Stanley Donwood: Love by Definition

"We loved each other so much that sometimes it hurt, even when we were close. I wanted to be her and she wanted to be me. Sex never felt complete, and afterwards we talked carelessly about easy subjects to avoid discussing the ache that bruised us both. So one day, in the kitchen, she cut me and I cut her; gently, slowly, too easily. It was the knife we used for onions and our tears were painful but expectant. We dripped the blood into coffee mugs, then bandaged up and went to bed. We fucked and there were stars but we saw different constellations..."

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Antoine D'Agata: Möbius Strips of Secret Selves

"From the pit of the Empty heart, the empty dark..."

 

"I don't protect myself, I let things come close to me... I can't help it."

 

"I try to distance myself from a certain type of documentary photography that often avails itself of symbols that are too easy to read and assimilate in order to present a complex reality in a balance that is endlessly discussed over and over between photography as an instrument of documentation and photography as being completely subjective. It isn’t the eye that photography poses on the world that interests me but its most intimate rapport with that world." Antoine D'Agata

"D'Agata spares us nothing, and he spares himself nothing... (He) even includes himself in some pictures, as if to show that to leave oneself out would be a delusion."

"My desire is never a mistake, Fear is the mistake."

Jon Edwards: The Fourth Kind

 

 

 

 

 

Chris Jordan: Screams of Concern

Chris Jordan uses his creative talents as a political voice. His works should invoke a horror within yourself and our nation's addictive consumption and lack of responsibility for our actions against the environment.

In his newest project, "The Message from Gyre," shot at Mitway Atoll in the North Pacific, Jordan photographed the bodies of rotting albatross birds who had apparently died from eating the toxicity found in our everyday waste. These are the contents of their stomach free of exaggeration.

"Every year tens of thousand of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking."

 

 

I strongly urge you to take a closer look at the project entitled:

Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait  

Each image portrays a specific quantity of something used in the U.S : 28,000 42-gallon barrels (two minutes use); 426,000 retired cell phones (one days buildup); 83,000 Abu Ghraib prisoner photographs, equal to the number of people who have been arrested and held at US-run detention facilities with no trial or other due process of law, during the Bush Administration's war on terror...

The photographs create the raw substance of the numbers, making the numbers more personable as opposed to simply reading about it.  

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"Depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world's oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean. "

 

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