photography

A hearty welcome to the Prix Pictet; a new global photography prize that focuses on sustainability. The award is sponsored by Pictet & Cie,a Swiss bank, in association with the Financial Times newspaper. Each year a different theme will be the focus of the prize; this year's theme is water. The prize is $100,000 and the chance to work on a water-related project. Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations is the Honourary President: "Climate change is not just an environmental issue, as too many people believed for too long. It is an all-encompassing threat. It is a threat to the world's supply of fresh water, our source of lif...

Dezeen podcasts: the latest in our series of podcasts for the Design Museum features fashion photographer Tim Walker talking to curator Donna Loveday about Tim Walker - Pictures, an exhibition of his work at the museum until 28 September. (more…)

Photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us these images of Casa 11 Mujeres (Eleven Women House), a cliff-top house near Santiago in Chile by architect Mathias Klotz. (more…)

I must be the most frustrated blogger i know. Well, i don't know that many bloggers but i can tell you that being in China is both an endless source of surprises and enthusiasm and an extremely upsetting experience, courtesy of the Great Firewall of China. Yesterday i could still painfully access my blogging platform through a proxy. Today it's over and after having cried on my favourite puppet shoulder, i had to resort to some complicated solution to put this text online. Enough moaning!

Hola! I'm in Madrid stuffing myself with the sublime tortilla de patatas and checking out the projects developed this month at Medialab Prado as part of the now illustrious Interactivos? workshop. The theme of this edition is Vision Play, the public presentation is tomorrow June 14 at 6.30 pm and it's going to be extremely good.

Meanwhile the Photo Espana Festival is all over the city. Here's just an appetizer from one of the many exhibitions i've seen today:

Words, 2008

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By Russ Lowe via Cool Hunting

Boone Speed is his real name. Whether the Portland, OR-based photographer's brand of photography is the result of natural-born talent or sheer determination, his aesthetic likely has something to do with his father, Grant Speed. Known for his sculptures depicting Western life, the senior Speed split his West Texas home at the tender age of 12 to ride bulls and earn a living as a cowhand. Boone is keeping the all-American myth going, albeit updated for a new generation.

I'm back from New York for more than a week and getting ready for new adventures in little Europe. Time to turn a page on the transcontinental trip by throwing in a couple of posts the best exhibitions i saw while i was in Manhattan. Some of them are still up till the end of the month, others have already closed their doors. Here we go...

FotoGrafia, the 7th edition of international festival of photography closed recently in Rome. I've already mentioned how much i have been blown away by Paolo Woods' Chinese Wild West, one of the photo series i discovered at Palazzo delle Esposizioni.

Milkmaids, 2007, Lucia Nimcova

Although i tend to spend most of my time inside every single branch of Sephora when i'm in New York, i got to see some pretty interesting exhibitions while i was there. Daneyal Mahmood Gallery is hosting until June 14 an arresting installation and series of photographies by Justine Cooper.

Sally, 2008

Cooper has an unquestionable interest for science. The Australian artist is known for having spent one year snooping around the storerooms of the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Casa en el Campo is architect Benjamín Murúa’s renovation of a house near Cuesta Lo Prado, Chille, photographed by Cristobal Palma. (more…)

Photographer Cristobal Palma has sent us photographs of the Edificio BIP office building by architect Alberto Mozó, constructed in Santiago de Chile. (more…)

A French photographer, Cedric Delsaux, has created scenes similar to the one above which place Star Wars subjects against bleak urban backdrops. By using such stark urban settings, icons of the Star Wars franchise seem to fit into modern-day France perfectly.

Subjects which Delsaux has used in his collection include C-3PO and R2-D2 looking at a derelict Citroen, Darth Vader swiping his lightsaber against a building and Jango Fett holding up a car.

Delsaux used image manipulation software to merge the images of the subjects and backdrop; 'I decided to mix together the common suburbs and some fantastic characters, which I think has created something poetic,' he said.

Find Delsaux's photography here: http://www.cedricdelsaux.com

Kinderstad is a penthouse where children being treated at an Amsterdam hospital can relax and meet friends, designed by Sponge Architects and Rupali Gupta in cooperation with IOU Architecture. (more…)

The exhibition Richard Rogers + Architects opened at the Design Museum in London last night, and Dezeen was there to record a conversation between Rogers (above), Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic (below) and exhibition designer Ab Rogers. (more…)

Architect Albert Frey built his own home in Palm Springs in 1941, starting with a 3-bedroom nucleus that he hoped could be a prototype for mass-produced homes. (some things never change) Built out of cheap industrial materials, it came in at $6 per square foot, low even then. An original proponent of multiple-use space, his dining room table hung from the ceiling on clotheslines, another idea whose time has come again. Julius Shulman writes "The aluminum siding and ceiling reflected the sun, while the interior wood panelling provided a feeling of warm refinement"
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Since he began his career in 1936. Julius Shulman has been photographing the best in west coast architecture. Now, at age 97, he has produced Modernism Discovered, a big (think 29 pounds) and expensive (try 300 bucks, or for all the price-per-square-foot whiners, $10.34 per pound ) but is a wonder that is an absolute must for anyone interested in modern design.There are over 400 architectural projects in it, many of them forgotten gems.

Shulman's photographs concentrate on the connections between indoors and out: “The reason why this architecture photographs so beautifully is the environmental consideration exercised by the architects,” he says in

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It was about a year ago that JR first told us about his “Women are Heroes" project, a collaboration with Médecins Sans Frontières.

SenseCam created by Microsoft's research facility in Cambridge, is a wearable digital camera that is designed take a low-resolution photo every 30 seconds while dangling passively from its wearer. And you thought that the internet was already full of enough crud from peoples lives!

We love a bit of intelligent porn here at Protein, so we couldn't resist these Obscene Interiors c/o South Africa artist/designer Brandt Botes aka Von Brandis.

Via Juxtapoz