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With the invention of the digital camera, photography has become an accessible art form for so many people. This means that haunting, dazzling, unbelievable, amazing and thought provoking images are springing up all over the world, every day. Here we curate the best – analogue or digital. Prepare to be wowed.

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Boston Shoes: stories from the bombing tragedy

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By Annie Churdar in New Photography on Wednesday 19 June 2013

Created from shoes that were present or somehow involved in the Boston Marathon bombing, Boston Shoes is a photo series that tells the stories from the tragedy. The project invited anyone involved to submit a photo of their shoes. Whether the shoes were running in the race, there on the feet of a first responder, or [...]

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Photographs of magnificent tattoos on Russian criminals by Sergei Vasiliev

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Wednesday 19 June 2013

The Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive documents Russian criminals’ tattoos and their coded meanings — and includes tattoo drawings by prison guard Danzig Baldaev and photographs by Sergei Vasiliev. This set of photographs by Vasiliev were taken in between 1989 and 1993 in prisons and reform settlements across Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Tagil, Perm and St Petersburg. Reading [...]

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The crazy staff photos that ad agencies come up with

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Tuesday 18 June 2013

This is brilliant. Business Insider Australia recently compiled a gallery of creative staff photos from ad agencies that had us going ‘Way… Out…’. My favorite has to be from Sagmeister & Walsh, with the team wearing loose astronaut suits in one picture and then leaping into the air with just their helmets on in the [...]

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Amazing abandoned places just waiting to be explored

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By Annie Churdar in New Photography on Tuesday 18 June 2013

Ever since I can remember, I’ve had a serious fascination with exploring abandoned structures.  I was the seven-year-old trying to slide down underground drain openings and building forts under cement bridges. As I got older, I discovered a whole community of people who shared the same insane curiosity.

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Bob Dylan goes to summer camp

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By Annie Churdar in New Photography on Monday 17 June 2013

Ah yes. It’s summer again and all the children are heading off to have adventures at summer camp. It’s a glorious, old tradition that almost everyone has experienced at some point. Check out these photos of famous icons at summer camp. There’s Bob Dylan at Herzl Camp,  Natalie Portman at drama camp, Leonard Cohen at Camp [...]

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Unworldly photography by Michal Karcz

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By Annie Churdar in New Photography on Saturday 15 June 2013

Fascinated with both painting and photography from a young age, it was only a matter of time before Michal Karcz would combine both techniques with digital art. His gorgeous images of parallel universes are breathtaking and mind-bending. The Polish artist has a knack for transporting viewers to landscapes that don’t actually exist outside of his imagination. But he does it in [...]

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Oliver Woods: photography with an incredible story

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By Simon James in New Photography on Thursday 13 June 2013

Oliver Woods is a photographer with an eye for the story behind the story. From his portraits of the great and good in the Sunday Times Magazine, to his continent-hopping projects about the de-evolution of the carbon-burning world, he’s someone who clearly spends a lot of time observing his subjects before finding just the right [...]

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Cinemagraphs: stunning GIFs made from photography mixed with video

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By Sara Halas in New Photography on Wednesday 12 June 2013

A cinemagraph is a GIF image that combines still photography with video. Developed in 2011 by Jamie Beck and Kevin Berg, these images juxtapose a motionless background with one or two elements that move, creating a pretty cool effect. I especially like their New York ones, what better place to encourage the viewer to notice [...]

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Photographing the faces of Sydney’s social housing service

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By Cormack O'Connor in New Photography on Tuesday 11 June 2013

Unless you’re from Sydney, you’ve probably never heard of the small town of Airds. Lying on the ‘outskirts of the Australian dream’, Airds is known for its prominent social housing community; an often under-acknowledged and avoided area for those who have no purpose there. All this is set to change, though, with 70% of the [...]

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Fantasy art photography by Luis Beltrán

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By Angela Sofo in New Photography on Monday 10 June 2013

Luis Beltrán could make my dreams come true. A Spanish photographer and storyteller, he uses photography to set his mind free from daily thoughts and he dedicates his work ‘to those who daydream, who live in fantasy worlds and don’t want to wake up’. Through his pictures, Luis Beltrán talks about loneliness and mystery, suspended [...]

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Fragments: street photography by Jack Larbalestier

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By Jack Larbalestier in New Photography on Monday 10 June 2013

Particular moments in everyday life are often overlooked, with our consistent need to be somewhere as quickly as possible. I’m guilty of this and once I recognised it and slowed down, I soon began to notice them. Through many months of wandering the streets of Bath, I learnt two valuable things very quickly: these moments [...]

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Extreme photography by Tyler Stableford

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Monday 10 June 2013

Colarado-based photographer Tyler Stableford has carved a niche for himself by photographing in extreme conditions — such as documenting adventure writer Mark Jenkins’ ice cave climbs in Iceland’s Langjökull Glacier or exploring the Arctic Circle in the fjords of eastern Greenland with photographer-guide Thorsten Henn.

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Stunning Photos of Startrails by Noriko Tabuchi

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By Annie Churdar in New Photography on Saturday 8 June 2013

Do you love wandering out under the night sky to stargaze? Well, so does photographer Noriko Tabuchi. He has a real knack for capturing the majesty of the vast night sky. These brilliant photos of startrails document the movement of stars as the night matures. Having grown up in a city with very limited star-gazing opportunities, these photos really [...]

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Photos of a creepy abandoned mental institutions

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By Annie Churdar in New Photography on Saturday 8 June 2013

Mental institutions are far scarier than any haunted house. Whether deserted or still functioning, I can’t shake the image of skeletal human beings imprisoned, tortured, and experimented on behind those walls. This photo series by Jeremy Harris seems to capture the spirit of those people who used to live confined in these rooms. Exploring the empty buildings before they’re destroyed, [...]

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Places That Don’t Look Real But Actually Are

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By Jack Larbalestier in New Photography on Saturday 8 June 2013

It’s strange to think that, with an entire world to explore, we get to experience so little of it. On the surface, these 25 Places That Don’t Look Normal But Actually Are look like cruel illusions, spaces in time to distort our perception of reality. But when you realise that these pictures aren’t a Photoshop [...]

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