What happens if you develop film that’s been soaked in caustic liquids? Blown out, grainy, strangeness. That’s what.
Marilyn Monroe is best known as the blond bombshell holding her dress down for a scene in The Seven Year Itch — as an American icon and sex symbol, but many of the women who pretend to be her either …
Michael Shainblum’s new Mirror City project takes two visual tricks—urban time-lapses and the kaleidoscope effect—and combines them to make a video that’s full of eye candy.
Raw File reporter Pete Brook travels to Pickathon, a beloved music festival outside Portland, Oregon, to learn just what makes a good music festival photograph.
It often happens that news events create a new context for existing photo projects, and such is the case with Philip Jarmain’s photos of Detroit in light of the city’s recent filing for bankruptcy.
Photographer Joe Johnson’s series Megachurches takes us down the aisles, inside the sanctuaries and behind the scenes of jumbo-sized places of worship. Taken while the churches are not in daily use, Johnson’s photographs focus on both the mammoth interior space …
Like diagrams of the earth’s core or a slice of fruit, it turns out golf balls reveal a colorful geometry when cut in half.
After 25 years as a boilermaker, shipfitter and welder, photographer Joseph Blum knows his way around construction sites. His remarkable photographs take us behind-the-scenes on the construction of the new eastern span of San Francisco’s bay bridge, and are on …
Part art project, part utopian experiment, a street artist by the name of Swoon, as well as a band of artists, DIYers, and other free-spirits, has built a collection of ramshackle, yet visually striking rafts to float down rivers and …
Germany has agreed to close all of their nuclear power plants by 2022, but before that happens, German photographer Michael Danner wanted to get in and photograph them. Between 2007 and 2011 he visited 17 nuclear power plants and in …
At first glance, Kimberly Witham’s photos are pleasant to look at, just like the idealized designs they’re meant to criticize. They’re bright, colorful and nicely arranged. Then you see the roadkill.
Chances are you enjoyed some fireworks earlier this month for July 4th. But we’re sorry to tell you that Mexico does explosions better than the United States. The proof is in Thomas Prior’s heart-racing photographs from the National Pyrotechnic Festival …
In January of this year, Jessica Lum, a fledgling, spirited journalist less than a year out of Berkeley’s Graduate Journalism School, died following a 4-year battle with cancer. She was 25. In spite of her illness and her youth, Lum …
Earlier this year the Chicago Sun-Times made national headlines when it purged its photo staff and replaced them with iPhone-wielding reporters. To try and track what many suspected would be a decline in the paper’s visual coverage, Chicago freelance photographer …
About an hour into the drive to the Vogler household, one’s sense of time and place starts to distort. The road couldn’t possibly be any longer, yet it continues to lead farther and farther away from civilization and modern conveniences.
As far as personality traits go, industriousness and a desire to destroy are a powerful combination. Photographer Jon Smith has both. Two years ago, he began shooting household items in his garage with a pellet gun and photographing the explosions. …
When photographer Kirk Crippens came to Portland, he wanted to test the version of the city put forth by the hit comedy Portlandia. He made 45 portraits and expected his work to stand in sharp contrast to the fictions of …
Old women, rock stars and waiters can all walk on water in Lucia Herrero’s photo series Species. It’s not a Photoshop trick, but an elaborate portrait setup where she has her subjects stand on submerged fruit crates. All the photos …
A couple years back photographer Brian Edward Berman was looking for a personal project to shoot, something a little out of the ordinary. Then he saw an advertisement on TV for a vacuum cleaner convention in Los Angeles. It was …
This Fourth of July weekend, we present to you the history of the explosion, from the Big Bang to Jerry Bruckheimer to Keith Moon (not himself exploding, luckily, though pretty close). So get some earplugs and tie yourself down to …
Among all the new online magazines, blogs and outlets devoted to photography, Dispose sticks out like a cheap flash at a birthday party. It’s a webzine that publishes — you guessed it — only photographs made with disposable cameras.
Richard Mosse’s three years of photography work in the Congo using discontinued infrared film is haunting, surreal and beautiful.
A little over a year ago, I spent the day embedded with wildland firefighters from the Granite Mountain Hotshots as they battled a battle in Southern New Mexico. Nineteen members of that crew died Sunday working a fire in Arizona, …
For most of us, freeway interchanges are just something we use to get from one place to the next. For photographer Peter Andrew, they’re art.
Pelle Cass has put a new spin on people-watching and taken street photography to another level with his project Selected People. For each photo in the series, he essentially crushes time-lapse photography into a single frame.
There have already been some pretty fantastic entries to the 2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest. Just see for yourself in this gallery. But if you think you can do better and you’d like to submit, there’s still time — …
John William Keedy’s project, It’s Hardly Noticeable, is a wide-reaching photo exploration of thoughts and behaviors that fall outside the “norm.”
Marina Gadonneix is a French photographer who creates fictional scenes of catastrophe, drama and terror from real places. She visits fire and hazmat training facilities to document, in controlled settings, peoples’ worst fears.
Photographer Gaston Lacombe doesn’t hate zoos. He just thinks some of them need improving. For the past four years, he’s been trying to make that point with a series of photos called Captive.
On Sunday, June 23, the moon will be 356,991 km from the Earth. That’s the closest it will be during 2013. And it just so happens to be a full moon. These two celestial phenomena have combined to create a …