lexxdigs:

Caine’s Arcade by Nirvan Mullick is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a minute! Thanks for sharing Devoya!

A 9 year old boy - who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto part store - is about to have the best day of his life.

Help Caine’s Scholarship Fund:
cainesarcade.com

Caine’s Arcade Online:
facebook.com/cainesarcade
twitter.com/cainesarcade

Credits:
Directed by Nirvan
twitter.com/nirvan

from the iconics photo series by olga laris (via bbmundo)
02.21.12 /10:54/ 18

Namsa Leuba

“I am an African-European, born in Switzerland and my project was accomplished on a trip to Guinea Conakry. In this work, I was interested in the construction and deconstruction of the body as well as the depiction of the invisible”

If You Teach A Man To Photograph: Haiti, As Seen By Haitians

“Foreign photographers come to Haiti,” says renowned photographer Maggie Steber, “but all too often they start and stop with the earthquake.”

Steber, an American, is one of those foreign photographers. But she started well before the earthquake — some three decades ago — and hasn’t stopped. Since 2010, Steber has been an adviser for the nonprofit FotoKonbit, an organization that promotes photography in Haiti.

“When you see what Haitians think is beautiful to photograph, important, profound,” she says, “you learn more about them than anything an outsider can show you. And they do it better because it is so intimate.”

The Rise And Fall Of Poverty Porn

Alex’s YouTube clip is a case study in a dramatic shift in the way nonprofits represent themselves and their constituencies in an era of social media and information overload. From the ashes of poverty porn, a new era of media—one which shows the poor as fundamentally full of potential and opportunity—is being born.

(via fastcoexist)


mooooves

good morning folks!

herbrainsdailychurn:

This never ceases to crack me up in a 5 yr old fall out in the middle of the floor laughing my head off kind of way. Happy weekend y’all!

Photography by Jacob Holdt

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Top: Untitled

Middle Left:Mohammed, Garba, Baba & Bintu

Middle Right: Hopper

Bottom: Merkabah

it ain’t necessarily somargaret bowland [portfolio]
ivorydome:

RSVP for opening reception March 1st 6-8PM at Babcock Galleries here
02.28.11 /16:00/ 12
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01.25.11 /18:58/ 7129
Canvas  by  andbamnan