Caslon Projects

This is a time-lapse photography project from the 2010 Mermaid Parade at Coney Island, New York. This video was edited from over 8,000 still images, photographed on a Canon 5D and a TS-24mm f/3.5 L lens. The music came from Friendlymusic.com. Thanks to Paddy Johnson and Lena Ganssmann for their help on the production side [...]

Mr. Franco documented the 46th precinct of New York City from 1979 to 1984 in a series of photos that show abject desperation, the unforgiving culture of crime, poverty, and the fierce survival instincts at battle in the Bronx.

There has been some press about professional soccer players feigning injuries in order to leverage the odds of a game. The New York Times wrote about it HERE, and there’s another well known YouTube video HERE. This animated gif tells the story in 92 frames:

A few of Andrei Tarkovsky‘s Polaroids, via Animal New York:

Don Tucker is a street musician in St. John’s, Newfoundland. I took this photo on Water Street, in front of Velma’s Restaurant, where he preforms all year long, and nearly daily. The video includes a brief chat and his rendition the traditional Newfoundland folk song Mussels in the Corner.

Diego Goldberg, an Argentinian, has photographed his family every June 17th since 1976. He calls it a private ritual, “to stop, for a fleeting moment, the arrow of time passing by.” Click on the image below to see all 33 years, and the new extension begun by his son, in 2009.

If By Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal [...]

Jack Troake from Juozas Cernius on Vimeo. A conversation with Jack Troake, a veteran fisherman and seal hunter, recorded in Twillingate, Newfoundland, in March 2010. The video includes several locations of the Newfoundland landscape, from Gros Morne National Park to Cape Spear. This is part of an ongoing project.

Where violence is the main negotiating tool and peace a spurious concept, Moises Saman portrays the resilience of the human spirit beyond the dogmas of religion and nationalism. He’s a photojournalist who has covered wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as projects in Pakistan, Nepal, Haiti, Lebanon, El Salvador, and Cuba. Above photo: Aita [...]

Paul Fusco spent two months photographing victims of Chernobyl.

The above is a screen shot from one of my random connections this morning on Chatroulette.com (see the wikipedia page for more info on the site’s origin). I have no idea if this is the product of a horrible hoax or an actual event. One thing is for sure: a new door has opened on [...]

Above left: A screen shot from Escape Vehicle No. 6 by Simon Faithfull, commissioned by The Arts Catalyst for its 2004 Artists Airshow; and right: A screen shot from the Toshiba commercial version. See YouTube clips from each below: In an interview about the project, Mr. Faithfull spoke of the futility of human attempts to [...]

I never cease to be amazed at the stupendous quality of NASA’s photography in outer space. Photographed with the new Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope,  the above image depicts gas fleeing a dying star 3,800 light-years away in the Scorpius constellation. More info and photos here. Via NY Times.

Above: A prototype with the new name, and The Beaver’s last issue. Looking for Beavers? If you’re using a computer connected to a censored area of the internet, such as at a school, certain keywords will send your emails to spam, or you’ll be denied access to websites containing such keywords. And so went the [...]

Screenshot from Black Market, a documentary project by Patrick Brown. Australian photographer Patrick Brown has been documenting the illegal trade of wildlife for the last five years. His work has taken him across much of Asia and to the market’s hub in China. His work explores the network of operations from the poachers to the [...]