A series exploring the Venice Lagoon by Italian photographer Andrea Pugiotto.
Of the series, Pugiotto says, “the man of the Lagoon is also slowly disappearing in a gradual exodus that draws him away from the islands and from Venice itself to move to the neighbouring mainland areas, not only due to the higher opportunities, but also in reference to the inexorable disappearing of his land”.
See more from “Islands” below.
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A selection of work by Oakland-based illustrator Dean Stuart. See more below.
Each week our members share their work with us and we highlight the best of these submissions as Editors’ Picks. If you have work to share, you can learn more about becoming a member.
The irregular galaxy NGC 4485 shows all the signs of having been involved in a hit-and-run accident with a bypassing galaxy. Rather than destroying the galaxy, the chance encounter is spawning a new generation of stars, and presumably planets.
In celebration of the 29th anniversary of the launch of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, 1990, astronomers captured an image of the tentacled Southern Crab Nebula.
This sparkling burst of stars is Messier 75. It is a globular cluster: a spherical collection of stars bound together by gravity. Clusters like this orbit around galaxies and typically reside in their outer and less-crowded areas, gathering to form dense communities in the galactic suburbs.
NGC 2903 is located about 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo (the Lion), and was studied as part of a Hubble survey of the central regions of roughly 145 nearby disk galaxies.
“Nuclear Family explores marriage, parenting, and female identity. The series presents a complex depiction of family life, considering both the joy of having a family as well as the universal and substantial challenges involved in raising children and maintaining a committed partnership. For each painting I created a 3D model to serve as a still life. Painting from models helps me to process and extract bits of my experience in order to make what is imagined more concrete. The model becomes a stage on which I develop narratives, and offers me complete control over lighting, composition, and vantage point to achieve my desired dramatic effect. The clumsy inadequacies of miniatures with their slight shifts of scale and reduced detail help me to convey a sense of artifice and distance. I try to paint the scenes in a way that feels like a believable but alternate, fabricated world. My paintings are representations of a miniaturized world playing at reality.”
‘The Sand That Ate The Sea’ is a series documenting the South Australian Opal mining town, Andamooka. The South Australian desert is a mystical place – millennia ago it was an ocean, and opalised aquatic dinosaur fossils are still found in the dirt there today. It is home to an arid land, and deep, old magic. A land of endless sweeping salt flats, and undulating flat red earth. This is where the frontier is, and the last of the great Australian frontiersmen call it home. The land is a stolen land, and a cursed land – and the magic of that wound has a unique way of working on the people that are born there new, and those who came before.
The series was shot over the course of 6 months on and off with the community in the mid-northern desert of Australia, and was taken in conjunction with the filming of a mythic film I wrote and directed in the town.
Tommy Nease is a black and white photographer currently based in Washington State. His work is an ongoing attempt to reveal the human psyche and its relationship with the natural realm. He is represented by Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, GA.
The constellation of Orion is much more than three stars in a row.
Why are stars forming in the bridge between these colliding galaxies?
