Visual Art

We now know that at one point or another, Wayne T. Carr was supposed to play John Stewart in Zack Snyder's Justice League. Ultimately, the casting never got approved by the executives at Warner Brothers and HBO Max, so the filmmaker had to pivot. Instead of Green Lantern showing up at the end of the fabled Snyder Cut, it was Harry Lennix's Martian Manhunter.

Caves, often their deepest reaches, were humanity's first art galleries, where early artists produced star maps, hunting scenes and friezes of ice age animals. However, caves weren't great studio spaces -- there is no natural light and humans can't see in the dark. And while some art is found at cave entrances and under rock shelters, many paintings -- including those at well-known sites like Lascaux in France -- are found in narrow passages or deep inside cave systems that can only have been navigable with artificial light.

Photos and videos of the recent partial solar eclipse are starting to come in, leaving me incredibly inspired. Photographer Zev Hoover made a series of photos that made my jaw drop the moment I saw them. He captured a sequence of a bird flyby in front of the solar eclipse, adding a dash of abstraction to this amazing scene. I spoke with Zev a bit about how he took them, and he kindly shared some details and of course – the photos – with DIYP.

WildArt Photographer of the Year has announced the winners of its fourth category — with the theme “Connection” — that showcase entries from over 1,000 submissions from all around the world. WildArt has already awarded wildlife photography winners across three other categories — “Wet,” “Space,” and “Eyes” — as part...

“The past four years felt so horrible. I think it all crashed down on me at that moment,” remembers Diana Sinclair, recalling how she cried before the media announced the results of the 2020 election. Sinclair, who describes themselves (they/she) as a 17-year-old Black queer woman, says the action was unlike them, so much so it was jarring to their parents.

“In the beginning, I was really just goofing around,” stylist Katie Burnett recalls of the striking, surrealist self-portraits that she started shooting last March. In the early days of quarantine, she suddenly found herself isolated in her Brooklyn apartment, away from the sets that she’d grown accustomed to during her six-year career. Those impromptu photoshoot sessions became a creative outlet: “I realized I loved making pictures,” she says. Soon, in lieu of the Centrefold and Vogue Italia spreads that once occupied her Instagram feed, she began posting the black-and-white snaps—much to her followers’ delight. “I was shocked by the number of people who were responding and saying that they were inspired by or looked forward to my portraits, so I just kept going with it,” she says. Now, that body of work can be found beyond the screen, too, thanks to her new book, Cabin Fever.

MacKenzie Scott, one of the richest women in the world, promised to keep giving her fortune away “until the safe is empty” following her divorce from Jeff Bezos in 2019. Over the past year, Scott has donated some $6 billion to more than 500 nonprofit organizations, and this week announced a new round of grants worth a combined $2.7 billion. The funds will be distributed to 286 higher education, social justice, and arts organizations working to support marginalized and underserved communities.

Located in the indigenous community of mezcala in the state of jalisco, mexico, ‘casa galápagos’ by c3 arquitectos emerges as a cluster of scattered brick-clad masses that are integrated into the natural surroundings. overlooking towards the lake chapala, the disjointed house sough to attain absolute respect for the context without any type of intrusion while sustaining a non-urban life scheme. solely using local materials, the architects attempted to reinforce and aid the local economy.

Tell your brain cells to take a hike because guilty pleasure summer TV is right around the corner. How do we know? Because we have the exclusive key art for the new seasons of CBS' dynamic duo of mindless madness. That's right, Big Brother and Love Island are back on July 7. Don't believe us? Just look at the key art. The date's right on there! Besides, why would we lie to you about that? That would be a super weird thing to do. You can totally trust us. After all, it's not like we're secretly trying to backdoor you, à la Nakomis Deadmon's epic six-finger-plan. Or are we…? EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED, PEOPLE!

Editor's note: This article has been updated with more photos. Health: Some Americans were infected with COVID in December 2019 — Study: Nearly a quarter of COVID-19 patients developed new or long-term conditions — U.S. COVID-19 death toll surpasses 600,000. Vaccines: Vermont becomes first state to reach 80% vaccine threshold...

Photo restoration was never something I was interested in when I was younger. It seemed like my dad had a ton of photos of relatives I never knew or only knew when I was really young and I didn’t much care for them. But, now that I’m getting older and...

Indie distributor Abramorama has acquired global distribution rights to “The Outsider,” a documentary that reveals the challenges to curate and construct the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum in lower Manhattan. The film’s directors Pamela Yoder and Steven Rosenbaum, the team behind “7 Days In September” and “Overcome,” have spent 20...

According to the Gartner Blockchain Spectrum, despite the ever-changing technology landscape, these blockchain use cases will almost certainly impact the businesses of most IT leaders over the next five years. When putting aside the blockchain hype, businesses have more of a foundation in answering whether they need a blockchain. Blockchain...

Peter Brodie is the Director of Organisation Design at The Orgworks. For many people, the term "bureaucracy" has unfashionable negative connotations. It can conjure up images of excessive paperwork and pointless processes. At its worst, it embodies the truly Kafkaesque qualities of being surreally illogical, a nightmarish world of nonsensical rules, enforced through blind authority. However, in the discipline of organization design, the term describes an organization that seeks to control and coordinate work through standardization. This includes the standardization of processes, quality, outputs and skills.

Film photography never died: it only evolved into something much better. Fact: some of us have never shot film before. Others amongst us are just getting into it. In 2021, film photography co-exists with digital and is in demand by lots of clients. There are lots of the mainstays like Portra, Tri-X, and Velvia. But there are also lots of options out there that aren’t traditional. And we’ve reviewed a bunch of them. So we dove into the old Reviews Index to look at our many years of film photography coverage. Here are some of our favorite emulsions.