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Cory Doctorow:

This Worth1000 contest asks photoshoppers to dummy up images of modern products in antique contexts, like this digital camera shooting a fifties-style black-and-white portrait photo.

Link

Who thought an Abandoned amusement park would look so creepy. (The site is in japanese so i dont/cant find the photographers name) props to him anyway. go check out the haunting photography.

By Xeni Jardin:
The work of photographer Michael Garlington has been described as “‘David Lynch meets Leave it to Beaver.” Snip from description of show currently on display at Stephen Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles:

Garlington tours the country in his “Photo Car” — literally a
Volkswagen covered with his photographs. He shoots portraits of
whatever speaks to him - from a contortionist to a fast food worker,
from the disabled to a young patriot, his work is about ordinary
Americans leading ordinary lives, yet there is something awry. Inside
the work is a deeply felt affection for humanity in all its
permutations and expressions, in all its horror and triviality. The
resulting body of work offers a critical, offbeat, and humorous view of
the United States —a portrait of the “belly of the whale.”

Garlington is currently working on a series of California-Mexican
working families living in trailers, struggling for a piece of a
promised dream, and is planning his fourth cross-county photo
expedition in 2005.

Link to show info, and here you will find more info about the photographer, his work, and his art-car: Link. Good god this is an incredible image right here (worksafe): Link (via indienudes + boingboing)

By Cory Doctorow:

My pal Rick Lieder is one of the best science fiction and fantasy
artists in the field today (he’s also the husband of fantastic
splatterpunk turned young-adult author Kathe Koja), but he got his
start as a photographer. He’s returned to his roots, and has taken his
camera to his Michigan backyard to shoot intense, macro-focused
pictures of insects walking on leaves and twigs, using natural light,
without a tripod. These shots were compiled over two and a half years
by Rick, who crouches patiently and silently in his garden, waiting for
the insects to strike the perfect pose before he hits the shutter. I
spent half an hour today looking at printouts of these and giving out
involuntary exclamations of surprise and delight.
Link

Update: Here’s an alternate link — Rick exceeded his bandwidth limits.

[Via boingboing]

By Josh Rubin