Subjects Pose As Both Male and Female In Transgender Portraits by JJ Levine.

Transgender Portraits by JJ Levine

Photographer and artist JJ Levine of Montreal’s series “Alone Time” is just one of his many collections of ‘intimate portraiture.’ “By doubling a single body within one frame,” Levine tells BuzzFeed, “I celebrate the human capacity for gender fluidity and call into question the idea of authenticity of gender.” (more…)

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18 Colorful Employee Portraits by Olaf Bruening Add Creativity To Pernod Ricard’s Annual Report

Co-creation by Olaf Breuning

Co-creation by Olaf Breuning is a new photo campaign for the Pernod Ricard 2012/2013 annual report in which 18 employees create a fresco for the cover and pose for pages with personal quotes scattered throughout the 168 page annual report. (more…)

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Flesh Love. 80 Vacuum-Sealed Couples Photographed by Haruhiko Kawaguchi.

Flesh Love by Haruhiko Kawaguchi IIHIH

Haruhiko Kawaguchi, who goes by the name Photographer Hal, is a Tokyo photographer and artist whose project FLESH LOVE literally vacuum packs couples of all types in 100x150x74 cm plastic bags. The idea is to keep love fresh forever. Once the air is sucked out of the bag by a vacuum cleaner, Kawaguchi only has about 10-20 seconds to take his pictures. Any longer and he would risk causing harm to his subjects. (more…)

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Photographer Alejandro Cartagena Captures Car Poolers In Mexico.

alejandro cartagena carpoolers

The Carpoolers in Mexico is a project by photographer Alejandro Cartagena that takes a peek into the world of flatbed trucks that carry Mexican workers to their jobs. Shown last week at Kopeikin Gallery’s booth at Miami Project (and earlier this summer at the Kopeikin Gallery), the photographs reveal intimate glimpses of laborers in the beds of the trucks, heading to or from the massive, low-quality housing complexes being built close to the country’s border with the U.S. (more…)

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Photo District News’ 30 New and Emerging Photographers To Watch In 2012.

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above photo by Lauren Hermele, one of PDN’s 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch

Each year, the respected photography publication, Photo District News, chooses 30 up and coming photographers to showcase. (more…)

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