Project Unbreakable You may have noticed that Project Unbreakable has been pretty quiet lately. For a few months now, those of us at Unbreakable have been making some pretty big life changes, and we have had to figure out where Unbreakable is placed. It has been a very long and incredible journey, but we are saddened to say that we will be closing our doors. We will finish posting all the submissions we have, but after we run out, we are no longer going to be accepting submissions for the website (but everything will remain up – we aren’t deleting anything.) We hope you understand, and we are grateful for your support. A note from Grace:
Making Do and Getting By- Richard Wentworth Making Do and Getting By July 02, 2012 Author: Renata Bittencourt Grasso Artist and photographer Richard Wentworth registers chance encounters of oddities and discrepancies in the modern landscape. PAINTING WITH LIGHT AND FIRE I’m going to get this out of the way right here in the beginning: none of these flashy, surreal photographs where Photoshopped. UK based light artist Ian Hobson, who humorously and humbly calls his work “Waving Torches at Things,” creates some of the best images we’ve ever seen in light painting. His newest works exude a flowing, painterly, yet digital aura, coloring the abandoned buildings he often uses as his art space with vibrant dashes and swooshes of light.
Cameras Travel the World: Disposable Memory Project In 2008 British technical creative director, Matthew Knight, had a unique idea: start leaving disposable cameras out for the public with instructions to be picked up, used to capture a couple of pictures and then passed on to others. Called the Disposable Memory Project he was hopeful that this photography experiment would be successful. Would people use the cameras and pass them on?
The Past in Color: Bringing Old Photographs to Life Did you ever stop to think that the black and white photographed world of the past actually occurred in color just like today? Sanna Dullaway, an artist from Sweden, gave us a glimpse of what this colorful world looked like. Dullaway took old, iconic pictures and colorized them using Photoshop. She cleaned up the photos and converted them from black and white to her own interpretation of what the colors may have looked like. “I did not want to ‘improve’ nor ‘replace’ the photos I DID colourize as some of you may think. I just wanted to show you a new perspective of the black & white old world, it used to be in colour, too.
Photo Surgery: Fusing Faces (WITHOUT PHOTOSHOP) At a first glance, it would seem that the photographs of Bobby Neel Adams are just another Photoshop project, but they were actually done using a technique that the artist calls “photo surgery”. Adams has been using this photomontage method which involves altering pictures through “manual excision, collage, and sometimes defacing of the subject” since the late 80’s. He has used this practice in three of his most popular collections: Couples, Family Tree, and Age Maps. In the Age Maps Collection, Adams fuses a childhood photo with a current photo of the same person. The torn edge represents a jump-of-time which bridges the two photos together. Adams’ purpose for this collection is to “telescope the slow process of aging into a single picture.”
Photo Splicing The Family Genetics Have you ever wondered what parent you look more like? Whose eyes do you have, what about your nose, or your chin? Maybe you think you and your siblings look nothing alike. 50 Year Old Photos Transformed Into Surreal GIFs Designer and artist Cari Vander Yacht works for the well known advertising company Wieden+Kennedy by day… but by night she paints and works on experimental projects like this wonderfully surreal series “TGIMGIF” (Thank God It’s Monday’s Graphics Interchange Format). Wanna make these images extra poppin? Play this track while you do your viewing:
Breaking The Fifth Wall: Visual Essay On Our Perception Yovcho Gorchev not only completed a masters in architecture, but a masters in film design as well. These combined interests of design and film have led him to become a narrative driven, mixed media artist. His latest endeavor, Breaking The Fifth Wall, entails Gorchev creating mind-blowing images in the GIF platform and using them to posit new theories of human perception, the diminishing value of physical space, and sensory experiments of a metaphysical nature. Landscape Photography Melts into Color Fields See Also An Entire Film in One Frame: Movie Bar Code Schlaug has been exhibiting his work since way back in 1982. The photographs we bring you here are atypical of his normal series’: he rarely uses digital methods in his work. Hey, Hot Shot! - Fall HHS! Winner: Juliana Beasley Paddy's Mother's Wig by Fall 2006 Hot Shot Juliana Beasley Juliana Beasley Currently residing in: Jersey City, NJ Website: Work Statement: The people in these photographs are largely disregarded: the poor, the elderly, the mentally ill, alcoholics, or drug addicts. They live in a close- knit community along the boardwalk of the Rockaways. I became accepted with my camera in hand.