Izima Kaoru - Landscape with a Corpse (2003)
Kaoru is a Japanese photographer that combines death and fashion in a very seductive way. He invites actresses and models to reveal their fantasies about a perfect death: above all, he asks them which designer clothes they would like to wear when they die.
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The Underwater Project by Mark Tipple is a series of stunning images capturing the tightened faces and the clenching bodies of surfers and swimmers once they have gone under the surface of the water.
“Coming from a surfing background I used to wonder what happens when we’re duck-diving. I always wondered what it looks like from a different angle than what we can see above the surface.”
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In 2009, the founder and CEO of the Cirque du Soleil empire, Guy Laliberté, became the seventh private citizen to travel into space. After recording more than 10,000 images of Earth from above, he returned to create GAIA, a creative project bearing witness to the beauty and fragility of Earth with regard to the universe. GAIA documents dried-up Algerian riverbeds, melting Tibetan glaciers, and the Euphrates River, which has transformed rapidly since damming began in the 1960s.
(Here, you can purchase the book edition of GAIA)
Edward Burtynskyis a Canadian photographer documenting that stunning residue, the landscape left behind. All burnt and viscous he shoots the relationship between nature and industry – the initial attraction, the seduction, and our repulsion by what we’ve left behind.
I Believe I Can Fly (flight of the frenchies) {trailer}
I Believe I can Fly is a 40-minute documentary directed by indie filmmaker Sébastien Montaz-Rosset. The film follows two French adrenaline seekers Tancrede and Julien as they travel to lofty heights in the Norwegian fjords. The pair are there for a spot of rock climging, BASE jumping, and highlining, a form of tightrope walking that is done at vertigo-inducing heights. Highlining is often done without the use of a fall leash.
Sandra Kantanen is a photographer based out of Helsinki, Finland who uses a very unique technique to develop her work. Kantanen prints her photographs with similar pigments found in acrylic paints on aluminum plates, then finishing the pieces with varnish. The result is an awesome visual treat turning photography literally into a painting, as she sweeps the wet prints with a brushes to leave visceral brush strokes and paint lines.
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NASA’s Lunar Prospector spacecraft is launched from Kennedy Space Center on January 6, 1998.(NASA Commons)
Underwater Photography by Nicholas Samaras
Recently, a lake in Camargue, France turned blood red due to high salt concentration. Photographer Sam Dobson says “Every small branch is covered with crystals. with the red water as a background it looks like something extra-terrestrial.”
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“Pandora is far, Zhangjiajie is near” by Julia Chinn
Galactic collisions are among the most ferocious and stunning events in our universe. These cosmic pile-ups occur whenever galaxies become gravitationally attracted to one another. Multiple galaxies may spiral around each other for billions of years, creating odd distortions and beautiful trails of stars as they pass. Eventually, the objects crash together in a forceful embrace. Since the first galaxies coalesced several hundred million years after the Big Bang, their collisions have been influential in shaping the history of our universe.
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