Doug Bierend
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Meet the Renaissance Man Obsessed with Mushrooms
In an excerpt from ‘In Search of Mycotopia,’ a new book about different communities exploring the multiple uses of fungi and mushrooms, the author goes foraging with William Padilla-Brown, a rising star in the mycological movement → Read More
How Blueberries Became a Superfood
Blueberries are synonymous with healthy eating. Here's how that happened. → Read More
Brilliant Photos Capture Tokyo's Electric Colors in Unexpected Places
Tokyo often appears in photographs as a metropolis awash in light and color. Usually it’s neon signs or bright streetlights, but sometimes its something unusual, like the green flash of a flock of parakeets. Photographer Yoshinori Mizutani captures all of these things as he wanders the city seeking inspiration in things he might not understand—like,… → Read More
Sublime Yet Troubling Aerial Photos of Humanity's Environmental Destruction
At first glance, photojournalist Colin Finlay’s aerial photos appear to be beautiful landscapes. Read their captions, though, and it becomes clear many of the scenes he captures are quite ugly, depicting environments scarred by industry and climate change. → Read More
Weird Abstract Photos That Look Like Incomplete Memories
Photography and memory have an interesting, even intertwined relationship. Each is critical to how we view our past, yet an unreliable record of what truly happened. Patricia Voulgaris was inspired by the analogy between lapses in our memory and the things unseen just beyond the frame of a photograph. Her abstract photo sculptures illustrate what… → Read More
Chilling Photos From the Front Lines of the Ebola Outbreak
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa has left much of the region quarantined and inaccessible, making the tragedy seem all the more distant. It’s only through the work of photographers like Peter Muller that we can glimpse what life is like for communities struggling to cope with the deadliest outbreak since the virus was discovered… → Read More
Photos of Lakes Turn Psychedelic After Soaking in Their Waters
Typically, by the time a photograph is in the dark room, the subject of that photograph is long gone. But in Matthew Brandt’s series Lakes and Reservoirs, the dark room is where photo and subject meet. Brandt leaves prints of landscapes shot around the country to decay, sometimes for days, sometimes for months, in H2O taken… → Read More
The Dying Tradition of Sri Lankan Stilt Fishing, Captured in Powerful Photos
Steve McCurry captured an iconic image of Sri Lankan stilt fisherman back in 1995. Nowadays, not many remain as photographer Florian Müller found out. → Read More
Mesmerizing GIFs Use Light and Motion to Visualize Sounds
Visual artists long have been inspired by music and sound—and vice versa. Themes and concepts from one often infuse the other; well known examples include Kandinsky’s Composition 8, inspired by a performance of Wagner’s Lohengrin, or Rachmaninoff’s 13 preludes, inspired by Böcklin’s Die Heimkehr. For Turkish artist Erdal Inci, a fascination with the physics of… → Read More
The Weird, Totally Charming Hobbies That Unite People
In their series Hobby Buddies, Swiss photo duo Ursula Sprecher and Andi Cortellini create playful portraits of people united over favorite pastimes. → Read More
The Weird, Totally Charming Hobbies That Unite People
In their series Hobby Buddies, Swiss photo duo Ursula Sprecher and Andi Cortellini create playful portraits of people united over favorite pastimes. → Read More
These Extraterrestrial Outposts Are Actually Suburban Strip Malls
Suburban shopping centers are the definition of banality. For Spanish photographer Valerio Platania though, their structured, homogenous architecture and their vast yet isolated environments call to mind the scenery of science fiction. → Read More
A Photographer Puts You Face-to-Face With Sharks, by Swimming Uncaged
Photographer Michael Muller is a man without fear. He swims among sharks without the protection of a cage to make studio-quality, intimate photos of these beautiful creatures. → Read More
Powerful Portraits of People Living Off the Grid
Many of us fantasize about leaving it all behind and unplugging from the grid. The people in Antoine Bruy's photos have actually followed through. → Read More
Powerful Portraits of People Living Off the Grid
Many of us fantasize about leaving it all behind and unplugging from the grid. The people in Antoine Bruy's photos have actually followed through. → Read More
Glitched Images You’d Never Think Were Photographs
It's almost impossible to tell the swirling images in Supranav Dash’s <em><a href="http://instagram.com/supranavdash">Pixel Studies</a></em> used to be portraits. That's because they've been processed through layer upon layer of glitch and filter apps that make them look like they just got fired through a particle accelerator. → Read More
The Eerie Innards of America’s Abandoned Sanitariums
Crumbling, abandoned American mental asylums from the early 20th century—like the one in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—aren’t places most of us would want to hang out. Photographer Jeremy Harris, on the other hand, has been going out of his way to explore and document their spooky ruins for almost 10 years. “I just… → Read More
The Eerie Innards of America’s Abandoned Sanitariums
Crumbling, abandoned American mental asylums from the early 20th century—like the one in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest—aren’t places most of us would want to hang out. Photographer Jeremy Harris, on the other hand, has been going out of his way to explore and document their spooky ruins for almost 10 years. “I just… → Read More
Cosmic GIFs Remind Us We’re All Made of Stars
One of famed astronomer Carl Sagan’s most famous sayings was, “we are made of star stuff.” He was referring to the fact that the atoms that make up everything in the universe, including we humans, were forged in the bellies of ancient stars. This notion of connectivity is the basis for photographer Ignacio Torres’s series of GIFs titled <em>Stellar</em>. → Read More
In Photos: The Most Ridiculous Laws in America
We trust our lawmakers to pass legislation that will keep us safe and serve the greater public good. In every state's books, though, there are laws outlandish and weird enough to make you question those lawmakers' sanity. Try as you might, it's hard to imagine why anyone would take the time to make it illegal to have an ice cream cone in your pocket. → Read More