We’re back blogging a little later than anticipated…

Our Pick of the Day today is specifically aimed at those having to head back to the corporate world before the New Year.

Accounting Office, New Haven, Connecticut

Commercial Bank, Duluth, Minnesota

Commercial Bank, New Haven, Connecticut

All photos © Steven Ahlgren.

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Normal blog service will resume on the 28th.

Our final selection this week is from the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition. Overall the exhibition was quite strong this year and it was good to see some less formal ’street’ photography make the final cut.

Girl On Kingsland Road 2009

© Ashley Jordan Gordon

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From the artist: “The Tea Room is an essential hub of any office. A neutral space, away from the stress of the deskand the routine of office life, it offers fleeting moments of respite and of course, the obligatory cuppa. Shot at the end of a summer work placement, this is a day diary of The Tea Room…”

10:46 Peter

11:50 Anna

13:00 Veronica

All photos © James D Clark

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The end of the year is a time for lists and Internet Photography Destinations of Note – 2009 from la pura vida is our selection for today.

The images below were all found on the linked sites, which offer plenty of photographic material to keep browsing well into the New Year and beyond.

© Kelli Pennington

© Ben Roberts

© Keith Sharp.

Our first selection this week is a photo by John Goldsmith.

© John Goldsmith

Found here.

Our selection today is ‘Pile’ from Gideon Barnett. Gideon  says: “My goal is twofold: to document the sculptural byproducts of anonymous industrial artists and to make awe filled images of the contemporary landscape in the tradition of the western survey photographers whom I greatly admire.”

Waukegan, IL 2006

Lemont, IL 2006

Jasper, TN 2005

All photos © Gideon Barnett

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The photo below of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is from a series of photographs of world leaders by Platon. There are some fascinating shots and accompanying commentary.

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Today’s photo is from Jon Horvath’s ‘Fall Off’ series, an “investigation of spaces made visible by the illumination of billboard lights”:

© Jon Horvath

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Today’s selection is from Andrei Liankevich’s ‘Belarus’ portfolio.

© Andrei Liankevich

It shows Alexander Nikolaevich Keyvachitsky, ensign of a frontier post ‘Mogilevskajav’ and his twins Peter & Paul posing in a village Dobrovoija.

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