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The Creators of Chicago: Artist Luke Pelletier

This would have been the first in a series of ten profiles, but life had other plans. Enjoy this first and last installment anyway, and thanks for reading with us.

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Portraits of Los Angeles’ low rider street culture, on a deck of cards. Photos by Estevan Oriol. #LA #photography #lowrider #losangeles #lawoman #chicano #cards ##estevanoriol #la (at Downtown LA)

Introducing: The FREE SPIRITS Tumblr, a celebration of badass women.

Brought to you by the Welsh National Opera, whose first themed season looks at female characters who “exist outside the boundaries of social morality.” Above: Maya Angelou.

Rad.

Reposted from the @newyorkermag’s Instagram feed, which is using iPhone photographers like @ruddyroye and @BenLowy to cover the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy on the ground. As an editor, from an almost-defunct print publication (Newsweek) now at a new media company (Tumblr), it’s encouraging to see legacy brands like the New Yorker — and TIME, which is running one of Lowy’s iphone images of Sandy on its cover this week — embracing new journalistic models.

UPDATE: Lowy will be documenting the recovery efforts for Tumblr over the coming week. Tune into Storyboard for more.

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The Women of the 112th, arranged by start date.

Now imagine the dozens of tiny men in dark suits flooding over the sides.

I call this the Suicidal Bridesmaids series. (Or are they homicidal?)

I am open for booking.

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Faces of the RNC

—Photos by Benjamin Lowy for Tumblr

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Photographing the Humans of New York

If there’s such a thing as a typical path to becoming an artist, Brandon Stanton didn’t take it. No art school. No photography classes. No dropping out of college. Instead, the 28-year-old Georgia native landed a job as a bond trader in Chicago after betting $3,000 in student loans that Barack Obama would win the 2008 Democratic nomination. When he was later fired from the trading gig during the recession, he took another gamble: street photography. “I enjoy taking risks, whether it be trading bonds or moving to New York and stopping strangers on the street,” says the creator of Humans of New York.

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Lovely profile by former Newsweeker (Newsweek in the Tumblr house!) Jon Groat.