Archived Articles from Photography & Video

Photography is more than merely capturing a still image - the still-shot photographers featured here will amaze you with mind-bending and world-inverting techniques from glamorous HDR to dark ultraviolet and tools ranging from trash-can cams to pinhole cameras, while the urban cinematographers in this section can twist and warp reality in motion.

Vertical Horizon: Urban Photographs Turn City Upside Down

Hong Kong is a much-photographed city, but these shots present a rarely-seen perspective by documentarians or pedestrians ... unless they look straight up.

Seconds to Years: 3 Scales of Time-Lapse Photography

With the rise of digital technologies, photographers are finding increasingly fascinating ways to capture minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and even entire years.

Perfect Pitch: Impossibly Starry City Skies in Blackest Night

There is simply no way to see the starry skies above the typical urban metropolis - but one photographer has found a way to simulate the stunning potential effect.

Liu Bolin is Back: 'Invisible Man' Artist (Dis)Appears Again

The master of urban camouflage has returned, this time exhibiting his latest photographic wonders in new contexts but, as always without post-picture editing.

Geometric Projections: Light Art Radically Reshapes Nature

Everyone knows there are mathematical patterns to be found everywhere in nature - though few such geometries are as explicit and dazzling as these.

Doing it Wrong: Funny Photo-Edited Urban Improbabilities

It would be entirely right and wrong at the same time to call this body of work realistic - the scenes are at first glance probable, then clearly almost impossible.

Airborne Architecture: 12 Images of Flying French Houses

Context - that is the key to taking the ordinary and making it amazing in this series of displaced homes soaring up from forgotten streets of Paris.

Invisible Apparel: 8 Material-Free Dresses Made of Light

Combining light art photography and high fashion, these show-stopping runway gowns are manufactured without physical material and composed purely of light.

Power of Books: 6 Graphic Illustrations of Literal Imaginings

Ever get done reading a chapter and feel like the book is more real than the room around you? Now, what if that imagining came true?

Rainbow Food Photography is Not Entirely Appetizing

These rainbow-colored meals may be pretty to look at, but would you ever eat one? This photography series puts a whole new spin on the way we look at food.

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