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Erik Johansson: Impossible photography

Erik Johansson creates realistic photos of impossible scenes -- capturing ideas, not moments. In this witty how-to, the Photoshop wizard describes the principles he uses to make these fantastical scenarios come to life, while keeping them visually plausible.
https://www.ted.com/talks/erik_johansson_impossible_photography

David Griffin: How photography connects us

The photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin knows the power of photography to connect us to our world. In a talk filled with glorious images, he talks about how we all use photos to tell our stories.
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_griffin_how_photography_connects_us

Nathan Myhrvold: Archaeology, animal photography, BBQ ...

Nathan Myhrvold talks about a few of his latest fascinations -- animal photography, archaeology, BBQ and generally being an eccentric genius multimillionaire. Listen for wild stories from the (somewhat raunchy) edge of the animal world.
https://www.ted.com/talks/nathan_myhrvold_archaeology_animal_photography_bbq

Ryan Pfluger: The therapeutic value of photography

In this deeply personal talk, photographer Ryan Pfluger shares how difficult times prompted him to take a series of road trips during which he discovered the power of photography to foster connection. Describing the tradition's unique place in our image-saturated culture, he explains how portrait photography -- even if its just self-portraiture ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/ryan_pfluger_the_therapeutic_value_of_photography

Sebastião Salgado: The silent drama of photography

Economics PhD Sebastião Salgado only took up photography in his 30s, but the discipline became an obsession. His years-long projects beautifully capture the human side of a global story that all too often involves death, destruction or decay. Here, he tells a deeply personal story of the craft that nearly killed him, and shows breathtaking image...
https://www.ted.com/talks/sebastiao_salgado_the_silent_drama_of_photography

Taryn Simon: Photographs of secret sites

Taryn Simon exhibits her startling take on photography -- to reveal worlds and people we would never see otherwise. She shares two projects: one documents otherworldly locations typically kept secret from the public, the other involves haunting portraits of men convicted for crimes they did not commit.
https://www.ted.com/talks/taryn_simon_photographs_of_secret_sites

James Nachtwey: My wish: Let my photographs bear witness

Accepting his 2007 TED Prize, war photographer James Nachtwey shows his life's work and asks TED to help him continue telling the story with innovative, exciting uses of news photography in the digital era.
https://www.ted.com/talks/james_nachtwey_my_wish_let_my_photographs_bear_witness

Truls Nord: Tactile photographs that display worlds of light, shadow and mood

For years, tactile photographs for the blind conveyed a limited amount of information about the original image and focused mainly on basic descriptive elements. In this talk, artist and photographer Truls Nord describes a printing technique he developed to help blind people experience photography in all its glory.
https://www.ted.com/talks/truls_nord_tactile_photographs_that_display_worlds_of_light_shadow_and_mood

Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second

Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look “around” corners or see inside the body without X-rays.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_imaging_at_a_trillion_frames_per_second

Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.

Nature’s beauty can be fleeting -- but not through Louie Schwartzberg’s lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day.
https://www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_nature_beauty_gratitude

Levon Biss: Macro-portraits of microscopic insects

Two decades into his career photographer Levon Biss decided to cast aside humans and focus on a new subject: insects. In this visual talk, Biss explains how he developed a fascinating process using composite macro-photography to capture stunning images of creatures that measure mere millimeters.
https://www.ted.com/talks/levon_biss_macro_portraits_of_microscopic_insects

Ian Strange: Home is where the art is

Artist Ian Strange turns decrepit suburban homes into art. Using paint and chainsaws, photography and film, he interrogates our concept of home and the narratives we build around it. In this talk, Strange discusses the creative and personal impulses behind his work, and invites us to challenge our own relationships with the places we call home.
https://www.ted.com/talks/ian_strange_home_is_where_the_art_is

Bill Shribman: What cameras see that our eyes don't

Our eyes are practically magical, but they cannot see everything. For instance, the naked eye cannot see the moment where all four of a horse's legs are in the air or the gradual life cycle of plants -- but cameras can capture these moments. Bill Shribman gives examples where photography can pick up where the eye leaves off. [Directed by Darcy V...
https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_shribman_what_cameras_see_that_our_eyes_don_t

Gary Greenberg: The beautiful nano details of our world

When photographed under a 3D microscope, grains of sand appear like colorful pieces of candy and the stamens in a flower become like fantastical spires at an amusement park. Gary Greenberg reveals the thrilling details of the micro world.
https://www.ted.com/talks/gary_greenberg_the_beautiful_nano_details_of_our_world

Stefen Chow: The everyday beauty of playgrounds

When photographer Stefen Chow took his young daughter to a playground for the first time, he was struck by her visceral reaction to the new surroundings. To better understand her interaction with these spaces and to correct his own detachment from them, Chow attached a camera to a drone and launched an aerial photography project about Singapore'...
https://www.ted.com/talks/stefen_chow_the_everyday_beauty_of_playgrounds

Angélica Dass: The beauty of human skin in every color

Angélica Dass's photography challenges how we think about skin color and ethnic identity. In this personal talk, hear about the inspiration behind her portrait project, Humanæ, and her pursuit to document humanity's true colors rather than the untrue white, red, black and yellow associated with race.
https://www.ted.com/talks/angelica_dass_the_beauty_of_human_skin_in_every_color

K. Erica Dodge: Gyotaku: The ancient Japanese art of printing fish

How did fishermen record their trophy catches before the invention of photography? In 19th century Japan, fishing boats were equipped with rice paper, sumi-e ink, and brushes in order to create gyotaku: elaborate rubbings of freshly caught fish. K. Erica Dodge recounts the story of this competitive fishing culture, plus some tips on how to make ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/k_erica_dodge_gyotaku_the_ancient_japanese_art_of_printing_fish

Barat Ali Batoor: My desperate journey with a human smuggler

Photojournalist Barat Ali Batoor was living in Afghanistan -- until his risky work forced him to leave the country. But for Batoor, a member of a displaced ethnic group called the Hazara, moving home to Pakistan proved dangerous too. And finding a safer place wasn't as simple as buying a plane ticket. Instead, he was forced to pay a human smuggl...
https://www.ted.com/talks/barat_ali_batoor_my_desperate_journey_with_a_human_smuggler

Nick Veasey: Exposing the invisible

Nick Veasey shows outsized X-ray images that reveal the otherworldly inner workings of familiar objects -- from the geometry of a wildflower to the anatomy of a Boeing 747. Producing these photos is dangerous and painstaking, but the reward is a superpower: looking at what the human eye can't see.
https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_veasey_exposing_the_invisible

Alison Jackson: An unusual glimpse at celebrity

By making photographs that seem to show our favorite celebs (Diana, Elton John) doing what we really, secretly, want to see them doing, Alison Jackson explores our desire to get personal with celebs. Contains graphic images.
https://www.ted.com/talks/alison_jackson_an_unusual_glimpse_at_celebrity

Levon Biss: Mind-blowing, magnified portraits of insects

Photographer Levon Biss was looking for a new, extraordinary subject when one afternoon he and his young son popped a ground beetle under a microscope and discovered the wondrous world of insects. Applying his knowledge of photography to subjects just five millimeters long, Biss created a process for shooting insects in unbelievable microscopic ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/levon_biss_mind_blowing_magnified_portraits_of_insects

Touria El Glaoui: Inside Africa's thriving art scene

Art fair curator Touria El Glaoui is on a mission to showcase vital new art from African nations and the diaspora. She shares beautiful, inspiring, thrilling contemporary art that tells powerful stories of African identity and history -- including works by Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop, Moroccan artist Hassan Hajjaj and Zimbabwean pai...
https://www.ted.com/talks/touria_el_glaoui_inside_africa_s_thriving_art_scene

Gavin Pretor-Pinney: Cloudy with a chance of joy

You don't need to plan an exotic trip to find creative inspiration. Just look up, says Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. As he shares charming photos of nature's finest aerial architecture, Pretor-Pinney calls for us all to take a step off the digital treadmill, lie back and admire the beauty in the sky above.
https://www.ted.com/talks/gavin_pretor_pinney_cloudy_with_a_chance_of_joy

Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous portraits of the world's vanishing people

When Jimmy Nelson traveled to Siberia to photograph the Chukchi people, elders told him: "You cannot photograph us. You have to wait, you have to wait until you get to know us, you have to wait until you understand us." In this gorgeously photo-filled talk, join Nelson's quest to understand -- the world, other people, himself -- by making astoni...
https://www.ted.com/talks/jimmy_nelson_gorgeous_portraits_of_the_world_s_vanishing_people

Anastasia Taylor-Lind: Fighters and mourners of the Ukrainian revolution

“Men fight wars, and women mourn them,” says documentary photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind. With stark, arresting images from the Maidan protests in Ukraine, the TED Fellow shows us intimate faces from the revolution. A grim and beautiful talk.
https://www.ted.com/talks/anastasia_taylor_lind_fighters_and_mourners_of_the_ukrainian_revolution

Louie Schwartzberg: The restorative potential of nature's beauty

The natural world is one of immense, awe-inspiring and even therapeutic beauty that many of us rarely connect with. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg uses bleeding edge nature photography to make a case for the restorative qualities of nature immersion and for technology's potential as our bridge to such experiences.
https://www.ted.com/talks/louie_schwartzberg_the_restorative_potential_of_nature_s_beauty

Frans Lanting: The story of life in photographs

In this stunning slideshow, celebrated nature photographer Frans Lanting presents The LIFE Project, a poetic collection of photographs that tell the story of our planet, from its eruptive beginnings to its present diversity. Soundtrack by Philip Glass.
https://www.ted.com/talks/frans_lanting_the_story_of_life_in_photographs

Aaron Duffy, Lake Buckley and Jack Foster: "Illusions for a better society"

Could visual illusions be a cure for polarization? (Credits: Director of Photography: William Atherton; Production Design: Adam Pruitt; Creative Partner: SpecialGuest; Production company: 1stAveMachine; Producers: Dave Kornfield, Andrew Geller, Matt Snetzko; Music: Bryn Bliska; Executive Producer, TED2018 Film Program: Sinéad McDevitt; Director ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/aaron_duffy_lake_buckley_and_jack_foster_illusions_for_a_better_society

Mother London: "AI therapy"

After 100 years of progress, AI bots have finally become too human for their own good. (Credits: Directors: Emerald Fennell & Chris Vernon; Director of Photography: Ben Kracun; Production Design: Jessica Sutton; VFX: Coffee & TV; Executive Producer, TED2018 Film Program: Sinéad McDevitt; Director of Production and Video Operations, TED: ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/mother_london_ai_therapy

Angelica Dass: Usando la fotografía para celebrar los diferentes tonos y colores de la humanidad

La fotografía de Angélica Dass desafía nuestra forma de pensar sobre el color de la piel y la identidad étnica. En esta íntima charla, la artista habla sobre la inspiración detrás de su proyecto de fotografía, Humanae, el cual nos invita a cuestionar los sistemas que nos tratan de categorizar o separar, y donde nos ofrece un espacio para elogiar...
https://www.ted.com/talks/angelica_dass_usando_la_fotografia_para_celebrar_los_diferentes_tonos_y_colores_de_la_humanidad
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