Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Riitta Päiväläinen

Päiväläinen makes sculptures from old clothing, then photographs them in landscapes.

© Riitta Päiväläinen
See more at Camera Oscura Galeria De Arte.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

An important message from Debbie Fleming Caffery about the Gulf oil spill

Thanks to Jane Fulton Alt for posting this message she received from Debbie Fleming Caffery. Please contact President Obama and your representatives in Congress today to ensure that the media has the access they need to fully document this disaster.

My Dear Friends,
I know all of you are watching the Gulf Oil Spill disaster...
From what I can tell the President did not see the marshes where the oil is pouring in. He went to a fairly clean beach with a few tar balls on it with a staged scene of a clean up crew that were bused in by BP. They were wearing straw hats with a band of the American Flag.
Please read this article and see how the media is being treated! I had my license taken down and press info for taking a photo of a Halliburton sign by a guard who was with an US Army officer.
I moved back to Louisiana a month ago. I have to say my homesickness had gotten severe the last few years.
I am asking everyone to please help my state once again. I think the best way at this point is to write the President and all of your public officials and stand up for Freedom of the Press which is being controlled by BP and the Coast Guard is tangled up in it!
Wishing you all the best,
Debbie Fleming Caffery

© Debbie Fleming Caffery

See more of Caffery's work here.
See Jane Fulton Alt's work here.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Night shots

Really compelling night shots by Gilbert Fastenaekens. See them here.

© Gilbert Fastenaekens

Monday, May 10, 2010

Photographing climate change

Double Exposure shows us how global warming is affecting the planet right now. See before and now shots of melting glaciers.


© the artists

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

A great idea



collect.give is "a place to collect contemporary photography and donate to worthy causes at the same time. The photographers featured on collect.give have pledged to donate 100% of the profits from their print sales to worthwhile causes they support. Each has offered a print for sale, and chosen their price and edition size. New photographs are added to the site every two weeks."

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Painting signs in San Francisco

I love typography almost as much as I love photography. And this is a fascinating video.

Dorothea Lange's biographer on NPR

Steve Inskeep interviews Linda Gordon, author of the new biography Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits. An excerpt from the book is also online.

Dorothea Lange: Drawing Beauty Out Of Desolation


Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Monday, April 26, 2010

What Is American Power?

Via Conscientious

What Is American Power? is an extraordinary photo website that "asks everyone to look harder at their daily relationship to energy." Go look.