Behind the glass

I saw an advert on the telly the other day. As with most adverts, I can't tell you what it was for, but I remember the essence of the message. Broadly, the advert in question created a scene of a typical busy walkway where people passed one another, presumably on their way to work etc. They weren't acting normally, however. They were aggressive and violent, abusive and rude: uneccessarily so, caricaturishly so. It was a scene of normal people acting obnoxiously. It alluded to the way many…

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Merriam Webster defines transparent as: Having the property of transmitting light without appreciable scattering so that bodies lying beyond are seen clearly. And translucent as: Transmittin...

The plight of foster children is a heart-wrenching one, and one that photographer Rob Woodcox takes very much to heart. In this video from Jakob Skogheim, Woodcox strives to capture those feelings through the power of photographic images. Using shards of glass, he photographs his model among shredded and fractured light being shot in hundreds […]

Dreamy portrait of young female looking down behind the glass with dried orchids on it

“The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.” Ogden Nash, writer, book quote from “Good intentions”, 1…

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By Sara Beck In the 1940s, Irving Penn, originally trained as a painter, began his photography career working for Vogue and various other fashion magazines. At a time when photography was still emerging as an art form, Penn was largely responsible for the modernization of the medium’s fundament

Retirement can become rather dull for many senior citizens: there's not a lot to do, and it tends to become repetitive and boring. But not to Marina Badianova, a 58-year-old from St. Petersburg, who's very active in creating her own cosplays with the help of a few talented photographers. By now, she has done dozens of cosplays in the themes of steampunk, history, folklore, and fairy tales, and she even revealed that some of her outfits haven't even been tested yet!