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Nothing To See – A Statement On The Current State of Politics In America

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Photography at it’s core is an art form.

As photographers, we sometimes get so caught up with the aesthetic or technical challenges of creating pretty pictures that we forget that art is supposed to challenge us intellectually, to help us see things in different ways, to inspire debate.

Advertising photographer Tim Tadder’s recent project “Nothing To See” aims to do just that.

“Nothing To See” is an artistic statement on the current state of politics in America – a protest of sorts, but also an invitation to action…

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Photographing Obama, insights from White House photographer Pete Souza

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Having first photographed President Obama in 2005, White House photographer Pete Souza estimates that by the time Obama’s second term is up, he will have made over two million photographs of the President.

It’s difficult to imagine following and photographing the same person for eleven years.  In this video, from BBC’s Newsnight, Souza talks about covering every aspect of the President’s public and private life.

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Behind The Scenes of a NASA Photo Shoot On The Moon

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Back in 1971 Apollo 15 was the most successful manned flight ever achieved, according to NASA.

But the three astronauts aboard the spacecraft weren’t all about the science, as the video below shows. Two of the astronauts took turns to photograph each other on the moon, undoubtedly aware that they’d need epic Facebook profile photos 40 years down the line.

Watch the astronauts bounce around the moon as they captured these iconic images.

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Faceless Portraits Of 4th Graders Offers Telling Look At Family Life For Children Around The World

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While volunteering in a fourth grade reading class in the United States, Judy Gelles found many of the students couldn’t relate to the stories they were assigned to study. To help get the children more interested in reading, Gelles had the idea to ask each of the 9 and 10 year old students to tell her their own stories. Gelles took it upon herself to write down all of their individual stories before reading them back to the children.

Gelles was intrigued almost instantly by the touching, and often sorrowful stories the children would candidly explain. Already an established photographer, Gelles was driven to share the poignant memoirs of modern childhood the most impactful way that she could. Thus, Fourth Grade was born. A five year long photography project that would take Gelles to classrooms across the US, India, China, Korea, and England, meeting with fourth graders and asking them all the same three questions:[Read More…]

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