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Easy scrollable selection here. Website associated with the collection can be found here, and information on how the photographer, Prokudin-Gorskii, took the photographs and how these colour images were made possible is available here.

No idea who took this, but I love it.

More photos by Elkie can be found here.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/xenmate/galleries/72157623258942237/#photo_3904871491

Google have got millions of photos from Life magazine’s archive hosted over here. They range from the 1750′s to the present day.

Just came across Jill Freedman. Never heard of her before, but I’m really impressed with some of her stuff. The New York Times has compared her work to the likes of Weegee and Diane Arbus, and she certainly shares the same sense of proximity found in a lot of their images. It was actually the above photo alone that made me decide she was at least worth a mention. There’s a boat load of Freedman’s work over at HigherPictures, which is where I initially came across her.

Not only is that dog mounting the other, but that guy’s also butt naked.

One wonders what the context of the walk was.

There’s actually quite a few other interesting photographers listed on HigherPictures, such as Barabara Crane, and her Private Views project:

Might as well check most of them out, as they’re all pretty awesome.

From a small collection of nuclear explosions.

This is cool. Photographer Jason Hawkes, apparently one of the most respected areal photographers, has a series of photographs of London at night. I find this especially cool as it was only recently that I flew over London at night and couldn’t help but think how much more impressive a city looks after the sun has gone down.

Jason has specialized in aerial photography since 1991, is based just outside London in the UK, and works worldwide. He has produced over 35 aerial photographic books for publishers such as the BBC, Random House and Harper Collins. Jason’s clients include brands such as Nike, HSBC, NatWest, Ford, American Airlines, Rolex, Toyota, Smirnoff, Mitsubishi and BP.

Be sure to check out his other categories, for example: Industry and Patterns.

This is the second entry for Chris Jordan, which I’ve done separately on purpose as I’m equally impressed by both pieces and feel they deserve their own entries. Midway focuses on the carcases of albatross chicks found on a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. Untouched or altered, the photographed chicks are shown with their stomachs full of plastic junk fed to them by their parents.

These photographs of albatross chicks were made on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking.

To document this phenomenon as faithfully as possible, none of the plastic in any of these photographs was moved, placed, manipulated, arranged, or altered in any way. These images depict the untouched stomach contents of baby birds in one of the world’s most remote marine sanctuaries, more than 2000 miles from the nearest continent.

Albeit tragic, one does wonder why Albatross would feed their chicks plastic; surely they should be able to tell, either through sight, smell or sound that a piece of plastic was not once a living thing. The clue lies in what they eat, and where they hunt. Their diet is predominately made up of cephalopods, fish, crustaceons and offal, and in search for food, Albatrosses can fly hundreds, even thousands of miles, which they then consume and regurgitate upon return to their nests. Squid falls into the cephalopods category, the eggs of which, including those of fish, they look for floating on the surface of the water. As one would imagine, plastic floats, and mistaking it for food they return to feed their chicks objects such as bottle caps, lighters and bits of broken plastic. Unable to digest these items, the chicks are no longer able to feed properly and as a result die from starvation.

Chris Jordan – Midway