Matthew Pillsbury is a US art photographer who uses an 8×10 film camera to take long black-and-white exposures of rooms where people “watch” television. The results on display at the M + B Gallery Website are beautiful and eerie.

Via The Daily Dish, I visited this amazing gallery of shattering statues. The photographer explains his method:

[T]he shooting environment must be controlled and kept consistent. The lighting is clear and direct, head on. My background is neutral, but bright enough so that the shattering object completely stands out. I drop the figurine from the same height in complete darkness while the lens of the camera is open. When the figurine hits the ground, the sound triggers the lights to go off for a fraction of a second. I do this procedure many times or until I find the one frame that is just right. I keep just one such picture for every figurine. Every attempt yields a unique outcome, so I need to look for the one that best expresses a transformation of the figurine into a new form.

If you have a problem with porn then you might want to skip some of the galleries at Akif Hakan’s site, but I’ve just added it to the links here because Hakan takes stunning fashion/glamour photos. I’d love to know how he lights his stuff.

The New York Times covers parallel exhibitions of the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Martin Munkacsi. Read the article before it disappears behind the subscription wall.

In The Morning News, Nicole Pasulka interviews photographic artist Marilyn Winter and reproduces some of her extraordinary images.