Date: 13/01/2008
Location: Denim Factory
Where: Melbourne western suburbs, Australia

This one has been around for a while and really feels like it. A huge area, we easily spent half a day rushing around the big open areas. It’s also interesting due to each area having unique feelings - big brick areas, graffiti covered halls with dripping water, greasy machinery areas, and open-space tin-roof-batting-in-the-wind kind of stuff.

We even returned a month or two later to use the space as a photoshoot.
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The futuristic city is something that’s been popping up a bit lately. As destruction and reconstruction occurs, the highly-publicised ‘green’ buildings are talking points in the average conversation. Everything from office-buildings to museums are near-on branded - promoting themselves to the world years before their completion. So what of it then? Are we a society shifting to a greater interest in architecture?

Enoki Chu has created an installation entitled RPM-1200 - a city skyline constructed out of found metal and general junk - but with great care in getting it extra shiny.

There isn’t much info out there on it (it’s showing at the Mori Art Museum) so clicking the link will just get you a bigger picture, here.

Humans are fascinated by eyes. It’s the familiarity, a point of contact where the brain can begin processing more complex instructions. It’s no wonder why so much emphasis is placed on understanding the unsaid nuances expressed through eyes – and yet we can’t pin it down to anything specific. It eludes us, so horrible clichés are formed using equally disputed concepts such as ‘soul’.

And so the magic of Rankin’s photography is explored through his friends and family - an exhibition of the eyes in all their myriad colours shapes and worlds they convey. Imagine these printed larger than life…

Visit the sideway scrolling folio here.

What would the world be like in 2020, if the air wasn’t of sufficient quality to breathe? As environmental issues become greater, more questions are being asked, and vivid pictures of the not-too-distant future appear more and more frequently.

Enter Bert Stephani’s concept of a jogger in this time period. As a personal piece born of a photo competition, it’s of the highest quality for this professional photographer. The above photo is an added extra to the photoshoot, but click above to see a video on how the shot was setup, and a few more bits of eye candy.

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Texture breathes. It’s a secret ingredient when applied to any creative field which adds that extra dimension that’s really all about the senses. An eye believes what it sees, and mentally attempts to reach out and touch the scene – even for a nanosecond, the viewer stops for a moment to absorb the scene, because, simply, it’s much more there. Or perhaps texture reminds us of an instinct inside us from birth – touch and learn the world around you.

Martin Sigmund is a photographer with a somewhat varied folio. While having a thorough understanding of light is clear in his work, what influenced this post is his “escape” series. Stunning landscapes begging to be blown-up on an oversized print and placed in a gallery wall somewhere. His website is torturous to navigate, so click the link below to see a few choice cuts.

View a selection of the “escape” series here.