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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.

Roadside Lights: The Quiet Beauty of Japanese Vending Machines at Night

It started on a cold and snowy night when a wandering Japanese photographer became fascinated by the way the white flakes were piling up on an ordinary vending machine on the side of a ...

Alien Architecture: Modern Buildings Recast as Extraterrestrial Ships

Composition, color and contrast and go a long way toward reframing photographic subjects, in this case: making familiar architectural forms seem like parts of dark and looming alien ...

Buildings as Backdrops: Playful Photography Humanizes Built Environments

People often play a small part in architectural photography and renderings - not so in this series of travel photographs, which would lovely but otherwise unremarkable without clever human ...

Palaces of Self-Discovery: Photos Document the World’s Most Beautiful Libraries

Symmetrical photographs reveal the elegant geometries present in the architecture of some of the world’s most beautiful libraries, captured by Thibaud Poirier. The Paris-based photographer has ...

Industrial Scars: Aerial Photos of Humankind’s Harrowing Impact on Earth

In strikingly well-composed, vividly colored scenes resembling abstract paintings, J. Henry Fair’s aerial photographs of toxic waste and industrial activity on Earth give us an uncomfortable ...

Spring on Speed: Time-Lapse Video Captures 3 Years of Blooming Flowers

A single sweeping shot seems to capture an entire spring season of blooming flowers in this artfully directed time-lapse video, which took three years to record and complete. Filmmaker Jamie ...

The Human Footprint: Aerial Photos Show How Industry Changes the Land

The toll exacted from the earth for human progress is rarely more dramatically visible than from overhead, looking down onto the mines, oil fields, salt flats, recycling yards and other ...

Cold Frontage: Storm Leaves Waterfront House Encased in Frozen Waves

When a cold front blew in over Lake Ontario, photographer John Kucko caught wind of the phenomenon and rushed to shoot images of a remarkably frozen home. Located in Webster, New York, the ...

Painting with Light on a Canvas of Night: Alien Blooms by Hannu Huhtamo

The strange glowing figures in these images are so complex, you might think they’re screenshots from a digital animation, or created in Photoshop - but there’s no computer-based trickery ...

Street Light Art: Traffic Signals Emit Surreal Rainbow Streams in Hazy City

It’s almost a cliche at this point to highlight the beauty that can be found in everyday items, like that scene in the movie ‘American Beauty’ where Wes Bentley and Thora Birch stare at a ...

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