Rankin's Eyescapes photographs

Rankin, photographer and founder of Dazed and Confused magazine, created an incredible photographic series of more than a dozen decontextualized irises. Scrolling horizontally back and forth across these images is quite trance-inducing. The project is called Eyescapes. Link (Thanks, Lindsay Tiemeyer!)

[#1 posted by Splendor , December 27, 2007 12:41 PM]

Wow! I wish I knew how to replicate these pictures. They are amazing!

[#2 posted by noen , December 27, 2007 1:16 PM]

Beautiful!

[#3 posted by Santa's Knee , December 27, 2007 1:26 PM]

And not a single tooth in the set! ;-)

[#4 posted by Jeff , December 27, 2007 1:46 PM]

You can take a picture of your own eye and photo shop it. Crop it, take out the reflection. I wonder if iris recognition software (a question for someone in the techno-know)can be fooled by contact lenses that use a digital print of an iris.

[#5 posted by arvana , December 27, 2007 2:07 PM]

According to the principles of iridology [wiki], a lot of those people are pretty unhealthy!

[#6 posted by nrkn , December 27, 2007 4:11 PM]

It's a good thing for those people that iridology is a complete load of balls then :)

[#7 posted by michele , December 27, 2007 5:25 PM]

The photos are gorgeous. I hate to be picky, but more than just reflections were photoshopped from at least a couple of the photos in this set -- irides #10 and 11 are of the same eye with the colors changed. I was kind of hoping that the photos were from natural eyes. Still beautiful, though!

[#8 posted by Registrado , December 27, 2007 5:52 PM]

Sauron approves.

[#9 posted by gigarizel , December 28, 2007 12:05 AM]

Does anyone know what lens and lighting setup was used for these photos?

[#10 posted by jory , December 28, 2007 8:07 AM]

These were begging to be turned into a background, and here it is in a few different sizes:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aprileelcich/2143405929/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/aprileelcich/2144198760/

[#11 posted by Micah , December 28, 2007 8:16 AM]

An ophthalmologist comments: "Neat, I often look right past their beauty."

[#12 posted by romanox , December 28, 2007 10:02 AM]

I agree it's quite beautiful ; but i must say that I was a bit shocked first because it seemed to me like a rip off of a famous canadian artist work, Michael Snow. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but I doubt that ; anyway it's still beautiful ; but i think credit to Michael Snow should not be forgotten.
have a look a those links to get what I mean :

http://www.paris-art.com/image_detail-2899.html

http://www.whiteboxny.org/prog_list/prog_list10.html

http://www.horschamp.qc.ca/article.php3?id_article=100

[#13 posted by Spyder , December 28, 2007 8:25 PM]

Last week I animated the images:
http://dj-spyder.blogspot.com/2007/12/eyes-of-many-colors-cool-animated-gif.html