Friday, March 11, 2011
Photography by Edouard Fraipont
Edouard Fraipont, a visual arts practitioner and photographer from São Paulo, Brazil who works with self portraiture and iconography. Recent research explores evocations of the supernatural in landscapes and transfiguring the body to create distorted photographic testimonies.
Japan Earthquake Photography
TOKYO - A powerful tsunami spawned by the largest earthquake in Japan’s recorded history slammed the eastern coast Friday, sweeping away boats, cars, homes and people as widespread fires burned out of control. Authorities said at least 32 people were killed.
The magnitude 8.9 offshore quake was followed by at least 19 aftershocks, most of them of more than magnitude 6.0. Dozens of cities and villages along a 1,300-mile (2,100-kilometer) stretch of coastline were shaken by violent tremors that reached as far away as Tokyo, hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the epicenter.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Photography by Carson Fisk-Vittori
Carson Fisk-Vittori was born in Austin, Texas. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2009 in Interdisciplinary Studies. Her current obsessions include floral arrangement and food packaging. She’s obsessed with ikebana, she appreciates the thrill of putting everyday objects in places where they don’t belong, and she’s from Chicago
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