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The Great War in Colour
On this day, ninety-one years ago, the guns that raged over the battlefields of Europe for more than four years fell silent. Never before had slaughter on such an industrial scale been conceived of, and never again would the lives of those who survived be the same again. Environmental Graffiti has compiled a collection of rare colour photographs, illuminating in grim detail the horrors of a war that set a precedent for bloody conflict in the twentieth-century.
Continue reading...Tiny People Invade Your Home
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
In ‘Plastic Life’, French photographer Vincent Bousserez creates Lilliputian-scaled contemporary art using plastic figures and household objects. Keen provoker of the double-take and the nervous laugh, he offers us a looking glass through which to see ourselves afresh, as the moulded, not-so-model human beings we are. By juxtaposing his protagonists with everyday domestic items, Bousserez brings their stories disconcertingly back home.
Continue reading...Animals Menace Photographers
Monday, August 31, 2009
On the one hand, being a wildlife photographer sounds like the greatest job in the world. Travelling to far-flung destinations in search of amazing fauna, then getting all outdoorsy as you prepare to take the perfect animal shot. On the other hand, however, one might foresee certain risks attached to the profession, not least for those trying to take pictures of the larger, more aggressive or carnivorous of our creature kin – and particularly when going in for a close-up.
Continue reading...The Elusive Beauty of Lunar Rainbows
Sunday, August 9, 2009
When the moon rises near its fullest, and barely a cloud veils its face, certain locations on earth treat observers to the scarcely seen light phenomenon known as the lunar rainbow, or moonbow. Like daytime-occurring rainbows, moonbows are formed when rays of light bounce off water droplets suspended in the air – the vapour of a raincloud, say, or the spray from a thundering waterfall.
Continue reading...13 Beautiful Images of Pollen Under the Microscope
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Never mind that they look like virulent viruses or a fetish from someone’s kinky imagination; these little nuggets are the grains of life. We’re used to seeing bees’ knees thickly coated in them, or being told on summer weather reports that their count is going through the roof, but it’s a rare thing indeed to see pollen under the microscope, up close and personal and in all its juicy detail.
Continue reading...Los Angeles After the Apocalypse
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
The work of David Maisel is haunting in its stark simplicity, despite and because of its expansive breadth of focus. Yet while many of his projects have taken a bird's-eye view of their subject matter, few have seemed as hopelessly desolate as Oblivion. Los Angeles is stripped to its bare bones and burnt to cinder under Maisel's photographic eye – a megalopolis suddenly seen in post-apocalyptic monochrome.
Continue reading...This Is Why It’s COOL To Play With Your Food
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Artist Ju Duoqi loves to play with her food by using vegetables that re-create famous historical scenes and form familiar self-portraits. Carefully chosen and painstakingly positioned by Ju, potatoes, ginger root, tofu, cabbage, onions and cucumbers all come to life as actors instead of eats. The Last Supper gets a whole new meaning when the supper - and those eating it - are edible too.
Continue reading...The Deadly Gangs Of El Salvador
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Mara Savatrucha, or MS-13, is one the most notorious gangs in the world. Yet MS-13 and other gangs such as Calle 18 originated just decades ago among the Salvadorian immigrant community of Los Angeles. Soon the US authorities began deporting gang members back to El Salvador, exporting LA gang culture to a country rife with weapons from civil war and sparking an explosion in vicious gang-related crime.
Continue reading...Environmental Graffiti Interviews Light Graffiti Artist Vicki DaSilva
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Vicki DaSilva is a light graffiti legend. Influenced by the birth of graffiti in NYC, she decided to develop her own more ephemeral but no less inspiring take on the art form, making thin air instead of subway cars her canvas, swapping spray cans for light sources, and capturing the play of light in long exposure photography. Here the artist herself talks exclusively to EG.
Continue reading...The Swirls and Waves of Antelope Canyon
Monday, April 20, 2009
Gaze for too long at these rock formations, and you begin to drift off and forget whether you're looking at a geological phenomenon or a vast, abstract oil painting. The swirls seem to envelop you, and in Antelope Canyon they actually do. Let's take a ramble down this most gorgeous of gorges and lose ourselves in the wonderful play of light and patterns that captivate its many visitors each year. Here lies one of the planet's greatest natural art galleries.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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