I find the pastel color hues to be so surreal and beautiful in this photographic series called In The Swimming Pool by Slovakian photographer Maria Svarbova.
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I love these geometric sculptures in nature, by environmental artist Martin Hill.
Hill uses organic materials such as ice, sticks and stones to create his site-specific installations in New Zealand. He then “preserves” these temporary artworks through photographs.
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These impressive photos of New York were taken by photographer Vincent Laforet, on assignment for Men’s Health Magazine. I love the colors and that the city itself looks like a miniature.
He wrote here, about his amazing and also terrifying experience, flying on a helicopter 7,500 feet over the city in the night.
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This is Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia on February 5th, posted by Daily Overview, a project that brings you breathtaking images (overviews) of earth from above. Ah, the good life!
Designer Tommy Perez found a creative way to teach his 2-year-old daughter Zoë the alphabet with his project ‘A to Zoë’.
The French street artist JR has been working on immigration projects for some time now. Last spring, he was approached by the New York Times Magazine, to create a project together. JR chose and photographed 15 immigrants who arrived in New York from all over the world, within the last 365 days. He photographed them walking in the city, all of them unnoticeable and living in the shadows.
On the night of April 11, JR’s team started pasting the image of Elmar, 20 years-old who came from Azerbaijan, on Flatiron plaza in New York City. The image was 150 feet high. People walked on him all day, but no one really noticed him.
A few days later, Elmar was on the cover of the New York Times magazine while everyone else was in the shadows.
See a time-lapse video behind the making of the above cover.
I am fascinated by these structures that look like reverse temples. They are actually stepwells, that is deep wells inside ancient structures that can be accessed via staircases reaching several stories underground. With the earliest ones dating back between the 2nd and 4th centuries A.D, the stepwells were developed in India as a way to guarantee a steady water supply for areas suffering from heavy seasonal monsoons.
They later evolved into amazingly complex achievements of engineering and art with elements from Hindu and Islamic architecture. Unfortunately over the centuries, most of India’s thousands of stepwells have been neglected for a number of reasons.
These pieces of forgotten architecture remind me of the never-ending stairs in the artworks of M.C. Escher.
The photographer is Chicago journalist Victoria Lautman, who spent four years documenting the stepwells at 120 different sites around India, mainly to write a book about them in order to raise awareness.
I am so happy I discovered Hiroshi Sugimoto, a Japanese photographer based in NY. I was first mesmerized by his photographs of Seascapes, shot in locations all over the world. They were so calming to look at them. But when I searched his work I saw there was more to it. In the seventies he did two interesting photographic projects: the Theatres series involved photographing old American movie palaces and drive-ins and the Dioramas series in which he photographed displays from the American Museum of Natural History.
People cool off at a water park, in Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
In this green ghost town, nature overtakes an abandoned Chinese village on Shengshan Island.
A view of villas built for residents in the Huaxi village of Jiangyin.
New Audi cars in an open-air parking lot in Changchun.
I love aerial photography and this collection of recent aerial images shows the vast diversity of landscapes across China. Cities, mountains, deserts, islands, cemeteries, construction sites and some weird images you can only see in China.