Love & Neon
6th March 2012
Yay! I’m back!
Hello everyone!
After what was by far the best and most amazing love-filled month of my life, I’m sat again in front of my computer trying to get back into the swing of things… and it’s hard!
I’ve still got wedding fever on the brain and I promise to post some of the bits and pieces I made and designed for the wedding as soon as we get our photos back from the *oh-so-awesome-and-cool* welovepictures but in the meantime…
On Sunday morning I went to check out Design Indaba (A Taste of Sónar on Friday night was also very good fun) and the first thing I saw were hartedief hearts. Beautifully made, collectible pieces of art, I thought these sweet designs were rather appropriate in keeping with my theme of love.
The rest of my Design Indaba finds will be coming soon…
PS *Sweet wishes to The Joys and The Johnsons on their anniversaries today*
CommentDesign 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!
Lion 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.
Emphas.is
4th October 2011
Emphas.is is an awesome site where photojournalists pitch their projects directly to the public who then decide whether their story is worth doing by contributing to their funding.
One of the projects well worth supporting is by the extremely talented photojournalist Robin Hammond. Condemned is a self-funded project that focuses on mental health issues within East Africa.
Robin is now trying to raise enough funds to travel to West Africa to continue documenting the plight of these neglected people. If you’d like to help fund his project you can do so here.
Switcheroo
2nd September 2011
These awesome shoots are by Sincerely Hana, a photographer from Whistler. It’s such a cool idea.
I think that swapping the couples over is the thing that really makes you look twice. Clever.
The International Photography Awards
26th August 2011
Our amazingly talented neighbour Robin Hammond has just been announced as a finalist in the Deeper Perspective International Photography Awards.
His entry ‘CONDEMNED‘ focuses on mental illness in Uganda and as always his images are haunting but beautiful. Fingers crossed for him to win.
Alberto Oviedo
5th August 2011
I’ll leave this awesome shoot with you to end a Happy Friday!
Check out more work by Cuban / Colombian photographer Alberto Oviedo here.
Alysia Cotter
29th July 2011
I just stumbled across these beautiful photographs by Alysia Cotter. Apparently it’s a technique called through the lens, which is accomplished by using a digital camera to shoot through a vintage Duaflex camera. I think they look awesome – the colours are amazing and they evoke such sweet, calm feelings.
