Monthly Archives: February 2017

Night Flower

Night Flower is the photo series by London photographer David Axelbank. The photos have an almost documentary/guerilla style. Axelbank took the same approach as he would with his street photography using a simple flash technique. The are rich and deep in colour against the dark, inky back drop of the night, amplifying their raw beauty. davidaxelbank.com/night-flower/

First

In a world dominated by social media, it’s hard to imagine that some people could live their whole lives and not own a single photograph of themselves. Photojournalist Berta Tilmantaite would often get asked by the locals she met on her travels to take their picture. She began thinking of how self documentation can help… Read more »

View From Outer Space

The Turpan Depression, nestled at the foot of China’s Bogda Mountains, is a strange mix of salt lakes and sand dunes. It is one of the few landscapes in the world that lies below sea level. This mystical landscape looks magic from outer space.

Withering Flower

Angela Chiang is a recent print design  graduate from Central Saint Martins with an eye for withering flowers and Oriental myths. The concept behind her graduate collection focuses on the withering flower. The idea came to her whilst replanting a country garden with her grandparents on a trip home to Taiwan. In fengshui and Chinese cultural myths,… Read more »

La La Land

Vasa Mihich is a Yugoslavian painter and sculptor who settled in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Europeans tend to look as US urban metropolises as inferior to the regal old-world architecture of their cityscapes. It’s flat concrete urban expanse does not compare to elaborate architectural history of Europe. But LA has it’s own special qualities,… Read more »