Earlier at the Department of Education, Marlborough Street, Dublin 1.
Worth two in the bush, apparently.
(Pix: Oisín Kane)
Category Archives: Photography
Above: examples of unused spaces within direct provision accommodation for asylum seekers in Ireland.
Eamon Sheehy of Migrate To The Fringe writes:
The asylum system functions as a closed and confined space far from the rest of society. It is the other, the outside, and a ghetto. The direct provision hostels and their residents don’t seem to have physicality. The rest of society is not to be concerned about their existence. Asylum Archive is taking visual samples of this reality…
UPDATE:
Over on the Human Rights In Ireland blog, Dr Liam Thornton writes:
“Direct provision is 14 years old today. Today, from 7am to 9pm, there will be 14 hours of blog posts on the issue of direct provision. The voices of asylum seekers themselves are central to this blog carnival, and we will hear their voices throughout the day. The Department of Justice and Department of Social Protection were invited to contribute to this carnival, however they have not replied to my email. Therefore, posts from several organisations working with and on behalf of asylum seekers, social workers, others challenging this system and artists, are all present.”
The eyeball-caressing landscape photography of Marc Adamus: above and below ground at the glaciated Alaska Boundary Range (pix 1,2), hurricane winds at Torres Del Paine in Chile, a remote canyon in Utah’s Escalante and a lily-strewn woodland on the California coast.
Three of the sixty finalists shortlisted from 50,000 submissions to the 11th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Competition
Above: Americana category – A champion bucks a champion at the Helmville Rodeo Montana, by Carol Lynne Fowler (September 2013); Natural World category – an Eastern screech owl at Okefenokee Swamp, Georgia by Graham McGeorge (April 2013) and in the Altered Images category ‘Babylon’ by Dina Bova (October 2013).
See all 60 finalists here.
Photographs by Luca Zanier
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Digital photo manipulations of shelter dogs – part of a light-hearted but highly worthy awareness heightening project by Hungarian photographer Saroita Bán.
The images create visibility. The visibility encourages adoption. The adoptees get a print from the photographer. The dogs get homes.
All teh wins.
(H/T: Spaghetti Hoop)
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A young Gwen Stefani collars Sting for an autograph in 1983.
Photographer Klaus Leidorf captures what he describes as ‘aerial archaeology’ from the vantage point of his Cesna 172 as he flies over the beaches, industrial zones and farmlands of Germany.
The image stabilisation of his Canon EOS 5D Mark III allows for fairly eye-watering detail.
Related: Sending And Receiving
Many more higher resolution pictures here.
Best Photo from #Aintree So Far!! #GrandNational pic.twitter.com/OTDtgATyKF
— Jokes & Bets (@UKZeek) April 4, 2014
A pleasingly chilled-out 360° timelapse sequence by German photographer Jonas Ginter, who spent two years trying to achieve the effect you see here.
The spherical or ‘polar’ panoramas were captured by a 3D printed rig holding six GoPro cameras.
Related: Polar Panoramas
(H/T: Noel)