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How could you not like a party that kicks off with a parade and ends with a shopping cart in a tree?
That’s what I thought.
Shopping Cart in Tree, originally uploaded by dbur4900.
The 50 States Project brings together a photographer from each of the 50 States. Over the course of one year each photographer will represent the State where they live. Every two months the photographers are sent an assignment by e-mail, and they have two months to produce one image in response. The first assignment, (“People”), was sent in January 2009. The second, (“Habitat”), was sent in March. By the end of the project there will be 300 images from across the US.
Since I live in Chicago, here is the Ilinois photo for “People”:
"Home of Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich After Impeachment, January, 2009" © Brian Ulrich
Delaware:
"Untitled" © Chad States
Michigan:
"Joe Diesel, Ypsilanti, Michigan, 2009" © Peter Baker
New Jersey:
"Bride to Be in Limousine" © Juliana Beasley
A chilling and disturbing photo essay from Boston.com:
Gun battles, assassinations, kidnappings, fights between rival cartels, and reprisals have resulted in over 9,500 deaths since December 2006 – over 5,300 killed last year alone. President Barack Obama recently announced extra agents were being deployed to the border and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton heads to Mexico today to pursue a broad diplomatic agenda – overshadowed now by spiraling drug violence and fears of greater cross-border spillover. Officials on both sides of the border are committed to stopping the violence, and stemming the flow of drugs heading north and guns and cash heading south. (34 photos total)
A police officer walks on packages of cocaine in Buenaventura, Colombia's main seaport on the Pacific coast, Monday, March 23, 2009. Colombian police had seized 3.5 tons of cocaine in a container of vegetable grease bound for Mexico. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
A member of the Army watches the incineration of fourteen tons of drugs in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on December 2, 2008. (J. Guadalupe PEREZ/AFP/Getty Images)
Shoes used for smuggling marijuana are displayed in the Drug Museum at the headquarters of the Mexican Ministry of Defense in Mexico City March 9, 2009. High precision rifles, a diamond and gold encrusted mobile phone, clandestine laboratories for drug processing and many more items that once belonged to drug traffickers are displayed in this private museum used by the military to show the soldiers the lifestyle of the Mexican drug lords. (REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez)
Fall Foliage, Trees in a Forest Preserve, originally uploaded by dbur4900.
After many days being cooped up with a winter flu bug, this photo makes me long for warmer weather. This photo was taken last fall in an IL forest preserve.
JR is an undercover photographer. He transforms his photographs into posters, and turns streets into open space art galleries. The 3rd stage of his 28 millimeters project – Women Are Heroes – led him to Africa’s war-torn areas where he photographed women whose painful stories and desire to live he wanted to bring to light. Their amazing, beautiful portraits were pasted in Sierra-Leone and Liberia.
From Wooster Collective: “2000 square meters of rooftops have been covered with photos of the eyes and faces of the women of Kibera. The material used is water resistant so that the photo itself will protect the fragile houses in the heavy rain season. The train that passes on this line through Kibera at least twice a day has also been covered with eyes from the women that live below it. With the eyes on the train, the bottom half of the their faces have be pasted on corrugated sheets on the slope that leads down from the tracks to the rooftops. The idea being that for the split second the train passes, their eyes will match their smiles and their faces will be complete.”
Watch JR’s trailer for the “Women Are Heroes” project:
I’ve been a subscriber to this site’s RSS feed for some time and there are always amazing photos to discover. The site is the photoblog of Sam Javarouh. Sam lives in Toronto and takes incredible photographs. This one really struck me… it’s haunting. A little scary even but beautiful.
Ireland park, Near Island Airport terminal. c/o daily dose of imagery
Photographer Michael Wolf’s book, The Transparent City, was born out of a series of photographs he took from various rooftops in downtown Chicago. As noted in this article from Metropolis the resulting images are very Edward Hopper-esque. Compare:
The Transparent City photo c/o Metropolis Mag
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper c/o Wikipedia
From Metropolis:
Like the black Ford Model T of yesteryear, today’s urban workplaces come in only one color: one of a kind. A mass-produced illusion of nonconformity is now the industrial brand of the American workplace. Offices have become stacks of boxes for people who get paid to think out of them. They’re factories for making to-do lists, writing e-mails, and uploading quarterly reports. These office spaces are increasingly indistinguishable from urban residences. In some homes, office work happens in every room because electronic devices for generating documents and staying connected can invade any space. In today’s megacities, built to accommodate the roughly three billion new people who have joined us in the past five decades (it took thousands and thousands of years just to get to two and a half billion in 1950), we aren’t addresses as much as nodes on a network.
Barack Obama on Flickr on TIME
I love Flickr (see my photos), and there are some great Obama shots from TIME Magazine on the Flickr blog.
Here’s one of my photos from the rally in Grant Park the night he was elected:
Obama Grant Park Rally
