The Ruins Of Detroit
A seven year project from two French photographers who have been taking images of Detroit, Michigan, USA. Their project beautifully displays the city’s decaying buildings, once stunning classical venues, factories, hotels and municipal edifices.
These fantastic images show the decline of society in a city once the economic hub of the industrial USA. They show the decline of once great halls of entertainment, employment and human interaction that now sit decrepit and dying.
The work from Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre can be seen on display at the Wilmotte Gallery, Lichfield Studios in London until May and also online here http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/
That house in the first photo… it probably used to be so awesome.
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“Kim Keever’s large-scale photographs are created by meticulously constructing miniature topographies in a 200-gallon tank, which is then filled with water. These dioramas of fictitious environments are brought to life with colored lights and the dispersal of pigment, producing ephemeral atmospheres that he must quickly capture with his large-format camera.”
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Vladimir Lenin, King Tut and the McDonald’s Happy Meal: What do they all have in common? A shocking resistance to Mother Nature’s cycle of decomposition and biodegradability, apparently.
That’s the disturbing point brought home by the latest project of New York City-based artist and photographer Sally Davies, who bought a McDonald’s Happy Meal back in April and left it out in her kitchen to see how well it would hold up over time.
The results? “The only change that I can see is that it has become hard as a rock,” Davies told the U.K. Daily Mail.
She proceeded to photograph the Happy Meal each week and posted the pictures to Flickr to record the results of her experiment. Now, just over six months later, the Happy Meal has yet to even grow mold. She told the Daily Mail that “the food is plastic to the touch and has an acrylic sheen to it.”
Amateur photographer and full time physicist Kristian Cvecek spends nights in woodlands waiting for fireflies to come out so he can capture them on camera.
German Kristian, 31, from Erlangan, near Nuremburg, photographs the creatures near his home. He uses slow shutter speeds to capture on camera their movements between the trees and ferns.
