Pick of the Day - Street Portraits from Gustaf Eriksson
March 9th, 2010Today we present a set of street portraits from Gustaf Eriksson:
All photos © Gustaf Eriksson
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Today we present a set of street portraits from Gustaf Eriksson:
All photos © Gustaf Eriksson
More here.
Hotels attempt to deliver a particular ‘homely’ ambience for their guests. Yet strangely, by attempting to be everyone’s home, they feel like no one’s. Instead, they create an ambience that is instantly recognisable as ‘hotel’ and which is, oddly, homely.
All photos © Barbara Van Schaik
Barabara Van Schaik has captured this particular quality in her series ‘Hotel Inc.’ More here.
Firstly, apologies for the lack of a selection yesterday.
Our pick today is ‘What is England?’, a project from Stuart Pilkington. The project involves 50 photographers, one representing each English county and each submitting a single photograph in response to six different assignments. The first assignment, and the one published this week, is ‘Person’.
Two Nova photographers, Ben Roberts and Sarah Amy Smith are taking part in the project as is Nova partner Andrew Newson.

© Sarah Amy Smith
© Carl Mole
© Tim Morris
© Andrew Newson
© Ben Roberts
It’s always fascinating watching photographers at work. Our pick today is ‘David Solomons shoots Up West’ a video from Jonathan Goldberg of photographer David Solomons shooting for his ‘Up West’ project.
View the video here.
© David Solomons
David has an exhibition of ‘Up West’, opening on March 11th at the Third Floor gallery in Cardiff. Click here for details.
As it’s the first of the month, it’s time for some classic mono:
Floyd Burroughs, cotton sharecropper. Hale County, Alabama (LOC)
This is from the Library of Congress photostream on Flickr.
Joe Stevens provides ample evidence with his project ‘Vans and the Places They Were’ of the power of visual repetition:
From the artist: “‘Vans and the places they were’ documents surviving custom and conversion vans across the West and examines the dialogue which exists between a van’s design aesthetic and that of its surrounding environment. The project began in 1996 and currently consists of hundreds of images shot on 120 film.”
More here.
For our pick today we are branching out into sports photography to feature this image of Skeleton Bob gold medalist Amy Williams:
© Clive Mason/Getty Images
Good sports photography can often transcend straightforward reportage. This particular image capturing the particular lonely intensity of the skeleton event.
More Olympic images here.
Our pick today is a set from Noah Kalina who came to prominence via his photo everyday project.
All photos © Noah Kalina
Our selected set is from his ‘What Happens in Vegas…’ project. More here.