Thomas Wrede

Until April 25th, the Wagner + Partner Gallery in Berlin presents 'Real Landscapes' by Thomas Wrede. He has been continuously working on this series of model houses, trees etc. placed in unique landscapes since 2004.
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Photograph: © Thomas Wrede, »Settlement in the sun«, Lambda print/Diasec, 120 x 150 cm, 2005

Joël Tettamanti

Swiss photographer Joël Tettamanti studied visual communication and photography at the Ecole Cantonale d'art Lausanne (ECAL) from 1997 to 2001. Since then he participated in numerous exhibitions and was included in many publications in Switzerland and abroad.
The photo above is an untitled image from the studies 'Ilulissat, Greenland' from 2008. Until May 17th the exhibition of Joël's project 'Local Studies', which is continuously expanded since 2006, can be visited at the Fotostiftung Schweiz in Winterthur.
Photograph: © Joël Tettamanti

Braun flickr set

Marvellous flickr set of Braun products. Flickr-member photonium collected these objects from flea markets, the b&w pictures are taken in the munich design museum. The design of Braun products, most of them created by Dieter Rams who worked as product designer for Braun from 1955 until his retirement in 1998, has influenced several generations of designers.
The iPhone's calculator app is an obvious tribute to the 1977 Braun ET44 and ET66 calculators.

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Wang Qingsong

X-Large photo by Wang Qingsong. "Dressed as a teacher, Wang stands in front of a blackboard covered in Chinese and English characters and graphics. While Nike and McDonald’s logos hint at the current wave of Westernization and democratization, the text in the middle of the board - “Let China walks towards the world! Let the world learn about China!” - suggests something much deeper. On the surface an expression of adulation for the developed world, it also raises the question of who, in this new century, will do the leading." (kunstaspekte.de)
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Photograph: © Wang Qingsong, »Follow me«, 120x300cm, 2003

Neil Krug

Neil Krug used expired Polaroids for his impressive Flickr set - no way getting this with Photoshop! Stefanie Schneider also creates artistic Polaroids with the same approach, as can be seen in a former Shotspot post.
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Photograph: © Neil Krug

NYC Pillow Fight 2009

The NYC Pillow Fight 2009 will happen on Saturday April 4th. Pictures from 2008 of this Newmindspace event can be seen in Daniel Gebhart's showcase at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.
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Photograph: © Daniel Gebhart

ED-Awards / ED-Festival 2009

The ED-Awards (European Design Awards) is the comprehensive annual awards organization acknowledging the best of graphic design, illustration and multimedia design in Europe. Last year's award winner in the category magazine was Netherlands-based agency Lesley Moore with 'MARK', an inspiring architecture mag.
The ED-Festival 2009 takes place in Zurich and will include the ED-Conference (15-17th May), the ED-Award ceremony (17th May), several Design Walks and other design events. The program is published here.
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The Continuing And Lamentable Saga Of The Suicide Brothers

Charming Keira Knightley portrays a fairy in a shortfilm with a long name, 'The Continuing And Lamentable Saga Of The Suicide Brothers'. Stills of the film are published on the website of photographer Kate Friend: www.katefriend.com > Galleries > Films
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Photograph: © Kate Friend

Billboards

Unreal series of billboards from Czech-based photographer Branislav Kropilak.
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Photograph: © Branislav Kropilak

Hamster Shredding

Tom Ballhatchet studied Industrial Design at London based Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He made my day with his 'Hamster Shredding' project.
"A hamster runs on his wheel, powering a shredder that shreds your unwanted documents into his bedding. Because micro generation is the future and everyone is responsible."
Thanks to Nora
Photograph: © Nikoletta Zisi

Greg Miller

Brooklyn-based photographer Greg Miller uses a wooden K.B. Canham 8x10 Camera.
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Photograph: © Greg Miller, 'Schnecksville Community Fair', Chromagenic Print, 2005

Murat Aslan

Berlin photographer Murat Aslan rocks.

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Photograph: © Murat Aslan

geschossen + gedruckt 2009

The printing house Seltmann from Lüdenscheid/Germany produces extravagant books & catalogues and awards advertising photos for the 4th time. C/O Berlin, The Cultural Forum for Photography, shows the 'geschossen + gedruckt' ('shot + printed') exhibition between April 18th and May 17th, 2009. Opening and award presentation will be held on April 18th, 2009.
Above image is the winning photo from geschossen + gedruckt 2007 in the 'Product in Use' category by Zurich photographer Gabi Vogt. The image was shot during an 'Artist in Residence' stay in Romania and shows a Dacia hulk.
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Photograph: © Gabi Vogt

VisualLeader / LeadAwards 2009

The nominations and winners of the LeadAwards 2009 will be presented in the House of Photography of the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg for the fourth time from March 14th to April 26th, 2009. More informations at deichtorhallen.de.
Above image is the winning photo from the LeadAwards 2008 in the category fashion photography.
Photograph: © Geoffrey Cottenceau + Romain Rousset

Cactuses everywhere

A summerlike cactus photo from German photographer Ina Johanna Gecke. Ina was published before here at Shotspot with her series 'horse paradise', her pictures can also be found here at Swiss picture agency Sodapix.


Urban Cactus is a housing project in the Vuurplaat section of Rotterdam by UCX Architects / Ben Huygen and Jasper Jaegers and done for Vestia Rotterdam Feijenoord/Estrade Projecten.


The Cactus Candy Company began with cactus candy made from the fruit of the prickly pear cactus and later introduced pomegranate, lemon, orange, raspberry chipotle, ...


Tokidoki's wildly successful cactus friends line of vinyl figures

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Pinhole camera

Fascinating pictures, taken with a pinhole camera from German journalist Tilman Spreckelsen, in a slideshow from German newspaper FAZ.



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Photographs: © Tilman Spreckelsen

Michael Marcelle

Have a happy Monday with this photo from Brooklyn-based Michael Marcelle from the series Our Wild Indians (2009).
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Photograph: © Michael Marcelle

Noë Flum

Zurich photographer Noë Flum regularly shoots for Swiss magazine 'Das Magazin'. Above picture is from an article about "Does animals have feelings?" from 2008, for more pictures click here. Below picture from an article about surgery won the Audience Award from ewz.selection 2007, for more pictures click here.

Photographs: © Noë Flum

Good Design, Good Business

Markus Löw, 'Acaralate 2E Geigy', ca. 1967, Photo: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Umberto Romito © ZHdK

The J. R. Geigy A.G. chemical concern was the starting point for a great moment in the history of Swiss graphic art and advertising. "Research for tomorrow" – the former Basle-based company also lived up to this forward-looking slogan in its communication: its design was intended to increase sales of products "made in Switzerland". The exhibition 'Good Design, Good Business' from 4.2. – 24.5.2009 at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is the first comprehensive show of this important Swiss contribution to the history of design, presenting works from well-known Swiss designers like Gottfried Honegger, Max Schmid, Herbert Leupin and Karl Gestner. More pictures can be found here at werbewoche.ch.
'Corporate Diversity – Schweizer Grafik und Werbung für Geigy 1940-1970' is the well designed publication accompanying the exhibition, edited by Karin Gimmi, Andres Janser, Barbara Junod, R. Roger Remington and Yvonne Zimmermann. Design by norm.

Karl Gerstner, 'Neocid – eine Schranke dem Hausungeziefer!', Werbeblatt. DE ca. 1953, Armin Hofmann, Luzern

Levi Wedel

Beautiful night shots from Levi Wedel, a photographer from Calgary/Canada. Levi writes about this 'Invisible City' series that the pictures "depict New Topographic directives to a terminal extreme. Structures dominate and overshadow the natural landscape they are forged from, vegetation is absent apart from that which is humanly sanctioned and controlled, and even the light is completely artificial." More series from Levi can be seen here on Flickr.
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Photograph: © Levi Wedel

Rolf Siegenthaler

An atmospheric photo of a snowblower from photographer Rolf Siegenthaler, born 1979 in Bern/Switzerland. Rolf recently did the photography for 'Gut Holz', the ultimate book about bowling alleys in Switzerland, edited by Monica Lutz and Fabienne Eggelhöfer.


Photographs: © Rolf Siegenthaler
First photo: »Schneefräse II«, C-Print, 90x72cm, 2001

Deep Sleep

Theme of the highly worth seeing inaugural issue of Deep Sleep online photography magazine from East London is 'Invisible'. Photo stories come from Ben Smith, Ian Teh, Sam Baguley, Wang Wei, George Georgiou, Vanessa Winship, Martin Scott-Jupp and James Harris, whose series 'Connected' contains "Hidden or overlooked perspectives on human beings relationships to their surrounding environment."
Theme for issue two: Alien (submission deadline 1st May 2009)
Theme for issue three: Dance (submission deadline 1st August 2009)
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Photograph: © James Harris