matthew jordan

work by matthew jordan. and yep, that middle picture is a copy of playboy in braille! see more of matthew's work here. and thanks to asha for the link.

[all matthew jordan. from the series music for the sheeple. 2007. top to bottom: coming soon. playboy in braille. spurting testosterone.]

mark wyse

mark wyse's series 'disavowal' is entirely made up of framed reproductions of photographs taken from books. i especially like where the pairings ask us to consider relationships between artists we might never have thought about in tandem before. you can take a peek at more of mark's work here.

[all mark wyse. from the series disavowal. 2008. top: thomas struth / charlie white. middle: sherrie levine / walker evans / thomas ruff. bottom: roe etheridge / edward weston.]

diana kingsley

stuff by diana kingsley. see more here.

[all diana kingsley. top to bottom: experimental gene. 2007. little icky. 2007.]

grady o'connor

stuff by grady o'connor. see more right here.

[all grady o'connor.]

charles benton

work by charles benton. take a peek at more here.

[all charles benton. untitled (portraits). 2008.]

melissa kaseman

work by melissa kaseman. see more here.

[all melissa kaseman. top + middle: from the series another season slips. bottom: untitled.]

jan adriaans

work by jan adriaans. see more here.

[all jan adriaans. from the the series followed to the corner and left in peace. 2001.]

michael bühler-rose

from michael bühler-rose's project 'constructing the exotic.' see more here.

[both michael bühler-rose. top to bottom: chandra + kalyani. alachua, florida. 2007. vani. alachua, florida. 2006.]

today at NYPH

curating 2.0: a panel discussion featuring tim barber, laurel ptak, and jen bekman. the internet is undoubtedly incubating a new generation of photo curators. how is the medium being radically redefined in this online context? this panel discussion will feature tim barber of tinyvices.com and NYPH08 curator, laurel ptak of iheartphotograph.com, and gallerist jen bekman of heyhotshot.com and 20x200.com

friday may 16
5-6pm
part of 'aperture presents' at the new york photo festival
st. ann's warehouse in DUMBO brooklyn
nyphotofestival.com

john opera

some interesting stuff by john opera. take a peek at more here.

[all john opera. 2007. top to bottom: interior abstraction. object (attributed to gerald fonte). parliaments 1 (interior abstraction).]

anne noble

work by new zealander anne noble. see more here.

[both anne noble. from the series white lantern. top to bottom: white lantern. 2004. antarctica, discovery museum, dundee. 2003.]

esteban schimpf

work by esteban schimpf. see more here.

[all esteban schimpf. top to bottom: the ruin of many a poor boy. 2007. crystals. 2006. untitled (st. louis). 2007.]

indre serpytyte

lithuanian photographer indre serpytyte's project 'a state of silence.' as she says about the work: "the lithuanian papers wrote that it was a 'painfull misfortune,' when the head of goverment security died. albinas serpytis died in the early hours of the 13th of october 2001, in a 'car accident.' no one seemed to know the details, or circumstances, or provide straightforward answers. his death was premeditated and brutal. for me this was sufficient proof he had been eliminated. all that remains is silence, unknown circumstances. hidden motivations. a chilling absence. this was my father. the subject of my indefatigable investigations." see more here.

[all indre serpytyte. from the series a state of silence. 2006. top to bottom: paper. document 1. shredder.]

archive • donkey basketball

donkey basketball is illegal in california. however, luckily, there are plenty of states where it still happens. more pictures here and here.

[all from circle a donkey ball website.]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph.

juliane eirich

german photographer juliane eirich's pictures of schools at night. see more here.

[all juliane eirich. from the series schools.]

michaela thelenová

'landscapes' by czech artist michaela thelenová. take a peek at more here.

[all michaela thelenová. landscapes. 2005.]

young sun han

work by young sun han. see more here.

[both young sun han. top: the beyonders. 2007. pareidolia (in collaboration with siobhan harvey). 2008.]

chris fortescue

chris fortescue's 'rectified searches' project "explores how image proliferation on the internet impacts contemporary photographic image production." see more here.

[all chris fortescue. from the series rectified searches: road, chris, fog. 2007. top to bottom: chris 07. chris 04. chris 10.]

adam ekberg

interesting stuff by adam ekberg. see more here.

[all adam ekberg. top to bottom: aberration #8. my breath in a car. an impression of myself in a field.]

pete volich

work by australian photographer pete volich. see more here.

[both pete volich. from thoughts from the nap in an afternoon couch. 2006.]

tom pope

from the series 'over the edge' by tom pope. he says about the work: "my photographic practice embraces the performative act in order to critique the discourse between a time-based photography and a notion of event. ...we see a character suspended within space as he translates his unbridled demeanor into absurd actions; actions that result in ambiguous, gravity defying photographs." take a peek at more of tom's work here.

[all tom pope. from the series 'over the edge.' top to bottom: #1. #7. #9.]

pixl porn

pixl porn is a brand-new project by stuart allen. what you see here are real images of nude celebs—lil' kim, catherine zeta jones, christina aguilera—however they are magnified to reveal only a handful of fleshy pixels. hot. visit the pixl porn site here. thanks to john for the link.

[all pixl porn. top to bottom: lil' kim's vagina. 4 pixels. source: concert footage. 2003. catherine zeta jones' nipple. 9 pixels. source: paparazzi photograph. 2003. christina aguilera's ass. 4 pixels. source: music video 'dirrty.' 2002.]

gustav gustafsson

stuff by gustav gustafsson. see more here.

[ all gustav gustafsson. top to bottom: signs of affection. the magician. head injury.]

i heart photograph upcoming events...

friday may 16 at the new york photo festival

curating 2.0: a panel discussion featuring tim barber, laurel ptak, and jen bekman

the internet is undoubtedly incubating a new generation of photo curators. how is the medium being radically redefined in this online context? this panel discussion will feature tim barber of tinyvices.com and NYPH08 curator, laurel ptak of iheartphotograph.com, and gallerist jen bekman of heyhotshot.com and 20x200.com.

friday may 16
5-6pm
part of 'aperture presents' at the new york photo festival
st. ann's warehouse in DUMBO brooklyn
nyphotofestival.com

thursday may 22 at the pierro gallery

the google aesthetic: a panel discussion on art, technology, and the internet

join the pierro galley for an intimate conversation on art, technology, and the internet. laurel ptak (independent curator and founder of iheartphotograph.com), wes miller (associate curator, art:21), and leigh claire la berge, ph.d. (american studies scholar and 2008 university of chicago society of fellows) will discuss "the google aesthetic" and the impact of online culture and technology on contemporary art.

the talk will be followed by a closing reception for the exhibition "is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world?"

thursday may 22
7:30-9:30pm
at the pierro gallery in south orange new jersey
pierrogallery.org

kanako sasaki

work by japanese photographer kanako sasaki. see more right here.

[all kanako sasaki. from the series view from here. 2004-5.]

carolin reichert

more interesting stuff from carolin reichert. take a peek at more here.

[all carolin reichert. from the series space between. 2005.]

lisa van wieringen

work by dutch photographer lisa van wieringen. take a peek at more here.

[all lisa van wieringen. top to bottom: pappa en mamma. familie. ingefluisterd.]

paul graves

some brand new magazine work by paul graves. see more of his stuff here.

[all paul graves. top to bottom: paul smith and louis vuttion. dolce and gabanna and martin magiela. rayban and ?.]

maximilian haidacher

work by maximilian haidacher. see more here.

[all maximilian haidacher. all from the series kur.]

jelle ooijevaar

stuff by jelle ooijevaar. see more here.

[all jelle ooijevaar. 2007. top to bottom: monument # 05. zonder titel.]

felipe garcia

felipe garcia considers how religious symbols mingle with everyday life. see more here.

[all felipe garcia. from the series walking.]

archive • prokudin-gorskii

jim welling just told me about sergei mikhailovich prokudin-gorskii, a russian photographer who made amazing color photographs at the turn of the century. his process involved photographing a scene through three-color filters and making transparencies because he couldn't make prints. however with current digital technology the library of congress has reconstructed them as they were meant to look. i was most interested in the ones where the digital assembling was done crudely and the process becomes apparent. check out their mini-site about him here.

[all from library of congress.]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph.

lilly mcelroy

lilly mcelroy's i throw myself at men series is great. see more here.

[all lilly mcelroy. 2006. top to bottom: i throw myself at men #3. #1. #7.]

robert wechsler

robert wechsler's clever interventions into the world around him recorded photographically: a drinking fountain altered to water a plant, school desks conjoined, and the natural curve of shopping carts demonstrated in a costco parking lot. see more of robert's work here.

[all robert wechsler. 2004. top: watering fountain (drinking fountain altered to water a plant when the right handle is turned, but functions normally with left handle). middle: conjoined (two school desks joined by custom top and left in classrooms around UCSB). bottom: applied geometry (a circle made by following the natural curve in a line of shopping carts in a costco parking lot).]

haris epaminonda

collage by haris epaminonda. take a peek at more here.

[all haris epaminonda. 2007. top to bottom: untitled 0010c/g. untitled 009c/g. untitled 03c/a.]

magdalena fischer