Richard Pendavingh
Photographer, designer and weekend historian. Editor of The Unravel. Writes about design, tech, history and anthropology.
So Chicago has these dive bars that double as liquor stores during the day and they're a sort of throwback to an age where drinking was something you did to get drunk. . .
More photos from the 1940s courtesy of the archives on Shorpy.com.
Some classic, rather neglected, neon signage around Spokane, WA.
Some relatively recent photos from Spokane in Washington state.
Some photos from our guided tour of the Teck Smelter in Trail, BC.
Some photos I took from the top of Granite Mountain outside of Rossland in British Colombia.
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) In Geneva is going offline on Saturday for two years of maintenance and upgrades.
After a frigid night in Shanghai we watched the city wake up.
I'd like to say there was a sound artistic reason for documenting the one of the busiest shopping districts in the world while it was dark and empty.
If you were standing around outdoors near Cairns on November 14th last year then you might not have seen the sun.
Few films provoke such a powerful, visceral reaction as this short by Sebastian Montaz-Rosset so I thought I should share my discomfort.
Early colour photographs of Tsarist Russia by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii courtesy of the US Library of Congress.
A short promotional video I did for Carlton salon Phaedra late last year.
Continuing the theme of unusually poetic treatments for adventure sports we have a short by Dave Sowerby of freerider Danny MacAskill.
A breathtaking short by Photographer Jordan Manley. . .
A selection of images from my January 2012 trip to Japan.
Amazing video by Callum Cooper for Melbourne fashion label Klezinski.
Images of the eruption of icleandic volcano Fimmvörðuháls against the northern aurura by British photographer James Appleton.