An typical American town from the 1960′s, untouched like it has frozen in time. How is that even possible? Well, at first glance this looks like a real town with all the Chevys parked around, the cinema, the toy stores and all the dining places. It’s like entering a movie scene, but where are the [...]

Puzzlewood is an ancient woodland site in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, England. It has become a popular location for filming, and as you may know, J.R.R. Tolkien has used this woodland as inspiration for Lord of the Rings. Only he has called it Middle-Earth. This place is so magical that you would really [...]

If you work out now and then, you know that you look completely crazy after a spinning or jogging class. Your sweaty,  your hair is all over the place, your cheeks are red, and you look awful, but most people does after exercising hard. French photographer Sacha Goldberger has asked random joggers in a park [...]

How hard can life affect us, and can it be read on our faces? Photographer Lee Jeffries has shown that it’s possible by taking very expressive portraits of people. But not just any kind of people; all of his models are homeless men, women and children that he has met in Europe and the United [...]

Before Photoshop even existed German citizen, John Heartfield born Helmut Herzfeld, made photomontages. Already from the 1930′s Nazism was getting bigger and bigger. People didn’t care, they chose to ignore it, but that was not the case with Heartfield. He just wanted to criticize the regime by making hilarious but artistic photo montages. He had [...]

Spanish artist Romulo Celdran wanted to make small things look bigger, a lot bigger. He turns everyday objects like gloves, sponges and match sticks, and turns them into oversized items that are overwhelming. He has taken a lot of photos where himself is sitting next to the things. This of course makes him look so [...]

Photographer James Mollison has traveled around the world to see how children are living and where they sleep. The results are shocking because most of them are too poor to have a real bedroom, and the differences between the children are enormous. This can be a wake-up call for everybody. Lamine is 12 and lives [...]

When old photos are shown in sepia style, which was the only way to color the photos back then, it almost always look like taken from a horror movie. Maybe it’s because we have seen too many old sepia photos in scary movies nowadays, or it just was a lot of horrible things happening then [...]

For those of you who don’t know who Shrek is, let me explain: he is a big and not so attractive green ogre in this animated movie that goes by the same name. Yes he is a fictional character, but imagine the real life Shrek. He actually existed! The French Maurice Tillet, born 1903, was [...]

You can have more fun with album covers than you can imagine. Here you can see some examples on illusions that are made by holding different album covers in front of different people. Some are using the musicians head as their head, some are using half of their bodies as their own body parts, etc, [...]

We all know that drugs are bad for you, but how much damage do they really make? Here you have some mugshots of drug addicts that use meth, it is part of the project “Faces of Meth” by Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office. You can see two mugshots of each person, and they show different time [...]

We are always wondering and imagining how the future will look like. It is something that interest us and it always will. Many movies have tried to represent their thoughts of how everything will be in 50 years or so. But do you ever wonder what people 100 years ago thought year 2000 would look [...]

Back in the past, it was a honor to join the military, serve your country. Here you may see a few ones but outstanding soldiers formations around the World War I , 1914. Over 18,000 soldiers where used in this performance, photos were taken by Arthur S Mole and John D Thomas. Via A Time [...]

Only in Russia, some people would say. This couple decides to tie the know at -30 degrees Celsius. In the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Sergei Kaunov and his Irina Kuzmenko decided to get married in the Enisei River. Believe it or not, the temperature in that time was far below zero. Sergei says, who is [...]

To work in a mine near a volcano has to be the filthiest job ever, maybe considered as one of the worst. Photographer Oliver Grunewald took several stunning photos of the sulfur mines in the crater of the volcano Kawah Ijen that is located in East Java, Indonesia. Volcanos are known for being unpredictable, and [...]

This must be the cutest robot ever. The two year old little “RoboKid” decided to be a robot on Halloween after seeing the trailer for “Robocop”, and what other option did the father, James Griffioen, have than to make him a costume. And who said that it had to be pricey? James Griffioen found all [...]

Under the gliss and glam of casino’s and hotels in Las Vegas lies a dark and sad place; a 200 miles long flood tunnel that is occupied by homeless, drug addicts and criminals. About 1000 of them are living there, can you imagine? A lot of them have made rooms in the tunnel with furniture [...]

Eyes – We all have them, and they are unique instruments that we take for granted, different and special every each and one of them. Here are some really close-up pictures of how the eye looks. Eye doctors and opticians are probably used to see eyes this close-up every day, but for other people this [...]

These amazing human towers developed throughout Catalonia, but it is popular all over Spain. The performers are called castellers and they have strict rules about how to put up a human tower. They even have special names and positions to be perfectly accurate when they climb up, and there are usually men that creates the [...]

1930, The Great Depression, people were struggling every day and still they couldn’t see the light in the end of the tunnel. So what could cheer up these people? The answer is art on posters. The Works Progress Administration and its Federal Arts Project wanted to give the people positivism in their lives, so they [...]