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Taken Aback by Iwase Yoshiyuki

I first saw Iwase Yoshiyuki’s photographs of ama, female free divers, or “sea women,” who swim to depths of 80 feet for abalone with basically no equipment, via the NYT’s 6th Floor blog. The photo story was related to/inspired by this week’s Sunday Magazine cover story on a potentially immortal jellyfish.

I didn’t have to read the cover story though to know that if jellyfish can tell us something about living forever, sea women must know the secret, too.

More of Iwase Yoshiyuki’s photos here.

Also related: Ian Baguskas’s photos of haenyo.

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Oranges, 2011, by Jessica Backhaus

Perfect evening in Paris: Attend Rinko Kawauchi opening. Stand back, get close to her photos. Not much else after that matters. But you can also walk home across the glittering Seine. Attempt to wander all the way to the Eiffel Tower. Turn around. Go to sleep.

Above is Untitled, from the series Illuminance by Rinko Kawauchi, from the book of the same name that is also incredibly gorgeous.

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Oh. Wow. Love this.

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Felix Kiessling. (via Booooooom)

STE 5.01 (16h 30m -50°), 1989, by Thomas Ruff

“We see not with our eye; we see with our brain.” — Ruff

Oranges by Sam Falls

This interview is old but good, beginning with, “My first reaction to Sam Falls’ work was to say, out loud to my computer, ‘Sam Falls, who are you?’”.

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Untitled by Anna Paola Guerra via The Great Leap Sideways

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From the series Missing Parts by Uygur Yilmaz

Big congrats to the 2011 First Edition Hot Shots: Robert Grimm, Laurie Kang, Kevin Kunishi, Laura Plageman and Uygur Yilmaz! Looking forward to working with all of these photographers.

This is divine: XPOL 11, 2011 by Jessica Eaton