Heart of the Home Laid Open: Intimate Kitchen Portraits
Would you ever allow a stranger to come into your home, open every cabinet and cupboard in your kitchen, and photograph whatever he finds? Artist Erik Klein Wolterink does just that, ...
Category: 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.
Building Fragments: 20 Surreal Reconstructed Photographs
At first glance, they are nearly believable, these angled buildings with their curious corners. Closer inspection reveals Escher-esque optical illusions and impossible intersections, liminal ...
Dense City: Photos Show Tightly-Packed Hong Kong Towers
Twice as dense as New York, and four times as crowded as London, Hong Kong is a fascinating mix of natural landscape edged by incredibly dense human construction. Michael Wolf, a German ...
Animated History of Western Architecture in Just 15 Minutes
These six super-short videos are an architectural tour de force for visual learners bent on absorbing as much as possible in as little time as needed. Narrated by actor Ewan McGregor, the Design ...
Suburban Intervention: Homes Altered, Then Set Ablaze
For the last two years, artist Ian Strange has traveled the East Coast of the United States, painting suburban homes in shocking shades of red and black, and in some cases, burning them down. The ...
Stoned Hipsters: Ancient Greeks in Modern Hipster Attire
We've all seen hipsters in the wild, and even if we can't perfectly define what a hipster is, we know one when we see one. Parisian artist Léo Caillard does too, and he wondered what this modern ...
Top of the World: Photos & Videos from Atop Tallest Towers
First he presented a photo-edited version (carefully stitched from dozens of photos) to show what the view would look like without the building he on top of which he took it. Still, impressive as ...
Accidental Art: Apple Maps Glitches Create Surreal Scenes
All of the notorious glitches on Apple's Maps app make it incredibly frustrating to use for practical purposes, but it still has value - as accidental art. When two-dimensional images are ...
Urban Time Lapse: 15 Videos Show Cities at Super Speeds
Watch the frenetic motion of urban scenes around the world in mesmerizing time lapse videos created using thousands of still photographs. Often captured from some of the highest vantage points in ...
Street Retouch: Bus Riders Get Live Photoshop Treatment
Unsuspecting travelers waiting to catch a ride were shocked to see their own photos integrated into humorous advertisements on the walls of the bus stop shelter. Berlin-based Photoshop artist ...
