An Eternal Venture

Photos of space are everywhere online. Their beauty is dazzling, showing a universe awash in color and light. But if you’re a skeptic, you’ve likely wondered whether it all truly looks like that in real life.

Michael Benson took data from NASA and ESA missions to make 77 images of everything from Pluto to Europa. In his exhibition Otherworlds: Visions of Our Solar System, Benson tries his best to create images that represent what a moon or planet might actually look like if you could peer at it out a spaceship window.

Cities are no place for birds. They’re full of cars and cats and windows and no end of other threats that maim and kill. Vogelklas Karel Schot is there for them whenever they get hurt.

Photographer Anjès Gesink has volunteered at the shelter for four years. She photographed more than 100 of its feathered patients for her series Vogels Huilen Niet (Birds Don’t Cry). Her close-ups show the birds in the gloved hands of a volunteer, each caption explaining what happened.

“Whereas the blue glove stands for human care, the hand also represents the strong influence of human intervention in city birds’ lives,” she says.

Nick Brandt uses his moody portraits of elephants, giraffes, and lions to call attention to Africa’s vanishing megafauna. His latest series, Inherit the Dust, imagines these beautiful creatures wandering landscapes they’ve long since been driven out of.

The series features life-size portraits of the animals looming in sweeping panoramas of garbage dumps, highway underpasses, railways and construction sites in Kenya. The jarring and powerful imagery is part of Brandt’s lifelong dedication to highlighting the plight of Africa’s increasingly threatened wildlife.

Victor Enrich is the kind of guy who can’t walk down the street without analyzing and comparing buildings. It’s a huge inspiration for his photography, which features humorous digitally manipulated photos of fantastical structures you’d never find in real life and the occasional measuring system you’ve never considered.

Measure is one such photograph. It features the narrow, wedge-shaped building that houses New York’s Storefront gallery inverted on a replica of the Spanish Pavilion built for the 1937 World’s Fair in Paris. The image, though trippy, isn’t completely nonsensical: It proves the pavilion measures exactly one “storefront,” or 100 feet long.