Photographers Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven make up the Ukrainian creative duo known as Synchrodogs. Constantly experimenting, the photographers often use budget cameras to shoot their subjects in a variety of unusual poses and unlikely situations. At times, the pair pose for their own imaginative photographs, giving them complete creative control over the staging and modeling of each shoot. The images that emerge from their experimentations are often unexpected and always memorable.

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Once the vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter for the American rock group The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed has to this day continued to be influential within the music industry as both a solo artist and collaborator. While many dedicated fans know of his contributions to music, others may not know of his growing portfolio of experimental photographs, much of which is showcased in a new book called Rimes Rhymes. The book, recently published by French publisher Éditions Photosynthèses, features over 300 photographs by Reed along with text by Bernard Comment.

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Flower, the latest collection of photographs by Andrew Zuckerman, continues the conservation-minded work that the prolific photographer began in his previous tomes, Creature (2007) and Bird (2009). For his latest project, Zuckerman photographed over 150 beautiful botanicals, investigating species both exotic and familiar. True to Zuckerman’s distinctive style, each photograph is minimalist in nature, showing a subject in isolation against a blank field. In this way, our attentions are drawn solely toward his unique and beautiful flora subjects.

Andrew Zuckerman is an American filmmaker and photographer based in New York City. Flower was published by Chronicle Books this year, and it includes 300 pages of full-color photographs.

Calathea burle marxii

Passiflora incarnata

Miltoniopsis hybrid

Calotropis gigantea

Caiophora lateritia

Strongylodon macrobotrys

Datura fastuosa

Tweedia coerulea

Pseudobombax ellipticum

Nymphaea ‘Key Largo’

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When French graphic designers Quentin and Thomas grew tired of lunch-as-usual, the creative duo began cooking together. Rather than limit themselves to making your typical hamburger, they played with their food, adding in unusual ingredients like caviar, octopus, and even gold foil. Before long, the pair had created a vast array of unique burgers inspired by everything from popular cartoons to movie releases. While many of these Fat and Furious Burgers are not quite fit for consumption, they certainly are a feast for the eyes.

Dhundi Burger

Fricocotte Burger

Hawaiian Burger

Brrrrgeur

Sanglichon Burger

Go Green Burger

Canicule Burger

A Burger To Feed Them All

The Burgiving

My name is Bun, James Bun

The End Burger

Beuh-rger

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New York-based fine art photographer Jon Shireman has turned the concept of a traditional still life on its head more than once before, but this time he does it in an explosive way. For his Broken Flowers series, the photographer soaked various flowers in liquid nitrogen for up to 30 minutes before launching them into a hard surface and photographing their beautiful demise.

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London-based photographer Niall McDiarmid has a knack for finding interesting characters among the crowd and photographing them in a way that highlights their individual quirks and charms. For the past 18 months, McDiarmid has been creating Crossing Paths, an ongoing, long-term portrait series documenting the looks and lives of unique people he encounters throughout his travels around the UK. Although the project began in London, it has since branched out to include snapshots of over 500 people taken in more than 75 towns around the country.

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For a series on the long and curious evolution of feathers, New York-based photographer Robert Clark visited several institutes of zoology and paleontology and museums of natural history located from Germany to China. The resulting photographs range from simple, elegant portraits of single feathers to snapshots of ancient fossils which document the past lives of some toothier ancestors of modern birds.

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As part of a multi-year project called “The Girl Studies,” Charlie White photographed teen girls between the ages of 12 and 14 side-by-side with male to female transgender adults. In each image, the paired individuals stand out against a non-descript background, making their similarities in appearance all the more evident. Ultimately, the mini-series is a comparative study of two paths toward womanhood, one biological and the other surgical/chemical in nature.

Photographer and filmmaker Charlie White has had his work exhibited internationally since 1999. Currently, he lives and works in Los Angeles.

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Based out of Paris, reporter-turned-photographer Marc Lathuilliere travelled to the small village of Ban Sam Kula, Thailand to capture his recent series, “The Fluorescent People.”

The series offers a unique look at the lives of the around 300 inhabitants of the Lisu village in northern Thailand. During his month-long stay within the hilltribe community, Lathuilliere created scenes in which PVC pipes, plastic film, fluorescent lights, and other such modern, mass-produced objects played an important role. By keeping such objects inside the frame, the photographer shows us that even hard-to-reach, remote communities like Ban Sam Kula are far from living in a timeless past, unaffected by changing times and the broader world of which it is a part.

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A young performer stands beside books and records piled high, his clothes scorched for reasons unknown. A fashion designer gazes stoically at the photographer’s lens while a toothy reptile lurks near his feet. Holding his skateboard, a sociologist returns to the room he lived in as a child.

These are but a few of the captivating scenes Reims-based photographer Baudouin has been capturing for years of his life. A well-known and admired portrait photographer in the French media, Baudouin has long been interested in observing and photographing Parisians in their natural, everyday habitats. In this sense, perhaps, he is like an anthropologist with a very nice camera.

An exhibit featuring some of the photographer’s recent work, 75 Parisiennes, Baudouin will run through December 1st at Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière in Paris.

Nicolas, performer

Jean Philippe, artist

Xavier and Gaspard, DJ

André, artist

Philéas, baby

Franck, actor

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