portraits

8hands featured flickr stream: dan banda lee

Dania — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:44:53 -0400

When we decided to add flickr streams to the Caught 8handed blog, Dan Banda Lee was one of the first people I thought to feature. A few months have gone by, and today seems like the perfect time to feature his intimate stream. I have to admit I have the softest spot for the kind of work that Dan Banda Lee presents. Taking us in on the most personal level, we see the evolution of a life, from the first photos that he took of his wife, to their new baby, to their kids, to some of the best christmas cards I've ever seen - all taken with a sense of humor, honesty and style. Oh, and he shoots tons of great band portraits, like the Pipettes and Fujiya and Miyagi. Definitely a flickr stream that always keeps it on the real... Enjoy.

Swann & The Mini

tatlana_NYC

swan_nightswimming

Dmitrich_tate

tatlana and brolley

Enjoy The Silence

Swan_Goggles

Dimitrich and Swan North_Norfolk

Dmitrich and Swan

The James Kendall

Auto Portrait for Christmas 1

To view more of dan banda lee's stream, click here.

8hands featured flickr stream: ward_zwart

Dania — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:05:59 -0400

You can now add the Belgian ward_zwart to your list of underground-talent-that-you-can-tell-your-friends-you-knew-back-when-they- were-sweet-young-things-on-flickr-and-could-buy-their-work-for-$16. The kid works hard, churning out limited edition books of his portraits, flyers, illustrations for Bolshoi Gorod, Moscow's weekly city newspaper (I'd love to hear how that connection came about!), skateboards, and of course, the de rigueur tote bag and t-shirts. And he has that scratched out sketched out look down! Definitely worth a journey through his stream. Enjoy...

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lonesome coboj

nr. 18

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To view more of ward_zwart's stream, click here.

8hands featured flickr stream: Lou O' Bedlam

Dania — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:57:39 -0400

In continuation of my Gorilla vs. Bear post, I'd like to dedicate another post to a soon to be lost gem, polaroid film. Now, I have to admit, I'm not much of a polaroid user (more of a 120 holga girl now) but I'm shocked nonetheless. It is a sad sad time, and maybe I'm most scared because film may be the next to follow.

So, in honor of the untimely announcement that Polaroid will stop producing their legendary film, we will feature people that take polaroids to a whole other level.

One such person is Lou O'Bedlam. He shoots perty girls and hip boys on polaroid film, lending the look an even further intimacy. His 120 shots are also great, so I had to include them as well. Unfortunately, that will be all he's left with soon... Enjoy.

Aaron's Face is Made of Putty

Perpetually Backlit

Ninja

Light Painting - Lhea

Sam, at his Party

"Look Sexy, Ginny!"

Happy (Belated) Birthday, Kris!!!

New Camera, I Think I Love You

To view more of Lou O' Bedlam's stream, click here.

8hands Featured Flickr Stream: Cabinet de fumisterie appliquee

Dania — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:48:32 -0400

As I wrote in my last post, Flickr streams come in all shapes and sizes and every once in a while, you come across a super duper super tight super themed stream. So I figured, what better way to follow up than to show you one of these streams today.

Cabinet de fumisterie appliquée are two women giving it to us short and sweet Cindy Sherman style. Beautifully composed, their images have an element of fetish combined with that oh-so-ironic sense of humor. I guess. Don't know. I just like them. It looks like they meet up every Sunday afternoon and play with their big dress up box. Me thinks that François Coquerel, featured in a past Caught 8handed, took some of these photos. Enjoy...

Siamese twins

Woman in tights

Drying Women

Blinkers

Burglars

Salami-pirate

Prostitutes on a car park

Toothless woman

To view more of Cabinet de fumisterie appliquée's stream, click here.

8hands Featured Flickr Stream: Perpetually

Dania — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 10:10:07 -0400

Perpetually is one of the first photographers I noticed on Flickr. She's actually a high school friend of my brother's, so it wasn't too hard to stumble upon her. I think she's actually one of the first photographers that I was officially addicted to on Flickr. Her images are wild and ecstatic, a diary showing her travels, her home, her friends, her play. There was a while I would check in daily to see what she was up to, and then call over friends from work to my computer to oooh and aaah over her at her creations.

She's also the first person that showed me the power of Flickr - her fans, their comments, the cult that she'd created for herself. And today, close to a year later, I went through her 2,000 + images - from the end to the beginning, and really felt like I saw a few years in the life and evolution a photographer in the age of Flickr. Enjoy...

white wedding accordion spotlight

dreary dreamy days on the beach

Flip Out

Strip Tease Hustle

Kitty Bomb

whole

Boy Out

this is a love story

Shielded Eyes

santa ana winds

To check out more of Perpetually's Flickr stream, click here.