From Georgia Metaxas‘ series The Mourners:
A description of the project:
The Mourners is a series of portraits documenting the ritual of wearing black as a signifier of perpetual mourning. In remembrance of those they have lost, all that sit for a portrait in the series wear black every day for the rest of their lives.
(Photo: Untitled #28 (2010-11), archival inkjet print, Georgia Metaxas. Courtesy the artist and Fehily Contemporary)
Carolyn Rauch explains the piece:
For his series Crumpled Paper, Brooklyn-based photographer Ofer Wolberger took images from the pages of fashion magazines. He folded, crumpled, taped and lit them from behind, allowing the photographs to morph both sides of the page. The project was used to re-conceive and re-explore the idealized images of beauty found in women’s magazines. In some cases, the models’ faces become distorted and even grotesque, causing us to consider a different perspective on beauty.
(Photo: Crumpled Paper II, Ofer Wolberger)
Women in polka dot dresses attend Ladies Day at the Derby Festival at Epsom Racecourse on May 31, 2013 in Epsom, England. By Chris Jackson/Getty Images.
Melissa Lipman, a veterinarian technician volunteer, cares for a dog rescued from the ruins after a deadly tornado struck near Oklahoma City at the Tri County Humane Society in Boca Raton on May 30, 2013 in Boca Raton, Florida. Workers at the animal shelter brought 65 dogs and 15 cats back from the disaster zone last night with plans to treat the animals for injuries, give them needed shots and adopt them out to families in about a week. By Joe Raedle/Getty Images.
The Philadelphia Phillies visited the Boston Red Sox in a regular season MLB baseball game at Fenway Park on the evening of May 28, 2013. Boston Marathon bombing survivor Jeff Bauman threw out a ceremonial first pitch. By Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty Images.
A reader nominates a pleasant woman in a South Park hijab:
The Reddit comments are priceless:
For those of you scratching your heads:
Anne Kornblut and her two-year-old son visit a gravesite in Section 60 at Arlington Cemetery, May 27, 2013. For Memorial Day, President Obama layed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns, paying tribute to military veterans past and present who have served and sacrificed their lives for their country. By Mark Wilson/Getty Images.
The artists’ group onformative combines facial recognition software with satellite images from Google Maps to reveal the planet’s “GoogleFaces.” Explain the artists:
Our Facetracker already circumnavigated the world a couple of times and astonished us with quite versatile results. As it continues to travel the world within the upcoming months, it continuously zooms into the earth. This process decreases the step-size for each iteration and therefore increases the amount of images and travel time exponentially. Some of the detected images aren’t usable at all, as we are not able to recognize any face-like patterns within the detected images. Other satellite images, on the other hand, inspired our imagination in a tremendous, yet funny way.
An interactive version of the project is here.
(Hat tip: ANIMAL)
The mother and stepfather of murdered soldier Lee Rigby, Lyn and Ian Rigby, and Lee’s wife Rebecca Rigby, grieve as Ian reads a family statement, at the Regimental HQ of his unit, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers on May 24, 2013 in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. Drummer Rigby was murdered by suspected Islamists near to his regiment’s Woolwich Army Barracks. The UK’s security services are facing a Commons inquiry after confirmation that the two men – who were shot and arrested at the scene and remain in police custody – were known to MI5. By Dave Thompson/WPA Pool/Getty Images.
Former US Representative Anthony Weiner speaks to voters in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City on May 23, 2013 after he announced he is running for New York City Mayor. By Timothy Clary/AFP/Getty Images.
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