This set of photos featuring painted hand animals (yes, actual human hands painted to look like animals!) is the work of Italian artist Guido Daniele, who not only paints animals on hands but also outfits on people. He also illustrates & photographs other things.
“These photos of home sex operators were taken in their rooms, often in the rooms where they worked. They opened their doors to a stranger, and wrote courageously about their experiences.”
Just saw this “Phone Sex the Book” web-page over on SwissMiss’s Blog & I think the photos are lovely and the words are intriguing. (Nice web-design, too!)

David Hilliard creates panoramic views by connecting two or three photos in a sequence. It makes the viewer feel both grounded in the event pictured (the long, wide view makes you feel as if you are there) and distinctly outside the picture, voyeuristic, looking-in (because the split up pictures remind you that you are viewing images and not reality).
Check out the cool Ameture Photo Gallerys at American Apparel. Each gallery includes photos from a specific place (ie Kosovo, California, Coney Island), and lots of them have that old-school, 80s, Polaroid-y feel (matches the American Apparel grunge-effect). (more…)

Photographer Anthony Goicolea takes a lot of photos. Of himself. Of many of himself. Doing awkward/mean/weird things. Check out his mission statement for his series “You and What Army” (from which the above “Classic Picture” is a part): (more…)