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The Dead Photos

With only a quotation from King Lear as the introduction to this enigmatic photo series by Tom Phillips we are left to wander through each carefully composed  scene with only our judgement in taste to decide if the images provoke sufficient reaction to disturb, enlighten or amuse. Despite the cinematic artistry and playful shock of […]

1984 in pictures

Aleks Krotoski, fresh from touring the world to provide the BBC with a social history of the World Wide Web, is taking Orwell’s 1984 on a one-word-per-day basis as a 365 day photography challenge. Viewed best with the Flickr slideshow option.

Collections

Perhaps 2010 is going to be the year of collections. Lisa Congdon, an illustrator from San Francisco, has decided to photograph, paint or draw one of her collections each day. Since I was a young girl, I have been obsessed both with collecting and with arranging, organizing and displaying my collections. This is my attempt […]

The Decay of Biosphere 2

Despite the cultural legacy of being the largest closed system ever built resulting in an abundance of scientific endeavour the three acre site known as Biosphere 2 (Earth is number one), abandoned since the premature end to the second mission in 1994 and sold to a private developer in 2007, has been photographed by Noah […]

Strange Light

Available from MagCloud (and taking just 31.5 hours from idea to publication), Derek Powazek has compiled a forty page record of the dust storm that recently blew through Australia. Strange light fell over Australia on 23 September 2009. An unexpected dust storm blanketed New South Wales and Queensland, turning everything an eerie shade of amber. At […]