Jacqueline Woods’ photos bring to mind the wonders of space, but they’re created entirely in the darkroom. Instead of a camera, the Californian exposes photo paper to chemicals and light to conjure the cosmos.
GAZE ON: Conjuring the wonders of space with light and chemistry.
The rules of hajwalah are easy to understand, if not execute. First, get your SUV up to 100 mph or so. Then jerk the steering wheel back and forth to get your ride rocking. Do it right and you’ll end up on two wheels, and if you’re really good, you’ll see smoke pouring from the tires.
READ MORE: Inside the Crazy ‘Sport’ Where Rich Kids Drift and Crash SUVs
Rio provided another week of amazing athleticism and nail-biting drama that made for stunning photographs. Here are our favorites.
SEE MORE: Body slams and BMX: the best Olympic photos, part two.
If you take a close look at a microprocessor, you’ll see something amazing. “It looks like a three-dimensional skyline,” says Christoph Morlinghaus. “You can get totally lost in it.”
PEEK MORE: Wild close-ups of computer chips look like intricate cities.
For as long as people have been taking pictures, they’ve been using them to document injustice and fight for change. This history gets a timely exploration in ‘New Documents’, an exhibition at the Bronx Documentary Center in New York.
READ MORE: Injustice went viral way before facebook live (NSFW).
In just 24 days, Klaus Thymann dove 100 feet into a sinkhole, trekked one of two glaciers abutting a rainforest, and peered over the edge of an active volcano. Thymann traveled thousands of miles around the world to visit three unusual and remote ecosystems for a new photo series.
LEARN MORE: This guy went to Earth’s most remote places so you don’t have to.
Polo may be the sport of kings, but in China, it’s the sport of billionaires. The game is all the rage among the country’s newly minted billionaires and millionaires, who are eager to take up the mallet.
READ MORE: Apparently China’s billionaires are all about polo now.
Something amazing happens everywhere you look, which is why photographers love covering the Olympics. Hundreds of them are in Rio, working long hours with little sleep, to capture as many of those moments as they can.
SEE MORE: The best Olympics photos so far, from swords to big green pools
Most teenagers hate to see the summer end, but John Kraus has a particularly good reason to be unhappy about it: Going back to school means less time to shoot space launches.
READ MORE: Incredible rocket photos, huh? Yeah, a 16-year-old took them.
Xavi Bou spends most weekends photographing birds. Although he appreciates their plumage and mating habits and everything else nature photographers love about the animals, he isn’t especially interested such things. He’s far more interested in the hypnotic patterns birds create while flying.
READ MORE: Mesmerizing photos capture the flight patterns of birds.
