Everywhere At the End of Time - Brendon Burton
Spotlight: Portraits by Cian Oba-Smith
23-year-old London-based photographer Cian Oba-Smith finds beauty in the most unsuspecting places. His stunning body of work is a mix of candid portraits, poetic still life images, and dreamy landscapes.
vanish unexpectedly during the harvest, only to reappear three summers later in a field near Gloucester
Isolated Buildings of Chicago
In the words of the artist David Schalliol:
The Isolated Building Studies are the visual confluence of my interests in urban dynamism, socioeconomic inequality and photography. By using uniform composition in photographs of Chicago buildings with no neighboring structures, I hope to draw attention to new ways of seeing the common impact of divergent investment processes on urban communities.
Isolated buildings are particularly useful for the exploration of neighborhood transformation and its social correlates because they are immediately recognized as unusual. As urban buildings, their form illustrates their connection with adjacent structures: vertical, boxy, an architecture confined by palpably limited parcels. When their neighboring buildings are missing, a tension emerges: the urban form clashes with the seemingly suburban, even rural setting. Thoughtfully engaging the landscape requires further investigation to resolve this tension: Why is this building isolated? It is from this fundamental friction that the Isolated Building Studies launches.
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Salt-encrusted skulls as a local souvenir - taken on the shores of Lac Assal, Djibouti
Photo credit: s_andreja
Untitled by Yasuhiro Zama
