Zadar Sea Organ: Where the Adriatic Plays the Soundtrack
Photo: LINSSIMATO. Some waterfronts give you a view. Zadar’s gives you something to listen to as well. Sit near the Sea Organ and the Adria...
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Art: Creative Ways to See the World
Art can change a familiar street, a landscape or a small everyday object. Meet creative projects and the people behind them, then take a closer look at how the work was made and what makes it distinctive.
Start with The Apennine Colossus: Giambologna’s Giant near Florence and Zadar Sea Organ: Where the Adriatic Plays the Soundtrack.
Volte-Face: Oliver Curtis Looks Away from the Landmark
You arrive at a famous landmark, lift the camera and recognise the composition before taking the picture. So many people have photographed i...
2016 Travel Photography: Memorable Entries and What to Notice
A snowstorm transforms a city corner. A cloud formation makes a familiar landscape feel enormous. A quiet scene becomes memorable because a ...
Ringscapes: Peter Adams-Shawn’s Tiny Reflected Worlds
A wedding ring is usually photographed as a detail. In Peter Adams-Shawn's Ringscapes series, it becomes the setting for an entire scene...
Underwater Photographer of the Year 2016: Look Closer
Underwater photography can make an enormous ocean feel intimate. A small animal becomes the centre of attention; a beam of light reveals a s...
100 World Kisses: Ignacio Lehmann’s Portraits of Affection
A kiss is brief, but the street around it keeps moving. In Ignacio Lehmann's 100 World Kisses project, that contrast becomes the heart o...
Drone Photography from 2015: A New Angle on Familiar Places
One of aerial photography's pleasures is how quickly it changes recognition. A familiar landmark becomes a shape; a road becomes a line;...
Ed Fairburn’s Map Portraits: Faces Hidden in Roads and Rivers
A map is designed to help you find a place. In Ed Fairburn's portraits, it can also lead you towards a face: a road becomes a line of sh...
Pascal Mannaerts’s Travel Portraits: People Within Their Places
Pascal Mannaerts's photographs invite the viewer to pause with a person rather than hurry towards the next landmark. Colour and setting ...
Lost in Wonder: Trina Merry’s Camouflaged Landmark Portraits
At first, the photograph appears to show a familiar landmark. Then the outline of a person begins to emerge, painted so that parts of the ar...
Half & Half: Two Cities Joined Through Everyday Photographs
Two ice creams meet at the centre of a frame. Two streets line up as if they belonged to one walk. In ShinLiArt's Half & Half projec...
Benjamin Heath’s Travel Photographs: Finding a Quiet Moment
A person on a wide stretch of water can make a landscape feel both enormous and welcoming. A cloud-softened coastline can suggest a journey ...
Verdenskortet, Denmark: A World Map You Can Walk Around
How long does it take to travel around the world? At Verdenskortet in Denmark, the answer can involve a leisurely stroll and a very small oc...
Ali and Nino, Batumi: The Story Behind the Moving Sculpture
From one angle, two figures face each other. A little later, their layered bodies appear to merge, then pass apart again. Batumi’s Ali and N...
The Apennine Colossus: Giambologna’s Giant near Florence
Image source: imgur . A giant sits at the edge of a pool, his rough skin seeming to turn into rock. From a distance, he looks almost like p...
3DSD Sand Art: How a Flat Beach Becomes a 3D Illusion
A little building seems to stand on the sand. Elsewhere, an imaginary structure appears to rise above the beach. The surprise arrives when y...
James Doran-Webb’s Driftwood Animals: Movement in Wood
A horse stretches forward as though it might break into a gallop. Look again and its body becomes a gathering of branches, curves and weathe...
Patrick Vale’s Colossus: New York Drawn Line by Line
At first the page looks impossibly large and the marks impossibly small. Then rooftops gather, windows multiply and a recognisable New York ...
Archipelago Cinema: Thailand’s Floating Film Experience
Imagine arriving by boat, settling onto a floating platform and watching a film with limestone cliffs rising around the screen. Archipelago ...
Sand Sculptures That Turn a Beach Material Into Stories
A dragon carries an elaborate little world on its back. An elephant’s curved trunk draws your eye upwards. A giant shoe becomes a building t...