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Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots “The World’s Greatest Photo Game” in two photo challenge contests titled “Street Photography” and “Captivating Macro” Over 100,000 photos were submitted. GuruShots is a platform for people who love taking p hotos.
For Etienne Perrone, the city changes its nature after dark. Streets, parking lots, staircases and anonymous urban corners become something more than physical locations—they become psychological spaces where reality and imagination quietly overlap. Working at the intersection of photography, cinema and visual art, the Marseille-based photographer transforms familiar environments into mysterious stages, using light not simply to illuminate what already exists, but to reveal what usually remains invisible. Built over years of solitary night walks...
Discover Jerusalemites by Sharon Gabay, a trilingual photobook capturing fifteen years of everyday life and human encounters on the streets of Jerusalem.
The Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) returns from October 16, 2026, to January 31, 2027, for its tenth edition.
A deeply personal photographic journey through love, motherhood, memory, and the passage of time, Christl Exelmans’ Overlapping Days captures the quiet transformations of family life and the fragile beauty of moments destined to disappear.
Documentary photographer Lorenzo Mancini reflects on The Forgotten of Saint-Louis, his powerful project documenting the lives of talibé children in Senegal, and discusses ethics, dignity, vulnerability, and the responsibility of giving visibility to overlooked realities.
Monika Maroziene explores memory, femininity, and identity through Amber Coast, a deeply personal project inspired by Lithuania’s Curonian Spit, where photography, chemistry, and pine resin converge.
Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots “The World’s Greatest Photo Game” in two photo challenge contests titled “Minimalism” and “Magnificent Animals” Over 100,000 photos were submitted. GuruShots is a platform for people who love taking photos.
Bragi Þór Jósefsson explores Iceland’s coastal villages through photography, revealing the deep connection between landscape, architecture, people, and identity while documenting communities shaped by tradition, fishing, and social change.
Winners: Monochromatic Awards 2026
Jul 31, 2026
We are proud to present the outstanding photographers selected as winners and finalists of the 2026 Monochromatic Awards, a distinction that celebrates their remarkable presence and influence within the photographic world.
Published in the print edition of Dodho Magazine #36, Gregor Kallina’s Scar Place explores the hidden cost of Europe’s Green Deal through a powerful documentary project on mining, the Sámi people, and the fragile balance between environmental ambition and cultural survival.
Gurushots: Photogenic and Mostly White
Jun 26, 2026
Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots “The World’s Greatest Photo Game” in two photo challenge contests titled “Photogenic” and “Mostly White” Over 100,000 photos were submitted. GuruShots is a platform for people who love taking photos.
A conversation with Aline Smithson, founder of Lenscratch, about photography, independent publishing, artistic practice, visual culture, and the role of creative communities in an increasingly complex photographic landscape.
Greg McDonald discusses storytelling, humor, and authenticity in photography and filmmaking, reflecting on how narrative and personal truth help images stand out in an increasingly saturated visual culture.
Photojournalist Brian Cassey reflects on a career spanning decades of frontline storytelling, international events, and documentary photography, exploring memory, ethics, visual narrative, and the changing landscape of contemporary photojournalism.
Italian photographer Antonella Cunsolo explores childhood trauma, identity, and emotional memory through Borderline Ocean, a conceptual project where psychology and photography merge into symbolic narratives of fragility, survival, and reconstruction.
MFC FEST 2026: Barcelona’s New Independent Street Photography Festival Arrives This June
May 13, 2026
Barcelona will host the first edition of MFC FEST, a new independent festival dedicated to contemporary street photography, bringing together exhibitions, workshops, photowalks, screenings, and international photographers across the city this June.
In this interview, Chris Yan discusses his transition from creative direction to street photography, reflecting on the relationship between commercial and personal work, the evolution of his visual language, and the challenges of creating meaningful images in today’s photographic landscape.
Winners: Portrait Awards 2026
May 8, 2026
Dodho Magazine reveals the 100 winners and finalists of the 2026 Portrait Awards, an international recognition celebrating outstanding talent in contemporary portrait photography.
Published in Dodho Magazine Issue #36, Gabi Steiner explores the Mundari cattle camps in South Sudan through a quiet, observational approach, focusing on identity, daily life, and the deep bond between humans and animals.
Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots “The World’s Greatest Photo Game” in two photo challenge contests titled “Mostly Black” and “Night Photography” Over 100,000 photos were submitted. GuruShots is a platform for people who love taking photos.
Salvatore Montemagno’s work moves between photography and painting, constructing images defined by silence, restraint, and symbolic tension. In “Elective Affinities”, two female figures inhabit a suspended narrative where identity, reflection, and ambiguity intertwine, inviting the viewer to complete the image through their own interpretation.
India Photography: 10 Powerful Projects Where Color Defines Culture, Identity and Everyday Life
Mar 18, 2026
Ten photography projects that explore India through color as a living language, revealing how ritual, craft, identity and everyday life are expressed through a powerful and deeply symbolic visual culture.
Five photographic projects that explore Venice through light, stillness and environmental tension, revealing a city suspended between timeless beauty and inevitable transformation.
Nepal Photography: 6 Powerful Projects About Life, Culture and Survival in the Himalayas
Mar 16, 2026
Six photography projects that explore Nepal through daily life, ancient traditions and the aftermath of disaster, revealing a country shaped by nature, community and resilience in one of the most demanding environments on Earth.
A curated selection of 10 essential photography projects that explore London as a complex urban organism, where street life, architecture, isolation and collective identity converge to reveal the city’s deeper emotional and visual layers.
Five photography projects exploring the unique relationship between humans and dogs, from family companions and street survivors to the spectacle and culture that surround our closest animal partner.
Elliott Erwitt transformed everyday life into timeless photography through humor, irony, and deep human observation. A key member of Magnum Photos, his images of people, dogs, and spontaneous moments reveal the poetry hidden in ordinary scenes and helped redefine the language of modern documentary and street photography.
Wildlife photography today is more than spectacle. Through the work of Will Burrard-Lucas, Nick Dale, Michael Pachis, Jessica Circe Rogers and Graeme Purdy, these projects explore the power, intimacy and vulnerability of animals, revealing how photography can transform encounters with the wild into powerful reflections on conservation and coexistence.
Fred Herzog pioneered color street photography by documenting everyday life in Vancouver from the 1950s onward. Using Kodachrome film, he captured the vibrant urban landscape and transformed ordinary city scenes into a lasting visual record of modern life.
View from the Window at Le Gras, created around 1826 by Nicéphore Niépce, is considered the first permanent photograph in history. Made using a heliographic process that required many hours of exposure, the image marks the moment when light was first fixed onto a surface, initiating the birth of photography
How Harry Callahan turned his wife, his city and his daily walks into one of the most disciplined and quietly radical bodies of work in twentieth century photography.
A curated selection of 10 contemporary floral photography projects that examine beauty, decay, memory, and impermanence. From vanitas-inspired still lifes to ecological reflections, these series reveal how flowers have become powerful metaphors in contemporary art.
Eight photographic projects that explore Tibet through identity, exile and cultural survival, revealing a people navigating the pressures of globalization while preserving their spiritual and collective memory.
Forest Photography as Spiritual Threshold: Emotional Landscapes and Fine Art Nature Photography
Mar 2, 2026
An in-depth exploration of forest photography focused on spiritual landscapes, emotional imagery and fine art nature, where the forest becomes a threshold between memory, identity and ecological awareness.
Discover how Minor White transformed modern American photography through spiritual vision, abstract black and white imagery, and powerful visual sequences that redefined the language of twentieth-century art photography.
Explore 5 essential American photographers who shaped modern photography in the United States. Learn how Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and Nan Goldin transformed documentary, street photography, and contemporary visual culture.
8 Desert Photography Projects That Reveal the Beauty, Geometry and Mystery of Arid Landscapes
Mar 1, 2026
From the Empty Quarter to the Mojave and Death Valley, these eight photography projects explore the powerful forms, textures and hidden histories of the world’s deserts.
Explore contemporary China through photography — from Chengdu street scenes and ancient teahouses to Tibetan landscapes and modern megacities — revealing how urban growth, socialist culture and tradition shape Chinese society today.
Martin Parr: Irony, Consumer Culture and the Evolution of Contemporary Documentary Photography
Feb 27, 2026
Martin Parr redefined documentary photography through saturated color and sharp irony, exposing consumer culture, tourism, and globalization with unsettling precision.
Explore modern seascape photography focused on horizon composition, long exposure and coastal landscapes. Learn how contemporary photographers use minimalism and environmental awareness to redefine the language of sea and shoreline imagery.
Long exposure photography transforms movement into atmosphere and time into structure. In these five projects, water becomes silk, dancers dissolve into light, and landscapes shift toward abstraction. Through duration rather than instantaneity, each artist reveals how extended time reshapes perception and deepens the emotional resonance of the image.
From Lunch atop a Skyscraper to Migrant Mother and Abbey Road, the most iconic photographs of the 20th century did more than document history. They shaped it. This article explores the images that defined modern memory and examines how they became enduring cultural symbols.
What Is Parataxis in Photography? Meaning, Examples, and Its Impact on Visual Storytelling
Feb 23, 2026
Parataxis in photography rejects linear storytelling by placing images side by side without forcing them into a single narrative. Meaning emerges through juxtaposition, tension, and association, inviting the viewer to actively construct connections rather than passively receive a predefined message.
Night photography reshapes perception rather than limiting it. In these five projects, absence becomes presence, architecture becomes sculptural, landscapes turn intimate, and time itself leaves a visible trace. Darkness does not conceal. It reveals.
Josef Koudelka turned exile into a visual language. From Prague 1968 to vast panoramic landscapes, his black and white photography captures tension, memory and political fracture with uncompromising intensity.
Taken during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza in 1932, Lunch atop a Skyscraper remains one of the most famous images in American history. This essay examines its uncertain authorship, its staged promotional context, and the historical realities of immigrant steelworkers who helped build the New York skyline during the Great Depression.