Thankfully last year was peppered with news of the end of many of the worlds tyrants and dictators including Kim Jong-Il. With all the associated media attention on North Korea, an award-winning British photographer Charlie Crane has found his work documenting this closed off country thrust into the spotlight.
Lytro is a company that is hoping to revolutionise photography. Making use of something called light fields, this magic technology captures every ray of light from a scene which means that you can then play around with the image to focus it later, I think it’s best explained if you see it for yourself.
The Boston Globe does it again with some absolutely beautiful photos depicting some of the celebrations for Chinese New Year 2011. I’ve included a few of my personal favourites for your pleasure.
Mango have managed to recruit Scarlett Johansson to model their latest offerings and these lovely photos are the results of that colloboration.
