Category: Inspiration

This feature film was shot using only the back-up camera of a Toyota Prius

Gannon Burgett

If you think it’s challenging getting quality footage from smartphones, you might as well not even bother attempting this feat. LA-based YouTube crew Mommy Comedy has created a feature film using only a Toyota Prius back-up camera as the recording tool. This six-and-a-half minute video gives us a tongue-in-cheek behind-the-scenes look at what it took […]

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Von Wong Tied Down a Model And Photographed Her With Sharks

Liron Samuels

In his latest adventure, Benjamin Vong Won headed to Fiji where he tied down a model to photograph her underwater with the local sharks. While this might sound scary (and crazy), the terrible stereotypes depicting sharks as menacing and terrifying creatures are exactly what Ben hopes to change with these surreal images. “As a photographer […]

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Everyone Is Taking Photos Now, What Makes Someone ‘A Photographer’?

Udi Tirosh

If you wanted to raise hell on a photography forum just pop that question in there and see what happens. And the reason this question will make a forum explode is because it touches something very deep. I mean, you can draw as much as you want and you would not call yourself a painter, […]

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Projectionist Captures Gorgeous Time Lapse of 70mm Film Reel Playing The Hateful Eight

Liron Samuels

The latest Star Wars movie and Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight played a major role in the recent comeback of 70mm film and its gorgeous qualities. Photographer Andrew Walker was a projectionist on the 70mm roadshow for the latter and created this time lapse of the celluloid film being projected, showing the behind-the-scenes experience is […]

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Projectionist Captures Gorgeous Time Lapse of 70mm Film Reel Playing The Hateful Eight

Liron Samuels

The latest Star Wars movie and Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight played a major role in the recent comeback of 70mm film and its gorgeous qualities. Photographer Andrew Walker was a projectionist on the 70mm roadshow for the latter and created this time lapse of the celluloid film being projected, showing the behind-the-scenes experience is […]

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How I Art Directed A CD Cover Shoot Over The Internet

Karen Alsop

When Chris Sebastian contacted me about creating cover art for his debut album ‘The Good Old Days‘, I initially wasn’t sure how the scenario would work. Chris was in Sydney, I was in Melbourne, and his photoshoot was happening in Sydney within the week. I admit, I’m a bit of a control freak… In order […]

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Hey Vogue, This Is Why Couples Should Hire Professional Wedding Photographers

Liron Samuels

Vogue magazine caused quite a bit of rage among photographers, along with copious amounts of ridicule, when it recently published a list of 10 wedding “rules” to which it recommends brides-to-be say “I don’t”. The reason for this was the magazine’s statement that couples shouldn’t hire professional wedding photographers, and should rather rely on the […]

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Powerful photo series explores the silent abuse directed towards women everyday

Gannon Burgett

They say an image is worth a thousand words, but the reality is silence can sometimes be more powerful than words ever are, for better or worse. It’s for this reason that Hungarian photographer Miklos Kiss has started a powerful photo series titled ‘Silent Consent.’ ‘Many women are discriminated and abused because of their gender,’ […]

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This photographer has built a business around penis fashion photography…seriously

Gannon Burgett

Photographing certain subject matter is harder than others. This couldn’t be more true for photographer Soraya Doolbaz, a New York-based photographer who specializes in phalllic fashion photography. Hoax or not, all signs point to the legitimacy that the Iranian-born photographer started from humble beginnings to turn an unlikely subject matter into a successful business. In a […]

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