Design, Science and Technology

This July marks the return of an annual art installation in Agueda, Portugal featuring Ivo Tavares Studio‘s colorful street canopies made of hovering umbrellas.

Granted, this porous garland of parasols does a more efficient job shading against the sun than sheltering from precipitation, but the highly photogenic installation has turned some of Agueda’s shopping streets into cheery, makeshift arcades that have generated an overwhelmingly positive response...

Jackie Higgins' "The World Atlas of Street Photography," published by Yale University Press, features a compendium of artists and perspectives from around the world, each fearlessly hunting the urban jungle, camera in hand. Today we're admiring the work of 10 street photographers from the "World Atlas" collection, those interested in freezing city life at its most humorous, disturbing, profound or bizarre. Whether working in Johannesburg, South Africa or Mumbai, India, the following photographers document flickering instants from the theater of the streets, thus revealing how one, small moment can potentially speak to the entire world.