BY: CONNOR BRIAN Currently, we are experiencing what the European Commission has dubbed the world’s worst refugee crisis since the Second World War. More than 50 million people were displaced in 2014 and floods more are cramming into tiny rubber…
The 10 winners from Nat Geo’s Traveler Photo Contest will ignite your spirit of adventure
BY: CONNOR BRIAN Armed with endurance, creativity, and a bold sense of adventure these photographers departed into the unknown with the knowledge that the human mind only blooms when exposed to new experience. The marvels experienced while travelling often turn…
The family album of a 2-year-old and her addict parents shows that love exists in dark places
BY: CONNOR BRIAN Wandering the moonlit streets of St. Petersburg, Russia, in search of subjects for her latest project, photographer Irina Popova noticed a young tattooed woman pushing her daughter in a stroller while stumbling with a drunken swagger. After…
Designer suits, inked skin and amputated fingers—inside the Yakuza, the world’s largest crime syndicate
BY: CONNOR BRIAN | Photos by: Anton Kusters The Yakuza are known for their ruthlessness, full-body tattoos, and a strict code of honour, that if broken has a tradition of punishing you by cutting off your fingers one at a time.…
Hipsters, weirdoes and free thinkers—Portraitlandia captures the spirit of America’s most interesting city
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Portland—the original home of gutter punks, hipsters, weirdoes and forward thinkers. In the middle of one of America’s most beautiful and progressive states, Portland is a magnetic core of positive energy, interesting people and free thought, quickly…
One hundred cameras were given to London’s homeless to show us the city through their eyes
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ This past July a project by Café Art supplied the homeless people of London with disposable cameras and the opportunity to show people the city through their eyes. One hundred disposable cameras were given to the cause,…
Meet Claudette, the 76-year-old champion cyclist, husband, and hermaphrodite prostitute
BY: CONNOR BRIAN “I’d rather sell my ass than my soul, it’s harder but much cleaner,” she tells photographer Malika Gaudin-Delrieu. Claudette is a grandfather, award winning cyclist, a campaigner for sex workers’ rights, and a happy husband who has…
This odd bird lives likes a human with the family that rescued it
Penguin the Magpie was rescued as a baby by a boy named Noah and now the strange little bird has become part of the family. It comes and goes like a first year college student living an hour away from…
How a selfie turned a high school dropout into one of Nat Geo’s greatest photographers
BY: TYLER FYFE Cory Richards is not your typical high school dropout. He was nearly homeless when he decided to use photography to educate himself . So far he has been to all seven continents, witnessed Polar bears standing on the…
Drone footage of unparalleled Serengeti wildlife will get nature enthusiasts hot and bothered
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Filmmaker and photographer, Will Burrard-Lucas, managed to capture this unbelievable footage of the Serengeti’s stunning landscape and unparalleled wildlife in a matter of two weeks—a notion that would surely draw an insurmountable chorus of sighs from the…
Photos of children that shook history and the stories that still haunt their photographers
BY: TYLER FYFE There is something deeply disturbing about seeing the soiled innocence of a child. Its power lies in its familiarity. In children we see two visions of the world— visions of our own distorted past and visions of…
This guy navigates the wild with his wolf-dog like he just stepped out of Narnia
There are few things in this world with a higher calibre of majesty than the wolf. Half part beautiful, half rip-your-fucking-face-off. If you manage to befriend the beast, you are instantly endowed with a certification of downright, unparalleled badassery. On…
These photos capture the beauty of abandoned places
BY: JESSICA BEUKER There is something very eerie yet alluring about an abandoned building. An old house that appears mostly unbroken on the outside — loose shingles, rotting wood and unkempt grass being its only giveaways — was once the…
These stunning photos combine the beauty of nature and the female body to create a masterpiece
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ Photographer John Poppleton constantly finds himself in awe of nature’s beauty, and has found a new way to portray the stunning landscapes the earth has to offer. It has always been his goal as a photographer to…
Do you know someone in these forgotten polaroids?
BY: ERIC ZDANCEWICZ Photography has become so accessible we have an app that instantly deletes photos after you send them. The tangibility of the art is still present, but not nearly as much as the digital is in everyday life.…
These breathtaking photos depict how the earth is our playground
BY: KASSANDRA DZIKEWICZ These breathtaking photos make people look like ants compared to Mother Nature. It is so easy to oversee the beauty that surrounds us every day, but these images will quickly remind you what the natural world has…
Here are five stunning pieces of art created using discarded ocean plastic
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The North Atlantic Gyre is one of five major oceanic gyres. A circular system of ocean currents, the gyre was recently explored by artists Alexander Groves and Azusa Murakami. As they made their way from the remote…
This mesmerizing film will resuscitate the uninspired and turn workaholics into surf bums
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA How do you resuscitate an apathetic, routine-shackled, uninspired workaholic devoid of all signs of life? Well shit, I’m no doctor, but I expect this video is exactly what any self-respecting qualified practitioner might prescribe. Riley Blakeway…
Ex-financial strategist ditched his briefcase for a suitcase and caught his evolution on camera
BY: KAROUN CHAHINIAN Have you ever wanted to travel the world from your living room? Kien Lam has made this possible with his stunning time-lapse video “Time Is Nothing—A Journey Around the World.” After quitting his job as a financial…
Arizona’s last storm chaser time-lapsed Mother Nature’s hissy fit and it looks like the apocalypse
BY: KAROUN CHAHINIAN While most people’s first reaction to a storm would be to find shelter, Mike Olbinski has fallen in love with the thrill of chasing them with a video camera, and the product is breathtaking. Olbinski, a storm-chasing…