16s3d: Bestioles, opinions & pétitions

Depuis hier, les visiteurs du musée d’Orsay ont à nouveau le droit de photographier les œuvres des expositions permanentes. A la demande de la ministre de la Culture, la direction du musée est reve...

In 1942, the owner of one Parisian apartment left her home for Southern France, trying to escape a Nazi raid. Although she never returned to the apartment, she kept paying the rent until her death at the age of 91. Interestingly, the owner of the apartment was the granddaughter of Marthe de Florian - a true Parisian gem of her time, a socialite and an actress with many admirers lining up at her door.

From a dramatic storm cloud in the US to the ‘end of the world’ in Ecuador, we take a look at the winners of the 2014 National Geographic Traveler Photo contest, chosen from more than 18,000 entries from photographers around the world

Australia-based photographer Steve Axford loves to travel to the remotest corners of the earth, capturing the lives of people, animals, and most importantly, fungi. His fascinating photographs of the diverse world of fungi seem to picture a fantastic expedition to some distant alien world.

Chinese retouching artist Chunlong Sun has created a bizarre portrait series called “Celebrity,” which shows 5 of the most infamous world leaders from recent history gently holding stuffed animals in their arms. In the portraits, which were made using almost-look-alike Chinese stand-ins, the leaders look at once friendlier and creepier than ever before.

Macrophotograhie: Vyacheslav Mishchenko

The winners of the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards have finally been announced. The winners of the Open, Youth, and National Awards competitions were selected from over 70,000 entries and 139,554 images by amateur and professional photographers from all over the world. The final winners in ...

We are used to seeing the Great Pyramids of Giza, Taj Mahal or the Acropolis in photographed from the front with no background to corrupt their mystical aura. However, they are all built or situated in surroundings that don't always match the glory, beauty and glitter of the landmarks ...

Brazil-born Sebastião Salgado is probably one the most well-known photojournalist working today. He has been creating his spectacular works for almost four decades and has been awarded with many major photographic prizes. Salgado is also a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and an honorary member of ...

Getting the angle and perspective for a photo just right can sometimes be very tricky, but these crazy photographers don't mind – when it comes to taking the perfect shot, they will do whatever it takes. The acts of devotion to their craft that some of the world's best photographers perform can be truly outstanding.

Established photographer Sandro Miller, together with long time friend and Hollywood legend John Malkovich, created a witty project called “Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to photographic masters.” As the title suggests, the creative duo's photo series reimagines the world‘s most iconic portraits with Malkovich as the main subject instead.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest art museum in the U.S. and one of the most important museums in the world, just digitally released a collection of almost 400,000 pictures of works in its collection online.

Photos: Robert Jahns, aka nois7 on Instagram

photos: Iwan Baan, www.iwan.com 

This parrot optical illusion, created by Italian fine art body painter Johannes Stoetter (previously here), is simply flawless! What looks like a parrot at first sight is actually a body-painted model. Take a look at the photos and try to figure the illusion out before scrolling down to the ...

In 1978, while working as a taxi driver in New York City, Matt Weber started capturing beautiful and raw photographs of everyday city life. Surrounded by a whirlwind of striking frames and compositions, the artist-to-be could no longer resist documenting them. He combined his newly found hobby ...