tactile

Photographer Derek Julian investigates TEXTURES and PATTERNS with a rather dangerous technique commonly known as macro freelensing.

First, you take your lens off your camera so that rain and dust can get in.
Then, while holding your camera in one hand and your disconnected lens in the other, take a picture.
When done wrong, you break your camera.
When done right, you get this:

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UNDER WRAPS

I was looking through Steve McCurry’s photo gallery, and the “Afghan Girl” photo he shot for a National Geographic cover caught my attention. The girl’s eyes looked like they were war ravaged and fearful…amazing to get so much emotion from such a ‘simple’ photo.

I realized just how much eyes can communicate. The purpose of my series was to capture the individual character of each of my subject’s eyes. In order to focus attention there, I went about obscuring the rest of their face.

-Elvis Pring

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