February 22, 2009

Sunday Photography: Simplicity, squalor, and scares

• I love the beautiful simplicity–in concept and in execution–of this timelapse video of a cross country flight at night. It makes me think of our own Julieanne Kost’s Window Seat project.
• Slices of life:
  • Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen’s The Places We Live documents life in slums around the world. [Via]
  • English Russia features intensely intricate carved windows in Siberia.
• Lingering Obamarama:
  • Photographer Lisa Jack has shared her college photos of a 20-year-old Barack Obama. [Via]
  • NY Times street fashion photog Bill Cunningham attended the inauguration & narrates his captures. The photography itself doesn’t stir me, yet I found the piece an engaging little compilation. [Via]

• Upsetting stylings:
  • Wayne Martin Belger makes the scariest cameras ever. [Via]
  • Don’t ever use your photos to make a ski mask, or pretty soon you’re going to be telling someone to “rub the lotion on its skin.”
  • The Coraline Web site lets you make button-eyed portraits by uploading & manipulating photos. [Via]