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Marilia Destot’s photography series, ”Portrait of a lonely girl in New York, fall 2006” has an everyday simplicity with a touch of the abstract. {Image copyright Marilia Destot

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”La Chute” is a series by French photographer Denis Darzacq. Writes Natacha Wolinkski of the work: “"When the social elevator is broken you have to know how to bounce. Between the take off and the fall, the man parachuted in the city learns to control his trajectory.” It’s an interesting counterpoint to the photographs by William Hundley that we posted about earlier.

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Jonathan Harris is one of my favorite artists. His latest project to launch is The Whale Hunt, in which he shares his visual experience - literally, the sequential view through his eyes. “Last May I spent ten days with a family of Inupiat Eskimos in Barrow, Alaska, during their annual spring whale hunt. I documented the entire experience with a plodding sequence of 3,214 photographs, beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport, and ending with the butchering of the second whale, seven days later. The photographs were taken at five-minute intervals, even while sleeping (using a chronometer), establishing a constant ‘photographic heartbeat’. In moments of high adrenaline, this photographic heartbeat would quicken (to a maximum rate of 37 pictures in five minutes while the first whale was being cut up), mimicking the changing pace of my own heartbeat.”

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Photo copyright William Hundley

Entoptic Phenomena is a photography series by artist William Hundley (aka albino_octopus at Flickr). You’ve got to see it to believe it.

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Photo of Piglet in Agra, India copyright doc18

People’s creativity and passions never cease to amaze me, especially the Piglet travel photo series by doc18. In his Flickr profile he writes “Welcome to my Childish and Weird Mindscape...I [would] like to give up my day job and work with toys 24/7.” If it were up to us, doc18 would already be hired and traveling the world photographing his toys.  Check out his full set of Piglet travel photos, complete with Google Maps of locations at Chu Chu’s Photolog.  You can see his other toy photos at his Flickr page.

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Photo series are always compelling, but this one by graphic designer, Ahn Sang-Soo, really caught my attention.  Simply titled ”one.eye” and posted to a blog category, the series has over 2,000 photos taken by Ahn Sang-Soo of designers, poets, professors, colleagues, students, artists, families, government officials, friends, kids and many more. In every photo, the subject(s) cover one eye, either with a hand or an object.  I love the ones of people in their work environments, or those in pairs, where both people are clearly from the same industry or grooving on the same aesthetic.  Visit the site to see all 2,000+ the photos.

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