—Gray Malin captures luxury of beachside beauty from a birds eye perspective. Imparting the colour that comes within a umbrella dotted beach, the result of this work is a sunny new depiction of a summer unseen to those simply baking in the sun.
While this work can easily be tacked on as a somewhat bourgeois decadent take on beach culture, the beauty really remains in the efforts to capture contrast, colour and pattern. Did the umbrella designers know that their work could be perceived so greatly? The efforts of middle aged women that have spent their lives earning a tan in a bright bikini cannot be overlooked either. Littering the sea side, who would’ve guessed frivolity could look so good there?
Most scary movies are truth be told, in the setting of an ‘insane’ asylum. This series, American Asylums by photographer Jeremy Harris gives in to the stigma that asylums are just as scary as they’re portrayed in the movies.
No, not the Viggo Mortensen movie, but in a revealing confession on the background of Soviet Russia, these photographs tell a silent story of a system that no longer exists.
Unified gatherings of mankind usually involve a protest of some sort. But once a year the people of Catalonia, Spain gather together in a showcase of communication and teamwork to build a shrine to their own culture.
Happy at 100 is a photo essay by German photographer Karsten Thormaehlen featuring those born at the turn of the century. This photo essay actually started out as a personal project in 2006 as a breather from commercial gigs. But after taking over 40 Germans who have lived for 100 years, Thormaehlen’s project stopped in 2011.
