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[redheadinmanhattan]

THE TOP PHOTO made explore (their home page) on flickr.com on May 27th 2020. THE BOTTOM PHOTO made explore (their home page) on flickr.com on April 19th 2020. © ShellyKay Photography

[redheadinmanhattan]

so this happened…I FINALLY got on the OFFICIAL linknyc kiosks that are all over NYC (with the help of mini-me of course), wearing her adorable fire fighter outfit!  Total #TBT Sadly it’s not the best quality…but it’s been POURING RAIN HERE the past couple of days, hence all the streaks you see going down it. AND IT WAS RAINING WHEN I TOOK THE SHOTS TOO! Still, totally pumped!!! TOP PHOTO IS OBVIOUSLY THE ONE DISPLAYED ON THE KIOSKS & BOTTOM IS THE ORIGINAL.  © ShellyKay Photography

[redheadinmanhattan]

My Photo featured on the cover of Riggwelter Press Issue 19!  Also featured on page 15, & Contributor page is page 65.  https://riggwelterpress.wordpress.com/2019/03/01/issue-nineteen/ Original print for sale here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/shellykay/works/25683039-wall-street-flare?asc=u&ref=recent-owner © ShellyKay Photography

[redheadinmanhattan]

Wanted to share some of my faves from 2018. The top photo http://redbubble.com chose to be on their homepage AND it was my 10th #featuredphoto with them so far! They chose me as a #featuredartist as well, so I was extremely happy & proud of that!!!

[janeflowersart]

Stunning Cape Photos Mouldering In A Folder? Get Them featured

Stunning Cape Photos Mouldering In A Folder? Get Them featured

Stunning Cape photos attract a lot of pro-photographers to the south of South Africa. But the area’s so beautiful, that even people with mediocre skills might capture something Instagram-worthy. So often, those photos look so good, that people pop them up on their desktop. Or frame them and hang them on the wall. But often, the desktop images change. And then your magnificent shot might end up…

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[hawkbluff410]

Beyond this sign might be your best photograph ever! 

Rules are made to keep us safe, but you have to know when not to follow them. If you always follow them you will never know the secret of what’s on the other side! In my life, the sweetest fruits have always been on the thinnest, most rule guarded branches. There have been times when I have been detained because stopping on the side of the road to photograph a bridge draws attention from the authorities; but so will scaling a building to capture an amazing sunset over the city.

  Yesterday we went to a National Park that had so many rules on where you could go. I’m sure they are thinking about safety for the masses, but I’m not a mass. I am a person, a person who wants to show what’s on the other side of where you should be.

As a photographer, the best shots are always, without a doubt, in the places that are hard to reach or uncomfortable to get to. It’s like nature demands a test to get it’s treasure. Sometimes it’s a long walk in bramble bushes, boggy moors, bug infested swamps or smooth as silk rocks with a long drop down. Other times it may be a small ledge that holds the perfect shot if only you can repress your fear of heights to capture the sunset you’ve been after.

While I’m not suggesting we should be careless in our adventures, we only have one life and body. I am suggesting that sometimes you should take a chance and break the rules, color outside the lines, hop the guardrail to get that shot. You might be surprised at what you discover both in your art and within yourself.

Here are some of the photographs from yesterday. I will be uploading a montage video to my youtube channel. If you haven’t yet subscribed to my youtube channel please check it out and if you like short art videos, please consider subscribing CLICK HERE to visit my channel.

  I hope I don’t go to jail Rules are made to keep us safe, but you have to know when not to follow them.

[ofthelandandus]

Hometown • Fábio Miguel Roque

Today we’re featuring Portuguese photographer Fábio Miguel Roque, who also heads up the small publishing house The Unknown Books and also Preto Collective, a collective who focus only on black and white photography. After studying photography at the Portuguese Institute of Photography, he began his career working as a photojournalist and creating work in the documentary genre. Eventually and most recently, Miguel Roque began to focus on more personal, more intimate themes.

His project Hometown is an inward-focusing work; a visual response to losing his job. The lack of colour, strong contrasts and overall dark appearance of the series is what drew us to the project. It feels as if we’re seeing something intimate and personal despite the rare appearance of any actual people. Miguel Roque’s frustration and perhaps even despair at his situation seeps out of the images, and the series together as a whole. And yet we’re warmed by the beautiful lone flower - beautiful even in this gritty black and white - and the image of the great big adult hand next to the the child’s small, innocent hand.

It’s a beautiful reminder that in photography, the little things also matter. Perhaps even matter the most. 

How did you get into photography?

My story with photography began some time ago, about 12 years or something like that. I was young, and photography appeared as a means for me to express myself.

What is it like to be a photographer in a small village?

It’s hard, there's no doubt about that. I don’t know how to be a photographer in a big city like London or New York. I think there should be more opportunities, more links to art. Maybe one day, in the future, I might know what the reality of living in a city is. 

I’d like to live in San Francisco for a while, but at this stage of my life things are complicated. Living in a small village is nice on the one hand - I can be calm and quiet, I can think about my projects - but on the other hand I'm a little far away from everything.

Tell us a bit about Hometown.

I became without work, and unconsciously began to take photographs in response to my situation in order to express, in some way, the frustration I was feeling.

It was made over four months, the time I was unemployed. It's a finished project, fortunately! Since then, I've exhibited this project this year here in Portugal, and I have also self-published a small photobook of Hometown.

It looks beautiful in black and white.

Most of my projects are black and white. In this particular project, I think it made no sense to express what I was feeling with colour.

What inspires you? 

Well, my biggest inspiration is life, life itself. But I have many books, artists and films that inspired me along my route. Photographers like Paulo Nozolino, Daido Moriyama or Anders Petersen.

You run The Unknown Books - it's great to see independent publishers who are doing really well. Why did you start up this project?

I started this project because I love books, especially photobooks, and this was the best way to start publishing my personal work on a regular basis and have total creative freedom about it. Things have gone well and now I am publishing projects of many other artists. It has been amazing to work with each one of them.

What do you have planned for the future? Are you working on any right now?

I'm always working on something. I just launched my latest book I found fireflies in my dream, talking to a strange, drunk and dead man. It’s a project about dreams. I have two more books to launch this year, two new editions of older projects - Awake and Redemption. But I'm also working on new things, I just did a project on my ancestors which will be revealed in 2017, and I'm working on another new project This is just another love story.

Fábio Miguel Roque

fabiomiguelroque.com | theunknownbooks.net