Photos of Children From Around the World With Their Most Prized Possessions

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By Alison Zavos in New Photography on Wednesday 13 March 2013

Shot over a period of 18 months, Italian photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s project Toy Stories compiles photos of children from around the world with their prized possesions—their toys. Galimberti explores the universality of being a kid amidst the diversity of the countless corners of the world; saying, ‘at their age, they are pretty all much the [...]

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Scotch-taped faces: a photo series by Wes Naman

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By Low Lai Chow in New Photography on Monday 28 January 2013

A photographic series by Wes Naman involving scotch-taped faces is making me contemplate the pain of ripping out facial hair on a whole new level. It helps that his subjects all have this bemused expression despite having their mugs all tightly bound by scotch tape. Ouch.

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Angela Datre: portrait of a punk show

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By Angela Datre in New Photography on Thursday 6 December 2012

I am a photographer from New York. One of my ongoing series is documenting the energy and emotion of the crowd at punk shows and many of those images can be seen on my recently updated website.

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New photography by Polish-based Sylwia Makris

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By Al Saulso in New Photography on Thursday 4 October 2012

Sylwia Makris, Polish born artist-turned-photographer, has a dark side like no other. Her sharp sense of color and attention to the emotion of her sitter gives her photographs a really deep connection. In her own words: ‘There is a spark within everything, a living light in the eyes of every person a memory that flares up,the glow of passion that was never declared’.

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New photography by Tessa Beligue

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By Piera Tocci in New Photography on Thursday 27 September 2012

Tessa Beligue’s photos are truly some of the most well-composed and stunning photos out there. She finds beauty in the often-stark urban landscape that is New York City at night. Her portraits, in both color and black and white, capture their subject in what seems like happenstance moments that Tessa stunningly freezes in time with her camera for all of us to enjoy. Take a moment, peruse her website, and prepare to get transported by Tessa Beligue’s awesome work.

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Portrait photography by Kathalijne van Zutphen

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By Lost At E Minor in New Photography on Tuesday 17 July 2012

Kathalijne is a traveling photographer who loves portraiture. She has been working on a project profiling emerging artists in South Africa for the past two years. Her work shows a strong sense of color and composition, and has been described as having ‘dream-like’ and almost dissociative qualities.

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Beautiful portrait photography by Yaman Ibrahim

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By Marius Grondahl in New Photography on Wednesday 6 June 2012

Photographer Yaman Ibrahim is a Malaysian photographer based in Kuala Lumpur. His experiences as an art teacher and a senior manager in multimedia gave him the ability to appreciate the finer things that others overlook. Check out his amazing portraits.

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Portrait photography by Mila Rodero

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By Mapydh in New Photography on Friday 1 June 2012

Mila Rodero is a very good portrait photographer. She knows that the best way to discover herself is by discovering others. Behind each photograph there is a story, an encounter, a proper connection between the artist and the model. She also likes taking pictures of trees, saying: ‘I like to take pictures of trees when they are blossoming. The branches use the sky as a canvas to make incredible designs’.

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First Hellos: Jeff Yiu photographs unposed models

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By Jeff Yiu in New Photography on Saturday 26 May 2012

This is a fun personal project for me. I have got to see a lot of different models since relocating to London, where new models come through as part of their travels. One of the things I have noticed from going through model portfolios was how different each girl looked in real life to the pictures in their books.

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Drowning World: a photo series by Gideon Mendel

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By Samantha Dalrymple in New Photography on Saturday 26 May 2012

It’s a sad fact that natural disasters come and go, ruining land and leaving damaged homes and heartaches. Award-winning photographer, Gideon Mendel, has captured the tragic after-effects of floods from different countries since 2007 to visually address the issue of climate change.

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Funny portrait photos by Lithuania’s Tadao Cern

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By Samantha Dalrymple in New Photography on Tuesday 22 May 2012

Graduating with a Masters Degree in Architecture, Lithuanian-based Tadao Cern shifted gears by diving into photography and creating this hilarious series of photographs entitled, Blow Job.

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Seat Assignment: Lavatory Self-Portraits

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By Brigitte Martin in New Photography on Monday 21 May 2012

While in the lavatory on a flight, Nina Katchadourian spontaneously put the tissue paper toilet cover seat cover over her head and took a picture in the mirror using her cellphone. To her surprise, the photo evoked 15th-century Flemish portraiture. She decided to make a series of these portraits using what the room had to offer.

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Photo portraits of Model Railway Enthusiasts

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By Alison Zavos in New Photography on Friday 10 February 2012

David Vintiner is a British portrait photographer living in London. These portraits are from a personal project, Enthusiasts, which was selected for the Creative Review Photography Annual last year. He writes: ‘My Enthusiasts were shot on location at a model railway exhibition in Birmingham, England. In my photography I’m drawn to the subtlety of the everyday, in this case, passion for a hobby’.

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Lonely Canvas photo series by Matthew Taplinger

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By Matthew Taplinger in New Photography on Thursday 6 October 2011

Over the course of the past few months, I started to notice a theme arising in the archives of my own photography work: lone figures standing in the face of adversity, desolate landscapes, beauty, and so on. I recently started compiling some of my favorite images which fit this theme, while continuing to shoot with this in mind. I hope to exhibit this series within the coming year.

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Wyatt Gallery

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By Kareem Black in New Photography on Monday 12 April 2010

Wyatt Gallery is a person, not a place. I met Wyatt almost eight years ago through an ex-girlfriend. Since then, we have traveled all over the planet, photographing things (mostly natural disasters) together. Our first trip was to Sri Lanka in 2004 in the weeks following the Tsunami. Our most recent trip was just a few weeks ago when we went to Haiti.

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