Shot entirely on a Nokia N8 mobile phone…

Splitscreen: A Love Story
by JW Griffiths

 

This is a beautiful little film with a sweet ending, but it’s the rhythm of the imagery that really captures me. The unity and subtle merging of moments are striking. It’s well constructed, hypnotic even, as I drift into a calming state with a growing smile on my face. It’s not even the happy ending I care so much for, but what the images are telling me about the city, reflecting a colourful journey through a regular day. Have a watch. It’s truly gorgeous.

http://www.jwgriffiths.com/

ben frost – ‘nuf said

“Freedom of Choice No. 6” and “End of the World No. 7” 2010

Ben Frost’s website

from the series “Saddam Is Here” – Jamal Penjweny

Jamal Penjweny’s photojournalism is outstanding! His home is Iraq, which is where he takes pretty much all of his images. He provides such an honest and confronting perspective on Iraqi life. This series, “Saddam Is Here” has particularly struck me as they’re staged images (unlike the impromptu nature of the rest of Penweny’s work) which communicate how obsessed Iraq still is with Saddam Hussein. I find the below conflicts both fascinating and terrifying.

This is direct from the ‘Saddam Is Here’ gallery, speaks for itself really:
They support him, they cheered him up, they beautified his cruelty and crimes and they simply put him in power to be a godfather of Iraq for good, but his execution order took place a few years ago. Saddam is here. Iraqi society can not forget him even after his death because some of us still love him and the rest are still afraid of him. People who love him say, because he was handsome, powerful and aggressive. Saddam in the meantime was generous and cruel, he was a good father and he was a criminal. He made Iraqi people to kill and to be killed in the same time. His shadow is still following Iraqi society everywhere.

See the whole ‘Saddam Is Here’ series here
And you have to see more of Jamal Penweny’s work here!

Not just pretty pop art

Somewhere, deep down, identity is something I always base my works from, not just self-identity, but identity as life as well. I still  believe that most of us spend our lives figuring out what it is that we’re living for. Dealing closely with death and injury makes you realize the frailty of identity and life… Just that one moment you can fully exist and the next you can be gone
– Stella Im Hultberg

Although beautifully crafted, for me these graceful and feminine portraits are so much more than a pretty face. Look at the women’s expressions. And their saddened eyes. The women are filled with sorrow and while we don’t know why, we are still intrigued.

http://www.stellaimhultberg.com/