Sony announced today that it has developed a new rewritable film material. Just as rewritable optical discs can be erased and written to again, Sony's new film can have full-color photos drawn onto them, be erased, and then be reused for another photo.
Photographer Gabor Kasza has unveiled a new photo book titled Concrete passages about closeness and coldness… and a couple of songs. It's a study of unfinished concrete buildings and surfaces, and the book comes with an unusual physical form that mirrors its content: the slipcase is made of concrete.
I came across dichroic film years ago while researching materials for an art lighting business, Lightlink Lighting. The color changing properties of this material was so inspiring I ended up creating new lighting designs based on it.
Portrait photographers looking to diversify your background options listen up. There's an affordable background material you need to know about, and a great DIY portable background stand you can build for just $25.
When the darkest material on Earth was announced back in 2014, photographers suggested that it could be used for everything from the ultimate non-reflective black backdrop to an art gallery in which the photos "pop." Well, that darkest material just got even darker.
Italian photographer Sandro Giordoan has taken to creating an ongoing series of tragic-but-humorous images that brilliantly depict people's willingness to put the safety of their material objects ahead of their own.
MIT scientists have discovered that graphene, a material consisting of one-atom thick sheets …