Category Archives: Photography

 

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Photographer Christopher Morris’s shots of the NY subway 33 years ago – the grimy, crime-ridden, tag-covered face of what, until a crackdown by the NYPD and Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy in the late 90s, was one of America’s most dangerous cities.

(Top pic: An original chalk drawing by the late artist Keith Haring. Bottom pic; two vigilante ‘Guardian Angels’ )

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The eyes, the eyes, not around the eyes, don’t look around the eyes, look into my eyes…you’re under.

Malaysian photographer Jimmy Kong’s pin-sharp, highly disconcerting macro images of various arachnids native to his homeland eyeballing you.

That’s right. You personally.

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Demolition of the Charlemont Street flats, Dublin 2, earlier this afternoon.

The soon-to-be-level site may be derelict for some time yet.

Dust “everywhere”.

(Pix: Oisín Kane (1,2))

(Additional pix: Sheila Larkin (3), Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland (4-8))

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Yip.

The Irish Sun.

The Star will be here any minute too.

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All viral on the Imgurz this week and firmly at the nightmare end of the squee spectrum: pictures by Jessica Florence (top 4), Ellen van Deelen (5) and others.

You better believe this is an actual thing that you’ve not seen the last of.

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Filmmaker and biomedical researcher Dr Gary Greenberg not only photographed these sand particles at 300x magnification, he also invented and patented the HD 3D microscopes that made the images possible.

The composition and and appearance of sand varies depending on geographical location. These tiny beauties are most likely from the beaches of Hawaii, where Dr Greenberg lives.

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Mesmeric photographs of Hong Kong’s mind-bendingly dense concentrations of high-rise living space by Michael Wolf, a German photographer currently resident in the Chinese city.

Michael Wolf: Life In Cities

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