English photographer Jasper James has created an interesting amalgamation between the capital city of China, Beijing and its citizens. He’s combined the silhouette of the citizen with the cityscape. James manages to capture both subjects beautifully, you can easily see the portrayal of a range of human emotions from love, peace, stress to trapped.

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Gavin coal power plant, Cheshire, Ohio 2003. Epstein says: ‘In 2003, I was asked to photograph the erasure of a small town in Ohio. In Cheshire, houses were being razed by the hour and streets were nearly emptied of human life. American Electric Power, one of the world’s largest utility companies, had bought out the town and issued a gagging order to silence its residents, after increasing complaints that AEP’s plant had contaminated the health of Cheshire’s citizens. I was not the same after this trip. The cost of growth, with its implicit energy demands, had become terrifyingly vivid’.

BP Carson Refinery, California , 2007. ‘I had seen firsthand the grave results of fossil fuel production on human life and our ecosystem. To further examine the role of energy in the United States, I embarked on a five-year long, 25-state project called American Power. I photographed a consumerist society inured to the consequences of unbridled consumption. Many living in the shadows of power plants despaired their polluted water and air, but did not have the economic resources to relocate. Growth no longer meant progress but self-destruction,’ Epstein says.

Amos coal power plant, Raymond City, West Virginia, 2004. The prestigious Prix Pictet photography prize is awarded for the most successful use of photography to tackle social and environmental issues and comes with a £65,000 (CHF 100,000) grant.

Biloxi, Mississippi 2005.

Hoover dam and Lake Mead, Nevada/Arizona 2007.

Iowa 80 truck stop, Walcott, Iowa 2008. ‘American Power is an active response to the American Dream gone awry. My project focuses on the United States not only because I am American, but because the US has exported its model of unrestricted growth around the world in the form of mass consumerism, corporatism and sprawl’.

Signal Hill, Long Beach, California 2007.

Las Vegas, Nevada 2007. ‘We now need to export a revised model of growth, a revised American Dream’.

Ocean Warwick oil platform, Dauphin Island, Alabama 2005.

Century wind project, Blairsburg, Iowa 2008. ‘I included pictures in American Power of renewable energy – wind, biotech, solar – to show that a healthier, more economical and compassionate way of life is possible. American Power bears witness to the cost of growth; and it asks viewers to consider the landscape they have altered – and take responsibility for it’.

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Adde Adesokan takes sweet street style photographs that break down pedestrians’ individual ensembles. The image begins with an up-close view of the person’s face, capturing any fashion statements that they may be wearing on their face or head. The following section reveals any item that they may be holding, or simply the mid section of their outfits. The last frame of the image captures the footwear that completes their get up.

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Raised in Detroit and Chicago Mark Laita studied Photography at the University of Illinois and the Columbia College in Chicago. Already at the age of 15 he explored his passion for this handcraft. In the meantime Mark Laita counts as a successful and established photographer who runs studios in Los Angeles and New York.

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Professional photographer Egor N presented a series of photographs titled Coffee time. Photographs taken by high speed photography, captured the beauty of splashes and sprays of milk. Coffee Time is a stunning, gravity-defying photo series that certainly peaks your imagination.

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