INSTAGR/AM/BIENT: 25 ambient musicians created original sonic postcards in response to one another’s evocative Instagram photos.

Get a free PDF booklet to accompany the album at archive.org.

Download all 25 MP3s for free at http://www.archive.org/details/Instagrambient.

More on the project at Disquiet.com.

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AN INTRODUCTION TO INSTAGR/AM/BIENT

Photos shared with the popular software Instagram are usually square in format, not unlike the cover to a record album. The format leads inevitably to a question: if a given image were the cover to a record album, what would the album’s music sound like?

Instagr/am/bient is a response to that question. The project involves 25 musicians with ambient inclinations. Each of the musicians contributed an Instagram photo, and in turn each of the musicians recorded an original track in response to one of the photos contributed by another of the project’s participants. The tracks are sonic postcards. They are pieces of music whose relative brevity—all are between one and three minutes in length—is designed to correlate with the economical, ephemeral nature of an Instagram photo.

The result of the 25 musicians’ collective efforts is an investigation into the intersection of technology, aesthetics, and artistic process. What parallels exist, for example, between the visual filters that Instagram provides users to transform their photos and the sound-processing tools employed by electronic musicians?

In many cases here, the musicians employ sonic field recordings as source material for their music. In the case of both their photos and their compositions (photography in one case, phonography in the other), documents are altered to emphasize their atmospheric qualities: to eke a modest art out of the everyday.
A Disquiet.com Project
Commissioned by Marc Weidenbaum

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Cover Photo/Brian Scott

If you’re hearing about this for the first time, it’s a photo-a-day Instagram challenge. There will be a new theme for each. You can take the list of themes literally and stick to it, or take inspiration and go mad. How to play? For example, Day 1 is ‘My City’, so on the first day you’ll take a photo of something surrounding the theme. You then share the photo on Instagram and Twitter (Facebook optional). The themes are open to however you wish to interpret them, the tag and hashtag is: #CityPortraits @ellesseheritage #Theme (optional)

In his latest series ‘Sleepless’, french photographer Remi Rebillard, take us on a moody journey with model Elizabeth Ferrara Twaits, in shady motels. His masterful use of lighting and storytelling style are, like in all his other photographic work, captivating and haunting. 

An inspiring photographic project by Julian Bialowas.

“No matter where you live, adventure is much closer than you think. New experiences, unknown surroundings, and exciting opportunities are just waiting to be discovered. Sometimes all it takes is a bit of motivation and knowing where to start.

We’ve traveled to ten locations within a 90-minute drive from downtown Portland, Oregon to showcase the awe-inspiring landscapes that are waiting to be explored. From highway pull-offs to backcountry overnighters, and sun-baked coastlines to snowy mountainsides, there is something for everyone, everywhere.

At each location we captured a featured photograph and paired it with an interactive 360 degree panorama and Google map to help you find your way. Hopefully these destinations will light the fire for you to look beyond and explore the endless beauty waiting outside your door.”

Experience the project at: ThisisOR.com

A switcheroo is a sudden unexpected variation or reversal often associated with a joke (sometimes “the old switcheroo”). It is often used colloquially to refer to an act of intentionally or unintentionally swapping two objects.

In Sincerly Hana project its couples that switch their clothes. She is currently looking for new couples for this really nice photo project. See the entire serie or get in touch with her here. 

lomographicsociety:

Light Painting: Wheel in the Sky

The wheel in the sky keeps on turning, but with these simple tips you can keep on rolling to light painting heaven.

The Best of Google Street View selected by Jon Rafman.

What’s Next? is a supplement to Foam’s quarterly magazine but also an online discussion forum which is designed to spark discussion on current trends and how they are affecting the development of photography.  If you are interested in photography and photojournalism take some time to visit What’s Next? website. 

An experimental photography project in Paris and Pushkar, India has transformed an apartment in each city into a giant pinhole cameras. The Stenop.es project, devised by French photographers Romain Alary and Antoine Levy, used the interior of the two apartments to function as a canvas for a projection of the cityscape outside.

To get it to work, the photographers firstly has to darken a room in each apartment and cover it with foil. They then made a small pinhole in the wall that let a beam of light from outside into the space. This was then magnified and turned into an internal projection, which was beamed on to the objects and surfaces inside the room. The images that resulted – which included buildings, traffic and passersby – were all captured by a video camera, and added to a sound recording from the street outside.

The Pinhole Movie Project is an ode to city life and watching the array of images is a beautiful, visual experience. To see the videos and find out more about the project, just visit the Stenop.es website.

Discover the images of fashion photographer Mikey Whyte and his candid and colorful world.  Here is his portfolio. 

Dream like images from the series “Your Rainbow Panorama” by photographer  Olafur Eliasson. 

Richardson first LA solo-show – at ever-cool OHWOW – is called TERRYWOOD. 

Captivating portraits from Asia come alive in this new video by french photographer Kares. More about his work here.

mullitover:

JONATHAN CHERRY: What gets you up in the morning?

AMANDA LOPEZ: As cliche as it sounds, photography gets me up in the morning. Everyday, it’s what keep me going and inspired.

JC: Are there any emerging photographers inspiring you at the moment?

AL: I am inspired by so many things. Especially the work of other photographers. At the moment it’s my peers in San Francisco that keep me inspired. I’m lucky to be surrounded by a lot of great creative people like Matthew Reamer, John Coyne, Trevor Traynor and Robyn Twomey.

JC: What is your current project all about?

AL: I am currently working on a few consecutive bodies of work. I am working on a portrait series inspired by the Mexican tradition, Dia de los Muertos as well as my Vans shoe series, called True Story. Both projects are up on my site.

JC: What draws you to making portraits?

AL: I love portraiture! I got into photography after seeing the great portrait work of Estevan Oriol and Annie Leibovitz. Both of them have an uncanny ability to get exactly what they want from their subjects. Esetvan’s portraits in particular and so beautiful because they have the perfect mix of strength and vulnerability. Its amazing. I think another reason I am drawn to portraiture is because of the connection that you have to have with the person you are working with. If you don’t connect with your subject then the picture is lost.

JC: How do you find juggling personal & commercial work?

AL: It can be difficulty but its necessarily. I have to shoot commercially so that I can help fund my person projects.

JC: Any advice to recent photography graduates?

AL: To keep shooting, keep looking, stay excited, stay true to your vision and have confidence in your work.

JC: Favourite tree?

AL: Palm Tree