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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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Animal ninjas in their element

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Thursday 9 May 2013

Nature is great. Some animals have the art of camouflage down pat, disappearing right into their surroundings. Christian Ziergler captured some amazing pictures of these creatures at their mimicry best for National Geographic, and you can try to locate sneaky leaf-little toads and the such in this interactive image gallery.

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Garden of Eden: photo collages by Roberto Voorbij

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By Roberto Voorbij in New Photography on Tuesday 7 May 2013

Since 2002, the Netherlands has had a Party for the Animals. Yes, standing up for the rights of animals and including animal rights in the body of legislation is certainly a sign of even more control by man over nature, but how much further will this interference go? Will the eating of meat become equivalent to a [...]

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Fantasyland photo series pays tribute to photographer’s deceased mother

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Photography on Tuesday 7 May 2013

Kirsty Mitchell created this incredible photo series in honor of her mother who passed away from brain tumor in 2008. Her mother was an English teacher, and Mitchell’s series commemorates her mother’s imaginative and inspiring personality. Mitchell’s storybook-like photos were a source of comfort from her grief, but the results of her hard work are [...]

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Gorgeously gross photography by Ukraine’s DiscoRat

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By Annie Churdar in New Photography on Tuesday 7 May 2013

I love this photography of sparkling girls from raves and disco dances. DiscoRat is a photographer and makeup artist from the Ukraine who has a knack for melding dark fantasy with glitter and neon lights. Her images are haunting and beautiful. The shots feel hallucinogenic, which is very much in keeping with the drug and rave culture she seems [...]

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Surreal album cover photography by the late Storm Thorgerson

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By Annie Churdar in New Photography on Tuesday 7 May 2013

In case you don’t know who the late Storm Thorgerson was, just know he was the master mind behind the iconic rainbow prism on the cover of Pink Floyd’s album, The Dark Side of the Moon. Best known for his harsh collages, Thorgerson lead the way in album art, using eye catching art instead of mundane pictures [...]

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Surreal black-and-white photography by Chema Madoz

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Saturday 4 May 2013

Spanish photographer Chema Madoz seems to have a particular talent for shooting pictures that fuse seemingly disparate subjects in the most disconcertingly calm way. Nothing is what it appears to be at first glance — but it all makes sense when you look at the big picture.

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New Pantone food pairings by dschwen

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By Maria Niarchos in New Photography on Friday 3 May 2013

Say hello to yet another collection of brilliantly put together Pantone porn. Instagramer, dschwen is driving the Pantone Pairings Project, one swatch at a time. The simplicity and constraints around his pairings are the real power-punches. As a sucker for anything Pantone, the gawking that followed my find of dschwen’s work doesn’t need explaining.

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Saturn hurricane has the evil eye

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Friday 3 May 2013

Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog on Slate never fails to fascinate, and one of his recent posts really jumped out at me. Blame it on the picture that came with it, showing a malevolent-looking 1,250-mile wide behemoth hurricane on Saturn taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. It’s 20 times larger than the average hurricane eye on [...]

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Sex-rays: Sex acts caught on X-rays by Wim Delvoyes (NSFW)

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Friday 3 May 2013

We delved into Belgian artist Wim Delvoyes and uncovered this rather amazing Sex-rays project he did back in 2001. It sounds exactly like its name: sexually explicit acts captured as X-rays. Delvoyes later described the process as ‘very medical, very antiseptic’.

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Flares warming up night landscapes

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Thursday 2 May 2013

What can you do with military-grade flares? In his Take Refuge series, LA-based photographer Kevin Cooley used these to illuminate the nighttime and often cold landscapes of wherever he travelled to for his other projects, and shot the long-exposure images with an analog 4×5 large format camera. They emit the same inviting glow regardless of [...]

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Photographer Jonathan Hobin re-creates the world’s most infamous tragedies with children

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Photography on Thursday 2 May 2013

In a recent interview with Vice magazine, photographer Jonathan Hobin stated about his series, ‘Sometimes the kids just get it. Like the 9/11 picture. Even though they are three or four years old, they saw the twin towers and said, ‘I’ll hold the airplane, this is where the plane hit the building’. The mother was [...]

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Photographic illusions of falling up into the sky

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Wednesday 1 May 2013

Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. One of Hong Kong-based photographer Romain Jacquet-Lagreze’s latest photo series, Vertical Horizon, has him framing perfectly symmetrical shots of the city architecture edging around a skyward void. It almost looks like you could plunge in and freefall up to the sky forever.

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Impressive aerial shots of algae

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Wednesday 1 May 2013

Hutt Lagoon in West Australia is where loads and loads of algae farms can be found. In turn, the algae are responsible for making the whole place look so damn colorful. Sydney-based photographer Steve Back saw one of the farms south of Kalbarri on a flight over the lagoon and decided the sight was too [...]

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What caffeine looks like

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Wednesday 1 May 2013

That mug of coffee that’s going to save you from dozing off at your desk this morning, just look at it right now. Do you see it for what it is? No? Well then, maybe you need a better view. This scanning electron micrograph of caffeine crystals by Annie Cavanagh is so good, it was [...]

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Mysterious polaroid photography by Bastian Kalous

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By Nini Baseema in New Photography on Monday 29 April 2013

Despite the significant increase of mobile devices with camera functions, the good ol’ polaroid is still around and hasn’t lost a punce of its charme. Bastian Kalous, from Germany, experiments with expired polaroid film and has created an impressive body of work over the past few years. His subjects are typically mysterious landscape scenes wiith [...]

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