Hasta La Ideas

Fubiz est partenaire de ce concours lancé par Getty Images / iStock. Le thème adressé aux photographes, professionnels et amateurs « Sacrés français : entre 4 yeux, shootez-les ». Un concours organisé du 4 au 29 novembre afin de photographier les français, tels qu’ils sont au quotidien, dans leur style de vie.

Pour l’emporter, les photographes seront jugés sur 3 critères : respect du thème, originalité de traitement et qualité technique. Le choix reviendra à un jury composé de 4 experts de la photo et des arts graphiques : Mike Owen, Directeur Communication de Canon Europe, Romain Colin, fondateur de Fubiz, Lâm Hua, photographe, journaliste et fondateur de Lense, et Fabien Bouchard, créateur de Ufunk.

Les participants pourront soumettre 10 photos maximum, et gagner l’un des 5 prix mis en jeu. Le Grand Prix remportera un Reflex Canon EOS 6D et un Compact Canon PowerShot S110, les 4 coups de cœur du jury recevront un appareil photo plénoptique Lytro.

Sergio Albiac est un artiste basé à Barcelone qui a imaginée une série de portraits basés sur le concept de la nucléosynthèse, phénomène de naissance et de mort des étoiles. En utilisant des images fournies par le télescope spatial Hubble déformées, voici de superbes images à découvrir dans la suite.

Coup de cœur pour le travail de Andy Day, un photographe passionné par l’activité physique et la discipline du parkour. Il capture avec talent des images de ces acrobates urbains depuis 2003, et nous propose des clichés incroyables dans divers décors. Le tout est à découvrir dans la suite de l’article.

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Over the past two decades, Canadian photographer Chris Buck has made his mark by putting famous people in vaguely incongruous situations and snapping at just the right moment. His creative take on portraiture not only exposes an alternative side of his subjects, but it also leads to images that…

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An artist and a technologist pair up to find the cultural meaning of words through pictures

Recently presented at Rhizome’s annual Seven on Seven conference, Aaron Swartz and Taryn Simon‘s “Cultural Differences” application culls the top six photos from a Google image search for a specific word in 15 countries, displaying a visual comparison of its meaning among an array of different nations.

The concept was born to follow the conference’s purpose of pairing a technologist with an artist to see what they can make in a mere 24-hour time frame. “Cultural Differences” highlights the incredibly talented and informed pair’s individual interests while showing where they connect. Swartz, a brilliant programmer and activist played to Simon’s background as a photographer concerned with exposing truths.

While they’d like to expand the app to cover every country, the duo began with the randomly organized selection of 15 currently shown on the site. The user simply types a word into the search field and hits enter to get a pictorial portrayal of how each culture sees the word. Swartz and Simon pointed out in the presentation that Obama yields a variety of results—while most are classic presidential images, in Syria Obama is linked to Beyonce and North Korea obviously prohibits any images of the American president. For the word “Jew” a variety of images pops up in various countries, but in Germany, the word for “Jew” is “Jude”, bringing up nothing but images of Jude Law with that search.

All politics aside, the app is a valuable tool for designers, who can immediately see that, for example, in Saudi Arabia, a search for an Eames chair generates few relevant results. By gleaning results from each nation’s local search engine, Swartz and Simon’s app refines results, thus usurping the limited scope of a Google image search.

Conceived and developed in less than a day, “Cultural Differences” marks an impressive concept sure to entertain, enlighten and inspire new ways of visually contrasting cultural conversations through simple technology.