it’s not what you think. iwona does not design gummy bears (although a giant gummy worm might be pretty trippy). what iwona does is painstakingly slow. she slices gummy bears of different flavors - her colors, 6 to be exact - and glues them upon photographs she shoots. the result is a bizarre mixed media creation that has a look and feel of its own. when asked about how she came to doing such work iwona replied with the following:

“the attached, is a short “thank-you” to my college art professor who inspired it with an assignment to “make a book”

we’re helping iwona launch her web site, but love these pieces so much, that iwona let us put them up. we”ll update when her site goes up, but in the meantime if there’s any gallery owners out there who’d like to show something new give a holla’.

This is such a cool project that has the goal of representing all 50 states through photography… the website for The 50 States Project says it best:

The 50 States Project has brought together 50 photographers from across the USA.

Each photographer lives in one of the 50 States and during the year long project each photographer will represent the State where they live. Every two months each photographer will be sent an assignment by e-mail, they then have two months to produce one image in response. The images must represent both their style and the State in which they live.

The first assignment, (”People”), was sent on 2nd January 2009. The second, (”Habitat”), was sent on 1st March 2009. The remaining 4 assignments will be announced on 1st May, 1st July, 1st September and 1st November 2009 respectively.

By the end of the project there will be 300 images which hopefully represent the talent of the photographers involved and have something to say about the USA today.

Check out the photos from the first assignment (”People”), here.

From Danish photographer Peter Funch comes this incredible gallery of photos - where he has staked out NYC street corners for two weeks taking photos of passersby from the exact same spot. THEN, combing through the images, he photoshopped together same-ish pedestrians to create some pretty fantastic composite images. Check out the “Babel Tales” photo series here.