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A disquieting collection of photographs that capture the stillness in Prypiat, a northern Ukranian ghost town that was once home to the Chernobyl workers. The city has been empty and—owing to radioactive fallout—uninhabitable since 1986. This unsettling group of photos gives a rare opportunity to study a slowly decaying city that, despite once being the home of some 50,000 people, is now utterly and completely lifeless. [via Boing Boing]
Erik recently went to Louisiana on a trip to take photos. He documented his experiences in a series entitled Kingdom of Heaven.
I’ve always had a strong place in my heart for photography with a darker experimental quality. Growing up, I was attracted to the work of Man Ray, and later Joel Peter Witkin and Matt Mahurin. I just discovered and adore the photographic work of Scott Irvine whose work seems to be in a similar tradition to the afore mentioned photographers. Inky black lines bleed throughout his frames blurring edges. The photos are riddled with texture and often glow like an old daguerreotype. As an image taker, Irvine snaps up shots of both people and places. He has collaborated on striking shoots with a long list of bands including: Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kasabien, and James Chance.
We have some big news. After countless pints thrown back and endless hours of working on music together over the years, we are sad to say that Bill has departed DFN to focus his energies on another project. We wish him well. In his absence, Kali and I have turned to another musician of exceptional talent. We first collaborated with Erik Snyder some time ago on a photo shoot. We were as impressed with his passion for music as we were with his skills behind a camera. Erik’s unique stylings are already having a profound impact on us. We are working on new material and hope to present it with new dates and recordings in a timely fashion. Stand by for something different and new; in the mean-time check out this gorgeous image that Erik just shot in New Orleans.
Many of Frank Juery’s photos have a dreamy quality that resonate with me in a way that feels akin to our music. This series particularly seems like a set of images that could be screen captures from a DFN video.
Film and music video auteur, Chris Cunningham fell off the creative map several years back. He had given up on promos and slowly turned out a few experimental films that seemed to be an arduous task. Rumors that he would make a feature film proved to be just rumors. And then he resurfaced with a tease; Cunningham shot his first music video in seven years for the breakout act The Horror’s - “Sheena is a Parasite”. Since then, Cunningham hasn’t released anything else. Although the buzz is that he has been working with The Horrors again; only this time in a different capacity as record producer. And now while we wait to see the results, Cunningham has teased us again with a rather disturbing photo spread that he shot for Dazed & Confused Magazine of none other than Grace Jones.
I just got the chills looking at Todd Hido’s photo series Homes at Night. Oh how they’d make for perfect DFN posters.
Not much to say; I just saw this picture and found the image quite arresting. It’s by an amateur photographer, residing in France, and calling himself Hippolyte.
Banner photos courtesy Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Division, FSA-OWI collection.
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