"Growing up during the 1960s Chicano movement, Harry Gamboa Jr., [a Los Angeles-based artist,]
resented how Chicanos were often portrayed...His photo series Chicano Male Unbonded was his response. 'What was used in the media was
this idea of creating inferiority or guiltiness,' he says. 'But these [Chicano]
men had contributed to and saved my life.' Since 1972, Gamboa has created art in various media and
formats interpreting the contemporary urban Chicano experience...He chose people who have 'a
stance of being affirmative in their own lives,' he says. His subjects are
professors, activists, fathers, war veterans and anyone who has contributed to
his life."
"German photographer Florian Imgrund acquired his first film camera in the summer of 2010 and has made incredibly good use of it since. All of his double exposure work is done completely in camera without the use of photoshop, and often merges human forms with the natural landscape."
Head over to Karen’s blog for the full tutorial on making these heart-shaped bokeh photographs
"It was a simple red lip that brought 100 women together for Alyson Fox's latest project. The artist snapped intimate portraits of each woman wearing the same lip color, Certainly Red from Revlon, in her compilation book, A Shade of Red. The book captures a rainbow of women of different ages, ethnicities, styles and personalities (many of whom had never been professionally photographed before), who prove that red looks phenomenal on just about everyone."
"Watching a city from above can reveal so much about its character,.. I think that the pace of New York City is best seen from high above: the constant flow of taxis, the merging of traffic, the waves of pedestrians crossing at the change of traffic lights, and the sounds of honking horns and sirens."
"Chicago artist Debbie Carlos is printing these epic black and white prints on a large format plotter printer meant for architectural and engineering prints. The pitch-perfect selection of imagery and the lower resolution printing result in some stunning wall decor."
