SHENZHEN, CHINA, 30 YEARS LATER   Top Photograph via Gaoloumi.com | Bottom Photograph by SSDPenguin on Wikimedia Commons   Shenzhen is a major city in the south of Southern China’s Guangdong Province, situated immediately north of Hong Kong. The area became China’s first—and one of the most successful—Special Economic Zones (SEZs). Shenzhen’s modern cityscape [...]

  OSAKA STADIUM REDUX   Photograph by Naoya Hatakeyama   Photograph by Hugh Cree   The images above show the former Osaka Stadium in Japan around 1998-1999. Prior to this, it was the home of the Nankai Hawks baseball team until the owner sold it to the Daiei Group and the team was moved to [...]

    With the advent of powerful desktop publishing software like Adobe Photoshop, digital image manipulation has become mainstream. However, even before the invention of such software, doctored and tampered photos were used to alter perception and shape history. Fourandsix.com has chronicled these occurrences in their brilliant series, ‘Photo Tampering throughout History‘. Below you will [...]

    THE FIRST OF THE GREENSBORO SIT-INS OF 1960 – FEBRUARY 1, 1960       The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests which led to the Woolworth’s department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Rights [...]

Neil Leifer with his photo Ali vs. Liston (May 25, 1965) | Photograph by TIM MANTOANI – Buy the Book       Over the last five years, photographer Tim Mantoani has taken over 150 portraits of famous photographers holding their most iconic shots. The goal of the project was to put a face to [...]

    SAO PAULO, THE LARGEST CITY IN SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE IS FOUNDED JANUARY 25, 1554   Photograph via Helicopter Flights     Sao Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world’s seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São [...]