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A new edition is released every fortnight, on a Monday. Each edition comes from a different photographer, and is a single image representative of an important body of their work, either ongoing or completed. With a panel of industry professionals, they handpick emerging and established talent in order to provide a broad variety of aesthetics, ideas and approaches to photography. They present photographers who have developed a strong visual language, offering limited edition prints of their work at an affordable price, breaking the convention that only the wealthy can collect.

Edition releases will be accompanied by a video interview with the photographer about the creation of the image and their creative process, allowing visitors to the site access to an ever increasing archive of contemporary thought in photography, which can be downloaded, embedded in blogs or other sites and viewed over and over again. CONTACT want to provide insights into the artists thought processes, the stories behind the images, the intellectual motivations; presenting not only the visual but emphasising the context. Alongside the photographers talking about their work, they have asked professionals within the industry to talk about their roles and to offer advice to artists. By doing this they aim to create an accessible community and resource for both photographers and those inspired by photography.

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Earth Observatory - here

Disco Works, Switzerland, 2002 ~ 2006

Prompted by the onslaught of digitally crafted photography, Disco attempts to document a magical momentary fiction, created through the culmination of a recipe of weather balloons, electronics, patient volunteers and light bombs.

I have a new art crush. I can get enough of this.  
You can see the images bigger - here 

“Automatic Camera situated 7 miles from blast with 10 foot lens. Shutter speed equaled 1/1000,000,000 of-a-second exposure.” Early instances of an atomic explosion.

The photos are by Harold Edgerton aka “Papa Flash” who is famed for using Stroboscopic photography to photograph discrete instances of the everyday - balloons bursting, divers diving into pools, milk drops. These photos were taken using another of Edgerton’s inventions, the Rapatronic camera - capable of taking photographs with exposure times of 10 nanoseconds and are far from everday occurences.