Staging the surreal with Italian photographer and co-founder of Toiletpaper, Pierpaolo Ferrari
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Staging the surreal with Italian photographer and co-founder of Toiletpaper, Pierpaolo Ferrari
“It just became so clear that people felt the need for this. It was almost like I didn’t have to explain, because they understood immediately,”
Kai Elmer Sotto • Get Together: How to build a community with your people
human tastemakers,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
In the 2010s many of our public spaces started to be molded, physically and literally, by the market advantage of luring patrons looking for highly Instagrammable shots. Businesses that once paid large sums of money to have photographs taken for advertisements that cost even more to run now had access to an army of free labor, taking pictures for f... See more
Freddie deBoer • Review: Kyle Chayka's Filterworld
“The photograph isn’t what was photographed, it’s something else,” Garry Winogrand once said. “It’s about transformation.” The photographic image is a fiction created by a combination of lenses, cameras, film, pixels, color (or its absence), time of day, season.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
“I’ve often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us unless it’s inside a frame.” - Abbas Kiarostami
Jake Orthwein • Why Frame Problems? — Frame Problems
These projects, Victor says, are just “nibbles around the edges” of his larger obsession: how the media in which we choose to represent our ideas shape (and too often, limit) what ideas we can have. “We have these things called computers, and we’re basically just using them as really fast paper emulators,” he says. “With the invention of the printi... See more
medium.com • The Utopian UI Architect
"Photograph who you are!" - Bruce Gilden