Batelandia by Gui C

Our good friend Gui from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil blessed us with this amazing video. There is some videowork in there, but also beautiful photography. I suggest you put it on HD and full screen!
“During the Rio de Janeiro´s carnival tousand of suburbian gang members called the “bate-bolas” ( the ball-knockers) go to city´s downtown [...]

A video essay by Thomas Hoepker

“Earlier this year I realized we would celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. I went back into my archive and discovered that I had boxes full of negatives that I had never seen before, taken in East Germany over the past 50 years It was a treasure which had to [...]

Colorama – Makeover

A well executed tilt-shift + time laps photography experiment by McCann Malmö (Direction: Upper First, Director of Photography: Keith Loutit, Sound design: Kungen & Hertigen). You can find tons of videos like this on the internet (always fun though), but we never saw something like this before. There is a cool way of interaction, and [...]

Gerhard Wiener is monsieur photo

Gerhard Wiener, born in Paris, is one of the last mechanics in Munich to fix analogue cameras. For the last 35 years he’s being patching up broken and faulty camera’s. Check out this slideshow put together by Thomas Dashuber.

Hamburger Eyes documentary

A short documentary shot on 16mm film Nick Fogarty made about the photographers that put together the black and white photo zine Hamburger Eyes. Hamburger Eyes Photo Magazine is based in San Francisco and published tri-annually by Burgerworld Media. A pictorial history of both the intimate and iconic moments of everyday life, Hamburger Eyes is [...]

James Nachtwey – War Photographer

A film about the American photographer James Nachtwey, about his motivation, his fears and his daily routine as a war photographer. If we believe Hollywood pictures, war photographers are all hard-boiled and cynical old troopers. How can they think about ‘exposure time’ in the very moment of dread?
Swiss author, director and producer Christian Frei followed [...]

Movie tip: Visual Acoustics

In Visual Acoustics (the modernism of Julius Shulman) director Eric Bricker celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman, who passed away this year, captured the work of nearly every major modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank [...]