Here's a short 5-minute news segment on Ruth Gruber and her work as a photojournalist during the Holocaust. Currently 100 years old, Gruber was an eyewitness to much of the history most of us have only read about in books.
This short video gives a beautiful and inspiring introduction to night photography. Don’t watch it if you already have …
If James Nachtwey were a street photographer, he wouldn't be the type to stand on the opposite sidewalk and stealthily capture unsuspecting strangers using a telephoto lens. As you can see from the photograph above, Nachtwey has a fearless attitude when shooting in dangerous situations, getting up close and personal with the subjects.
Joe Wigfall is a photo enthusiast and street photographer that won WNYC's Street Shots Challenge back in 2008.
New York-based photographer Navid Baraty has a series of incredibly beautiful rain photographs made in San Francisco and Japan. We first came across the photograph above, titled "Rain Dance", in Pictory's "San Francisco" showcase. It was taken in San Francisco's Union Square with a Nikon D700. There's just something about the composition and lighting that blew us away.
Light Warfare is a demonstration of what's possible with light painting and stop motion given enough time and dedication. It was created by Freddie Wong, who also published a tutorial for creating light painting photographs on his website. This amazing 1-minute video required a whopping 13 hours of shooting over two days. Each frame needs to be individually "painted" and -- seeing how complicated some of the scenes are -- must have required pretty long exposures.
Pencil Vs Camera! is a wonderful series of photographs by Belgian photographer and painter …
Richard Renaldi has an interesting approach to street photography: he asks complete strangers to touch one another. The resulting interactions …
A History of the Sky is an ambitious project by San Francisco-based artist Ken Murphy that aims to create a gigantic mosaic of 365 time-lapse videos of the sky - one for each day of the year.
We came across some work by Maciej Leszczynski the other day, and wanted to share it with all of you.