Archive for October, 2009

A new exhibition “Pop Life” by artist Richard Prince opened to the public a few days ago at Tate Modern in the UK.  The show had previously been showed at the Guggenheim without stir and very little controversy.  However, when Pop Life opened to the public at Tate Modern the police were waiting with an… »

Call for Entries for Krappy Kamera XII INTERnational Juried Competition
Prospectus and Application
International entry directions
The beginning
The Krappy Kamera concept was born in 1992 at the Soho Photo Gallery® during a regular monthly opening reception when a few members admitted they preferred using their junky cameras to their high-end ones. One of the members, Sandra Carrion, proposed… »

Photos by Vicky Slater. Salisbury, England.

Vicky Slater, our first featured photographer hails from Salisbury, England.  She truly is one of my favorite current photographers.  She has just made a brand new website, the theme is very simple and minimalist, but it is chock full of incredible images.  To check it out click here.
To have… »

At first glance, this may seem to be a rather unassuming image.  A neutral gray background disrupted by a patterned spattering of white lines, which themselves are broken up by a couple of dark spherical shapes.  To understand the significance of this image one must really ‘look’ at it and do a little bit of… »

This was a move that I promised quite awhile ago.  I’ve been so short on time lately that I just couldn’t dedicate an unknown amount of time to it.  Well, I had absolutely nothing to do today so I finally moved The Photo Playground to http://thephotoplayground.com.  I think that I updated the database and server… »

Greetings readers. Recently we’ve been thinking that we should open the blog a bit more to you, our readers.  There are so many people doing incredible things with photography that we would like to present some of them here on The Photo Playground.  Using our new flikr pool, readers can now add photos of their… »