Photography October 12, 2006

Collected below are 4 sets of provocative photographs from around the world.

Edward Burtynsky's photographs of the incredible scale of human manipulation of the landscape include stone quarries, ship-breaking, oil fields, and urban mines.

20 years after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl the city of Pripyat remains an abandoned overgrown city. This collection of images is from a visitor's guided tour of the area around the reactor. (A simple google search locates several other photo galleries.)

Artist Jason Salavon layered photos of Homes for Sale in several large housing markets around the country.




The Face of Sydney is a project organized by the city of Sydney, Australia to compile a composite photo of the city's residents. 160,000 residents were photographed, from 9 months to 83 years old. Be sure to check out the neighborhood composites where smaller populations yield evidence of different skin tones and facial features.