100 Portraits of Women and Men Between the Ages of 1 and 100
1 to 100 Years Project is an awesome portrait project by Belgian photographer Edouard Janssens in which he photographed 100 women and 100 men at each age between 1 and 100. His goal was to show the aging process in a positive manner and to provide an interesting visualization of the link between generations. He didn’t handpick the subjects either — all the participants volunteered through the project’s website (excluding the kids, of course).
Interestingly enough, Janssens himself appears in the project — his self-portrait can be seen at number 50 on the men’s side.The photographs were also arranged into slideshow videos:
100 Portraits of Women and Men Between the Ages of 1 and 100
1 to 100 Years Project is an awesome portrait project by Belgian photographer Edouard Janssens in which he photographed 100 women and 100 men at each age between 1 and 100. His goal was to show the aging process in a positive manner and to provide an interesting visualization of the link between generations. He didn’t handpick the subjects either — all the participants volunteered through the project’s website (excluding the kids, of course).
Interestingly enough, Janssens himself appears in the project — his self-portrait can be seen at number 50 on the men’s side.The photographs were also arranged into slideshow videos:
QUESTION OF THE DAY - ARE YOU MAXIMISING YOUR HETEROSEXUAL POTENTIAL?
Remember when the internet was briefly outraged by this at the tail end of last week? It didn’t take the mayor of London long to realise it wouldn’t be great to have moving, bus-size adverts for homophobia parading through the city’s transport arteries, and stepped in to block them.
“Reparative therapy works to help men, who want to change their sexual orientation, naturally dissipate their homoerotic feelings and maximise their heterosexual potential,” said Reverend Lynda Rose, a spokesperson for Anglican Mainstream in the UK. Aside from making me wonder what gay men have done to Ms Rose to make her think that they’re all ill, it also made me wonder: Am I maximising my own heterosexual potential? Were the heteros of the UK maximising theirs? How do I know when I am “maximum straight”?
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GROSS JAR 2012 - PART ONE: IT’S ALIVE!
We emptied all the fluids from a human into a jar. Any suggestions as to what we should add next?
HAPPY REAL LIFE CRUCIFIXION PARTY!
Reenacting the Passion of Christ is a popular tradition in parts of the Phillippines. Despite the islands calling a heavily modified version of Catholicism their state religion, voluntary crucifixion is not sanctioned by the church. Nevertheless, thousands of people stream to San Fernando Manila every year to cheer for (and beat) the participating martyrs.
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Old time favourite
This is Gerda Taro, one of the first female photo journalists and an incredibly brave and talented woman with a beauty and style to match (just look at those shoes).
She went to the Spanish Civil war as protege and lover of photographer Robert Capa but became a republican icon and photographer in her own right. Sadly she was killed in an accident with a tank in Spain in 1937.
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Cant wait to get back to university and ‘nail’ some photography out.
“I have a large beautiful wooden camera. I am a quick talker, I can convince people in a few seconds because I am sincerely interested in them, but I am really interested more in capturing what I see in them. It’s not that I want to be their friend, it’s that I see their life and it is amazing and I want to put it in an image. It’s a short but deep connection. Then I go back to being alone but have one more lightening bug in a bottle. One more piece of evidence as to who we are.”
- Judith Joy Ross (who’s arguably the best photographic portraitist there is) on photographing strangers in the new issue of Ahorn
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