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Imaginary Movies: Graphic Designer Turns Posted Photos into Film Posters

Inspired by gorgeous photographs posted to a popular social media website, one designer has reversed the normal narrative of movie marketing, creating publicity posters for speculative films, ...

The Nature of Cities: Built Environments Win National Geographic Awards

Among the winners and honorable mentions from the 2018 Travel Photographer of the Year Contest are an expected array of wilderness scenes and animal portraits, but also a surprising number ...

Night Lights: Aerial Drones Illuminate Uncanny Long-Exposure Landscapes

Circling drones cast soft light on landscapes below (and create UFO-style patterns in the skies over) gorgeous natural settings in this series of surreal nature images by photographer Reuben ...

Dramatas Urbanae: Photographer’s 10-Year Study of a Single Public Bench

A lone Ukrainian park bench has become the unlikely star of a decade-long drama, much more by chance than by design, thanks to a photographer's unplanned project to document the lives of those ...

Cutting Loose: Crafty Paper Silhouettes Animate Architectural Landmarks

The built environment becomes the backdrop from all kinds of imaginative (if improbable) scenes when this London photographer adds a single layer to each of his images: a black piece of cut ...

Museum Matches: Candid Photos Capture Patrons Who Look Like Artworks

Candid captures require patience, particularly when a photographer like Stefan Draschan decides to wait for a perfect aesthetic coincidence between a work of art and one of its passing ...

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 ...

Cinematography of Snow: Watch a Film Projected Onto a Blizzard

An idle thought while waiting out a snowstorm led to an accidental artistic discovery: projecting a movie on falling snow can result in an visually rich result bordering on magical, in turn ...

Geometry + Humanity: Beirut Shutterbug Abstracts Everyday Life

Photographing real people in actual places, Serge Najjar manages to make the mundane seem strange and fantastical, highlighting the intersection of humans and the architectural spaces they ...

Best from Above: Drone Views of 6 Philadelphia Abandonments

Some of the most fascinating parts of certain deserted buildings in Philadelphia cannot even be seen from below, making this drone footage shot by Matt Satell of Philly by Air all the more ...

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