If you have an iPhone you may have come across the Hipstamatic iPhone app – it’s a camera app that turns the phone’s camera into a vintage camera with different lenses that achieve different vintage looks.

Hipstamatic run regular competitions and at the moment they are running one and the prize is an iPhone 4.

The competition is called “The Look” and they are looking for shots to create a book of Hipstamatic portraits of the best poses. To enter, you upload a Hipstamtic “print” via your Hipstamatic app and you have 5 days to accumulate votes through FaceBook and Twitter. The overall winner gets the iPhone and the top 100 get the chance to be in the book of portraits

My entry is currently in the top 50 – I would hugely, massively, appreciate your vote for my entry (pictured above) by clicking like here:

Or vote on Twitter by clicking here now!

Thank you so much!

Desde El Dia de los Muertos hasta Semana Santa

New exhibition of pinhole photo etchings by Brian Bary from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.
Opens May 1st, 6pm and continues until May 13th
Basement Project Space – Camden Place, Camden Quay, Cork.

All Pinhole Photos are hand printed from copper plates using a Photo Intaglio Etching process and are all of a limited edition.

Mexico’s Copper Canyon, the childhood towns of ‘Pedro Paramo’ author Juan Rulfo, a town destroyed by a volcano and an eruption in Guatemala all provided inspiration for this collection.

I own one of the prints from the last Mexican inspired exhibition Brian held, I’ll be there at the opening on Saturday night (1st May), so hopefully see you there.

Found on FFFFound I think this was a dream I had.

Great set of 15 links to tutorials to achieve specific photographic effects to look like pinhole photography, cross processing, lomo photography and others.

Put an album cover infront of your face (or other body part) to create an illusion, take a picture and submit it to SleeveFace.com… it’s that simple.

Or you could just be lazy and browse through the pictures for a laugh. Sleeveface.

There’s so much I haven’t had a chance to blog about lately. Cuba Obscura, prints of Cuba taken with pinhole photography by our good friend (Sir) Brian Barry.

With Castro handing over power to his brother the timing of these prints seems kind of nice. Brian took them while on a visit to Cuba last year as far as I know, so if your a Cuba nut they might mark the occasion nicely for you.

The prints are Photo Intaglio Etchings (ask brian, not me) and are available from Cork Printmakers, or contact Brian about them.

Go check out the site.

Grafitti I spotted while running for a train. Snapped it on the camera phone. Sure why not.

UPDATE: Graffiti. Not Grafitti. I always get that wrong.

Taken with my Nokia 6300 in Cork yesterday. I take photos with my phone now and then and do nothing with them, so if they’re anyway half decent from now on they might end up here. Just fer fun.

I seem to be drawn to photographers who have a knack for capturing human vulnerability. Remember the Charlie White post?

Susanne Middelberg certainly has the aforementioned knack. Her portraits in particular seem to effortlessly x-ray her subjects to their most vulnerable.

Some of the portraits are nudes, and nudity helps make people feel more vulnerable as subjects of course, but what I like about Susanne Middelberg’s work is that there is no attempt to make her subjects conform to traditional perceptions of beauty, she brings out the beauty of her subject in a very natural way.

The image at the top of this post is the one that first brought Susanne Middelberg to my attention – from a series where she uses superhero costumes to highlight the common humanity of what goes on behind the facades we portray to the outside world.

below are some of her more intimate portriats. Check out her site for more, I’d love to tell you more about her, but all the information I could find is in Dutch or something as she’s from the Netherlands!