Perhaps just as iconic to the Vietnamese aesthetic as motorbikes are tube houses: spindly and impossibly narrow towers that stretch three, four, five, sometimes eight stories tall, and are the predominant residential structure throughout the country’s urban areas.
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Luca Savettiere • Palermo
Following a recurring theme in his work, Luca Savettiere approaches his surroundings in a way to find specific elements in the urban landscape that deeply connect the man to the environment in wich he lives. His photographic analysis tries to relate man, geographic territory and what on the territory was added by man.
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Andrew Ward • Sofas of L.A.
1.200 pieces, 6 years of constantly seeking and photographing abandoned and cast-off furniture in Los Angeles: Sofas of L.A. – the culmination of a gigantic, still ongoing project by Andrew Ward – depicts beautifully rugged sofas which seamlessly blend in in their new and unintended surrounding, the streets of Los Angeles.
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Arnau Rovira Vidal • A Ghost City
The Spanish photographer Arnau Rovira Vidal submitted a part of his series on the strange, megalomanic, and monumental architecture of Turkmenistan’s capital city Ashgabat and provides some interesting background information on their bizarre history and development.
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Urbiquity Urban Lab ’18 – Residency Program in Milan
Urbiquity, a platform for creative and critical urbanism, specialized in creating workshops and residencies in cities all over Europe, is now organizing their fourth residency program taking place in Via Padova, Milan, from June 4 till 10, culminating in an exhibition.
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Adam Friedberg • New York City
The last fifteen years have seen an enormous increase in the development and construction of new buildings in New York City, especially in downtown Manhattan’s East Village, Alphabet City, Lower East Side, and the Bowery neighborhoods. Adam Friedberg, having learned under renowned photographer Joel Sternfeld, documents the developing architectural landscape culminating in his long term project “Single Story”.
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Ralph Steinegger • Singapore
Having left Switzerland at a young age to discover the far ends of the world, the explorer, discoverer, and almost cartographer, Ralph Steinegger, now based in Singapore, is utterly drawn towards the fascinating aesthetics of urban spaces, in particular of the fast-growing cities in the developing world.
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Warren Sebastian • Brighton
Beautifully composed, touching photographs documenting Brighton’s youth and life in general: British construction & landscaping worker Warren Sebastian allows us a unique, poetic and truly emotional view on what it means to live in this coastal city.
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News & monitor calibration w/ globellColor *Advertorial*
Just some numbers and facts with a couple of “Thank You”s sprinkled here and there, and a short review and recommendation of the globell Color Suite.
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Round-Up #4 • 20180416
From Gale in Sri Lanka to New York, London and Lleida in Spain, this week’s Round-Up #4, again, features some truly beautiful images. This time made by the photographers Anton Mishin, Antoni Benavente, James Morris, James Sykes, Jon Stars, and Timothy Hill.
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Bitter Life • Photographs by Fotini Masika
“Bitter Life” a photo book documenting the greater region of Athens’ centre by greek photographer Fotini Masika, once started as simple observation of an urban curiosity and soon evolved to a contemplation on life’s fundamental questions; a nonstop inner dialogue shaped in the form of a beautiful notebook.
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Mike Murphy • Los Angeles
What do you get when you attach an iPhone to the passenger side window of your car, put it in panorama mode, and mix it up with a selfie stick used as a remote shutter? Mike Murphy’s exceptional and surrealistic depiction of the greater Los Angeles area shows it best. Explore L.A. in a way you most likely haven’t before!