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Stand Up. Stand Out.

"...on the perfect wave, with the perfect camera shot."

This is a clip from the BBC documentary “South Pacific”. The talented soul standing tall on this 12fter is surfer Dylan Longbottom captured and immortalised by photographer Rudi Diesel on a Typhoon HD4 high speed camera. It’s the first shot of its kind ever recorded, and simply mind-blowing. Enjoy.

 

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By Sammy on 30/3/11

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Run The Numbers

Chris Jordan’s photographic art exposes the detritus of mass consumption.

In what he calls ‘evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse’, Chris Jordan captures the shipping ports and industrial yards of America in a macabre but beautiful way. The shocking scale of western consumption is intensely provocative when seen through his lens. It’s pretty disgusting, all told, and his art does as good a guilt-tripping job as any anti-consumerist propaganda I’ve ever seen.

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By on 15/4/09

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Estevan Oriol

Bouncer, tour manager, clothing designer, photographer and director. Oriol is a Hip Hop icon.

He began his career as an L.A bouncer in the late 80’s - anything to be amongst the culture he loved. Soon enough he sniffed out the likes of Cypress Hill, and eager as ever to expand his knowledge of the Hip Hop industry, he secured a job as the tour manager of House of Pain on their ’92 tour.

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By on 12/3/09

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Residual Space

Photographer Xavier Ribas explores the culture of leisure in and around Barcelona.

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By on 29/10/08

Diego Maradona

On The Prowl

When Diego went hunting for Belgians.

There are great sporting moments, and then there are great sporting photos. It can be hard to distinguish between the two. Usain Bolt pounding his chest, Roger Federer collapsing to his knees at Wimbledon, Bobby Moore lifting the world cup - all great moments, but not necessarily leading to great photos.

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By on 14/10/08

Yann Arthus-Bertrand

Earth From Above

Yann Arthus-Bertrand shows us the world in a whole new light.

The world looks different from above. Sounds obvious, but you don’t quite realise it until you see it. You can get a sense of that on a plane, but then you get too high, or the clouds move in, or you fall asleep. Unless you own a helicopter, opportunities to see the world from above are fleeting at best. But the photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand has made his name doing the work for us, circumnavigating the world’s lower atmosphere in all manner of transport seeking out shots that make you go ‘Woah’. In 2009 he brings a new exhibition to New York, appropriately entitled ‘Earth From Above’, that he hopes will do more than startle; Bertrand’s images are inextricably linked to the environmental issues facing humanity today. More pics inside.

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By on 8/10/08

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In Spite Of The Storm

Startling images do justice to the ferocity of Ike.

Perhaps the disaster capitalists described in Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine might see some good in the recently subsided bout of Atlantic hurricanes, but the rest of the world clearly doesn’t. Ike alone resulted in over 130 deaths and $27 billion of damage. But disasters do, invariably, propel creative people into action, with photographers leading the pack. These images are evidence of that - a telling reminder of a reality we in the UK will hopefully never know.

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By on 19/9/08

Olaf Hauschulz

Olaf Hauschulz

If David Lynch took pictures of cars.

A period spent working in the darkroom of Mercedes HQ, Stuttgart, awakened Olaf Hauschulz’s love of cars; he’s since made his name as an automotive photographer. In this particular set he creates a sense of cinematic theatricality that befits some of the world’s most desirable automobiles.

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By on 18/9/08

RE-IMAGINING SPORT

Re-imagining Sport

Paul Pfeiffer Travels Back In Time To Rewrite The Past.

Paul Pfeiffer, relocated to New York in 1990 after growing up in the Philippines, exploits what’s now become basic technology for his spooky meditations on sport and a culture obsessed by frenzied celebrity. One project, The Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse, sees Pfeiffer taking images of situations in sport, some known, others not, and removing them of all contextual detail. He leaves us with a solitary figure, devoid of teammates, a lone ranger watched by the masses in the stands above.

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By on 11/9/08

DIVIDED CITY

Divided City

THE KOURTAJME COLLECTIVE DENY A CITY THEY BARELY KNOW.

The picturesque Paris of beauty and high culture is a foreign city to Kourtrajmé. They rarely see it, and they won’t show it. But they are Parisians. Yes, Parisians, driven by the city as they know it, a city of decay, desolation and neglect, but a city of people the authorities would rather forget.

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By on 13/8/08

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