Category: Face Of The Day

Photographer Chloe Aftel photographs agender youth:

In the wake of a horrific incident in which Sasha Fleischman, an 18 year old “agender” youth, was set on fire after falling asleep on a bus in the Bay Area, San Francisco Magazine commissioned photographer Chloe Aftel to capture a series of portraits of young people (including Fleischman) who defy the male/female gender binary.

Aftel’s “Agender” series seeks to raise awareness of an overlooked and misunderstood community of gender fluid people who face oppression and harassment simply for not conforming.

See more of Aftel’s work here.

 

Eilon Paz focuses on old vinyl records and their owners:

Iranian photographer, Eilon Paz takes photographs of over 130 vinyl connoisseurs and their collections in the most intimate of environments, their record store rooms. Paz, a record collector himself, thought it might might be interesting to explore the people around him whose record collections are both larger and weirder than his own.The stunning, candid photos look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions as well as a glimpse into the collections of world-renowned and lesser-known DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts.

In a 416-page coffee-table book, Dust and Grooves, Paz’s photographs are grouped together with compelling essays that closely examine the records and the people whom collect them. The book is divided into two main parts: the first features 250 full-page photos framed by captions and quotes, while the second consists of 12 full-length interviews that look deeper into the collectors’ personal histories and vinyl stories.

Buy the book here.

American World War II veteran Henry Mendoza of Rancho Cucamonga, California, participates in the 70th anniversary D-Day commemoration at the WWII Memorial on the National Mall on June 6, 2014. Mendoza was a member of the U.S. Army 9th Air Force and gave air support to the invasion of Normandy by allied troops. By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

A boy pays his respects in the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, France on June 5, 2014. Tomorrow, June 6, is the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings. By Matej Divizna/Getty Images.

People take part in a candlelight vigil on the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests during heavy rain in Hong Kong on June 4, 2014. Held to mark the crackdown on the pro-democracy movement in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, it is the only commemoration on Chinese soil. By Lam Yik Fei/Getty Images.

A woman smokes a hookah while visiting a poetry calligraphy workshop in Shiraz, Iran on May 29, 2014. Shiraz, celebrated for more than 2,000 years as the heartland of Persian culture, is known as the home of Iranian poetry and for its progressive attitudes and tolerance. Like all of Iran, this week Shiraz observes the 25th anniversary of the death and continued legacy of the Ayatollah Khomeini, the father of the Islamic revolution. By John Moore/Getty Images.

Gannon Burgett captions:

While Scott Brierley was on a tour at West Midlands Safari Park, located in Worcestershire, England, he managed to drop his phone next to the African elephant enclosure. After Brierley was told to not exit his car, Latabe grabbed his phone, presumably thinking it was food, and in doing so managed to capture quite a selfie. After his phone was returned to him by keepers at the park, Brierley shared that he might be in possession of the world’s first “elfie” — an elephant selfie.

Tonya Corkey’s portraits rely on lint:

Canadian artist Tonya Corkey creates portraits made out of lint on canvas. Through her choice of material and subject, the artist looks to investigate an unavoidable aspect of human nature- precisely, the the need to collect memories and reconstruct the past. The series, “See You In the Future,” looks to further analyze this desire to recollect objects and moments of the past through a medium that encompasses the essence of loss and decay over time.

See more of her work here.

Andre Levy’s coins take on alternate identities:

Brazilian artist and designer Andre Levy has developed an interesting, playful new pastime: painting coins. In the series, which he calls Tales You Lose, Levy uses the mini-structures of the coin’s portraits or figures to create his own, partially or fully obscuring the faces of presidents and kings to recreated the likenesses of superheroes and pop-culture icons.

See more of his work here and here.

Flying instructor David Schnaible (R) teaches wind tunnel flying to nine-year-old Liam Harrison at the iFly indoor skydiving facility in Rosemont, Illinois on May 29, 2014. Guests at the facility are introduced to the sensation of free-fall skydiving as they are lifted into the air by fans that generate an upward draft from 80 to 175 miles per hour inside a 14-foot-wide circular chamber. The company operates about 30 similar facilities around the globe that are used for military and competitive skydiver training as well as recreation. By Scott Olson/Getty Images.