Design Indaba 2012
6th February 2012
Design Indaba is fast approaching and I’m looking forward to seeing what’s in store for 2012.
Spanish industrial designer, product designer and artist Jaime Hayón is high up on my list of people to check out (Hope Bird is one of his) as is MDC Interiors.
I am also crazy excited about “A Taste of Sónar” which is on at City Hall on Friday 2nd March. I love that Design Indaba is broadening its creative scope and throwing some awesome electronica into the mix!
CommentLion Dance 舞狮
27th January 2012
Here’s some New Year Lion Luck on a Friday afternoon courtesy of my awesome Dad.
(Thanks Dad)
Audrey Hepburn
23rd January 2012
Wow. I thought this shot of Audrey Hepburn by iconic British photographer Terry O’Neill was beautiful. Simple, sexy and so different from many of the portraits you usually see of her.
Terry O’Neill: Screen Sirens & Rock Rebels has unfortunately just finished at the Proud Galleries in London, but the exhibition is still available to view online here.
Stuart Gibson
16th January 2012
I always admire surf photographers and Tasmanian photographer Stuart Gibson is no exception. Waves are powerful and beautiful things.
(These are also making me wish I was on the beach. Cape Town is 32 degrees today and rising…)
Sky Series
10th January 2012
O.
That’s me with my mouth wide open in amazement at how unbelievable Eric Cahan’s Sky Series is. I have fallen completely and utterly in love with his sunrise and sunset shots.
The cool thing is that most of these amazing colours are captured using coloured resin filters, rather than in Photoshop, which Cahan says he uses only for toning the photos to match the paper colour and occasionally to add a bit of colour curve.
(via MyModernMet)
Zander Olsen
6th January 2012
Zander Olsen creates amazing photographs. The top image is part of his Tree, Line series. Clever, simple and beautiful – the perfect combination.
“These works, carried out in Surrey, Hampshire and Wales, involve site specific interventions in the landscape, ‘wrapping’ trees with white material to construct a visual relationship between tree, not-tree and the line of horizon according to the camera’s viewpoint.”
They reminded me of Andy Goldsworthy, one of my all time favourite sculptors and artists. The bottom pebble image is one of his.
(via Trendland)
Help-Portrait
9th December 2011
I wish I’d heard about Help-Portrait earlier. On December 10th photographers around the world are getting together with their communities to shoot portraits of people in need. It sounds like a really cool idea and something that I think would work so well in a city like Cape Town. I’m adding this into my diary for next year.
Have a watch of Jeremy Cowart explaining how the idea came about on TEDx.
love made me do it / LO Studio Give-away
29th November 2011
What’s exciting about this post (aside from the fact that you could possibly win a LO Studio voucher worth R350!) is that the super cute girl up there is Maike. One half of welovepictures – our amazing wedding photographers! I absolutely cannot wait for her and her husband Travis to shoot our wedding!
But enough of that for now – this is about love made me do it, Maike’s awesome blog of all things creative and sweet. Today she’s giving away R350 to one lucky person to spend at LO. Think cute summer dresses, colourful tops and beautifully cut pants. Check out the details here.
(How lovely is the LO logo by the way?)
Richard Mosse: Infra
28th November 2011
These fascinating images are part of a series called ‘Infra’ by Irish photographer Richard Mosse. They were shot in the Democratic Republic of Congo on a color infrared film called Kodak Aerochrome. Now discontinued, it was once used by the military as surveillance technology to help detect camouflage by registering an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering the green landscape in vivid hues of lavender, crimson, and hot pink. Beautiful.
“Infra offers a radical rethinking of how to depict a conflict as complex and intractable as that of the ongoing war in the Congo. The results offer a fevered inflation of the traditional reportage document, underlining the tension between art, fiction, and photojournalism. Infra initiates a dialogue with photography that begins as an intoxicating meditation on a broken documentary genre, but ends as a haunting elegy for a vividly beautiful land touched by unspeakable tragedy.”
Infra is showing from November 17 – December 23.
Jack Shainman Gallery
513 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011
(via Trendland)
Yael
21st November 2011
My super amazingly talented friend Yael never fails to surprise me with the awesome work she produces. Check out more from this shoot on her Tumblr blog.
David Parfitt
31st October 2011
British still life photographer David Parfitt’s series of bubbles are just breathtaking. I’d love this one printed and mounted on acrylic for our bathroom. Gorgeous.
(via Trendland)
500px.com
26th October 2011
This awesome photograph is by Sonja Buhvald one of the hundreds of photographers with portfolios on the 500px Photographic Community. I could literally waste hours going through these galleries.
