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9 Eyes

Artist Jon Rafman curates the strange and the beautiful in his ongoing project 9 Eyes. Utilising the omnipotence of Google Street View’s all-seeing 9 cameras he scours, selects and posts unexpected moments captured during the mapping process. Seemingly drawn to the sublime and surreal in nature, and the ridiculous, vulnerable and rogue aspects of human behaviour, the images contradict and overturn the rational and ordered view of the world Street View works to project. Tigers prowl the urban jungle and butterflies flit before the lens, a man lies dead in the road, prostitutes tout for business and suspects are lined up against a wall.

It’s only 5 years since Street View launched in the US, though it seems to have been around a lot longer, so ingrained has it become in the public subconscious. 9 Eyes is an interesting mirror held up against it – highlighting both the resistance to its creation and the global surveillance culture.

People vs. Places

People vs Places is a collaborative double exposure project by photographers Timothy Burkhart and Stephanie Bassos. Sharing a roll of film within the same camera  (Stephanie shoots the people, Timothy the places) they create chance compositions between human and environment. I’m left with a feeling of nostalgia for the unexpected alchemy of film, and for happy photographic accidents!

“…(we) step back from having full control of the image making process and trust in one another while allowing coincidences to happen naturally on film”

— People vs. Places

Time lapse wonders

Some beautifully breathtaking time-lapse shorts by Terje Sørgjerd (TSO Photography).

“The goal was to capture the beautiful Milky Way galaxy along with one of the most amazing mountains I know, El Teide…if you ever wondered how the Milky Way would look through a Sahara sandstorm, look at 00:32″

— Terje Sorgjerd on The Mountain

"I spent a week capturing one of the biggest aurora borealis shows in recent years. Shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, at 70 degree north and 30 degrees east. Temperatures around -25 Celsius”

— Terje Sorgjerd on The Aurora

“My favorite natural phenomenon is one I do not even know the name of…it is a natural phenomenon occurring 2-4 weeks before you can see the Midnight Sun. The Sunset and Sunrise are connected in one magnificent show of color and light lasting from 8 to 12 hours…At 1:06 you see a single scene from day to night to day which is from 9pm to 7am. Think about that for a minute.. 10 hours with light like that.”

— Terje Sorgjerd on The Arctic Light