Get The Edge: Live It Up With Cool Photography
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, is cool in the eye of the cohort? And if it is a cohort who are responsible for deciding what’s cool – who are these people? Artists? Designers? Fashionistas? Media? Corporate bigwigs?
Writer, poet, philosopher and artist Suzy Kassem has this to say about being ‘cool’.
“Coolness is not an image that can be bought or worn. True cool is an attitude that is projected from a person who is extremely comfortable in their own skin.”
So if this is you (or someone you aspire to be), get the edge and check out some of this cool photography.
Feed your monochromic desires
There’s something quintessentially cool about black and white photography.
The absence of colour brings other elements to the fore: composition, lighting, tone, shape, form, pattern, emotion, connection, detail and that special sense of timeless quality.
Whether your passion is the human form, an artefact or something from nature, monochrome art photography will feed your desire.
Take a walk down an urban alley
We may not want to walk down all of them on our own, but that just makes these urban alleys all the more enigmatic.
Here we feature some alley prints from the USA and Europe, but even Australia makes it into our cool collection. Thank you Melbourne.
Lean into the whimsy
Thanks to the vintage revival, we’ve seen the return of a softer, more subtle expression of coolness.
It’s thought-provoking, full of character and a little bit quirky. If this describes your personality then you’ll love these photographic gems.
Turn and live with animals
“I think I could turn and live with animals … Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.” – Walt Whitman
Now THAT’S cool.
