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Our good friends Sara, Tobias & Peter have made a book about UFO and alien encounters. We’ve seen a dummy and it is one to own. You can buy it through their Kickstarter along with alien t-shirts and totebags. What’s not to like!

Kurdistan by Susan Meiselas

From the recent book Color Photographs by Japanese artist Daisuke Yokota. You can see the works exhibited if you happen to be in East Hampton, New York. 

Screw Richard Prince. This is interesting!

AI generated appropriated computer art (or something) by Google AI. We just pissed our pants out of equal part excitement and fear.

From the series Under The Influence by Dominic Hawgood

From the series Moisés by Mariela Sancari.

The Staten Island Ferry by Marcus Trappaud Bjørn

Untitled by Camilla Reyman. 

Borderland by Jiehao Su

Archive by Thomas Demand

Love Radio is a good example on how photojournalism can benefit from art photography and vice versa. With the following question as their starting point: "How can perpetrators and victims live with each other again after a history of gruesome killings?" photographer Anoek Steketee and journalist Eefje Blankevoort traveled to Rwanda twenty years after the genocide. Together they created this poetic web documentary told by the means of the popular Rwandan radio soap Musekewya ('New Dawn') as well as an exhibition. Highly recommended!

This week Let's Elope's very own Dennis Lehmann opened his exhibition Inuit.nu – 1# Upernavik and Sisimiut, a collaborative project with photographer Lasse Bak Mejlvang. The exhibition will be on view at Taseralik in Sisimiut until January 4th, 2015.

Read about the project and see more photos here.

Rosè Blesse by Eric Nehr

"Traveling with a box of prints, a pair of scissors, a container of glue, colored pencils, and a sketchbook, I asked willing collaborators to draw on, reassemble, and use their own tools on my photographs. I hoped that the new images would bring Uyghur perspectives into the work and facilitate a new kind of dialogue with the people I met – one that was face-to-face and tactile, if mostly without words. We sat down together in restaurants, art studios, shoe shops, walnut orchards, public parks, courtyards, hotel rooms, slaughterhouses, and jade bazaars while they worked on the images. The collages and drawings they made are the product of our exchange, in all their roughness, ambiguity, and risk."

Artist Carolyn Drake in Time Magazine about her new book Wild Pigeon, an amalgam of photographs, drawings, embroidery, and texts made in Uyghur areas of western China. Read the full interview here.  

"My mother died at the end of May, when spring was in full bloom. Though she had stage 4 breast cancer, leukemia moved in and took her faster than expected. She loved working and being in her yard and garden. Ironically, the garden looked especially beautiful the week she passed away. I made this memorial series of ice plates as a way of preserving her garden, and coping with her loss."

Street photography from North Philadelphia by Daniel Traub.