Raphael Dallaporta

Selections from Raphael Dallaporta's series Antipersonnel.

Antipersonnel Bounding Fragmentation Mine. M- 16. USA.
When detonated the M-16 antipersonnel bounding fragmentation mine is shot up approximately 1.5m in the air and explodes within 0.5 seconds, creating a lethal radius of 10m. Nicknamed the "Bouncing Betty," each mine is supplied with four tripwires (two olive-green, two sand-colored) and a wrench. In September 2002 (the most recent available statistics), the USA had 465, 330 M16s in stock.
d: 100mm
wght: 3.75kg

Antipersonnel Blast Mine. PDM-57. Soviet Union.
This obsolete antipersonnel blast mine is an improved version of the PDM-6, which was used by the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Decay of the mine's wooden casing means that it becomes increasingly unstable the longer it is left in the ground.
w: 130mm
wght: 500g

Submunition. ZAB-500. Russian Federation.
The flammable liquid in each of the 775 submunitions in a ZAB-500 incendiary bomb is designed to burn in the air, creating "fire rain." If dropped at an altitude of 300-600m a single ZAB-500 leaves a footprint of 5,600-9,000 square meters. The weapon can also be set so that the submunitions do not burn until they impact with the ground.
d: 60mm
wght: 400g

Antipersonnel Direction Fragmentation Mine. M-18/A1. USA.
A "Claymore" directional fragmentation mine releases 700 steel balls when detonated by a hand-turned dynamo, a tripwire or, when used with "Matrix" system, remotely using a laptop computer. (Multiple Claymores can also be linked together using a detonator cord). A 1966 Department of the Army field manual states that, "the number of ways in which the Claymore may be employed is limited only by the imagination of the user." In September 2002 (the most recent available statistics), Claymore made up to 403,096 of the 10,404,148 landmines stockpiled by the USA.
w: 210mm
wght: 1.58kg

Antipersonnel Blast Mine. GMMI-43. Germany.

Used by Nazi forces during the Second World War, this antipersonnel mine's glass construction and chemical fuse render it undetectable. Glass fragments- that enter the body after the mine is triggered by pressure on the interior glass plate- are also undetectable to X-rays. In 2004, Colombian government sources said that homemade glass mines were being used by guerrilla forces in the country.
d: 135mm
wght: 1.2kg

ron jude

ron jude's 'executive model' project. see more here.

[all ron jude. from the series executive model. top to bottom: back #184, new york. 1993. back #187, atlanta. 1993. back #524, chicago. 1994.]

penelope umbrico

penelope umbrico's image collection of universal remotes. see more here.

[all penelope umbrico. from the series img collection #6: universal remotes (for sale on the internet).]

photgraph a recruiter

a new project by alyse emdur, photograph a recruiter is "an online photography project that invites high school students to photograph the military recruiters posted in their schools". see more and submit your own here.

[all from photograph a recruiter.]

beni bischof

work by beni bischof. see more here.

[all beni bischof. bricked castles. 2008.]

veronika spierenburg

work by veronika spierenburg. see more here.

[all veronika spierenburg. from the series cropping and walking. 2007.]

helga steppan

helga steppan's personal belongings arranged and photographed by color. see more here.

[all helga steppan. from the series see through. 2004. top to bottom: all my things, orange. all my things, blue. all my things, purple.]

yogi proctor

work by yogi proctor. see more here.

[all yogi proctor. from the series twenty eight portraits.]

virginie otth

work by virginie otth. see more here.

[all virginie otth. from the series petites définitions.]

david ellison

david ellison's portraits of butchers. see more here.

[all david ellison. from the series butchers.]

archive • scanwiches

there is a genius in new york who puts half of his or her lunch on a scanner. see more here.

[all from scanwiches.]

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

erik van der weijde

240 houses in 16 settlements, built in nazi germany between 1933-45, photographed by erik van der weijde in the spring of 2008. as he explains "siedlung is the german word for neighbourhood or settlement. in nazi germany before WWII a lot of siedlungen were built in order to offer a house to every working class NSDAP-member. this siedlungpolitik was a powerful propaganda tool to submit the working class to the state as well as to provide living space for nazis. the building and distribution of tens of thousands of those houses were carefully controlled by the party. the often regional style in which the houses were built had to provide a heimat (homeland)-feeling to the inhabitants and the uniform character of these settlements were to bring a feeling of unity amongst the germans." see more here. the book version is available through the great independent art publisher roma publications.

[all erik van der weijde. from the series siedlung. 2008.]

vanessa louzon

work-in-progress by vanessa louzon. as she explains these are a "collection of reworked photos of family dinners that took place in my mother's family home in szczecin, poland, ranging from 1978 to 2008. the series of photographs show the evolution of life in poland, from the communist 70s and 80s, to today's modern consumerist times, while its traditions and mentalities remain unchanged." see more here.

[all vanessa louzon. untitled.]

shayok mukhopadhyay

shayok mukhopadhyay's 'commercial portraits' of delivery vans, repair trucks, tractor-trailers, etc. see more here.

[all shayok mukhopadhyay. from the series commercial portraits. top to bottom: delivery I. construction vehicle. double bus.]

olga chernysheva

work by olga chernysheva. see more here.

[all olga chernysheva. from the series waiting for the miracle. 2000.]

penelope umbrico

penelope umbrico's found images of broken LCD tvs for sale on ebay. see more here.

[all penelope umbrico. from the series broken sets (ebay).]