kim said

Your Photo Here

I just received an email about a new book in the works called Fly Solo: The Best 50 Places on Earth a Girl Can Travel Alone (can't wait to get a copy of that one myself--it sounds fabulous!). The author has been running a photo contest to collect pix for the book. She still needs photos from Barcelona, Budapest, Dublin, Edinburgh, Ibiza, Lisbon, St Petersburg, Stockholm, and St. Moritz. The submitted photos should feature a woman visiting a notable site in the city. I believe the contest is over, but you can still submit your photos for the book. Details here.

Living in Hell at London's National Gallery

"Living in Hell and Other Stories is a sequence... inspired by the language and forms of Old Master paintings, from Del Piombo to Velasquez and Caravaggio to Gauguin." The photo captions are from the photographer's local newspaper. (See the photographs and the paintings that inspired them in The Guardian's Tom Hunter flash gallery.)

Dark and Stormy

"Fashion creates the illusion of beauty, of the world being perfect," Ballen says. "But we know that even when you dress in these clothes, the world is not that way. You can't ever rid yourself of the shadow." ("The Selma Blair Witch Project," NYT via The View from the Edge of the Universe)

Image: Selma Blair, photographed by Roger Ballen