Marten Elder - LA Colour

Loving these on a cold winters day. Marten Elder

Andrea Galvani - The End [Action #1]

A nice project from the artist Andrea Galvani on display in New York earlier this year.

'The End [Action #1], an Art in General New Commission, is a homage to the heliocentric model of our solar system championed by Galileo Galilei, father of modern cosmology. Over the course of months, Andrea Galvani coordinated with local cameramen to film the sunrise along the eastern coastlines of five different Central American countries. On January 8th, the anniversary of Galileo’s death in 1642, the event was filmed in over 30 different locations simultaneously. Discrepancies between atmospheric conditions, the sensitivity of 16mm film technology, and the movements of each individual manifest as a prism of time and space. The architecture of The End [Action #1] was conceived as an ephemeral monument — pedestals of light designed to be used by seven vocalists whose voices activate and enliven the space at different times throughout the exhibition.'

Here are some stills form the films and some shots of the installation....

Flowers and Cars: Jacob Lillis campaign for Simone Rocha

Love coming across these photographs by Jacob Lillis for Simone Rocha AW15 in our favorite mags.

'Mineo' by Julian Mährlein

A nice project by Julian Mährlein set in a small mountain village in Sicily called Mineo. Mineo is home to Europe's largest asylum seekers centre CARA. Here 3200 refugees from Sudan, Nigeria, Eritrea, Gambia, Liberia, Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere wait for up to 2 years for permission to enter the EU.
Julian has taken a series of portraits and incidentals in the area surrounding the camp.

Yoshinori Mizutani - YUSURIKA

This project by the photographer Yoshinori Mizutani depicts a tiny bug called Yusurika.  
'YUSURIKA is the name of a tiny bug in Japanese. I came across this bug through a careful observation of the natural world. I decided to create a series based on this little creature, which look like small sparkly dots in my photographs.'  (Yoshinori Mizutani, 2014)

Mammoth book signing tomorrow (2nd May) in LA!! 'Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles'

If you happen to be in LA tomorrow get down to the Artbook stand at Paris Photo at 2pm as there will be more than 50 photographers signing this great new book 'Both Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles' published by Metropolis Books. It includes a forward by Ed Ruscha and photographs from the likes of Bruce Davidson, Ed Templeton, Robert Adams, John Baldessari, Todd Hido, Lee Friedlander, Jim Goldberg and Daido Moriyama to name but a few!

Dino Ignani - Dark Portraits Rome 1982 - 1985 and Portraits from Mercato dei fiori, Rome

We came across this nice book published by Yard Press  - Dark Portraits Rome 1982-1985 by Dino Ignani

Ignani also has some nice portraits in the series 'Mercato dei fiori', also taken in Rome.