Appenzell by Ueli Alder

Impressively photos of landscapes in Appenzell (Switzerland) from Ueli Alder, a young artist from Appenzell who studied photography at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste). Pictures from Ueli are available at young at art and at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.
Photograph: © Ueli Alder

London darkrooms

Richard Nicholson about his series of Londons last professional darkrooms:
"1979 was the year my father constructed a darkroom and introduced me to photography. I was immediately entranced by the printing process, and I cherished the long hours spent in this dark, silent, private space. Ever since the darkroom has been integral to my work as a photographer. But for how much longer?
Labs are closing their doors - Joe’s Basement, Primary, Metro Clerkenwell, Metro Soho have all gone. Polaroid has stopped making instant film. Clients are demanding the immediate feedback of digital photography. This project, shot on 4″x 5″film, documents London’s remaining professional darkrooms."
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Photograph: © Richard Nicholson

Festival of Visual Arts in Vevey

From January 2009, as part of Images, the Festival of Visual Arts in Vevey, Switzerland, the Foundation 'Vevey: Ville d’Images' is inviting entries for the 5th European First Film Awards and the 7th International Vevey Photo Awards. Register online to the photography or cinema competition. The deadline for the submission of projects is April 30th 2009.
Photograph: © Geert Goiris, »Whiteout«, 2008
6th International Vevey Photo Awards winner

London Shop Fronts

Kingfisher, Homerton High Street E5. From the fantastic Blog London Shop Fronts.
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Rui Camilo

Great photographer with a great website: Rui Camilo
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Photograph: © Rui Camilo

25 years Apple Macintosh

Happy Birthday Mac! We love Macs - even older models, like this Macintosh Classic, being used as decoration in our apartment.
Photograph: © shotspot

Movie poster remix

Olly Moss, born 1987 in the UK, is an outstanding designer and illustrator. His minimalistic movie poster remixes strip to the essential content of the films. My favourite is The Deer Hunter.
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jĭng

jĭng studied photography from 2002-2007 at School of Visual Arts, New York and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors. With shiny-eyed optimism and close interaction with everyday people, jĭng combines his eye for subtle gestures and expressions with a tropical color palette and the classical formality of the tableau, instilling the colorful character of his subjects in his images. Utilizing a healthy dose of kitsch and humor to disarm viewers' expectations, jĭng explores the social instinct of people to form communities and identities, exploring cultural quirks and cultural stereotypes along the way. (Text: superhyperreal)
For more shiny happy people take a look at jĭng's portfolio superhyperreal.com.
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Photograph: © jĭng, from the series 'OHMYGOD'

Yes You Can

More pictures from young Obama at obamamagazine.com. All the best!

Polaroid relaunch

If all goes to plan, the Polaroid factory in Enschede, the Netherlands, will soon be making film again thanks to its new owner, an eccentric Austrian artist and businessman named Florian Kaps. Mr Kaps, 39, has dedicated the past five years to instant photography. He set up Polanoid.net, the biggest Polaroid gallery on the web, and the first ever Polaroid-only art gallery in Vienna, called Polanoir. (Text: Smile! Polaroid is saved, Article from The Independent)
For details and more pictures of the factory: The Impossible Project
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Fuhrimann & Hächler architects

Stunning residential building in Zurich by Fuhrimann & Hächler architects from 2005. The task was to create reasonably-priced residential space with high standards of living comfort for four differently sized parties. In the processs, each party was to profit as much as possible on the one hand from the south-facing environs, and on the other from the north-facing view of the city. (Text: archdaily.com, more informations and pictures are to be found there)
This is no brand-new architectural news, but I've visited this building recently for the first time. Besides, another good example of presenting architecture with a very nice vintage car, a Citroën SM from 1972 with a Maserati V6 engine. Picture found at jetzt.de, unfortunately without a reference to the photographer. If anybody knows, please write a comment.

Plat(t)form 09

On January 23/24/25th 2009 the 3rd annual 'Plat(t)form' takes place, hosted by the Fotomuseum Winterthur as an international portfolio-viewing for young "emerging artists" from Europe.
Visiting information: www.fotomuseum.ch/PLATTFORM.411.0.html

Photographers Plat(t)form 09: Carlos Aires (E); Akvile Anglickaite (LT); Olivia Arthur (GB); Stefanie Becker (D); Viktoria Binschtok (D); Erik Blinderman (GB); Kim Boske (NL); Bianca Brunner (CH); Frederik Busch (D); Raphaël Dallaporta (FR); Johanna Diehl (D); Dick Duyves (NL); Marcus Erixson (S); Amir Fattal (IL); Perrine Gamot (F); Gerald Garbez (F); Christian Hagemann (D); Helga Härenstam (S); Lukas Hoffmann (CH); Margret Hoppe (D); Sophie Huguenot (CH); Jakob Hunosøe (DK); Philippe Jarrigeon (F); Adam Jeppesen (DK); Annette Jonak (D); Thomas Julier (CH); Anouk Kruithof (NL); Anni Leppälä (FIN); Esther Levine (D/USA); Susanna Majuri (FIN); Michael Meier (CH); Adrien Missika (F); Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs (CH); Helena Påls (S); Martin Plüddemann (D); Giuliana Racco (I); Philipp Schärer (CH); Wytske van Keulen (NL); Ea Vasko (FIN); Joachim Weischer (D); Martin Widmer (CH); Johan Willner (S)

Photograph: © Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, »Flyer«, 2004
Both born in Switzerland in 1979, Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs have worked together for more than six years on different projects and exhibitions in Europe and the United States. Onorato & Krebs graduated from the ZHdK (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste / School for Art and Design, Zürich) in 2005 and were awarded the Photo Grand Prix from the Hyeres International Fashion and Photography Festival in May 2005. (Text: Swiss Institute, NYC)

Ferit Kuyas

Ferit Kuyas was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He studied architecture and law in Zurich, Switzerland and graduated 1982 in jurisprudence from the University of Zurich. Since then he became a self-taught photographer. He lives and works in Wädenswil, near Zurich, Switzerland. Ferit’s work has been shown by galleries and museums in Europe and Asia. 1999 he received the Kodak Photobook-Award (Kodak Germany) for the book Industrial Interiors and 2002 he was given the Hasselblad Masters award. He is a member of vfg (vereinigung fotografischer gestalter und gestalterinnen, Switzerland).
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Photograph: © Ferit Kuyas, »Security Officer« from the series 'City of ambition', Chongqing, China, 2005

Saab 99 Combi Coupé : 1974 - 1978

Dear car designers, please be inspired by this timeless beauty. Thank you.
The Saab 99 Combi Coupé or Wagonback as it was initially referred to in the U.S. arrived in 1974. The car was designed by Bjorn Enväl and was produced in Uusikaupunki, Finland as well as Trollhättan, Sweden.
Photograph: © Saab Automobile

Kalle Gustafsson

Kalle Gustafsson is a photographer from Stockholm and is represented by the skarp agency. Born in Lund, Sweden, in 1980. Studied film in Sidney, Australia, and photography in Paris. Spent two years as an assistant in Sweden. Kalle has a strong presence and a keen eye for form. Works with both lifestyle and fashion photography.
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Photograph: © Kalle Gustafsson

2009: Photographers to watch

Style hunter LaLila published a list of six up and coming photographers that The Ones 2 Watch will be keeping an eye on in 2009:
- Eric Guillemain
- Glynis Selina Arban
- Bruna Kazinoti
- Giuseppe Gasparin
- Sebastian Kim
- Jonas Bresnan
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Photograph: © Jonas Bresnan

Book Cover Archive

An Archive of over 800+ book covers and 180+ book cover designers: BookCoverArchive.com
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No Pants! Subway Ride

On Saturday January 10th 2009 is the 8th annual 'No Pants! Subway Ride'. Last year nearly 2'000 people took off their pants on subways in 10 cities around the world, most of them in NYC where Improv Everywhere started this event in 2002. Would be cool to see this also in currently frozen Zürich...
Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 70 missions involving thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.
Pictures and movies from previous 'No Pants! Subway Ride' /// No Pants 2k9 Details for NYC

Bicycle paintings

Taliah Lempert is a New York based artist who makes portraits of our dearest urban companions: our bicycles. You can order your own one here.

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Painting: Taliah Lempert, »Tracie's Civras«, Acrylic on paper 23" x 35", 2004

Rico & Michael

Zurich photographers Rico Scagliola & Michael Meier study photography at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste).

"We shoot young people aged between 13 and 20, Emos, HipHopper, Nu Ravers, Tecktonics, Punks, Metals, Indies, Gothics, Rockabillies, Visus, Skaters, Gangstas, Horrors, Scenes, Dandys, Mods, Hippies, New Wavers, Poppers, Ravers, Slackers, Grinders, Bolos, anybody..." (Rico & Michael)
Photograph: © Rico Scagliola & Michael Meier

Amelia’s World

'Amelia’s World' is an impressive series of Robin Schwartz, the pictures are published here in Women in Photography.
"My photographs are drawn from real journeys undertaken with my daughter, Amelia. I am driven to depict relationships with animals but the photographs are not documents; they are evidence of the invented worlds that we explore and the fables we enact together. Photography gives us the opportunity to access our dreams, to discover the extraordinary." (Robin Schwartz)
Photograph: © Robin Schwartz, »Touch«, 2005

Dean Kaufman

Clean architectural lines, foregrounds that really pop out of their backgrounds, fashion, either way you look at it, Dean Kaufman knows how to get what he wants out of an image. His photography is featured prominently in magazines, especially architectural and design magazines like Dwell.
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Photograph: © Dean Kaufman