Boston Photo Week

"I created a language that I can talk about with myself, to make sense of things that are really, really overwhelming. Like the death of your parents, or the imminent death of your father," says photographer Phil Toledano.

How a photographer captured his father's final years "Days With My Father" started out as a personal project from photographer Phil Toledano, who took images of his father as he became his primary caregiver. To Toledano's surprise, the photos struck a chord with the wider public.

"The hitherto impossible in photography is our specialty." -- George R. Lawrence, commercial photographer.

Before Drone Cameras: Kite Cameras! More than 100 years ago, long before remote-controlled drones, a photographer used kites to capture aerial panoramic photographs.

Here's an interesting way to look at light, and time passing. What do you think?

Multiple Photos of Iconic Places Taken Over Time are Sliced into Single Images New York-based photographer Richard Silver captures how buildings and monuments change in appearance from day to night. Instead of exploring this in several images, however, he shows the progression in a single photograph. Silver’s ongoing series is titled Time Slice, and it gives us an interesting…

From Mashable's vault - portraits without faces...

11 Creative Portraits Without Faces #MashPics Guest curator Chris Cody challenged Mashable readers to photograph faceless portraits this week. Here are his favorite submissions.

"Original creations, born of the artist’s imagination," says Debbie Hagan about Gary Stubelick's images.

Rule Breakers: Gary Stubelick “I never want to see another picture of ________.” Industry veterans share their pet peeves on themes in contemporary photography. In this series they present their “rule” along with five photographs that break it, in an effort to show that great work is the exception to the rule. Rule Setter: Debbi…

What is it about abandoned structures? Here are some more from photographer Johnny Joo.

28 Abandoned Structures Still As Vibrant As The Day They Were Deserted An empty, foggy diner with the tables still set. An abandoned aquarium, complete with shark paintings on the walls. A desolate church, with architecture still so immaculate, worship could begin tomorrow. How did 23-year-old photographer Johnny Joo...

Some beautiful simple, clean, images here.

Check It Out! A Photographic Tour Of America's Public Libraries From one-room historic buildings to modern architectural marvels, Robert Dawson has been photographing libraries for almost 20 years. His new book is called The Public Library.

OK portrait photographers, does this sound familiar? Is it helpful?

Draw My Left! No, No, My Other Left! A Hidden Bias In Art History Revealed Why is it that in thousands of portraits done all over the world, artists emphasize the left side of the subject's face? There's a bias here, and it's hiding in our brains.

Photos from Vietnam filed away for over 40 year and now recovered, in this story from The Big Picture.

A soldier's eye: rediscovered pictures from Vietnam Charlie Houghey was drafted into the US Army in October of 1967. He was 24, and had been in college in Michigan before running out of money and quitting school to work in a sheet metal factory. The draft notice meant that he was to serve a tour of duty in Vietnam, designated a rifleman, the basic fi…

The NYT calls North Brother Island "a forest of neglect." One of the images in the gallery shows the island in 1931 with just a few trees on it. Look at it now! The photos from today have that wonderful sense of wistfulness you find in so many photos of abandoned structures.

Isle of No Man Photographs from North Brother Island, New York’s miniature Detroit.

Photographer Jesse Costa captured this moment on Boston Marathon day.

After finishing the 26.2-mile run from Hopkinton to Copley Square in Boston, Gregory Picklesimer proposes to his girlfriend Carla White.

More photos from the day: http://wbur.fm/1rfSuMe

Nice use of the glass globe.

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