A couple of clever photographs by Bence Bakonyi. A series of people who become one with the city by cleverly using clothing to appear almost invisible.
Bence Bakonyi’s website: bencebakonyi.com
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Gravity Defying Photography
Li Wei is a true artist and he manage to amaze and inspire many with his work. This video shows us how Li Wei works.
Li Wei’s website: www.liweiart.com
Photography Websites
A couple of websites I like to visit. No top 10. Just a couple of sites that are worth a visit if you are into photography. I sum them up in this list to make the internet just a little bit more structured 🙂
Luminance | The intersection of business, technology, culture & photography
PetaPixel | Blog about photography geared towards tech-savvy photo-enthusiasts
500 Photographers by Pieter Wisse | Showcasing photographers’ projects till number 500 has been reached
TED.com | Ideas worth spreading, Not always on photography but still quite interesting.
Photo Booth: The NewYorker | Blog on photography
GUP magazine | Guide to Unique Photography
I Love That Photo | Photography magazine
Joey L’s Holy Men
Above the video shot during a visit to India by Joey L and his crew. He visited India to continue his series Holy Men. A portrait series of the men that leave their ordinary and material lives behind and set out to find spirituality. A truly wonderful series. As they put it themselves, they photograph something that seems ancient but is non the less happening in the present. If I think of India, I think busy places, noises, all kinds of aromas. But the photographs by Joey shows a peacefulness. Perhaps the spiritual lives of these Holy Men resonates through the photography of Joey L.
Joey L’s website: www.joeyl.com
100!
Today is a memorable day for me: Article number 100!
What started as a passion project, to share my passion of photography, has developed into a blog with many visitors. Just shy of 20.000. And from all around the world. I’d like to thank all you photography enthusiasts for coming to PforPHOTO!
I started this blog to see how it would turn out. And seeing that many others are intereseted in the art of photography I am planning to keep on going. I would also like to use this moment to ask for your input. If anyone has anything that they would like to see on PforPHOTO please let me know! I’m also looking for guest bloggers to create posts for PforPHOTO. So if you have a keen eye for wonderful photography and know how to write about it, please let me know. You can email me or just leave a comment.
Again thank you and I hope to see you again on PforPHOTO! 🙂
Cue the tune for Jaws
Los Angeles based photographer Michael Muller is a big fan of the outdoors. And being a photographer with a great knowledge of lighting techniques he shot some extraordinary photos. Timeless as he puts it. We’ve all seen photographs or footage of the great white shark. But all shot with available light. Michael Muller went out there to shoot this majestic animal with strobes. And the resulting images are just amazing. Visit his website to see more of the photos Michael took of sharks. And other wild life. Below you’ll also find an inspirational video of Michael Muller talking about his work at the Luminance 2012 conference.
Michael Muller’s website: www.mullerphoto.com
Femke’s World
Femke van Veen’s project 365 was featured earlier on PforPHOTO. Last month her 365 blog has reached over 10.000 visitors. On behalf of PforPHOTO I would like to congratulate Femke on this milestone! The project is still ongoing since the 365 days haven’t been reached. So many more wonderful photographs to come. Please check it out if you can find the time. Femke really has a creative mind and knows how to transfer her ideas and experiences into wonderful photographs. Below both the link to her portfolio website and her blog.
365 blog: femkevanveen.blogspot.nl
Femke’s website: www.femkevanveen.com
I Like the Way You Move
Nudes have always been and always will be an inspiration for artists. The photographs by Shinichi Maruyama shows us nudes in a totally new and abstract way. Pablo Picasso tried to show us faces from different angles in one painting. His cubism showed us an abstraction of time and place. Maruyama shows us a figure in different movements and from different sides, all at the same time, in what single shot. The figure on the image, which is formed into something similar to a sculpture, is created by combining 10,000 individual images of a dancer. This gives us a gracefulness of a moving, perhaps dancing figure. Nudes that have almost become fluid. In this series Nude Maruyama continues an ongoing body of work of gracefulness in movement. Before this it was paint and water, now the human figure. He might have stumbled upon a new style that we could call Fluidsism. But new style or not, the photographs are wonderful and make for something quite unique.
Shinichi Maruyama’s website: www.shinichimaruyama.com
A Slice Of Day
Henri Cartier-Bresson said; “To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.” And this goes also for the black and white photographs by Dutch photographer Job Jonathan Schlingemann. He too tries to find the significance of an event. That moment of the day in which something special happens. What that is? Who knows. All he tries to capture is the emotion that clarifies that intersection of time, light and scene into one single photograph. To quote Job Jonathan Schlingemann:
In my work I am looking for subtle moments of beauty in everyday life. Ordinary occurrences that by play of light and manner of perception for ta brief time create something extra-ordinary. A photograph works for me if subject, light and surroundings merge in perfect harmony to form one whole and triggering one single emotion.
The combination of the black and white, the long shadows and those wonderful compositions does make for an intriguing series. He manages to show us the ordinary in an extraordinary way. I truly feel what he is set out to do. Capturing the beauty in everyday life.
Job Jonathan Schlingemann’s website: www.splinter.tv
