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The Desert Realty images are mostly of abandoned buildings in the California desert. All have been manipulated to enhance and ennoble these very ordinary structures that might otherwise go unnoticed and unappreciated. Ed Freeman with, Desert Realty.

Train-surfing, hitch-hiking, and struggling through edgelands are the primary modes of transport chosen by photographer Mike Brodie and his itinerant young subjects in A Period of Juvenile Prosperity. Documenting Brodie’s traveling community of freedom-seeking adolescents as they bushwhack through the ‘burbs and backwaters of the United States.

Let’s pretend it’s summer already and enjoy some underwater beauty.  Female photographer Caroline Mackingtosh did an amazing job capturing these women through submerged shots and smart use of natural light.

Every year since 1960, the government has held a Military Photographer of the Year competition to highlight the best images created by photographers in uniform. US Air Force Master Sergeant Jeremy “JT” Lock has won the award a staggering seven times. No other military photographer has come close to that.

R H U D E delivers with this preview of their upcoming Fall Collection. Modelled by the self-acclaimed King of the Youth Ian Connor, this showcases pieces such as shirts, and outerwear with signature brand designs and new patterns. Take a look at the additional pictures below.

A house cat living his life next to some bigger congeners with the matching slogan: “Feeding your cat’s instincts”. Photographer George Logan and retoucher Tony Swinney did a great job in this well-executed imitation of the hierarchy in nature. Via

A monochrome architecture series by photographer Nicolas Alan Cope. With heavy, black and white contrast and geometric compositions he turns simple objects into interesting art. Via

Swiss photographer, Jean Revillard’s project Sarah on the Bridge documents the journey of a young girl who travels from Ghana to Italy where she hopes to make a future as a dressmaker. Upon arrival, Sarah enters the vortex of modern slavery often connected with migration, as she is forced to pay back her debts by selling her body in a forest near the Italian town of Turin.

Nadia Maria is a photographer from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Some of the seemingly soft images seem to be in constant motion, a skill so well-controlled by Maria that the pictures look peaceful yet dynamic. You can have a look for yourself here.

Graphic designer and illustrator David Schwen has created a series of the perfect pantone food matches, the ongoing collection offers the perfect flavor soulmates in easy to understand swatches.

They say true beauty is not on the outside. We beg to differ. via

Los Angeles-based photographer Brice Bischoff has a project titled Bronson Caves. Between 2009 and 2010, Bischoff visited the caves in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park with his 4×5 large format camera and some very large sheets of colored paper. He then used long exposure times to paint colorful blurs into the photographs by waving the papers around.