The image above is the result of a 6 month long exposure, using a pin-hole camera fashioned from an empty drink can, a 0.25mm aperture, and photographic paper. The photographer is Justin Quinnell, who took that camera and attached it to Bristol’s Clifton Suspension Bridge ..read more

Camille Seaman has a new body of work titled “The Big Cloud”, some of it currently being shown at Soulcatcher Studio’s website. Seaman has already garnered some renown for her series of photographs of icebergs (”The Last Iceberg”), and that seems likely to ..read more

Up right now and through November 29 is Sam Taylor-Wood’s exhibition of photographs at White Cube Mason’s Yard, London. Titled “YES | NO”,  the exhibit includes three series of photos and one film, in which Taylor-Wood explores “absence and mortality”. Via White Cube:

…the pictures depict ..read more

Closing this week is an exhibition of photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto’s latest series of work, “Lightning Fields”, at San Franciso’s Fraenkel Gallery. This latest work depicts electricity, quite literally. For the images, Sugimoto used a Van De Graaff 400,000 volt generator to apply a charge directly ..read more

One portfolio I’ve been turning to quite frequently over last month is photographer Josef Hoflehner’s. Hoflehner is a landscape photographer, of both the urban and more natural varieties, whose exquisitely done black and white prints capture slices of time with near sublime results.

A frequent traveler, ..read more

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is now showing the work of photographer/artist Frederick Sommer, in a show titled, “Frederick Sommer Photographs”. From the show description:

Over his long life Frederick Sommer (American, 1905–1999) crafted a body of art inflected by surrealist ideas and distinguished ..read more

Harald Mante has a new book out titled “Photography Unplugged” from publisher Rocky Nook. The book is intended as both a catalog of Mante’s work and as an example of working in an unedited, untouched way, more “natural” way. From the book’s description:

Harald ..read more

The photographer Sally Mann, know for her uniquely powerful photos of her children, has a book coming out titled, “Proud Flesh”. The book in effect is the catalog for her new show of work that opens Sept. 15 at Gagosian Gallery on Madison ..read more