Eric Cahan documents the vibrant colors of sunrises and sunsets

A reader recently sent me a link to these amazing from Eric Cahan called Sky Series. He documented the sunrise and sunsets of different places around the world, predominately California, New York and Florida, showing the incredible range of colorful gradients each location has to offer. From top to bottom you’re looking at:

Bridgehampton, NY
Sunset 7:48pm

Fort Pond Bay, Montauk, NY
Sunset 8:10pm

The Dunes, Amagansette, NY
Sunset 6:47pm

Venice Beach, CA
Sunrise 6:15am

Bobby

‘The Disciples’ – A Series by James Mollison

Over the course of three years, photographer James Mollison photographed fans at a number of concerts around the world. The resulting images form a fascinating body of work which he calls The Disciples. For Mollison, these concert crowds are almost like different tribes; he describes them as becoming like an extended surrogate family.

It’s a fun, fascinating, and at times frightening portrait of popular culture, highlighting the extent of how people aim to emulate celebrity and how they use it to form their own identity. The series exists both as an exhibition and as a 128-page book; published by Chris Boot. Above are only a few Disciples from the series. Many more can be viewed on Mollison’s website here.

Philip

Long exposure photographs of fireflys

My friend Chris sent me this link last week, a photo blog from Japan that has an amazing collection of long exposure images of fireflys. I’m not entirely sure what the photographers name is, though I did see mention to a Mr. Coro, any help with figuring out his proper name would be appreciated.

It looks like he’s been shooting these fireflys for about 8 years now, getting better and better as he goes. He shoots a lot of his images in Okayama where they have firefly season. If you like these images you should visit his blog and see the images blown up, they look much better that way.

Bobby

‘Music Boxes’ by Luis Díaz Díaz

Luis Díaz Díaz is a Spanish photographer based in Madrid and the North-Western coast of the country. He does a lot of commissioned projects, but it was his personal project ‘Music Boxes’ which really caught my attention. The series of photographs looks at the open air stages used by orchestras and concerts during the yearly local festivals in Galicia in Northern Spain.

These ‘music boxes’ stand now as forgotten monuments to times past. Where once this structures were places of festivities and celebration, they have now been replaced by modern mobile stages. Luis Díaz Díaz rigidly documents them with a minimalist style that reminds me of the photographs of industrial buildings taken by the influential German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher. These empty, abandoned spaces, now seem to haunt rural Galica; leaving only a hollow space where the viewer is left to imagine what celebrations may have once taken place in this part of the country.

Philip

Shipley & Halmos get a visit from The Selby

I’ve long been a fan of the clothing produced by the duo of Sam Shipley and Jeff Halmos, better known in the fashion world as Shipley & Halmos. I have a black cardigan that I’ve owned for a couple of years now that is hands down the best cardigan I’ve ever owned. There’s something about the cuff of the sleeves that fit perfect, some bit of elastic that makes it so that the ends never get stretched out. It’s a perfect detail that makes it a perfect cardigan.

Browsing around The Selby I noticed he paid the guys a visit and shot their space, so I thought I’d share it here. Having a space that inspires you is always important, and well, if I had a space like they did I would turn out amazing things every few minutes. It’s cool that everything in their space is mostly completely white, but is accentuated with punches of color. There’s a really great, lived in feeling to the space which makes the space feel so natural and wonderful. Hopefully something about their space will inspire something in your own.

Bobby