photographer, Lissy Laricchia, who dabbles in all things mystical, mysterious, wonderful, and beautiful simultaneously. You can see more of her fantastic work here. Be sure to check out her 365 series as well as the gravity defying “Get Back In Your Book.”
Dead at the End of the Earth
When Tom Phillips isn’t acting as the creative force behind the agency Exposure USA, he’s taking photos of himself splayed out in all manner of poses as a corpse, dead to the world. Sounds morbid, I know, but the photos from this ongoing series (from 2006 to present) are unassuming and, at times, a bit mundane and even amusing; however, some of them are also powerful and thought provoking. Here are 12 photos from the complete series of over 40. If you like them, you should check out the entire series at TheDeadPhotos.com.
The quote on his site, from Shakespeare’s King Lear (Act I, Scene I), is the only accompanying text with the photos.
Normally, I’m not big on cute. But Anton Tang’s series of Danboard toy photographs are just…well, too much. It’s cute overload! You can see more of these on his Flickr page and his personal blog.
(He also takes other photographs; however, these were just too difficult to pass up.)
Some fantastic photographs from Leonhard Kätzel, an amateur photographer from Leipzig, Germany.
I came across the work of Margaret Durow over the weekend while haplessly stumbling around Flickr. She’s 20 and lives in rural Wisconsin. Something about her technique reminds me of the stuff that Ryan McGinley did early on in his career (namely from his first book of photos “The Kids Are Alright.”) Coincidentally, that book was published in 1997 when he was 21, roughly. The same innocence that his early photographs conveyed fills these, albeit a somewhat more rural innocence.
More of her work after the cut.
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