This week saw the floatation of Facebook on the stock market after its owners placed a value of more than $100 billion on the social networking business. The historic debut meant over 1,000 investors in the site became instant millionaires and it indicated the phenomenal power that social media has on 21st century living. The [...]

A little bit of Scandinavia arrived in New York last week, as We Are Serenades came to town in support of their recently-released album Criminal Heaven. At the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, the band was joined by the Aviation Orange and HITS on May 11. Helmed by Adam Olenius of Shout Out Louds and Laasko’s [...]

As the regime of Hosni Mubarak fell, the world witnessed the birth of a democracy. Today, the compelling images streaming in from Tahrir Square have mostly come to an end, but the struggles continue. Early this summer, the reborn nation will host its first presidential elections in 5,000 years. The candidates face a dismal economy, [...]

“It’s good to be home,” said School of Seven Bells frontwoman Alejandra Deheza from the stage at Le Poisson Rouge on May 5.  The duo, formed with guitarist Benjamin Curtis, came back to New York to wrap up its national tour in support of recently-released third album Ghostory.  From the stunning album opener “The Night” [...]

Few things give one the perspective that staring into the cosmos can. These star trails were captured with long-exposure on their journey through the night’s sky. Get starry eyed with more images of alien galaxies here. Photograph by Jack Fusco

To present Joel-Peter Witkin’s photographs to someone who has never seen or heard of it without scarring him/her away could be consider a tricky task. Well-known for using corpses or physically deformed persons as models for his work, the Brooklyn-born artist has been controversial for a while. Saying his idea of beauty does not exactly [...]

Using a discontinued Kodak infared color film called Aerochrome, originally designed for reconnaissance and camouflage detection, Richard Mosse shows the battlefields of the Democratic Republic of Congo under a different color. The film sees normal foliage as magenta or red, showing camouflage as purple or blue. These pictures depicts the integration of rebels from the [...]

A stop by the RA Concept store is a definite must during a visit of Antwerp, the home of numerous Belgian fashion designers. It is without a doubt more than just your regular retail store. Not only does it consist of a vintage collection and outfits from current ready-to-wear fashion labels, it also holds a [...]

Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Untitled, from the series East of Eden, a Genesis-inspired take on the US economic and political climate. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York

Brooklyn-based photographer and writer Paul Kwiatkowski’s book, …And Everyday was Overcast is an upcoming novel and photo essay about coming of age in what he refers to as “the creep show of swamps and strip malls that is South Florida.” “Making it through adolescence in a small town in South Florida is like being raised [...]

Street style columns are everywhere now. Bloggers like Scott Schuman (The Sartorialist), Yvan Rodic (Facehunter) and Phil Oh (Street Peeper) have worked from the ground up to make huge successes of themselves; they now regularly shoot campaigns for high-end fashion brands and collaborate with international chains. With the advent of camera phones and digital photography, [...]

In the tech-savvy city of Hong Kong, most people are fortunate enough to be in possession of a Smartphone with top-quality camera lenses. The film director, cinematographer and photographer Yat-Nam Lai has compiled a series of candid images of passengers on the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) – Hong Kong’s metropolitan subway system – captured on [...]

The news of The Eastman Kodak Company filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy late last month has not only been lamented by filmmakers and photographers alike, but also triggered a wave of collective memory amongst the masses. Founded by George Eastman in 1889, the photographic equipment company – with over a hundred years of history and [...]

Lately, the subject of photography seems to have attracted more international attention on Hong Kong – even more so than is normally bestowed on her. After the on-going Dolce and Gabbana fiasco, photographers Jason Hawkes and Brian Cassey have separately made Hong Kong a part of various foreign press’ headlines through their capturing of living conditions [...]

Considering that the impetus for Friends Without a Border, an organization dedicated to raising money for Cambodia’s Angkor Hospital for Children, arose from a photography project featuring far-flung religious monuments, it seems fitting that their latest fundraising effort relies on travel imagery to further the cause. Through FWAB’s Bid4Friends online auction, you can bid on [...]

After developing his vision over the last decade in New York City, Ian Savage has established an innovative and agile design/build collaborative known as We Are Rocket Science . Pepper and Pistol/Numero Tokyo W.A.R.S presents clients with a one stop shop to both design and execute a creative vision for retail spaces, sets and event [...]

Yancey Richardson Gallery debuted on Thursday, Field Recordings, a collection of photographs and sculptural pieces by Bryan Graf. The exhibition is the artist’s first solo show within the gallery’s main space, and highlights numerous works from Wildlife Analysis, a series of photographs that Graf took around the swamps and woods of his native New Jersey. [...]

The WILD is so completely obsessed with Berliner photographer Michael Wesely right now. Using a large-format 4×5 camera, he shoots extremely long-exposures that take up to three years for a single image. He first began developing this unique approach to photography by investigating large urban construction (namely the rebuilding of the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin) [...]