Via & More here: theseamericans.org
In 2008, Maureen Drennan was a couple of hours north of San Francisco for a friend’s wedding. One afternoon, she walked into a motocross shop and found a grizzled man drinking beer. When she poked fun at his early happy hour, the two got to talking.
He invited her for a tour of his marijuana farm, which ultimately became the subject of her photo essay, “Meet Me in the Green Glen.”
Although growing marijuana is legal in California, it retains a certain stigma. So in Ms. Drennan’s photos, the farmer is known simply as Ben.
Maureen Drennan has a master’s in fine arts from the School of Visual Arts. She teaches photography at LaGuardia and Kingsborough Community Colleges. But whenever she gets a chance — during school breaks and on vacation days — she slips away to California to make photographs of the marijuana farm.
Via: lens.blogs.nytimes.com
Link: maureendrennan.net
Martin Usborne serie “The silence of dogs in cars”.
Here is what Martin says about his project:
“I was once left in a car at a young age.
I don’t know when or where or for how long, possibly at the age of four, perhaps outside Tesco’s, probably for fifteen minutes only. The details don’t matter. The point is that I wondered if anyone would come back. It seems trivial now but in a child’s mind it is possible to be alone forever.
Around the same age I began to feel a deep affinity with animals – in particular their plight at the hands of humans. I remember watching TV and seeing footage of a dog being put in a plastic bag and being kicked. What appalled me most was that the dog could not speak back. It’s muteness terrified me.
I should say that I was a well-loved child and never abandoned and yet it is clear that both these experiences arose from the same place deep inside me: a fear of being alone and unheard. Perhaps this is a fear we all share at some level, I am not sure…”
…Read more about this project click the link after the photographs.
Link: martinusborne.com
Tomasz Gudzowaty was born in 1971. He obtained a degree in law at the University of Warsaw.
Among his interests are humanistic photography and the classic form of the black and white photo-essay. He began with nature photography and then turned to social documentary and for the last few years he has been focusing on sports photography.
He is particularly interested in non-commercial sports, and also those that are not present in the media, sports that are exotic, atypical or somehow outside the mainstream. His photos have been published in Max Magazine, L’Equipe, The Guardian, Newsweek, Forbes, Time and Photo and he is also the author of several albums.
He is a multiple winner of the most important photography contests, among others the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year, NPPA Best of Photojournalism. He cooperates with Focus Fotoagentur in Hamburg and Warsaw’s Yours Gallery
Link: gudzowaty.com
Brian Bielmann is a professional photographer living his dream in Hawaii
As an internationally renowned photographer, Brian Bielman has traveled extensively with many of the world’s best surfers and he is recognized worldwide to be a photographer at the top of his filed.
You should check out his portfolio for more beautiful shots and follow him on twitter @bielmannphoto
Link: brianbielmann.com
Advertising agency Wieden+Kennedy have produced yet another stunning campaign video for Levi’s. Entitled “Legacy”, the short manages to bridge the gap between heritage-driven workers and urban socialites, using lines from Charles Bukowski’s poem The Laughing Heart alongside beautiful imagery to truly make the label appear more as a lifestyle than a denim manufacturer. Watch below.
“It’s every person’s legacy to make the world more to their liking. Now is our time. Go Forth!”
Via: huhmagazine.co.uk
Paintings by London artist Nick Gentry. Made using floppy disks and other outdated media formats.
Link: nickgentry.co.uk
Via: bloodisthenewblack.com
Alex Prager is an American photographer and filmmaker born in Los Angeles, Alex’s photography career began in her teens. After holding down a number of jobs in the private sector, from selling knives to washing cars Alex decided to make the leap to full-time photographer. At 22, she began to exhibit her photographs in galleries while continuing to shoot for hig profile magazines like Flaunt, Complex, Elle and i-D, and Rolling Stone.
