You thought China was all about the color red, but Portuguese photographer Filipe Casaca’s work from the seaside city of Dalian, China, are as blue as can be.
Image: © Filipe Casaca
From our Photojournalism of the Week round-up:
“Christie’s specialist James Hyslop holds a pre-17th century, sub-fossilized Elephant Bird egg in London. The rare egg is expected to sell for $30,000-45,000 when is it auctioned in London on April 24. The extinct Elephant Bird, a native of Madagascar, was a large bird measuring around 11 feet in height. Suzanne Plunkett is a Reuters photographer based in London.”
Photo: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters
We spoke to Ed Panar about surviving as a photographer: “I’ve accepted the fact that I will live on very little money.”
Image: © Ed Panar
It’s 2013, and museums are continuing to question the place of photography with respect to the other arts—and we’re wondering why.
Image: © Flickr user eSeL.at
Muhammad Ali knocks out Cleveland ‘Big Cat’ Williams in three rounds at the Houston Astrodome to defend his heavyweight title in November 1966. The bout drew a record indoor crowd of 35,460. (Neil Leifer/SI)
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We’re digging Maurice van Es’ still life shots these days; check out a few more on the site.
Image: © Maurice van Es
Presiding over our photojournalism of the week roundup is Pope Francis I, flanked by Swiss Guards as he sits under a wooden sculpture at the Vatican.
Photo: REUTERS/Paul Hanna
“When my outlook changed, the images started changing, too.” - Matt Miller, one of our top 10 wedding photographers.
Photo: © Matt Miller/Our Labor of Love
Check out this video preview of Ed Panar’s new photobook Nothing Changes if Nothing Changes. We’ve got the full story on this unique book—which you will never finish—on the site today.
Jeanette Muranyi (on Tumblr here) mounted her camera to a telescope and photographed the city of Juarez, Mexico from across the border in El Paso, Texas. We spoke with her recently about this unique project.
Photo © Jeanette Muranyi
Hat tip to bloodoftheyoung