The 50 Carpoolers by Alejandro Cartagena. This work is in museums like SFMOMA, MFAH, and J Paul Getty. Created in Mexico from 2011-2012
Alejandro works with photography and video to explore issues of identity, place, and the environment. His work has been exhibited widely and is in the collections of major international museums.
In 2014, I documented the blissful moments of people and crowds in the middle of a live music concert. I wanted to feel their bliss. In retrospect, these are a self-portrait of someone I wanted to be: young, excited, and free. I asked the dancers to dance as if no one was watching to a tune in their heads. Now, in 2021, what I captured in these images feels like a time long passed—a time where we all were experiencing bliss. The 21 pieces that make up The Bliss Project are a symbolic gesture to portray our lives before the pandemic and to project optimism about the future.
Alejandro works with photography and video to explore issues of identity, place, and the environment. His work has been exhibited widely and is in the collections of major international museums.
This is a photographic conversation between Fernando Gallegos and Alejandro Cartagena. For over 10 years, we have collaborated in the creation of stories surrounding the idea of the city and how we inhabit them. Through 33 images we constructed a ping-pong narrative about the spiraling decay of the Latin American city. In pursuit of modernity, we have seen how these human spaces collapse into themselves forcing uninhabitable conditions. We want to make a point about the natural dichotomy of our urban culture; the struggle between the cities we hoped would bring progress and the acceptance that it will never arrive.
All the images from this collaboration were done on 120mm medium format film from 2010-2020
Fernando Gallegos and Alejandro Cartagena are a collaborative team working together since 2010.
For the past 6 years I have been running a photography rescue project where I salvage thrown away photographs from the garbage in Mexico City. These are “expired photographs” or photographs that have lost their original meaning. Through saving them I look to offer these objects an opportunity to continue their mission as holders of feelings and memories.
The order you will find here corresponds to groups that illustrate the changing approaches to beauty and representation throughout the 20th century. In their new life as NFTs, they add an important historical element to the NFT photography archive we are engraving on to the blockchain, tying the inherently photographic medium to its humble origins.
Through the profits of the sales of The 50 Carpoolers Project, this rescue program guarantees its continuation and expansion for years to come. Thank you to all the collectors for enabling this to happen.
Collection of 500. First drop August 20th 2021. Final drop TBD.
Alejandro works with photography and video to explore issues of identity, place, and the environment. His work has been exhibited widely and is in the collections of major international museums.
Roma Italy and la Roma in Mexico City. Two cities united by history, united by time and united by urban issues. All images were taken in medium format film from 2012-2014.
Alejandro works with photography and video to explore issues of identity, place, and the environment. His work has been exhibited widely and is in the collections of major international museums.
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Apodaca, N.L. Mexico, 2005-2010. This image is part of a 5-year project called Suburbia Mexicana. I wanted to document the rapidly changing landscape around my home city of Monterrey. Thousands of these little houses were being built and sold through government subsidies creating a housing bubble that lasted 12 years. In the end entire suburbs were abandoned and many became areas of extreme violence, where the drug war was fought for years. Others flourished and became the dream of homeownership the government forcefully pushed on Mexicans for years.
Alejandro works with photography and video to explore issues of identity, place, and the environment. His work has been exhibited widely and is in the collections of major international museums.
State of Nuevo León, Mexico, 2005-2010. This image is part of a 5-year project called Suburbia Mexicana. I wanted to document some of the unintended consequences of the housing bubble many cities in Mexico were going through. I was also very interested in the aesthetic questions posed by using ultra beautiful landscape imagery to represent ecological degradation. It is a nod to the romantic use of tragedy in paintings; a visual exploration of the grandeur of disaster as a way to comment on the other side of Mexico’s copy pasted ideals of homeownership.
Alejandro works with photography and video to explore issues of identity, place, and the environment. His work has been exhibited widely and is in the collections of major international museums.
Cartagena street in suburb in Juárez, Nuevo León, Mexico, 2005-2010. This image is part of a 5-year project called Suburbia Mexicana. During the first 10 years of the 21st Century, Mexico put forward a housing project that resulted in the construction of hundreds of thousands of homes around my hometown of Monterrey. These are the people who dared to dream to own a new home. I encountered them in their new suburbs and asked them to be part of the representation of a changing landscape we were both living through at that time. All images were done with a large format 4×5 film camera.
Alejandro works with photography and video to explore issues of identity, place, and the environment. His work has been exhibited widely and is in the collections of major international museums.
A novella by Nicholas Gill and Alejandro Cartagena.
A collection of 151 “expired photographs” that were thrown out, collected from a tianguis outside of Mexico City by photographer and archivist Alejandro Cartagena and then pieced together and reimagined by writer Nicholas Gill. The 151-page novella tells the tale of the fictional town of Santa Maria de las Rocas, located in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.
The story traces this coastal community from its humble origins at the turn of the century to the 1980s, as it corresponds to real events in the history of this corner of Mexico. As years pass, the landscape changes and the community grows and develops. There’s corruption and violence, magic and hope. Characters fall in love and fall apart. Their voices are heard. Their songs are sung.
Alejandro works with photography and video to explore issues of identity, place, and the environment. His work has been exhibited widely and is in the collections of major international museums.
Memes are digital heritage. They are ment to circulate. This is a documentary project about the memefication. of The Carpoolers project by Alejandro Cartagena. Take. Circulate back. All these works are based on the original work created in 2011 to 2012.
Original Works: https://opensea.io/Carpoolers?search[sortBy]=CREATED_DATE&search[resultModel]=ASSETS&search[sortAscending]=true&tab=created
AI generated NFTs of the 50 Carpoolers: https://opensea.io/Carpoolers?search[sortBy]=LISTING_DATE&search[query]=eponym
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Eponym is a state-of-the-art generative algorithm that produces fine, abstract art, in under 1 minute, using an innovative text-to-image generator. Any word or phrase, can be transformed into a beautiful 1/1 art piece, forever etched onto the Ethereum blockchain as the visual representation of your phrase. The program was developed over the last 2 years by the world’s best generative art engineers.
10,000 unique collectible characters with proof of ownership stored on the Ethereum blockchain. The project that inspired the modern CryptoArt movement. The Cryptopunks are one of the earliest examples of a “Non-Fungible Token” on Ethereum, and were inspiration for the ERC-721 standard that powers most digital art and collectibles.
A small, warty, amphibious creature that resides in the metaverse.
You have arrived in a nearby magical dimension of love, divine intervention, and possibility.
Robotos is a collection of algorithmically generated droid characters designed by Pablo Stanley.
10,000 undead NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain. With your Deadfella comes utility, community and opportunity. Join the horde.
The Ethereans are an army of 11,000 soldiers that came from Planet Crypto, far far away in the ETH Region on the edges of the Milky Way Galaxy. Created by The Chaos Duo in collaboration with PaisanoDAO.
HeavenComputer provides the latest and most innovative technology in on-chain divination and errormancy.
Woodies is a collection of 10,000 avatars created by UltraDAO. But this isn’t just another avatar project. Propelled by one of the largest 10k project teams and an established artist DAO, Woodies is a universe rich in storytelling and characters with big plans for future content and collector rewards.
Fang Gang is a collection of 8888 randomly assembled Fangsters – twisted lunatics that come out at night to throw parties, hang around in dark alleys and have fun on the streets of New Fang City.
The zombie apocalypse has started. Unfortunately the Toadz were the first to get infected. However, there is hope. Brave heroes are capturing 5,555 ZombieToadz and harvesting their blood for BRAINZ: our greatest hope for a cure.
As the first release from Bitlectro Labs, Dreamloops feature programmatically generated 8-bit musical loops and 16-bit artwork produced by Keil Corcoran of the band STRFKR. 1 in 5 Dreamloops (20%) will be redeemable for physical media (vinyl record or cassette tape).
A free to mint 5k PFP project focused on diversity and inclusion. We are community-oriented.
NFBs is a first-of-its-kind, bonetastic animated series.
It includes 10,005 randomly generated NFTs that rest in peace on the ETH Blockchain.
Created by Trevor Van Meter and pals.
Flowtys are 10k unique characters animated at 12 frames per second. All animation frames were carefully drawn by hand. Learn more about the concept and branding at flowtys.com.
As the first part of this series, I think this NFT needs a short introduction. The history of the art photography NFT is being written day by day. Justin Aversano’s Twin Flames was minted just 8 months ago, around February 2021. This series of NFTs will be documenting the most relevant events for art photography in the NFT world as they happen. Although I’m sure I’m missing some events, my interest is in the works that helped establish photography as a valid for of art in the NFT art world.
Fernando Gallegos. Photographer and photobook editor. Interested in the city and the way we inhabit it as individuals.
New Monuments is my first series of NFTs. The 40 photographs take the idea of conservation and the human desire to preserve as their primary subject. I began this work in 2015 while conducting research as a visiting artist at The American Academy in Rome, Italy. Rome was the perfect place to examine questions around conservation and memory, as I observed the restoration of artwork and buildings, documented architecture and art, and spent time in historical collections closely studying slides and photographic objects. While working in this way, I simultaneously considered the notion of preservation more abstractly, turning my camera lens on people and nature of the city, looking for smaller ‘monuments’ in the form of everyday details and still lifes that, in contrast to more clinical studies, are rooted in emotion. Conceptually, given the subject of the work itself, I see this series of photographs as a perfect addition to the blockchain where they now have a permanent home.
Shane Lavalette is an artist working in photography and books. His work is included in collections around the world.
Bastard Countryside is the struggle between humanity and nature, two contrasting forces fighting for control. But there’s also a part that resides someplace else; in a fictive realm that gestures towards some unknown, a less certain landscape. With a feeling of things left behind and what is still to come, these photographs tap into our cultural anxiety of what the future holds.
This piece is part of the Bastard Countryside: a series of 50 photographs, shot on 5×4 large format film, made over 15 years.
Fine Art Photographer; exploring the Anthropocene with one foot in the past and two eyes on the future.
Treemeat.com was one of the early photo sharing blogs (photoblog) on the web. Started in 2005, every page was hand coded, every photo was scanned from film, and photos were posted daily. It was a labor of love, and became a popular fixture of the pre-social media web.
Photographer and artist on a creek by the woods.
Collection of 500. First drop August 20th 2021. Final drop TBD.
I spent the better part of two summers on the road exploring the American Southwest. In the process, I created a series of photographs depicting moments from the journey. I composed and captured roadside in my travels through Mojave Desert.
Jason uses photography as a means of exploration and self expression. Pairing analog and digital processes with his own aesthetic, Jason creates photographic works from moments captured on the road.
Solitud: The quality or state of being alone or remote from society in a personal way
PixelSkaters are one of the newest creations to shred the NFT community. Each PixelSkater is different depending on skin color, gender, clothing color, and stance. There is not a certain amount of PixelSkaters as of right now, but there will definitely be more in the future!
Abstract Loot is a collection of generative and animated artworks. This is the first collection designed from the Loot project’s metadata.
Abstract Bag #1920
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Starry background artist working with the web, the moon & the sun.
Exploring aesthetics and narratives using open source &/or indie tools + languages.
Either, concept is key or there is no concept.
The quality or state of being alone 10,000 adorable Lemmings, in need of your love and affection. Adopt one to join our community and raise awareness & money for mental health.
Bears Deluxe has arrived! 6,900 (nice) algorithmically generated bears. All art drawn by hand, 24px format. Keep an eye on the pixelmage.io website/twitter for news on how these tokens can be used with an upcoming dapp.
Get your paws on a worthy cause, 20% of proceeds from primary sales go to shelter dogs.
Every goldfish is an original piece that belongs to one big collection: the goldfish family, coming from the sea to your computer.
Experimenting with setting boundaries for myself | he/him | Aotearoa/New Zealand
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10,000 unique trees on Solana with a mission to save the planet.
Certified business partner of One Tree Planted.
Himinn is a painterly cloud study exploring light, color, and the generative composition of clouds in the sky. The algorithm creates natural forms and the illusion of ever-changing atmosphere through carefully structured layers of color and shape. Himinn means “a sky”, and it has been incredibly fun to paint the skies with code.
In mid-September of 2021, there was a major construction project in the city underway to replace the sidewalks and roadway. It was causing a lot of disruption in the neighborhood for residents and commuters.
It suddenly dawned on me. Why am I allowing myself to be upset by things outside of my control? If I always search for negative things in life, I will surely find them. However, the positive sides are there to be discovered by me each day as well. Only I can control whether or not I am in good spirits. If I try to search for and focus on the good each day – then maybe I can truly be happy.
Aaron is one of the first scanographers (using a scanner as a camera) in the world creating NFTs.
Luchadores are randomly generated using Chainlink VRF and have 100% on-chain art and metadata – Only 10000 will ever exist!
A geometric composition of a contrasting middle “heart” and an outer “soul”. The seed of the symmetrical heart is broken into varying amount of chambers that are calculated to keep its corridors at the exact constant width in order to preserve its rigid mathematical character, yet provide enough space for variety for interesting geometrical patterns. The composition is balanced by a contrasting loose intertwining soul spreading to the borders of the passepartout that, along with the lining, give the piece a feeling of antiqueness. Heart and soul may also contain anomalies and unusual palettes.
These images belong to a series documenting lifeguard towers on both coasts of the US, in South Beach, Miami, Huntington Beach, CA, and Montauk, NY. They were photographed straight on with similar compositions to emphasize the distinctive traits of each tower. The shape, stance, color, and signage anthropomorphize the structures with their idiosyncratic personalities.
A Crypto Secret Community from another universe has entered the blockchain to study the current cryptosystem, co-adapt and join forces… in anticipation of reinforcements. what action will you take? join their community or will you be against them? The Crypto Secret Community collection will consist of 125 characters (+ bonus characters of course)!!! Created without generation algorithms and neural networks, only 100% human labor from dawn to dusk:) * a multi platform release +_+ SHED productions #CSC #weGROWtogether
Each Alien Boy is unique and algorithmically generated by combining 182 properties with varying rarities in 9 categories (Backgrounds, Skin, Face, Eyes, Body, Mouth, Accessory, Head, Special Power) Limited supply of 10.000 Alien Boys invading the Blockchain.
Give us some SPACE in your wallet, human
One Alien Boy in your wallet is a curiosity 👽 Two are an invasion 👽 🛸 👽
A Woman can be everything she wants. For 10 years, it has been our mission to educate and empower the next generation of Women and Girls. The Boss Beauties Collection is an extension of the same passion and goals we have championed for the past decade. This is a collection of 10,000 unique, independent and strong Women which are also used to access exclusive virtual events and more.
The most insane NFT collection ever! 8000 NFTS are made from a combination of more than 200 traits, hand-drawn in a very specific technique invented by artist Valiahmed Popov. Crypto Hobos are live on the Ethereum blockchain in form of ERC-721 tokens.
My father, Arthur D. Greenberg was a photographer.
In 1969, he organized a tour that gave young American women the opportunity to make their formal European debut across three balls: The Cygnet’s Ball in England, The Nuit De La Rose in Switzerland and the Marienlyst in Denmark.
The pictures capture a moment in time for upper class American white women that’s made even more striking when juxtaposed with photos of other young women in Woodstock at the same time.
Beyond the formality and the privilege these photos exude, I also see a glimpse into my father’s life. He must have felt like he was on top of the world as a photographer touring Europe and meeting royalty like Princess Grace.
Using common stock and advertising photographs as his source material, Jones uses strategies of digital composite and physical ink manipulation to craft a new kind of picture that is untethered from the traditional burdens of photography’s relationships to truth and belief. Borrowing from Eliot’s strategies of literary allusion and fragmented, collage-like narrative, Jones pulls inspiration from a range of influences including folk pictures and fairy-tale illustrations, to surrealism, stories of myth, common advertising tropes, and photo-historical traditions.
The resulting project sums up to a visual symphony that harmonizes with a fracturing, “post-truth” contemporary world. Promise Land revisits what many consider to be the greatest poem of the twentieth century while simultaneously reimagining what photography can be.
American artist Gregory Eddi Jones, usurps photographic convention to confront what the artist considers a spiritual poverty in common cultural pictures. The book uses T.S. Eliot’s Modernist masterpiece, The Waste Land (1922), as its point of departure, and is positioned as a sequence of pictures that picks up where The Waste Land left off nearly 100 years ago.
Pixel Foxes is a collection of 10,000 unique NFTs living awesome fox lives on the Ethereum blockchain. Created in the 24×24 pixel style, just for the fox of it!
Open your eyes is the first work in the Skin Catalog collection. A six-frame animation tattooed on six different people who don’t know each other. The design and animation process on the different bodies took approximately six months.
What does it mean to be connected? Link up? Choose to build. Being complete with the people we relate to does not mean that we are incomplete, it means that we dream of being part of something bigger.
Coralmatic is a collection of geometric compositions, made with beautiful color combinations. All NFTs are created using generative code.
!Sockz. Redeem at https://sockz.exchange/ for 1 pair of limited-edition physical Sockz shipped anywhere, anytime.
“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.” ― George Orwell, 1984
This is the second chapter of the Magazine for Robots Collection. Prints and Hi-Rez files available upon request.vertical_splitAbout The End of Factsexpand_more
Making things right at 42 photographing invisible things with and without a camera.
CryptoSVGs are “on-chain” generative svg arts on the Ethereum blockchain. They animate periodically as the block height grows.
Snailana Is Collectible Computer-Generated NFTs Stored On The Solana Blockchain, The Collection Consists Of 3,600 Unique Snails With Distinguishable Traits That Have Landed On Planet Earth. These Snails Require Transportation Towards The Solana Chain Planet. By Minting One (Or More) Everyone Will Own A Unique Snail With Evidence Of Ownership Recorded On The Solana Blockchain.
Banana Solana Are Generated From A Set Of Hand Drawn Designs Which Have Varied Degrees Of Rarity. Millions Of Possible Combinations. Only 1260 Remain. Many Got Too Burned To Survive And Are No Longer With Us (On The Block-Chain).
The CHOADZ are 7025 amphibious chunky pond dwellers, brought to life by The Chunks. A homage to CrypToadz, using the CC0 domain. !vibelabelPropertiesexpand_more
CryptoFoxes are the only NFTs minted with a slot machine on the Ethereum blockchain. They are 11,111 for sale on www.cryptofoxes.io. They are the second generation of our collection (see the V1 here). All the important details about the collection are on www.cryptofoxes.io.
VARIOUS BOOKS is a collection of 4,500 speculative books generated and stored on chain. Each book is an ERC-721 non-fungible token (NFT) containing attributes of varying rarity, open for speculation and interpretation. http://variousbooks.xyz
FlipToadz are a collection 6969 small amphibious creatures trying to escape the tyrannical rule of the Evil King Fliplin. Created by Fliplin, with a small bit of help from his friends.
This series from Paul Tait focusses on the beautiful colour combinations that occur within the everyday.
I AM A PHOTOGRAPHER MAKING IMAGES. ALL GOOD THINGS, ALL GOOD THINGS.