Hilarious photo by Esteban Diacono of Darth Vader reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
© 2007 Esteban Diacono | flickr: °Teban°
Esteban also has a series entitled The Real World: Darth Vader with Darth Vader in the shower and Darth trying to figure out how to brush his teeth.
Photographer Tony Deifell teaches blind teenagers the art of photography and has compiled a book, entitled Seeing Beyond Sight, of their works. It is a very interesting idea, giving something to teenagers they thought they could never have.
Unusual as the idea may seem at first, putting cameras in the hands of visually impaired children proved to be extremely fruitful — both for the photographers, who found an astonishing new means of self-expression, and for the viewers of their images, for whom this is an entirely new kind of dreamlike and intuitive creation. Even before you know that these pictures were taken by blind teenagers, they are striking in their use of light and composition, and haunting in their chiaroscuro intensity.
Accompanying the images are the students’ own words and captions — in which we see how much the taking of pictures came to mean to them and how the creative process works in ways rarely experienced. This is a volume that speaks with rare inspirational power.
You can take look inside the book or browse some of the videos, interviews with the photographers.
Just Stumbled upon some gorgeous industrial landscape photos by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre.
My favorite photograph of theirs is Steel Mill, to the right, which is very reminiscent of scenes from one of my favorite sci-fi movies, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. You feel dwarfed and powerless among the machinery, yet there is a very romantic and even a fragile feeling to the photo as if it could topple at any moment. It’s brilliant.
Their work is very much about our impact on the world, through architecture and the life that happens once we abandon our structures.
From their site (about page):
Our society once erected singular and surprising buildings in all domains, including industry. Many cities keep traces of this glorious past…
…perpetual demolition led us to make pictures, a way to keep a little bit of this vanishing history.
Some of my first photographic work was industrial landscapes so I am naturally drawn to anything of this nature.
