Matt Eich’s series Trouble the Water is intense, but I can’t stop looking at it.

I was just looking through the winners of the Too Much Chocolate + Kodak Film Grant competition and I came across Murray Ballard and instantly fell in love with his project, The Prospect of Immortality. It is a look at cryonics, which is the practice of preserving a dead human or animal at extremely low temperatures, in the hopes that technology will advance enough to revive them to full health in the future. It is a beautifully photographed piece and leaves the viewer with so many questions.

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Boston Big Picture has a sampling of photographs from National Geographic’s International Photography Contest.

Photographer Ari Versluis and profiler Ellie Uyttenbroek began their incredible portrait series, Exactitudes, in 1994. It is an interesting study of the contradiction between individuality and uniformity. I could look at this site for hours.

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There’s a great article worth checking out over at Too Much Chocolate by Aline Smithson titled Photographing Family. This photo is from Phillip Taledano’s series, Days With My Father.

Vincent Laforet has been published in just about every notable news/sports magazine and/or newspaper. I just had the chance to hear him speak and I came away with a few things. 1) a helicopter always helps when trying to get a unique perspective on things, and 2) photojournalism, as we know it today, is sadly becoming a thing of the past. He is now turning to video, as are most other photojournalists, due to the fact that most clients are now looking for multi-media content as well as, amazing photos. He was also one of the first people, maybe the very first (he accidently walked in on Canon opening the prototypes and convinced them to let him take one home for a weekend) to shoot a movie on the new Canon 5D Mark II. He had some great stories about getting the perfect shots and was really entertaining to listen to.

Enjoying studying photographer William Eggleston right now.

New photos of Mike Tyson’s abandoned Ohio mansion by photographer Danny Wills.