khaled hafez

from khaled hafez's video 'revolution project'. "in 1952, a group of military officers came to power in egypt with a coup d’etat. they came with a bouquet of promises: independence from the british empire, modernization of a country worn out by centuries of occupation, social equity and proper distribution of wealth to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor, unity of all factions, minorities and ideologies in one big modern democratic society...slightly over half a century later and despite the sometimes blind faith and total belief of the mass public, all promises remain unfulfilled..." see more here.

[all khaled hafez. stills from revolution project. three-channel video.]

mónika sziládi

work by mónika sziládi. "about the effort yet inability of people to connect." see more here.

[all mónika sziládi. from the series aquarium. 2008. top to bottom: ben and avantika. amanda and han. asuka and sarah.]

clare strand

clare strand's project 'signs of a struggle' "looks at the phenomena of the new town and the garden city movement. taking from ionesco and les tuers sans gages the work reveals a fatal flaw in utopia in the presence of a serial killer whose sequence of crimes are documented in a series of forensic imagery fresh from the file." see more here.

[all clare strand. from the series signs of a struggle. 2003.]

sam falls

work by sam falls. also take a peek at his brand-new book published by hassla. more of his stuff here.

[all sam falls. untitled.]

cassandra c. jones

work by cassandra c. jones. see more here.

[all cassandra c. jones. top to bottom: wax and wane. 2007. lightning drawing 2. 2009. car fire, 2009.]

horst ademeit

horst ademeit's obsessive and fascinating project to record traces of radiation damage. "ademeit devoted almost twenty years of his life to the photographic documentation of 'cold rays'...as well as newspapers and food, these daily pictures show measuring devices such as a thermometer, light meter, compass, and clock. Each photograph is numbered and annotated by hand: these notes comprise ademeit's measurements, for which, alongside objective methods, he developed a subjective one that involved measuring the width of a crack in a wooden table; but he also described the atmosphere of his surroundings, smells, sounds, and objects not visible in the pictures." see more here.

[all horst ademeit. from the series tagesbilder. 1989-2007.]

superior search term • nail art

today's suggested term is nail art. have fun with the search results right here. and big thanks to emily walter for the suggestion.

[all found via image search for nail art. top to bottom: nail art 1 via rankfunny.com. noteworthy nails via howstuffworks.com. nail art by a student via businessweek.com.]

naotaka hiro

work by naotaka hiro. see more here and here.

[all naotaka hiro. top to bottom: from installation at the box, los angeles. 2008. flood patrol. 2006. untitled (rotating a skull)/the world. 2006.]

the institute for words + pictures

the institute for words + pictures is a project by zak kyes and tahli fisher. "the book is a constructed and fictionalized document of history, politics, and identity of calarts in the late 1980s." see more here and here.

[all from the institute for words + pictures book. 2005.]

toru aoki

work by toru aoki. see more here.

[all toru aoki. untitled.]

christoph keller

christoph keller's 'tour solaire' project. "the camera is observing an abandonned sun-observatory south of paris and then glides inside of the structure like into a psychological state." see more here.

[all christoph keller. from the video tour solaire. 2007.]

darren sylvester

australian artist darren sylvester makes funny work using the aesthetics of commercial photography. see more here.

[all darren sylvester. top to bottom: take me to you. 2009. doomed. 2008. time has lifes meaning. 2007. dont substitute a life to satisfy mine. 2007. all you need to know you knew early. 2007.]

friday round-up

kate steciw's friday round-up is a project that she describes this way "every friday I send a selection of found images to whomever would like to receive them. There are no words only pictures." above is the selection from today. sign up here.

[all friday round up.]

the sunday best

multi-media project from natalie conn and peter smith. they describe it as "a documentary project about ordinary people doing extraordinary things". see more here.

[all sunday best.]

luke gilford

interesting variety of work by luke gilford. more here.

[all luke gilford. ]

archive • pageantopolis

pageantopolis is one of the most impressive private archives i have come across. seemingly single-handedly maintained by donald west, it has a huge amount of material to browse. get started here.

[all from pageantopolis.]

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