Photography

Kimmo Metsaranta writes about their series, Notes On A Place:

The pictures in the series are reconstructed observations of my surroundings. I change the spatiality and the condition of the buildings, so that their function changes or disappears completely, and they are not tied to a specific time or place.

I don't know exactly what that means, but I love the pictures.

If you like these, you might also like my own series, Orange Grove Tool Sheds & Utility Boxes of Oliva, Spain.

More on Metsaranta's site. These are also available in book form.

Photographer Christophe Jacrot takes great photos of cold / wet environments. These are some from his collection, White Iceland.

Love this shot of an eagle devouring a fish.

Matsubara also has some terrific landscape and moon shots on his site.

Viera Babecova describes herself as a "Flower lover & arbitrary colourist & Vincent van Gogh's fan."

More of her stunning work can be seen on her Behance site.

J.A. Young (b. 1986) is a queer photographer / multi-media artist based in the American South. Their work draws on a range of influences, including cultural anthropology, world mysticism, the occult, and paranormal phenomena. Using both personal photographs and public domain archival images as raw materials, Young employs various methods (e.g., spontaneous print manipulation, dramatic recomposition, collage, and rephotography) to transform subtle feelings into tangible visual expressions.

More on their site.

I've been reading Craig Mod's wonderful books about walking Japan and I realized how infrequently I see photos of the country that are not Tokyo, or at least not bustling. A bit of searching led me to these lovely b&w photos from Seiki Hayashi.

Many more on his Hayashi's Behance page.

TOILET FESTIVAL captures the essence of festivals through unexpected photographic portraits of festival-goers emerging from the toilets. These photos, taken spontaneously with a flash, reveal a gallery of unusual looks and attitudes, tinged with a touch of humor, constituting a sociological inventory of the various festival communities. 

More on the Toilet Festival web page.

View the rest on Nature's Website.

Nick Veasey's X-RAY photos truly are spectacular. I have some X-RAYs of my dog that I've always meant to get printed but Nick's work is a whole other level. Extraordinary.

Plenty more on Veasey's website.

Masha Ivashintsova died in 2000 at the age of 58 and she left behind a considerable amount of undeveloped film, which her daughter found in the attic, sorted into dated envelopes.

She got it developed and shares them on the Masha Ivashintsova Website.