Category Archives: Photography

The Darkest Colour – a photo series by self taught 23 year old Gabonese photographer Yannis Davy Guibinga. To wit:

The series is set in front of a matte black background and features two nude models whose skin has also been painted black. The works seek to unpack the negative aspects of the both the colour and its symbolism.

More of his work here.

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From top: a glass-floored sightseeing walkway on a high cliff wall in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province; a suburban neighbourhood in Wuhan, Hubei;  lotus field in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province; Shanghai’s Yu Yuan garden after a snowfall; piles of unused shared bicycles  collected by police after they blocked pathways, stand abandoned in a field in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province and terraced fields near Tiger-Mouth Village, Yuanyang, Yun’nan

MORE: China Viewed From Above (The Atlantic)

A gallery of satellite images taken – not vertically – but at an angle, published by Planet Labs.

To wit:

…the satellite imagery we’re most familiar with — taken straight down — flattens and obscures the visual cues we get from perspective, making the imagery appear like maps, not photos… from an angle, the view becomes altogether different: the mountains rise to their commanding height, valleys regain their depth, and background features recede into the distance. It’s like getting a view out the window of an airplane 450 kilometers high.

From top: Monte Fitz Roy in Patagonia; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Sao Paulo, Brazil; Klyuchevskaya volcano in Russia and Bilbao in Spain.

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