Costume is a small boutique in Dublin's city centre, usually fronted with elegant window displays of beautifully dressed mannequins. Last October, however, Marguerite O'Molloy was passing on her way for a manicure and found something startlingly different. The shop is on Castle Market, a pedestrian shopping area, O'Molloy says. It's a really lively, cool area and a regular haunt of mine; I actually met my husband in the famous Grogan's Castle Lounge pub on the opposite corner.
Durst's second book, " The Four Pillars," was made largely during the COVID pandemic. Its ambiguously staged scenes, many involving a New Age self-help group that Durst had been following since the church-basement days, leaned into the strained artificiality of the period. Taking the pictures in "The Children's Melody" felt like "a return to the world," in all its baffling complexity, Durst told me.
I know, I know. You're thinking, who the hell has time to look at 500 funny photos? Well, guess what, tough guy? YOU do. Because what would you do instead? Click over to the news to read about our wonderfully inspiring and hope-filled political situation? Make small talk with the people around you? (God, that sounds terrible, doesn't it?) No, you want funny photos, and I've got them right here. So get scrolling!
The Nikon 2025 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have unveiled their finalists, and the results are hilariously delightful. With 40 uproarious images, 3 curated portfolios, and 10 laugh-out-loud videos, this year's entries showcase nature's unexpected comedic flair. From expressive lions to penguins mid-blunder, the contest celebrates the quirky charm of animals while highlighting the skill and timing of wildlife photographers. Beyond the laughs, the awards carry a meaningful message about conservation and the importance of protecting these fascinating creatures.
In an era when contemporary culture tends to privilege immediacy, the archive offers resistance by inviting slowness, friction, and a longer view. In this three-part series, Document turns to curators Ruba Katrib, Jovanna Venegas, and Drew Sawyer, photographed on location, wearing Vowels, the brand that finds its own voice through archival research. Each of these curators places the archive at the center of their practice.
Cartier-Bresson once famously said that his Leica "became the extension of [his] eye, prowling the streets all day, feeling very strung up and ready to pounce, determined to 'trap life'-to preserve life in the act of living." That's a little harder to accomplish with Leica's new camera. Today, Leica is launching the M EV1. It's the first M camera with a digital viewfinder, meaning the M's most distinct asset-its beautiful optical viewfinder-is no more.
In 2001, artist Kip Fulbeck began traveling the country photographing multiracial people of all ages and walks of life. They were photographed from the chest up, with no clothes, jewelry, hats or makeup on. And they were asked to write their answer to one big question: "What are you?" After photographing more than 1,200 people, the project culminated in the landmark book and exhibition Kip Fulbeck: Part Asian, 100% Hapa which toured throughout the U.S.
The massive 61-megapixel full-frame sensor in the A7R V is the largest sensor you can get without jumping into medium format (which is significantly more expensive and bulkier). If that's not enough, there's actually an even higher resolution possibility that combines 16-shots into a single 240-MP image (so long as your subject is static, e.g., a landscape). That should print billboard-size without issue.
Gordon Matta-Clark is best known for his "cuttings" of abandoned and derelict structures in 1970s New York, which made open-air sculptures out of symbols of decay and were seen as an early exercise in deconstructivism. Besides slicing up piers and houses, he also founded an experimental gallery at 112 Greene Street in Soho and Food, the legendary artist-run restaurant that he co-created with Carol Goodden and Tina Girouard, which, like the building cuts, blurred the boundary between art-making and life.
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A few weeks ago, in an interview with Associated Press journalist Liam McEwan, Ringo Starr said he got into digital painting in the 1990s using the program Kid Pix. "The big thing about that," Ringo remembered, "was it had the bucket, and you pressed that and...whoosh...it's all blue." "So hilarious," McEwan responded, "My brother and I used to slam that all the time. It was a great creative outlet." At one point in the conversation, the ex-Beatle looked directly into the camera and implored listeners who had access to the older version of Kid Pix, to send it in.
Created by Valère Zen Ruffinen at ECAL, Memoria is an experimental photo album application that visualizes the fading of human connections: as the frequency of shared moments decreases, the people in the photo album gradually disappear. Memoria explores the fragility of memory, and how we maintain - or allow to fade - our connections through it. Through a process of gradual disappearance, the people in the photos slowly fade if no new memories shared with them are added.
From the runways to the red carpets and the afters, fashion week provides us with a deluge of images capturing otherworldly glamour. Even backstage shots, while less polished, still possess a kind of mystery and allure; the rails of clothes, the make-up and hair, the hurried costume changes, the frenetic pace. No Shows, a new photo book by Nick Offord, offers us an alternative perspective of fashion week, no less compelling but much more still and languid.
Tyler Mitchell's first solo exhibition in France reflects on a decade of practice by an artist who has introduced new visual narratives of Black life, centring beauty, intimacy and empowerment as everyday realities. Tracing nearly a decade of creation, it shows how Mitchell, one of the most striking voices of his generation, explores themes of utopia, memory and intimacy through representations of Black life.
Nothing sparks the imagination quite like coming across a trove of old photographs. We look for writing on the reverse and scan the anonymous faces to read a range of expressions. Where exactly they were at that moment, what brought them together that day, and who took the picture? For Stan Squirewell, the allure of historical portraits is a central tenet of his multimedia practice.
Very difficult. Because the first thing Gilane [Tawadros, the director of Whitechapel Gallery] asked me was, "Do you have an archive?" And I'm like, "What is this? Archive? It's in drawers! Loads and loads of it! None of it is documented..." So I got a proper archivist to come in and document everything. The show contains about 40 years of work, even stuff from when I was at college.
On Sunday (12 October), Jefferson Hack hosted a special dinner to celebrate the opening of new exhibition Paradigm Shift: New Dimensions in Moving Image, presented by 180 Studios in partnership with Ray-Ban Meta. Kicking off Frieze week, the dinner took place at 180 Strand, and welcomed featured artists from the exhibition, including Gillian Wearing, Mark Leckey, Julianknxx, Josefa Ntjam, Arthur Jafa, Sophia Al Maria and Babak Radboy.
Daguerreotypes are cherished for their eerie clarity, like this one from the 1840s. Unfortunately, achieving such detail required agonizingly long exposure times, from 15 minutes to half an hour, depending on lighting. This required subjects to sit motionless for long periods of time, and various props were employed to keep sitters still and avoid motion blur Photograph: The Brooklyn Museum Brainerd's spy camera', a box-form
Beneath ominous skies and set within flat, green parkland, Lee Madgwick's folly-like buildings strike an unsettling note. His surreal paintings feature dilapidated facades and uncanny shrubbery against cloudy, deep gray skies-usually with something just a little strange going on. In "Drift," for example, bricks dislodge from the top of a boxy structure and float into the sky one by one, and "Fracture" defies gravity altogether with a hovering apartment tower that crumbles from below.
For more than forty years, he was in regular attendance at punk shows billing up-and-coming bands in ramshackle and makeshift venues throughout Northern California (particularly in the East Bay). Honing his technical skill he developed and mastered a photographic style known as the "Hail Mary," later dubbed the "Hail Murray": an outstretched arm above the head, body still jostling in the fray, capturing in one moment the very essence and energy of the show in all its hectic glory.
In mid-September GQ's latest issue, What's So Great About Britain?, launched to much fanfare online. It's cover shoot, shot by Charlotte Rutherford, saw British icons from FKA Twigs to Anthony Joshua, Brian Cox and even My Blobby come together on a hectic British high street, littered with pigeons, umbrellas and lost cat signs. As the rest of the issue rolled out
After being recognised at the Mobile Photography awards 2020, Christian Barroso travelled from his home in Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo for the exhibition of winning images. He was joined by three friends and, after seeing his work on display, they headed to Farol Santander, a skyscraper in the city centre housing a museum, galleries and observation deck. The exhibition was delayed until the summer of 2021 because of the Covid pandemic, so we were living in the first moments of normal' life
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Here is another outstanding example, from writer-director Yemi Bamiro, about the remarkable career of Kwame Brathwaite, a photographer, musician and African American activist who was a unique politico-aesthete. With his brother Elombe, he virtually invented the phrase Black Is Beautiful in the 1960s by photographing the Grandassa Models in Harlem: young African American women who became the sensational template for beauty, doing away with the usual cosmetic products and the usual white standard of femininity.
