Henri Cartier-Bresson’s decisive moment is often misunderstood as perfect timing. This article argues that the concept has been oversimplified, losing its original depth, ethical dimension, and visual rigor.
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The Pluie d’Images Festival returns to Brest with free exhibitions across the city, exploring the night as a space for contemporary photographic expression.
Diane Arbus has often been accused of a cruel gaze, but this article challenges that myth, reexamining her work through ethics, historical context and contemporary readings to reveal a practice rooted not in exploitation, but in radical honesty and confrontation.
PhotoBrussels Festival 2026 transforms Brussels into a city-wide photographic ecosystem, with 52 exhibitions and over 100 artists spread across galleries, museums, and independent spaces. From January 22 to February 22, the festival moves beyond the traditional showcase format, presenting photography as a living cultural practice embedded in the urban fabric.
A critical guide to building an authentic personal photography project beyond trends and formulas, focusing on necessity, personal involvement, and long-term coherence rather than generic aesthetics or instant visibility.
We are pleased to reveal the winners and finalists of the 2025 Color Awards, a distinction that celebrates the remarkable talent and creative vision of this year’s selected photographers. Each of them has demonstrated an outstanding ability to translate emotion, light, and form into powerful visual narratives that stand out in today’s photographic landscape.
For the first time in the history of humanity, thanks to technology, photos, and satellite sensors, we are experiencing the planet in its entirety and seeing its definitive face, not only generative, but predominantly destructive.
Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots "The Worlds Greatest Photo Game" in a photo challenge contest titled "Your Magazine Shot" Over 100,000 photos were submitted. GuruShots is a platform for people who love taking photos. GuruShots believes that taking photos is an amazing way to express one’s self. Wanting it to be fun and meaningful, GuruShots turned the sharing of ones photos into an exciting game packed with plenty of opportunities to show off one’s talent. Every month almost 4 billion votes are cast in over 400 themed challenges!
As a street photographer, I’m drawn to the raw, unscripted energy of real people moving through real spaces. Street portraits are my way of documenting life as it unfolds, and over the years I’ve learned that shooting with or without permission brings its own rewards and its own challenges.
In the land of my forefathers, I explore key sites related to speleology, searching for what Mircea Eliade describes as a religious experience of autochthony.
I see the landscape as a manifestation of many forces (inner and outer) that drive our physical and psychological world. As we now understand, a gap exists between reality and what we perceive as real. Therefore, my photographs are intentionally more suggestion than description.
Origins is a body of work that attempts to scratch the surface of a rich but brutal history—a history of discovery and exploitation in the mineral-rich region of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
The Weight of Light is a body of work born from the intimate experience of aging and sadness at the world’s diminishing values — its ethical erosion, loss of compassion, and widening divisions.
Man Ray taught us that photography is not here to obey. It is not a stenographer of reality, nor an optical procedure that certifies the existence of what we already saw. In his hands, the camera is not a recording machine but a thinking device, a portable lab where chance, irony, and disobedience become method.
Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots "The Worlds Greatest Photo Game" in a photo challenge contest titled "Tell a Story" Over 100,000 photos were submitted. GuruShots is a platform for people who love taking photos. GuruShots believes that taking photos is an amazing way to express one’s self.
We are proud to present the outstanding photographers selected as winners and finalists of the 2025 Monochromatic Awards, a distinction that celebrates their remarkable presence and influence within the photographic world.
Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots "The Worlds Greatest Photo Game" in a photo challenge contest titled "Photogenic" Over 100,000 photos were submitted. GuruShots is a platform for people who love taking photos. GuruShots believes that taking photos is an amazing way to express one’s self.
Reverie is a visual meditation on the act of daydreaming, a journey through images that unfold like fragments of a dream. Each photograph stands on its own, yet gains depth through its connection to the ones before and after, inviting the viewer to abandon logic and drift into a state of intuitive reflection.
From Lapland’s silence to the darkroom’s glow, Johan Letellier found in photography a language beyond words, a way to capture stillness, memory, and the unnoticed beauty of daily life.
Before the selfie became a performance, the self-portrait was an act of quiet risk. Photographers like Vivian Maier, André Kertész and Claude Cahun turned their lenses inward not to build a brand but to ask a question.
On a summer evening in Orivesi, Finland, photographer Markku Lahdesmaki stepped into the magical world of Circus Tähti. From backstage shadows to center-ring brilliance, his lens captured the performers’ quiet moments and dazzling acts in a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of life under the big top.
Born in Boston and self-taught behind the lens, Robert Welsh captures the overlooked beauty of urban neighborhoods, from San Francisco’s Chinatown to the streets of India, weaving memory, identity, and daily life into timeless photographic essays.
Leanne Trivett S. reflects on creating honest, emotional imagery in a visually saturated world, embracing authenticity, slowness, and connection as acts of resistance.
In Due West Alexa Cushing reimagines Los Angeles as a fractured dreamscape where glamour and dissonance coexist in surreal harmony.
Japan Within, Home captures intimate moments and timeless gestures of Japanese daily life, reflecting quiet connections and subtle beauty.
In The Forgotten Places, Frédéric Demeuse takes us deep into the world’s last untouched forests, primeval ecosystems where wild beauty reigns and serenity emerges from natural chaos. Over more than a decade, he has captured the living poetry of cloud forests, temperate rainforests, and remote woodlands across Europe, Central America, and Africa.
Indonesian photographer Hardijanto Budiman, known as Hardibudi, shares his thoughts on how artificial intelligence is transforming photography. In this interview, he reflects on authorship, emotion, and the irreplaceable human touch behind every image.
Discover Clark James Mishler’s “Portrait-a-Day” project, a six-year glimpse into Anchorage life, climate-driven style, and the diverse faces of Alaska.
In this interview, photographer Florence Gallez reflects on the meaning of creating images in an age of visual saturation. She explores themes like visibility, silence, authorship, and the emotional dimension of photography as a form of quiet resistance in a world of constant exposure.
In Eternal Family, South Korean photographer Byun Soonchoel uses cutting-edge imaging technology to virtually reunite families separated by the Korean War. Blending documentary intent with digital reconstruction, his portraits offer a haunting vision of what could have been, where memory, absence, and technology converge to heal invisible wounds.
Nan Goldin never staged a version of herself. Her photographs were not declarations, but confessions, raw, bruised, trembling. She used the camera not to construct identity but to survive it. In a world obsessed with curating imperfections for aesthetic effect, Goldin exposed the cost of real intimacy.
French photographer Francis Malapris presents Aquatic, a visionary series capturing feminine energy through weightless portraits that blend beauty, strength, and emotion. Born from dreams, introspection, and ritual, the project explores rebirth, resilience, and the intimate power of transformation.
Vivian Maier spent her life creating in silence, walking the streets with a camera but no desire for recognition. In an age that equates visibility with value, her refusal to share feels almost radical. What if she was right? What if the true act of creative freedom is not to be seen, not to perform, but to observe quietly and trust the work to speak for itself, eventually, or maybe never?
In Song of My Selves, Michael S. Honegger blends theatrical self-portraiture with dreamlike black and white imagery to explore queer identity, memory, and inner transformation. Guided by Arno Minkkinen’s influence, Honegger steps into multiple roles, using mirrors, masks, and reflections to reveal the complex truth behind the self.
Henri Cartier-Bresson taught us to wait for the decisive moment, but in today’s image deluge that quiet fraction of a second risks drowning in algorithms and selfie rituals. This piece argues that the French master would decline to photograph the polished influencer latte, the staged disaster clip, the AI-fabricated sunset and the disposable story that vanishes after a day.
This series documents the struggle for survival in eastern Ukraine, where war with Russia rages unabated. Life is dominated by the front—a death zone stretching up to 30 kilometers inland, where artillery fires relentlessly and tanks thunder through the night.
The aesthetics of error embrace glitches, blurs, and corrupted files not as flaws but as visual metaphors for a world that no longer believes in polished truths. In celebrating unpredictability, contemporary photography reminds us that beauty still lives where the algorithm breaks.
In this interview, photographer Paola Francesca Barone reflects on the meaning of creating images in an age of visual saturation. She explores themes like visibility, silence, authorship, and the emotional dimension of photography as a form of quiet resistance in a world of constant exposure.
The world’s first photograph was almost erased by its own inventor. Niépce didn’t call it art, didn’t know he’d made history, and yet his faded rooftop scene quietly marked the beginning of how we capture and remember the world.
Erwin Recinos’ Earthlink series captures the soul of Southern California through vivid photographic postcards taken along the Metrolink rail system. Created for the Earth Day 2023 campaign “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Rides,” the series blends themes of sustainability, community, and urban identity. With a decade-long career documenting Los Angeles culture, Recinos offers a personal and timely vision of places that may soon be transformed by time and progress.
Silence in photography is not absence, but presence tuned just below the surface. It is what happens when a frame stops explaining and begins to suggest. The image no longer performs, it invites. A viewer pauses, leans in, and something shifts. That quiet tension, hard to measure yet deeply felt, is what gives certain photographs their lasting weight. They do not need to shout to leave a mark — they simply know when not to speak.
Born in Beijing, photographer Chris Yan captures the soul of a city suspended between centuries. Through his lens, tradition and modernity collide in poetic harmony, revealing the silent stories of a metropolis in constant transformation.
A Leica is not just a camera, it is a way of being in the world. From its nearly silent shutter to the ritual of loading film, every detail is designed to make the photographer an active part of the image. It gives you nothing for free. It forces you to look, to wait, to earn the photograph. And perhaps for that reason, every click carries a different weight. You do not shoot out of habit, you shoot with intent.
Gina walks into the night each evening, wearing high heels that bruise her feet and a wig that helps her become someone else. She doesn’t sell her body out of choice but out of necessity, shaped by years of silence, abuse, and abandonment. What began as a survival mechanism has become a life lived in the alleys of Luanda, where fleeting intimacy pays for food and fleeting highs provide relief.
Every image is both a gift from the city and a possible intrusion into someone’s invisible shield. Street photography walks that delicate edge where a poetic moment can suddenly become an intrusive gesture. Capturing the invisible demands sensitivity, but also an ethical awareness that goes beyond the shutter.
In Lolita Dreams, Chinese visual artist Tianhu Yuan documents the transformation of the Lolita fashion subculture in China, highlighting how its participants have distanced it from Western misconceptions. Through intimate portraits and interviews, he reveals a world where cuteness, elegance, and femininity become tools for self-expression, cultural reinterpretation, and identity beyond the Nabokovian narrative.
Elliott Erwitt may be known for his sharp wit and iconic dog portraits, but behind the humor lies a story full of unexpected turns. From mopping floors to pay for film school to directing comedy shorts for HBO and inventing a fake artist to mock the contemporary art world, Erwitt’s career is a masterclass in blending discipline with irreverence.
From June 13 to October 12, 2025, the elegant spa town of Baden near Vienna becomes something extraordinary: an open-air museum stretching over seven kilometers. The La Gacilly-Baden Photo Festival returns for its eighth edition, turning the streets, parks, and gardens into a massive gallery of over 1,500 large-format images.