The Lowry exhibition opened at Nottingham’s Lakeside last week – great paintings and drawings, very atmospheric portraits and a reminder of Manchester and Salford landscapes that have largely disappeared. It’s also free!
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CMYK, colour, conversion, Djanogly Art Gallery, Exhibition, FOGRA39, Lakeside, Lowry, Manchester, neutral, RGB, Salford, TVI

Global fashion brand Benetton has a track record of provocative publicity campaigns featuring striking images unrelated to its products. Remember the shot of the unwashed newborn baby still attached to its umbilical cord that features in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most controversial ad campaign of all time?

Well, it appears Benetton has lost none of its appetite for edginess. Its new campaign features images of world leaders engaged in forging closer diplomatic relationships – such as this (above) of President Obama snogging with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.

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This year Linney have been working closely with Yamaha and Ben Spies from MotoGP to create images and a film made in Spain. Targeted at hard riding Supersports riders the marketing collateral was created and edited this summer.

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Ben Spies, R1, Yamaha

The light trails of cars have long been a stock library stalwart, but these long exposure images of busy airports are a lovely twist on the tried and tested. I love how the trails ‘hang’ from the sky like threads of string. The collection of 16 photos were taken between July 2008 and April 2010 by photographer Terence Chang.

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Airport, Light, Terence Chag

Believe it or not, this image has been created, from scratch, using only Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Bert Monroy took over 2,000 hours to create this hyper-real rendering of Damen Station in Chicago (measuring 120 inches wide x 40 inches high and weighing in at just over 1.7 gigabytes), using almost 50 separate Photoshop files containing over 15,000 layers, 500 alpha channels and over 250,000 vector paths. While this undoubtedly demonstrates Bert’s astounding digital skills, someone should really buy the poor guy a decent camera.

You can see more of his work at BertMonroy.com

Bert Monroy, Digital Art, Illustrator, Photoshop

It’s Better In The Wind – 2011 Trailer 2 from Scott Toepfer on Vimeo.

It’s Better In The Wind is a photography, film and book project by Scott Toepfer which sets out across the west of America on’vehicles without windows to restrict the scenery’, reflecting on past and future journeys. There’s some beautiful photography, and some wonderfully evocative and stylish film trailers for the forthcoming movie.

More pictures at ItsBetterInTheWind.com

See the movie trailers at ItsBetterInTheWind.com

America, It's Better In The Wind, Motorbike, Motorbikes, Scott Toepfer, Travel

This beach in Fort Bragg, California, has for decades been a dumping ground for local residents disposing of everything from household appliances to cars. In the 60’s the North Coast Water Quality Board closed the area for a series of clean-ups to reverse years of pollution. Large objects were easily taken away, however millions of tiny shards of glass proved too costly to remove. I’m amazed at how nature has found its own way of restoring ‘Glass Beach‘ to its natural beauty, shaping and smoothing the glass into a bed of sparkling gems.

More images at ThisColossal.com (http://thisiscolossal.com/2011/08/glass-beach/)

California, Glass Beach, Nature, Photography, Pollution

Ulric Colette’s seamlessy merged portraits explore the differences and similarities between family members. I also find this a really interesting insight into how much our faces and bone structures change with age, and just how different we all are when you look really closely – even twins.

See more examples on Ulric Colette’s website.

People, Photography, Split Family Portraits, Ulric Colette