photography
The Photography of Chris Jordan
August 31, 2011 - 5:52am | Cristy
Chris Jordan's is a photographer who does large scale works depicting mass consumption and waste, particularly garbage. (Video) These images are from the series, Midway: Message from the Gyre. The photographs depict the rotting carcasses of baby Laysan albatrosses filled with plastic. These birds nest on Midway Atoll and are being fed plastic by their parents, who find floating plastic in the middle of the ocean and mistake it for food.
Washed Up by Alejandro Durán
August 30, 2011 - 5:51am | Cristy
Nubes, 2010 by Alejandro Durán
Washed Up is a project by Alejandro Durán featuring photos of his site-specific, color-based sculptures made from ocean debris.
Thanks Heather!
Espuma, 2010 by Alejandro Durán
Back to the Future
March 6, 2011 - 5:40am | Melvix
I've seen a bunch of these before-and-after sets on the web, but Irina Werning's Back to the Future project is my favorite.
Rides a Bike
February 27, 2011 - 4:26pm | Melvix
Cuba - Jeffrey Milstein
February 26, 2011 - 5:17am | Melvix
Crab Feast by Cris Birch
February 25, 2011 - 9:03am | Cristy
I love this photo. This is exactly what a crab feast ought to be. Crabs. Beer. Newspaper. Mallets. Mess.
It brings back memories of all the Father's Day crab feasts out in the back yard. It was always so hot but that never stopped anyone from spending hours at the picnic table. The whole day was about picking crabs and hanging out. Actually, the more you ate the better----better to finish the bushel than to have too pick all the leftovers. You know, there is probably a really good crab imperial recipe that would be really good with green chile added....
Joe Strauss - scanned raw 35mm
February 22, 2011 - 8:08am | Melvix
Lewis Hine: photos of embroidery workers
February 10, 2011 - 9:52am | Cristy
Making embroidery. Upper East Side, N.Y. City. 1910 February by Lewis Hine
309 W. 146th Street...Feb. 1912 by Lewis Hine
Lewis Hine (1874-1940) was a New York City teacher and photographer. He took photographs documenting child labor for the National Child Labor Committee. During the Depression, he worked for the Red Cross, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and served as chief photographer for the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) National Research Project. Photo collections: NYPL, George Eastman House, Library of Congress, UMBC, Shorpy
Some things change, some things remain unfortunately the same.
