Tag: world

  • Rescued Film Project – Rescued WWII

    Here is a fairly large gallery of images from found film, taken during WWII. They were developed by The Rescued Film Project. Now, normally when you see these galleries, they are images of things happening in Europe, where the fighting was taking place; pictures of destroyed street corners, blown-up equipment, etc. These, however, show what was…

  • Jan Banning – Bureaucratics

    A fantastic series of photos showing various offices around the world, shot in places such as Texas, Russia, Yemen, and Liberia among others. It’s incredibly interesting to see the environment that people spend their time in. These photos show such a difference from one country to another and among different levels of bureaucracy. When viewing…

  • Photography by Michael Huniewicz

    There is a certain age at which everyone must have some sort of adventure. Michael Huniewicz had one in the country of Mauritania, where he rode on top of an iron ore train across the Sahara Desert, capturing incredible images along the way. His entire gallery is widely diverse, having traveled just about eveywhere from…

  • The Lens Is Standard, the Photos Anything But – NYTimes.com

    Jerome Delay is a photographer for Associated Press who uses a 50mm F1.4 lens exlusively. He works in Africa, covering conflicts in various areas there, and captures amazing photos with his self imposed limitation. Here is a gallery of his work and a short article explaining his reasoning behind the choice of lens. The Lens…

  • Terra Sacra Time Lapses

    Sean F. White is a photographer who has created an amazing time lapse video of various locations around the world. It’s about six minutes long and features locations such as the pyramids in Egypt, penguins in Antarctica, ancient trees in Africa and shots of the Milky Way out in the desert. There are many timelapse…

  • Russian color photography ca. 1910

    Now here is something truly amazing. The Boston Globe reports on a set of color photos of the Russian empire from around 1910. How did this happen, you ask? Well… Back in the early 20th century, between 1905 and 1910, Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, a scientist and a photographer, had the idea of educating school children…

  • Lunatic Mag

    Lunatic Magazine is a photojournalism magazine online that presents images that are striking in their grittiness, breathtaking in beauty and stark in their presentation of reality. There are currently five issues with topics ranging from illegal Chinese coal mines to the Dominican Republic’s fascination with baseball – you will be sure to find images that…