• Self-taught photographer Mike Brodie, 27, rode with America’s impoverished youth for thousands of miles
• Beautiful images provide portrait of curious sub-culture which remains alive a century after it came to prominence

The reality of life on America’s railroads has been captured in a series of moving and stunning photographs by Arizona-born photographer Mike Brodie. Thousands bedded down on the country’s train tracks during Great Depression of the 1930s, many of whom had no where to go. Nearly a century on and the tracks remain alive with some of the country’s poorest people or simply those that are enchanted by the romance of the railroad.

Running from poverty or chasing their dreams, stunning photos show what life is like for America’s train hoppers who, more than 100 years on from the Great Depression, are still in thrall to the country’s railroads. Continue reading →

• Professor Clive Palmer unveiled plans for a Titanic II
• He is determined that the project will happen despite the difficulty
  
• The ship is thought to cost up to £400million to build
• It will include an antique gymnasium, smoking room, a radio room and three classes of berths

Yesterday at The Ritz hotel in London, the Professor Clive Palmer show rolled into town.  And what a show.  He is still relatively unknown in this country, but surely not for long. For Prof Palmer is the Australian businessman who is going to bring back the Titanic… or at least a… Continue reading →

A serpentine river cuts deep incisions into mountainous land, a gold mine is slashed open to have its ruddy interior revealed and a tiny toy is found among shards of glass in harsh terrain. These are all photos in a new solo exhibition by photographer Laura McPhee showing intricate details of how human life sits among nature in the Western American wilderness.  Desert Chronicle is built upon McPhee’s stunning visual work between 2010 and 2012 in which she documented the American landscapes of Idaho, Utah and Arizona.  

Mother nature: Snake River Canyon in Idaho photographed… Continue reading →

A daring photographer took several vertigo-inducing pictures from a specialized bridge inspection crane 840 feet above the Colorado River. Reno, Nevada-based photographer Art Domagala was recently tasked with photographing bridge inspectors working on the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge, officially known as the Mike O’Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge.

The amazing pictures were published on the photographer’s website.

Photographing the engineers on various areas of the structure proved to be a challenge, Domagala writes. He went through a ‘gamut of lenses on the shoot,’ he writes. Domagala took the pictures for Stantec Consulting Services, which provides consulting in planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying, environmental sciences, project management, and project economics for infrastructure and facilities projects.

Huge structure: The engineers appear as small as ants as they work on the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge above the Colorado River

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New Deal-era Shutterbugs working for Farm Security Administration – and later the Office of War Information – shot the depicted vintage photos. The shots are among 1,600 or so color photographs depicting the social American landscape that were taken from 1939 to 1944.

Generally, the collection to which the represented photos belong spotlight rural America, as well as the nation’s World War II mobilization, factory life, railroads, aviation training, and women in the workplace. These specific shots show a forgotten square dance that took place in 1940 in McIntosh County, located in the central eastern region of Oklahoma. The photos are now housed for posterity in the U.S. Library of Congress. Shot the year after John Steinbeck published ‘The Grapes of Wrath,’ the photos show a lighter side of the unforgiving life that was to be lived in Oklahoma’s infamous Dust Bowl

Tops 1940 stories: The dance represented in the below photos occurred the same year the first Social Security checks were mailed to American citizens, the same year that the Pennsylvania Turnpike opened, the first McDonald’s hamburger stand set out a shingle in Pasadena, Calif., the same year Winston Churchill became England’s prime minister, and Hitler invaded Denmark, Luxembourg, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium

An image of innocence: ‘Our fathers fought the second World War, spent their weekends on the Jersey Shore, met our mothers in the USO, asked them to dance, danced with them slow’ Continue reading →