Greg Williams Photography
One of the best things about movies, are the behind the scenes look on how they’re made. Even better however, are these fantastic shots of various celebrities as they live their filming lives on set. Greg Williams is a fashion, celebrity, and film set still photographer who has capture the likes of Brad Pitt, Colin Farrel, Michael Cane, and more. He does a fascinating job taking images at the right moment, when filming a scene is at hold for a moment. View his portfolio at his site at his website.
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The Works of Sara Cwynar
Sara Cwynar’s photographs and collages seem to come from a personal time and space that only the creator knows of. In her photos, blurry limbs float over the black velvet background never revealing their true form, while piles of sentimental objects sit in front of a collaged wall of strange animals, vast terrains, and crucifixes. Whose images and objects are these? Is this how the space actually looks in real time or is it staged? It’s difficult to tell if the photo is a happy accident or on purpose, which lends to the charm of each one. The collages speak of an older time, channeling Martha Rosler sans feminism, with their bright colors and presentation of cut images. The thoughtful placement of a grey skull over a toddler’s head forces one to wonder why it’s placed there, masking the child’s face. An oval of paradise is transplanted onto an ordinary kitchen stove, offering a better life. Are these the artists’ way of trying to convey a desire to escape her mundane life? The self portrait photos are also interesting because of their duality of the girls being the same but different. Do they represent two different people entirely or just different emotions the artist feels? Whatever the reason, the artist keeps us at a distance from knowing what these images really mean, with only she knowing.
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Backstage at London Fashion Week by Carlos De Spinola
Carlos De Spinola of Carlos Industries just sent us some images of his photos during London Fashion Week. These backstage images give us a more intimate look at what happens behind the scenes at fashion shows. It’s not your usual backstage shots, so it’s definitely a unique view at the many happenings and preparations that goes on before the models hit the runway.
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Standard Time by Mark Formanek
Mark Formanek figured out a very fascinating way of telling time. According to the artist, “Standard Time is a performance lasting exactly 24 hours and recorded on film. However, this film is much more than just the recording of an action, the recording of something that has taken place in the past; it is also a clock. A clock for use right now and in the future which, as each day goes by, extends further into the past, but is still up-to-date and punctual”. It’s obvious the hard work that went into this art/performance piece, to see how the whole project was constructed visit Standard Time.
“The Dark Lens” Series by Cédric Delsaux
Star Wars changed the world forever when it hit the big screen in 1977. In a series of photographs called “The Dark Lens,” photographer, Cédric Delsaux, captures the characters in an apocalyptic world transformed by war. When first looking at these photographs, one wonders, is this our world we’re looking at it, or theirs? C3PO is stranded in a field of alien machinery in what looks to be an old parking garage. Silver androids with arched swan necks, armed by machine guns line up against what could be this years’ newest Chevy truck, while R2D2 stands alone with what looks like a disassembled helicopter in an abandoned repair shop. There is an obvious devastation on whatever planet they may be on. The world seems to be vacant of any human life. Delsaux’s photos create an interesting dilemma for the fan by placing the beloved characters in an unknown world with unknown tragedy. Will they try to leave or attempt to start over? Will they have their own race wars to determine who’s in charge? Will Darth Vader be President!? One can only hope.
Footnote: All these photos were shot at a Star Wars amusement park in Dubai!
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WAD/LUND Photography & Styling
The team of Bjorn Wad and Elisabeth Lund combine their talents of photography and styling to create fashion forward and edgy editorial type shots of women and men, being beautiful and looking tough. Women sprawled across bear skin rugs, hovering above sinks, and perched on top of motorcycles are just a few places you’ll find them, all the while looking disinterested in what’s going on around them. The men look equally uninterested in their surroundings as they smoke and roll around on the floor with vacant eyes. The most interesting photos this team produces are the ones without a human subject. A billboard screams to you to “TRY” a gun as if it’s a new flavor of ice cream. A tin can on wheels collects what looks to be blood from a stark white pipe in an unknown room, while large Leggo type road blocks surround a lone newspaper on the wet ground of the street. These lifeless images are interesting simply because life was once involved and is now absent from the picture plane. Their simplicity manages to communicate something far more profound than the pretty girl straining to see her reflection in the mirror. Sure, she’s beautiful but I’d rather look at the plastic baby heads crammed together in a window sill in the next photo. But that’s just me.
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The Photography of Luke Byrne
The photos of Luke Byrnes‘ show how skilled he is at capturing the unseen. Moments in time caught that seem so personal that the subject is unaware that they are being captured on film. A woman stands looking down in the shower wearing her sea foam shower cap, a man wades too far out in the emerald sea, while a group of balloons float up to the ceiling like birds to the sky. All of these images seemingly calm and serene, and only part of the bigger picture. One is left wondering what happened before and after each one was shot. The soft green tint in each photograph offers more than a pleasing aesthetic, but an eerie feeling of quiet. Lighting in each picture also plays a big part in portraying the mood. Whether it be the flash of the camera that illuminates the paint like splatter across the trees, or the sun shining through the canopy of ropey branches of a giant maple, the light becomes just as imprtant as the subject matter.
Every now and again, a photographer like Luke Byrne comes along, shooting the mundane mishaps of everyday life and catching them on film. Few do it so successfully.
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Dubai by Photogrpher Christopher Wilson
Christopher Wilson, a former director and designer in the the world of advertising, shows off his photographic abilities with his stunning pictures of Dubai. A mix of untraditional portraiture and industrial landscapes, Wilson’s photos are as quiet as the deserts they feature. Emerald City towers float over sand mountains while construction cranes stretch over the land like a spider over its web. Camels rock back and forth over seas of dirt in an orderly line like a fleet of ships. A woman’s lined eyes peer out from an ebony veil and look toward the sun. His subjects appear almost alien in their vast sand-scapes all the while commanding attention against the beautiful wasteland behind them. With past clients such as Jaguar, Nikon, Inifiniti, and the Ritz-Carlton, Wilson’s new clients could easily be New York’s galleries and museums.
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Photography by Vincent Fournier
Vincent Fournier’s stark and ghostly photos have an other worldly quality that lend to the chosen subject matter of all things outer space. In his exhibit “Space Project,” he captures desolate landscapes that could easily be from another planet, as well as droids, machines, and other objects actually meant to travel beyond this earth. Interiors of different space stations from around the globe also offer a look into the inner workings of a research station, as well as transforming it into a canvas of white, dotted with brightly colored control panels and buttons. Offices and labs with prototypes of space craft and other developing technology, show just how complex these adventures into space can be. The French born photographer also catches a few human forms in his photos, fully suited up in space gear and helmets as if ready to leave on a mission. Fournier’s photographic mission forced him to travel to various space centers all over the world suchs as The Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center of the Russian Federation, and the Atacama Desert Observatories in Chile, to research his subject matter.
Although sterile and quiet, his photos activate and excite the mind to consider the appeal of outer space. From earth, Fournier’s lens only reaches so far, but far enough to keep us questioning the unknown.
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Illustrations by Graham Robinson aka Beaston
The illustrations of Graham Robinson, a.k.a Beaston, have a fanciful quality that offer a look into an ordinary life in the woods and all its hilarious quandaries. Illustrations found in magazines, journals, and other papers feature images of luxury, wealth, and people enjoying the high life. In today’s fast paced world, he chooses to take times out to focus on the unseen banalities of venturing out into the woods rather then a busy cafe’ on a crowded street in the city. The quiet moments and believability of the everyday mishaps are what makes the Canadian artist’s drawings so special. Scenes of woodsmen struggling with their worn out rust-colored canoes, or parked in front of roaring fires cooking tin cans of beans, are only some of the endearing characters in Robinson’s world. Brilliantly colored fish, wiry tackles, bicycles wrapped in fly fishing hooks, cut and float through the empty plane of the paper like birds through air. One could easily imagine these images alongside a text in a manual instructing the camper on how to be a successful woodsmen. The paintings could also tell Robinson’s personal adventure into the forest, or simply illustrate Murphy’s Law applied to camping.
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