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These spectacular photos are the artwork of the underground artist/photographer JR who’s latest work takes place in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. It’s part of his ongoing 28 milimetres project which started back in 2004, and got him famous when it was featured on the front page of the New York Times. I’m a [...]

An Unlikely Weapon is a documentary directed by Susan Morgan about photographer pulitzer prize awarded photographer Eddie Adams – the man who is famous for taking that haunting black & white photo of a Saigon police chief shooting a vietcong guerrilla point blank. A photograph that was so visually powerful, that it affected the course [...]

“Jesus is My Homeboy” is a collection of some fantastic photography from renowned photographer and film director David LaChapelle. These images were exhibited at Tefaf, Maastricht in the Netherlands in March 2008. I don’t think they need much explanation, the amusing religious juxtaposition and biblical parody is pretty obvious. LaChapelle’s works have been described as [...]

I’m torn, on the one hand this looks nice and shiny, but on the other, it’s about religion. As anyone who lived through Sydney’s recent World Youth Day invasion will attest to, god bothering is tiresome. All that happy clappy, inane singing and stampeding hordes of wild eyed pilgrims blocking off half your suburb and [...]

I’m loving the work of photographer Charles Maraia has posted up on his site at the moment. Titled ‘Unfamiliar Places’ the series documents beauty in the mundane aspects of life. A pretty classic chronicle of the American landscape, there’s a sad beauty to the work that really resonates with me. more photos after the jump [...]

European hotel chain Suitehotel are running the suitejump competition on their blog. They’re encouraging customers to take a photo of themselves jumping on the bed. The best entries will receive an unspecified reward (i’m guessing something like a free hotel room???). Fits in nicely with the trend of sharing jumping photos via social media. If [...]

I just recently came across ObjectOrange, a group of Detroit artists drawing attention to the urban decay that the city is notorious for. There are over 7000 abandoned buildings in Detroit, many of which are used for prostitution, drug dealing and all the other sorts of things that drive the middle class and their cash [...]