The photos of Guy Bourdin, one of the greatest fashion photographers of the 20th century, were repeatedly labeled by viewers as bordering on pornographic. The dark "Hitchcockian" poetics of his photos may not really fill us with joy, but his otherwise controversial shots are downright genius.
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You can be the best photographer on the planet with the best camera on the market, but it still takes some luck to get a really successful shot. We selected photos that required being in the right place at the right time.
Alex de Mora is a photographer who prefers to put people over the age of 60 in front of his lens, as he finds older people much more interesting than younger models. Let's take a look at his latest project, which shows what our generation will look like when they retire, or what the retirees of the future will be like.
Meet Chuando Tan, a Singaporean photographer who will make you wonder what you're doing wrong in life. You will never believe how old he is.
The world's largest news agency Reuters has more than 200,000 followers on Instagram, which is an impressive figure, but its photo archive is even more impressive. With 600 photographers stocking it daily with photos from all over the world, this is no surprise either. At the end of the year, they therefore published a list of the most popular photos that their photographers captured and published on Instagram in 2015.
The line between digital cameras and mobile phone cameras is almost blurred. Although this fact is probably hard to swallow for all sworn (D)SLR users, let us remind them that a good photo is made by the person, not the camera, and that a DSLR does not automatically make you a better photographer. A pinch of creativity and we can be more than competitive with a mobile phone. This is today's reality. So follow the tips on how to take a great photo with your mobile phone.
Just what is behind all the perfect photos we see online? Digital manipulation? Maybe. But this does not apply to all photos. Some photographers devote themselves to hard physical work to create stunning photographs that we then admire. So what is the truth behind the perfect photos?
British photographer Rich McCor, better known by his stage name Paperboyo, saw great potential in architecture. With the help of paper silhouettes, he created his own parallel world with which he enthralls his followers.
Remember Isaiah Webb aka Incredibeard? The husband has got some serious competition in the bizarreness of what to do with his beard. But creative director Adriano Alarcon took a different approach to his Fifty Fifty Selfie Barber Shop project, leaving half of his hipster beard intact and shaving the other half and swapping the hair for various objects and creatures. Cockroaches, chocolate crumbs, ants, popcorn, sharpening remnants and other objects "overgrew" exactly half of his face.
Sometimes it's a bit difficult to decide which photographic equipment to take with you to the shoot. So that we are not in too much of a dilemma, let's take a look at the bags of professional photographers.
English photographer Andrew Newey, who has already received numerous awards for his work in his career, managed to take another wonderful series of photos. This time he went to Nepal and photographed members of the Gurung tribe during beekeeping, which is still practiced today as it was thousands of years ago.
People interpret the meaning of life as we have experienced it first hand. But we often forget that behind our existence lies the history of our ancestors. And it is clear that we can only imagine this. Jimmy Nelson made this show easy for us with photographs of isolated tribes that play an important role in understanding ourselves.