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Captured inside the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, this photo features a kinetic sculpture by Brazilian twin artists OSGEMEOS, known for their vividly surreal and deeply narrative visual language. The piece is part of their immersive installation, where motion, music, and light bring a sculptural tableau to life in a hypnotic loop of storytelling. Stylized yellow figures with bowl-cut hair dance, tumble, and gesticulate around a central axis, surrounding what appears to be a cake topped with candles — an eerie, dreamlike birthday ritual charged with both joy and distortion.

OSGEMEOS (Otávio and Gustavo Pandolfo) are internationally celebrated for their unique fusion of street art, folklore, and animation, often drawing from Brazilian cultural memory, hip-hop, and their own subconscious. Here, they breathe life into sculpture using a rotating zoetrope-like mechanism. As the lights strobe, the static figures blur into animation, evoking childlike wonder while also unsettling the viewer with uncanny repetition and surreal expression.

This work blends old-world mechanical illusion with contemporary street aesthetics, offering a layered commentary on celebration, identity, and the passage of time. It’s a highlight of the Hirshhorn’s exploration of motion and memory in modern art and a powerful example of how OSGEMEOS bridge high art and street sensibilities.

Visitors to this exhibit are often seen lingering, mesmerized by the transformation of still forms into narrative spectacle — a hallmark of the duo’s ability to enchant and provoke simultaneously. Whether encountered in a museum or on a São Paulo wall, OSGEMEOS’s figures invite viewers to step into a fantastical realm where movement, rhythm, and symbolism take center stage.

Captured on a quiet morning at the market, this candid street shot freezes a fleeting moment of daily life. There’s a dignity and weight in the way the older man moves forward, a plastic bag in one hand and a handkerchief in the other. I aimed low to emphasize presence and texture — in every wrinkle, in every fold, there’s a story. The image is in black and white to strip away distractions and let the moment breathe.

This photo captures a playful and immersive corner of the OSGEMEOS exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Against a mural-like backdrop painted in bold pastel hues and graphic architectural elements, a signature yellow-faced character leans against the wall holding a retro boombox — a recurring symbol in the artists’ work that ties street culture and music to memory and identity.

The flat figure wears bright teal pants, red sandals, and a patterned sweater, crowned with a pink fedora and a calm, introspective expression. The boombox, meticulously rendered in grayscale with small collage details, reinforces the artists’ connection to hip-hop, São Paulo’s sound system culture, and the 1980s-1990s aesthetics that shaped their youth. Like many of OSGEMEOS’s characters, this one appears shy, self-contained, and quietly expressive — a dreamer in a stylized world.

The colorful “building façade” behind the figure features a dark blue shuttered window outlined in a rainbow frame — a geometric, almost theatrical set piece that recalls Brazilian favelas, folkloric houses, or playful stage design. This blending of environment and artwork is a hallmark of OSGEMEOS’s immersive installations: walls become canvases, backdrops become part of the story.

To the far right, a vertical strip of vintage vinyl album covers peeks into frame, nodding once again to the artists’ deep love for funk, samba, and soul. Their work doesn’t just depict culture — it dances with it, literally and figuratively.

This image encapsulates the essence of the OSGEMEOS experience: vivid colors, street-smart nostalgia, and emotionally charged characters set in imaginative, architectural dreamscapes. Photographed at the Hirshhorn — one of America’s premier institutions for contemporary art — this installation invites visitors into a childlike world of wonder, rhythm, and reflection.

This immersive photograph captures a vibrant sound installation by Brazilian artists OSGEMEOS, exhibited at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Featuring dozens of handcrafted, painted speaker boxes transformed into expressive faces, this piece fuses street culture, music, and identity into a joyful, surreal environment.

Mounted on a pale pink wall, the sculptural forms seem to sing, speak, and listen all at once. Each speaker box is unique — painted in OSGEMEOS’s signature cartoon style with bold expressions, sleepy eyes, pursed lips, and wild lashes. The boxes are adorned with speaker cones, knobs, glitter, cassette decks, graffiti tags, and found materials. The result is a room that feels like it’s alive, buzzing with sound and personality.

At the center of the installation stands a yellow rolling sound system — a kind of anthropomorphic DJ booth, complete with vintage gramophone horns, sculpted limbs, and faces of its own. It’s a nod to Brazilian street sound systems and hip-hop culture, filtered through the artists’ dreamlike visual language. Playful and political, the work references the artists’ childhood in São Paulo, where music, graffiti, and invention shaped their worldview.

This installation brings to life OSGEMEOS’s commitment to transforming everyday objects into portals of expression. By turning speakers into faces, they humanize machines and animate the walls with a chorus of cultural references. The piece invites viewers to imagine a world where even objects speak, emote, and participate in community.

Exhibited at the Hirshhorn — one of the Smithsonian’s leading institutions for contemporary art — this installation marks a celebration of global street art on the museum stage. It blurs the boundaries between sound, sculpture, and painting, and asks: What does it mean to be seen, heard, or ignored?

This photograph captures the installation’s visual energy and immersive intent, highlighting the wild color palette, clever detailing, and irrepressible humor that define OSGEMEOS’s art. Whether you come for the visual feast or the sonic experimentation, this piece is an unforgettable moment of connection between audience, artwork, and artist.

In a gallery pulsing with color and cultural commentary, this artwork by Brazilian street art duo Os Gêmeos explodes with fantasy, geometry, and narrative mystery. Their signature yellow-faced character leans out over a surreal topography of rainbow-striped peaks — a world that seems at once invented and all too real. The figure gazes toward a small spotted dog perched atop a triangular summit, evoking an enigmatic moment of quiet connection amid chaos.

Os Gêmeos (Otávio and Gustavo Pandolfo) are known for infusing Brazilian street life, folklore, and personal memory into vividly imaginative compositions. This piece continues their tradition of layering personal iconography with universal archetypes. The color palette is wildly kaleidoscopic — candy-pink skies and rainbow mountains set against a meticulously patterned backdrop featuring stylized faces in earth-tone halos. That wallpaper is an homage to Lady Pink, the pioneering street artist whose portrait illustrations helped redefine the visual identity of women in graffiti culture.

There’s a tension in the scale: massive geometric cones stretch the length of the composition, dwarfing the small but emotionally resonant figures. The dog's presence, almost toy-like in scale but elevated in status, grounds the work in narrative intimacy. Are they friends? Strangers? Guardians of some hidden story? Os Gêmeos invite the viewer to fill in the blanks — a hallmark of their dreamlike storytelling.

The 3D-like illusion of the peaks adds architectural depth to what would otherwise be a flat image, further emphasizing the boundary-pushing ways in which street artists engage space. Here, illusionistic geometry serves both as theatrical stage and psychological terrain.

Installed as part of the Hirshhorn Museum’s “Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection 1860–1960” anniversary exhibit — which extends into a dialogue with contemporary artists — this work provides an energetic rupture from the historical pieces on view. But rather than breaking the narrative, it extends it. Os Gêmeos’ contributions to modern visual language echo the expressive boldness of early abstractionists and Dadaists, while folding in decades of street-based activism and cultural reclamation.

From São Paulo to Washington D.C., the influence of hip-hop, graffiti, Indigenous cosmology, and Afro-Brazilian tradition converge here. It’s a joyful, chaotic moment that never loses touch with wonder. And at the Hirshhorn, framed by Lady Pink’s patterned mural in deep plum, rust, and teal, it becomes something more than a painting — it becomes a full-room encounter.

In the pouring rain, six people patiently queue outside Kabana, a beloved local eatery known for its no-frills, flavour-packed South Asian dishes. It’s a typical Manchester moment—where weather, appetite, and community spirit meet in the wet lunchtime rush.

Brazilian street art duo Os Gêmeos delivers a powerful visual juxtaposition in this vibrant installation at the Hirshhorn Museum, where their signature yellow-skinned figures stand defiantly in contrast to monochrome riot police. Installed as part of the Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection 1860–1960 exhibit, this contemporary work pushes the boundaries of traditional portraiture and political commentary. Though not from the same historical period, its inclusion underscores how themes of revolution and resistance have carried into today’s visual languages.

On the left, a grid of helmeted riot police painted in shades of gray presents a faceless, dehumanized force of control. Among them, a lone figure—painted in the artists’ signature vivid palette—breaks the monochrome pattern, a lone splash of individuality in a sea of conformity. On the right, we’re met with a sea of resistance: colorful masked characters rendered in psychedelic reds, pinks, oranges, and purples. They are expressive, varied, and surreal—each with unique personalities that stand in sharp contrast to the uniformity on the left. A riot officer stands oddly centered among them, this time seeming displaced, as if infiltrating or attempting to understand the collective. This deliberate symmetry between the panels echoes themes of identity, power, surveillance, and solidarity.

The Brazilian twins behind Os Gêmeos—Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo—grew up during the rise of hip-hop culture in São Paulo and began tagging in the 1980s. They developed a surreal, folkloric style full of intricate patterns, whimsical figures, and social critique. Their work often questions authority, explores the tensions of urban life, and celebrates cultural memory. Here, they incorporate a kind of magical realism that turns the protest into something mythical and deeply human.

By placing this work adjacent to early and mid-century expressions of social upheaval in the Hirshhorn's Revolutions exhibit, the curators draw a throughline across time. The installation resists neat classification, much like the movements it echoes. It’s both political and poetic, historical and hallucinatory, resisting the urge to explain itself fully.

Os Gêmeos’ layered, symbol-rich art resists the detachment often associated with gallery spaces. These figures—playful yet fierce—invite viewers to reconsider how revolution is visualized, remembered, and lived. The message transcends language: the power of color, form, and repetition becomes a universal call to action.

Photographed here in sharp detail and bold saturation, the twin paintings capture the emotional force of confrontation. It’s unclear if the confrontation is over—or just beginning. One thing is certain: art like this doesn’t stay quiet. It demands to be seen.

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s art pulses with kinetic energy, racial commentary, and an unfiltered emotional core, and this piece captures all of that in explosive color and form. The crowned figure at the center, rendered with skeletal intensity, stands like a defiant deity—part man, part myth, perhaps even martyr. Arms outstretched and teeth bared, the figure emanates an arresting presence, grounded yet transcendent, signaling Basquiat’s obsession with identity, power, and resistance.

To the left, a barking dog joins the chaos, drawn with wild eyes, bared teeth, and slashing limbs. This dog is no loyal companion; it’s a street animal, part witness and part warning. Basquiat often used dogs as avatars of danger, fear, and unheeded warning. This one howls not for attention, but to pierce silence. It’s an alarm—social, racial, existential.

The palette is urgent: electric reds, caustic oranges, deep blacks, sky blues. Basquiat painted quickly and intuitively, using color like sound in a punk solo. His backgrounds are never passive; they’re always on fire with motion. The yellow flare to the right and the turquoise swathe to the left wrestle for dominance, like a storm building and retreating at once.

Underneath the chaos lies precision. Basquiat wasn’t simply reacting—he was composing. The figure’s outline echoes anatomical diagrams, and the dog is stylized like cave painting fused with graffiti. There’s a haunting halo in red that hovers above the canine’s head, and scribbled forms around the figure hint at mechanical prosthetics or systems of control. It’s as if Basquiat is dissecting not just the body, but the state—mapping the forces that act upon us, break us, try to rewire us.

You can see his fingerprints in the drips, the overlays, the brushstrokes that go over the lines like a correction or a refusal to be corrected. It’s improvisation and resistance at once. And in the context of Banksy's later homage, the significance doubles. This isn’t just a painting—it’s a blueprint of rebellion.

Displayed against a matte gallery wall, the piece demands confrontation. Its rawness doesn’t fade under gallery lights; it intensifies. Even protected behind stanchions, the figure still confronts viewers head-on. It does not look away. And neither can you.

Basquiat, a Black artist operating in the predominantly white New York art world of the 1980s, used paintings like this to assert identity and agency in a space that often sought to tokenize him. Now, decades later, this image resonates across generations, inspiring artists like Banksy and challenging audiences to reckon with power, voice, and erasure.

Whether encountered for the first time or the hundredth, this painting stings with relevance. It’s graffiti elevated to gospel, the streets translated to canvas without compromise. It’s Basquiat in his full, brutal glory.

on a narrow street in madrid, the echo of a painted face meets the calm presence of a passerby. flesh and pigment align in a fleeting moment of symmetry — a silent dialogue between the living and the imagined. the light catches truth and illusion with equal grace, blurring the edge where reality ends and story begins.

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Uma cena cotidiana em um píer de pesca tradicional do Brasil. O pescador, concentrado e rodeado de equipamentos simples, divide espaço com turistas, barcos turísticos e palmeiras. A imagem, em preto e branco, documenta não apenas uma atividade, mas um estilo de vida que resiste ao tempo e à modernidade.

Something in the Air by Thunderclap Newman

It was more crash landing than enjoy your flight for the launch of route 19 from Dublin Airport to City Centre, due to the short comings of the City Centre terminus, having replaced former 11 wihich provided a cross city service, for the new 19 to abruptly end in Parnell Square like some low cost carrier landing in some remote airport miles from anywhere.

Something in the air, after much resident & political flaps, the route 19 was thrust further than Parnell, extended to Merrion Square.

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Route 19

Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Taken for school project.

Located in the graffiti alley in Ann Arbor Michigan.

Laughter echoes, water splashes, and hearts overflow with happiness!
This moment from the Marma Sangrai Water Festival in Bandarban, Bangladesh, is more than just a celebration—it's a story of vibrant emotions and cultural unity captured in motion. 💦

Moitree Water Splash Festival—a joyful tradition where friendship flows like water and memories are made in droplets.

Sometimes, as a photographer, there's an urge to break the rules and experiment—despite knowing that doing so might risk missing the perfect moment or sharp frame. But the thrill of trying something new often feels more rewarding than sticking to perfection.

This image is the result of one such creative risk.
During this fast-paced action, I deliberately slowed down the shutter speed to see what kind of story the water could tell.

The splash from behind and the radiant joy in front—both got captured in a different way.
It may not be classically "sharp," but I believe it holds something deeper: a tale, a rhythm, and a fleeting emotion.

What do you think—did the experiment succeed?

I used a Tiffen 1/4 'Black Pro Mist Filter' for this image to gain a more cinematic look and feel.

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