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I kinda wish everything looked the way a Joan Didion novel makes me feel: beauty in the banal, meaning in existential plight, love in loneliness and poetry everywhere. All with an equalizing veneer of burnt light.I travel for work a bunch. I'm up both early and late, depending on the demands of the job. I take snapshots on my iPhone and share them with friends through Instagram. Here are a......read more
Our mate Jay Mark Johnson, whose work hung on the walls of the first SHFT pop-up shop, uses an $85,000 slit camera to create these abstracted images that emphasize time over space. It's a complicated process, as Slate's Judith Herman explains: This unique look is possible because the fixed-position slit camera registers only a vertical sliver of a scene. Whatever passes that slit by......read more
Melbourne-based photographer Lisa Sorgini sent us a link to Lambent, a gorgeous collection of landscapes she shot around Australia and New Zealand. Taking her inspiration from quiet hush of the countryside, Lisa says that the series explores some of the contradictions that are unique to the Southern Hemisphere: ...the extreme contrast between light and dark, the burden of clouds and......read more
German photographer Robert Schlaug has a wide and varied body of work that explores the area where humans and landscape intersect. Limited Area, one of his recent projects, shifts the viewer's standard perception of landscape by stretching the image and creating linear striped gradients of the landscape's natural palette. According to Schlaug, the digitally manipulated photos deal with the limits......read more
Johannesburg photographer Paul Shiakallis comes by his profession honestly. At the tender age of 15, his father showed him how to use a camera and Shiakallis took to it quickly. After covering events for his high school newspaper, he attended journalism school then found himself assisting professional photographers for five years. Now on his own, Shiakallis has a wide-ranging portfolio......read more
The autumn season is now in full gear, bringing with it chilly mornings, harvest festivals, bird migrations, and, of course, dazzling foliage. The other day, My Modern Met celebrated the harvest season by assembling this awesome collection of photos that show multi-hued leaves arranged in rainbow-like gradients. From an arrow created with maple leaves to a circle of leaves arranged by Pantone......read more
Noah Emrich keeps busy. At the ripe age of 19, the Massachusetts native has established himself as a leading menswear blogger (here and here and other places), a go-to stylist, and a freelance photographer with clients that include The New York Times, Teen Vogue and GQ. Oh, and he goes to Parsons. With the help of Creative Council, Noah hit the road to capture this series of landscapes and......read more
After a couple showings back in May at Team Gallery locations in New York, top dog photographer Ryan McGinley (previously) traveled to Japan for a solo show at the Tomio Koyama Gallery. The just-wrapped exhibition, entitled "Reach Out, I’m Right Here," was dominated by McGinley's crispy photographs of models interacting with live animals from various......read more
As people who have lived in the Pacific Northwest can attest, there is nowhere else in North America quite like it. The dense rainforest, soaring mountains and shimmering sea stay with you long after you leave. Trust me. I lived there for ten years, so whenever I come across good photos shot in the area, I get psyched. We can't tell you much about Jillian Anderson other than she lives in......read more
Hailing from the rainy Baltic country of Lithuania, 22-year old photographer Lina Bielynte started exploring picture-taking with a digital camera around six years go. But it wasn't until she found her grandpa's old Soviet-made Zorki camera that things really took off. The analog device opened up a whole new world of light and shadow, and Lina's hazy, semi-abstract images of natural scenes......read more
