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Photographer Gérard Rancinan shot nearly 900 of China’s Olympic hopefuls over the last three years during visits to sports schools in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Shenyang. The athletes ranged in age from roughly eight to 30 and represented almost every Olympic sport. The full portfolio comes together as a portrait of China’s [...]

Being obsessed with photography, probably because I am not good at it, I am always on the lookout for cool photographers online. Berlin born Alexander Koch has stood out as one of those cool photographers. Although born in Berlin, he now resides in Libson, Portugal. “Throughout his career he has collaborated with some of the [...]

These photographs make the world seem so lonely. It reminds me of Signs with Mel Gibson, where they are stuck in their farmland with no one around but themselves (well, and those aliens that want to kill them). Or, it could easily make me think of any more where someone is about to be stabbed [...]

You see digital manipulation and retouching in photography everywhere these days. For example, when you see Conan O’Brian in a magazine cover she looks pretty good, then when you run into him on the streets of New York City, he looks like my elbow. Ryan Obermeyer uses digital manipulation in a different way, he changes [...]

You can read about it everywhere, or hear it on the news all the time, but sometimes all it takes is a photograph to change your perspective. Photographer Peter Menzel and author Faith D’Alusio traveled to 24 different countries to stay with 30 different families for a week. The purpose was to document how much [...]

This Cool Addict photographer makes you actually want to live in a city of blinding lights.