See the World's Most Iconic Places Transformed by Whimsical Paper Cut Outs Big Ben, London Arc de Triomphe, Paris London-based photographer Rich McCor understands that his city is a magical one, but like all of us, it’s easy to become tone-deaf to the quirks and nuances of a place simply by way of living there for a long period of time. That all changed when he saw Big Ben as no photographer had seen it before, not as a looming landmark but as his own personal wristwatch. Where most photographers aim to find the iconic in the everyday, McCor’s whimsical universe does the opposite, and there’s true delight to be found in the metamorphosis of normally sobering sights like Paris’s Arc de Triomphe or St Paul’s Cathedral in London transformed into something delightfully ordinary: a Lego man or an ice cream cone. Radhuset Metro, Stockholm St Paul’s, London Af Chapman, Stockholm London Eye, London The Little Mermaid, Copenhagen Montmatre, Paris The Louvre, Paris Cirkelbroen, Copenhagen St George’s Wharf, London Sherlock Holmes Statue, London Church of Our Saviour, Copenhagen
Theatrical Portraits of Soapbox Racers in London Royals Star Wars For his latest photo project, British photographer Alan Powdrill – known for capturing human nature’s quirks and offbeat observations – has focused on the individual competitors of the Soapbox Races. After shooting the images on a Hasselblad H4, Powdrill applied his Photoshop editing skills to seamlessly place each racer onto a backdrop to match their respective theme. Powdrill’s series The Soapbox Racers is also humorous in that it toys with our own grown-up fantasies of cosplay. Trains Pitstop Laurel and Hardy Dragon Police Mob Space Travelers Plane All images © Alan Powdrill
Photographer Captures Individuals at Their Most Vulnerable: Just After Waking Up Kelsy Gossett‘s Wake Up series documents a tepid space between living and sleep, punctuated by the confused, scared or vulnerable emotions of the people she is photographing. Kelsy photographs couples, individuals, and friends in their safest space of recuperation: their bed. The bedroom is political;, it is where the individual crafts their identity, cultivates a living space and plasters their personality. In Wake Up, Kelsy seeks to touch on these elements, but more importantly, capture the moment of intimacy that occurs between people after waking. The photographer states that “The time between the body awakening and the consciousness fully waking is short and fleeting. Gossett annotates the power of a freshly taken photo after waking as “Inhabiting this intimate space with people allows me to document them just as they are, with guards down and insecurities at bay.” All images © Kelsy Gossett
Freight Train Hopping We Ride for Free Stupido Policia Vinnie Well “Riding freight trains is the perfect crime; you get to break several laws without ruining anyone’s day. The elusive graffiti artist Swampy, who was born and raised on the Californian coast, is no stranger to breaking the rules. The artist admits that the initial allure of freight-hopping was the absence of a price tag, but says he was later spurred on by the newfound sense of solitude – the forward rush, the landscapes you miss while driving, the adrenaline, and the defiance against authority. Swampy’s book not only captures an irresistible sense of freedom, but also looks at the instability of that freedom and the constant threat of it being taken away. Copper Canyon Riders Where specifically did you travel on this trip? Ditched in Creel Four Days What is the meaning behind the book title “NBD”? Safe in My Cave La Huasteca What is your most memorable experience from the trip? San Rafael Crew Change Trackside Treehouse Abandoned Caboose Border Bound
The 2015 Emerging Photography Awards: A Sneak-Peek at Some of Our Favorite Submissions For Timescapes, Italian photographer Valerio Manghi shoots abstract landscapes from a train as it moves through the darkness of night. © Valerio Manghi For Teenage Wildlife, Melbourne-based photographer Morganna Magee draws inspiration from her own teenage years to tell a story of modern adolescence through sensitive and nuanced portraits of an emerging generation of soon-to-be grown-ups. © Morganna Magee Each year, Feature Shoot is proud to host our Emerging Photography Awards, a competition geared towards advancing the careers of up-and-coming photographers around the world working in any genre. This time around, we’re offering not only $2,500 in cash (to be divided equally amongst the five winning photographers) but also a coveted New York City gallery show at United Photo Industries headquarters in DUMBO, Brooklyn. For Be Still, My Heart, Italian photographer Marta Giaccone documents the lives of young mothers raising children in South Wales.
Compassionate Portraits Capture the Dignity and Grace of Farm Animals As the global farming industry expands, mankind, suggests New Zealand-based photographer Cally Whitham, has in many ways failed to recognize the inherent dignity and grace that lies within the breasts of farm animals. With Epitaph, she pictures barnyard inhabitants—from pigs to sheep, cows to turkeys—in tender and fanciful portraits, resurrecting the oft-forgotten pathos that ties us to our fellow creatures. New Zealand, says Whitham, has entrusted its future to domesticated animals since its colonization in the 19th century, when these creatures were the constant helpmates of the people. Although agriculture in New Zealand still flourishes, the photographer registers a shift; where once each being was cherished and remembered, today they have been mass-produced to the point where they are seen as little more than merchandise lost within a crowd of other goods. All images © Cally Whitham
Artists Isabelle & Alexis Set Off Vibrant Smoke 'Blossoms' Around the World Spain Guatemala When artists Isabelle Chapuis and Alexis Pichot detonate a smoke bomb, they have one minute—maybe two, if they’re lucky—to photograph the billowing vapor before it vanishes entirely. For The Blossom Project, the fashion photographer and light painter, who together make Isabelle & Alexis, release clouds of colored smoke into the most beautiful and enigmatical corners of the globe, from France to Turkey, the US, Spain, Norway and Belgium to Morocco, Mexico, and Guatemala. The Blossom Project began in early 2012 with a single image of pink smoke cascading down the Paris streets. After it won second place in a competition entitled Paris, I love you, that seed became a bud and ultimately bloomed into what it is today. The Blossom Project is a celebration of the earth and its creative potential—its fertile landscapes and irreplaceable flowerings, but Chapuis and Pichot acknowledge the planet’s vulnerability. Florida, USA Turkey Norway Mexico France All images © Isabelle & Alexis
Les totems urbains d'Alain Delorme Alain Delorme est un photographe français qui vit et travaille à Paris, mais c’est bien à Shanghai qu’il a réalisé sa série Totems. Grâce au montage, il réussi à mettre en avant le paradoxe des ces transporteurs de l’extrême dans la ville la plus dynamique de Chine. Ces totems sont également les représentants du « Made in China » et de la notre société de consommation. Alain Delorme nous livre ainsi des clichés hors-normes et extrêmement colorés, créant ainsi un contraste avec le sujet présenté. Photo : Alain Delorme
Humans of New York and the Cavalier Consumption of Others The most famous photograph from Brandon Stanton’s new book, “Humans of New York: Stories”—the one you have probably seen or read about or heard discussed—is of a boy in an open black bubble jacket. Beneath the jacket is a fleece-lined hoodie, also black, and in his hand the boy holds a black plastic bag, stretched by the weight of what might be groceries. The sidewalk behind him is cracked and dotted with litter. Dull-brown public-housing towers—as much a part of the quintessential visual New York as the bodega bag—form a jagged horizon. This series of events—Vidal’s travel, in the reckoning of HONY’s devotees, from photograph to popular phenomenon—is in many ways a perfect realization of the ethos of “Stories,” which recently débuted at No. 1 on the New York Times best-sellers list. In this way, HONY joins organizations like TED and the Moth at the vanguard of a slow but certain lexical refashioning. JAMES AGEE: a spy, traveling as a journalist. “I’m Hustle Man,” he says.
couples-vetement-echange Un clip à base de cailloux Christophe Thockler a créé ce clip pour la musique Solid Gold de Michna en utilisant 60 gemmes et pierres de 15 pays différents, filmés grâce ) 8500 photos en stop motion qui joue sur leurs formes, leurs couleurs et leurs texture.