This series of photos from Matt Siber is inspired by the proliferation of very tall signs in the American Mid-West and spreading to highways around the world. Floating Logos seeks to draw attention to this form of advertising by making the signs look completely surreal. Matt Siber is an artist from Chicago. Most of his work revolves around urban signs and photography.

Ceux d’entre vous qui ont la chaîne Bravo! sur le cable connaissent peut être déjà l’émission Snapshot, une série documentaire sur les photographes les plus innovateurs de la planète. Ce Jeudi 11 Décembre a 20h00, ne manquez pas l’émission spéciale portant sur Eamon MacMahon. Vous pourrez rencontrer l’homme derrière l’objectif et vous y apprendrez beaucoup sur le processus créatif de CitéSPK. Jetez aussi un coup d’oeil sur le profil CitéSPK d’Eamon.

Lisa Rienermann- Type the Sky

Students from the Australian National University photography workshop recently alerted me to the work of German artist- Lisa Rienermann. Type the Sky, is an alphabet formed of the shapes buildings make against the sky when photographed from below. She scoured the streets of Barcelona until she found all the letters she needed.

Her photo-typographic alphabet is now a font set published by German Type Foundry Slanted also called Type The Sky. The collection comes as a type face and a photo book. Definitely some beautiful, time-consuming, city speaking.

De retour à Pékin, je me suis trouvé par hasard dans une exposition d’Edward Burtynsky, un photographe canadien, à la Paris-Beijing Photo Gallery . Ma première connaissance de lui vient du documentaire Manufactured Landscapes . Ses images choquantes extériorisent notre influence perturbante sur l’environnement. Il a pris plusieurs collections de photos en Chine. Les éléments bruts caractérisés dans ses photos marquent nos traces, parfois indésirables, sur notre planète. De plus, Burtynsky a été commandé à photographier le projet du Barrage des Trois-Gorges. Ce dernier mesure deux kilomètres de large et monte jusqu’à 185m de haut.

Apart from the Three Gorges Dam, his numerous works on China covered, among other subjects, manufacturing, urban development and recycling. As I was watching the displacement of people for the construction of the dam as shown in Manufactured Landscapes played on site, I regretted that I did not have a chance to visit the villages and cities, all of which will definitely be submerged in water. Like many people, I am perplexed by this huge construction project, but "taming the water" (治水), as in solving the problem of flooding, has a long legend in Chinese history. On the other hand, if you never really thought about how we consume, entertain or live would shape the environment, a look at his photos will definitely get you thinking. For his striking photos on the dam, on shipbreaking and much more, visit edwardburtynsky.com.