Category: Face Of The Day

Ellen Jacob snaps shots of nannies at work around NYC:

As a resident of Manhattan’s Upper West Side, photographer Ellen Jacob would often notice nannies pushing children around in strollers on the street. Eager to learn more about the lives of these women, Jacob spent four years photographing dozens of nannies and the children in their care for her series, “Substitutes.” “My work explores the social, racial and economic relationships that powerfully affect life and largely go unnoticed,” Jacob wrote in a statement.

(Photo by Ellen Jacob, who has an exhibit at Soho Photo Gallery, 15 White St until Feb 1. Gallery hours Wed-Sat 1-6 and by appointment. Follow her on Twitter here.)

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Alli McCracken joins activists protesting the surveillance of U.S. citizens by the NSA outside the Justice Department where U.S. President Barack Obama gave a major speech on reforming the NSA on January 17, 2014. By Win McNamee/Getty Images. Dish reax on the speech here.

Radio presenter Dave Lee Travis arrives at Southwark Crown Court in London, England on January 15, 2014. Dave Lee Travis, whose real name is David Patrick Griffin, is charged with 14 counts of indecent assault and one of sexual assault, which allegedly took place between 1977 and 2007 against victims aged between 15 and 29. Dave Lee Travis entered a not guilty plea to the charges in October last year.  Details about today’s trial can be read here and here. By Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images.

Bowie decides to go all Snoopy on us. Eddy remains unmoved.

Bride Fatme Inus, her face painted white and decorated with sequins, emerges to present herself to villagers towards the end of her two-day wedding to Mustafa Sirakov on January 12, 2014 in Ribnovo, Bulgaria. The centuries-old tradition of painting the bride’s face white and decorating it with sequins and coloured paint is called “gelena” in Bulgarian and is unique to Ribnovo, located in the mountains of southern Bulgaria. Ribnovo weddings only take place in the winter and the entire village participates with group dances on the main square. Ribnovo is predominantly inhabited by Pomaks, a Muslim ethnic minority who are the descendants of Christian Bulgarians who converted to Islam during Ottoman rule. By Sean Gallup/Getty Images.

Cute but controversial:

Four days ago, Indonesia-based photographer Tri Joko put up an extremely adorable photo called Snoop on photo sharing site 500px. Not only did 10,000 people view that photo in one day, it raised a storm of controversy as fellow photographers started to call “foul,” or in other words, “this is photoshopped.” Two days after the photo went up, Joko answered back to the criticism with a blog post on his website that stated that he had placed the photo in the “Fine Art” category for a reason and that it was, indeed, a combination of two separate images. The 16-month-old child and the cat were placed together, looking as if they were spying on the same thing.

Here were a few negative and positive comments from 500px:

“Cool idea, but this is heavily photoshopped, right? The paw somehow looks misplaced to me.” – Lukas Grumet

“It’s interesting and controversial to say that photos can’t be retouched, even be photoshopped. Retrospectively, all the traditional paintings are all artificial work, aren’t they? So how do we define an art work? I believe that the beauty of this picture should be more profound in the scene instead of how it is made.” – Lanny Yeh

(Image courtesy of Tri Joko)

Noel Kat captions:

Flecks of vivid neon paint glow brilliantly off faces and shoulders in this series of portraits by [Brazilian] photographer Hid Saib. At times, the glowing paint seems like the scattered embers of a fire or an explosive shower of sparks racing across the cheeks of the model. In other instances, the disarray seems more serene. Constellations of the night sky softly trace their way across the planes of a face, while an ethereal aurora borealis is created by the colorful luminescence of the neon.

(Photo by Hid Saib. See more of his work here.)

Kayleigh Dawson kisses her boyfriend Sam Moysey after disembarking from HMS Illustrious in Portsmouth Harbor in Portsmouth, England on January 10, 2014. The ships returns with her 650 crew after a five month deployment to South East Asia delivering aid relief to victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. By Dan Kitwood/Getty Images.