Black & white or monochrome photography – digital and analogue.
Alison Scarpulla is a familiar name on the blog (she’s been featured here a couple times already), and her continuously amazing photographic explorations signal her name will come up again in the future.
This cloud series is particularly sublime, and somehow flows with the rest of Alison’s darkened and mysterious works, while widening the gaze into post-apocalyptic dreamscapes.
I can’t believe last time Paul Phung’s photos were on Art Sponge was back in 2009… In any case his photography has definitely grown nicely since, and although I’d love to show all of his great work, I chose to feature the rather darker side to his monochrome shots. Paul’s grainy and highly contrasted shots are delicately composed and seem to explore the minimalist ideal of less is more within portraiture.
This is an amazing example of dedication to hand-work and D.I.Y in an overwhelmingly virtual and automatized world. Ian Ruhter is traveling through the US in a van he had turned into a massive wet-plate camera. Watch the beautiful short documentary below, explaining the sacrifices Ian has made in order to realize this high-risk project – every photograph is a project in itself, with all sorts of elements potentially ruining it. However when Ian succeeds in capturing the shot, the results are magnificent.
Apologies for the down-time recently – although I wouldn’t consider myself an extreme case of lazyholic, I do relapse into serious laziness on occasion (speaking of lazy, check out Recovering Lazyholic – Erin Hudson might be lazy but she blogs awesome stuff and her work is great too).
However the week starts well with some beautiful monochrome shots by Brittany Chavez. Enjoy
“I aim for abstract.
I would call it abstract nude landscapes.
Trying, instead of capturing a moment,
to create a place with something we see everyday.
The human body. An imaginary place with
an amazing object.” Billy Kidd
