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Topshop paired up with legendary fashion photographer Helmut Newton to recreate his ingenious ‘Newton Machine‘ - Newton’s self-styled, self-shot photography.

가수가 되고 싶어요. I Want to Be a Singer.
c-print - 2004

Yeondoo Jung’s Wonderland series transforms children’s crayon drawings into photographs that are part make-believe, part reality.

For four months, Jung oversaw art classes in four kindergartens in Seoul and collected 1,200 drawings by children between the ages of five and seven. After pouring through them, he carefully selected 17 drawings and interpreted their meanings. Then he recruited 60 high school students by passing out handbills at their schools in which he invited them to act out the scenarios in the children’s drawings. In order to recreate faithfully drawing details such as dresses with uneven sleeves or buttons of different sizes, he convinced five fashion designers to custom make the clothing for the photo shoot. He also made props unlike any scale found in reality but similar to those in the drawings.

As we grow older, the imaginative worlds of our childhood are left behind. We realize that Santa is not real and that our parents work part-time as tooth fairies. It’s beautiful that we are given this wonderful opportunity to revisit these forgotten places. I remember spending long hours doodling as a kid, often conjuring up situations and people that forever live in the recesses of my brain.

See more of Yeondoo Jung’s work on his website.

Photo by Marita Aguilar, reposted from we are dreamers.

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This is almost heartbreaking.

(Nanako)

A fun flickr set by abakesflickr of people’s arms creating Japanese characters.

Jeongmee Yoon was born in Seoul, South Korea and moved to New York in 2004. She received her BFA in Painting from Seoul National University, South Korea and her MFA in Photo Design from the Hongik University, South Korea. She recently graduated from the School of Visual Arts with an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media.

The inspiration for JeongMee Yoon’s photographic project was her 5-year-old daughter, Seowoo, who loved things pink. As a setting for a portrait, Ms. Yoon assembled all of her daughter’s pink possessions — stuffed animals, dolls, plastic toys, books, clothes, jewelry, makeup and school supplies — into an orderly display. Seowoo’s bedroom was transformed into a pink kingdom for a child queen.

Photo ©2008 John Sloan

This made me smile today. Absolutely stunning.

Mark’s photographs depict woman in their most sensual and intimate settings…in bed. “It just feels right to do it in a bed,” says Mark. “I am interested in the idea of women photographing women in an erotic way. I try and build a comfort zone where women can be open and sexual.” Since her first shoot with Argento, Mark has shot Juliette Lewis, Sinead O’Connor, and many other lingerie-clad ladies. “In a way every picture is a self-portrait. They express who I am in a way I could not do myself.”

The Ones We Love is a project highlighting young and talented photographers from around the world. Each artist contributed six photographs of the person(s) who is most important to them, taken outdoors in a natural setting. The goal of the website is to portray the people who are loved, cherished, and inspirational to these artists, and also showcase the differences and similarities in the photographs each of them took within the same guidelines.

Seattle-based photographic artist Chris Jordan makes beautiful photographs he hopes will disgust you.

Chris Jordan’s large-scale color photographs portray the detritus of American consumption. Gaining access to some of the country’s largest industrial waste facilities, Jordan photographs the refuse of consumer culture (e.g., diodes, cell phone chargers, cigarette butts, circuit boards) on an immense scale. Spanning up to 10 feet wide, Jordan’s prints are at once abstract and detailed.

Julia fullerton-Batten is rapidly developing a reputation as one of the leading young photographers in the country. She has won a large number of awards and her images have been hung in the national potrait gallery, London and at Paris-photo. For her enchanting new exhibition, Teenage Stories, Julia features teenage grirls placed amid miniature worlds, peeling gum off of shoes the size of cars and waking up beneath highway underpasses. While the physical awkwardness is meant to exaggerate the emotional instabillity at that age, the capsized scale at the same time reveals that the girls who have a handle on their

surroundings are, actually, only dreaming.