French photographer Didier Massard’s series, Territories – currently exhibiting at the Kopeikin Gallery in LA – might look like digital art or oil paintings but each one is actually a meticulously hand-constructed diorama, carefully lit and photographed in his studio.
Incredible high-speed macro shots of hummingbirds, including an extreme close up of a 13cm long Green Crowned Brilliant (top) photographed by Chris Morgan at Bosque de Paz reserve in Costa Rica.
More of his work here.
From a series of pleasing, artificially coloured x-rays of electronic toys by Sydney-based artist Brendan Fitzpatrick.
The annual Synge Street (D8) residents street party last evening.
Coconut sorbet, the match, neighbourly vibes, chilled minds.
Sure where would you get it?
(Pix: Oisín Kane)
Linda Cosgrave writes:
A selection of photos of the Poolbeg towers I thought you might like….
You’ll miss them when/if they’re gone.
Another side of the work of celebrated American war photographer Robert Capa, currently on display at New Yorks’s Governor’s Island as part of an exhibition by the International Centre Of Photography.
Better known for his black and white images of the Normandy landings and the Spanish Civil War, Capa also worked with colour film from 1941 to his untimely death in 1954, recording – among other things – intimate portraits of artists, writers and actors in the 40s and 50s.
Above: Pablo Picasso and his son Claude at Vallauris in France; Ernest Hemingway and his son Gregory at Sun Valley, Idaho and Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre on the set of Beat the Devil, at Ravello in Italy.
Swiss photographer Sebastien Magnani’s unnerving mashups of folk and their cats.
See the rest of the images here.
You may also care to peruse his Underdogs series.
The apparent mass synchronous movement of flocking birds ‘captured’ by French photographer Alain Delorme which, on closer inspection, turn out to be composed of thousands of meticulously placed digital images of plastic bags.
Images of the gathering alt-rock storm at Glastonbury earlier this evening by our photo corr and official man on the ground Peter Lynch.
Sinéad writes:
My Dad and I climbed Ben Bulben last Sunday, found this little dude in my pocket as I was taking in the view…
