Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki is exhibiting prints and polaroids from his Hana Jinsei flower series at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Ebisu. "While Mapplethorpe creates perfectly composed pictures of bright, metallically shining flowers in full bloom, what Araki captures on film with seeming nonchalance are withered or mouldered plants". Until 8 June (via Real Tokyo).

Laura Domela has posted a striking selection of tightly cropped and beautifully composed images from her Neon Boneyard series.

Hosted on nonstock, Spanish photographer Celina Alvarado's work features an oddly intriguing group of martians and now "travels and watches the world through their big eyes" (via Witold Riedel::NYC).

fuenf d fotographie is a lovely little flash portfolio site of Thorsten Doerk's photography.

South African duo win extreme ironing photo contest by ironing a shirt while suspended from a rope across a mountain gorge. I can guarantee that's one photo competition I won't be entering!

Interesting collection of photographs of mothers and children from the Taisho period (1926-1989) in Japan (via The Good Maus).