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Booooooom x Capture Photography Festival: Public Art Open Call

Booooooom

This is now our fifth straight year teaming up with Capture Photography Festival, Western Canada’s largest lens-based art festival! We’re once again in charge of curating a public art installation here in Vancouver, and this time it will be installed on the Broadway-City Hall Canada Line Train Station.

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Artistic rebel, urban poet: new book celebrates the iconic photography of Saul Leiter

Creative Boom

Saul Leiter may not be the best-known name in the history of photography, but perhaps he should be. He had developed an interest in painting from an early age, and in New York, he was fortunate to meet the abstract expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart, who encouraged him to pursue photography. It became very frustrating for him."

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Booooooom x Capture Photography Festival: Gabriel Esteban Molina Interview

Booooooom

Edmonton-based artist Gabriel Esteban Molina was the artist selected from our Capture Public Art Open Call this year! The images on display are from Gabriel’s series “The Great Divide” which draws on the connection between photography and nostalgia. Thanks again to everyone who submitted.

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Concrete Hong Kong: learn about architecture through foldout models

Creative Boom

A new book celebrates the architecture of Hong Kong public housing in the 1950s-1980s. During the 1950s-1980s, when the colony was under British rule, public housing embraced the modernist architectural approach, and Hong Kong initiated mass housing projects that dramatically redefined urban living. Weird, isn't it?

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12 magazines and blogs that every photographer should check out

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock In print and online, these are the best places to find visual inspiration, tips and tutorials, and expert advice on photography. In the world of photography, you never stop learning, so staying inspired and informed is crucial. Every four weeks, there's a new issue, adding up to 13 editions a year.

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M?icah Purnell's Street Eyes exhibit brings together the biggest names in illustration, photography and typography

Creative Boom

All photography by Adrian Lambert Micah Purnell has been curating the outdoor art project Add-Art for the last ten years. Gemma O'Brien Fuchsia Macaree, in association with Creative Boom Since its inception, Add-Art has tripled in size on its mission to provide the public with uplifting visual narratives. Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda.

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Fiasco creates new identity and digital home for a company on the cusp of revolutionising aviation

Creative Boom

Fiasco digital lead Mike Frost explains: "With public flights on the horizon, Vertical needed a modern brand and website that appealed not only to commercial partners and investors, but the general public, too. The photography offers a glimpse of the work that goes on behind the scenes. The site is visually led.

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