The physical presence of blood and flesh is felt in nature as well as material substances also. If the skin cover is eliminated from all living beings, what we see? Blood and flesh is visible in the innermost part of every living body.
It is a metaphorical and allegorical journey through my self, but at the same time it is a universal story through metaphors and symbols, everyone can try to find themselves in these photos.
This body of work originates from a series of Polaroid SX70 self-portraits made during a daily practice from 1979 to late 1987. Crisis of Experience is the result of an eight-year project exploring themes of self-reflection and female identity using the mechanics of seriality.
This story is dedicated to my father: for 40 years he lived in two houses - in Russia and the USA. He migrated when he was very young, received US citizenship and was practically unable to return to Russia (due to legal, political and other circumstances).
The edition 2022 is unique for the Rotterdam Photo. Due to several postponements and cancellations due to the COVID-19 spread, for the first time, the festival has two themes at the same time - Planet human x the human blueprint.
The light in November is very different in Milan and Florence than it is in Rome. The warm amber glow of the eternal city does not penetrate that far north.
The pristine and lively places of today are the ghosts of tomorrow. Chernobyl and its neighboring city of Prypiat are two of the few places on earth where we can see the largely unimpeded effects of time and catch a wider glimpse into the possible future of our now bustling cities.
For me, this series is extremely personal because these are photos taken of my wife, who is my soul mate and my muse. We started the series in 2013 a few months after we fell madly in love with each other.
The Midway is an ongoing series which I began in 1998. These images of the North Carolina State Fair were made with a 4x5 pinhole camera and large format b&w film.
Very little about our lives is constant or totally certain, and while we have control over many things, we can’t control everything that happens to us...
When the early messages about a new virus appeared in the press in January of 2020, Shenzhen was full-on getting ready for the upcoming Chinese New Year.
In this recent work I have documented some episodes of street art in Naples which in recent years has been enriched with a lot of creations by Italian and foreign artists starting from the works of the French artist Ernest Pignon-Ernest
The main focus in my work was to make women look and feel beautiful. I see all women that way so it was easy for me. The harder part - even for the pictured women - was the comments that men sometimes have for the image
There is only one Dutch tent circus left that travels through the Netherlands all year long. Magic Circus moves to another parking lot or field every couple of days. And Pascalles loves moving.
A series of photographs taken on a no-budget backpacking trip over the course of three months, capturing the essence of humanity in different parts of the world as well as the rich culture that was experienced.
Inspired by unpredictable is because something unexpected happened and pushed me to make this project. My own life showed me in recent years how unexpected events and coincidences turned out to be like windows opened to new opportunities.
Botanica is a collection of photographs that convey the sensuality and femininity of flowers. Throughout art history, flowers have been used as symbols for different emotions
“Släpstick” gives an insight into the process of making a theatre show. The photo series follows five seasoned performers who make up Släpstick, an internationally acclaimed musical theatre group who specialise in a blend of physical humour, musical virtuosity and anarchy, as they created a new show in the midst of the pandemic.
The series takes us to one of the most remote destinations on the planet – Antarctica. Besides their artistic value, the photographs demonstrate an amazing man-made infrastructure consisting of camps of varying comfort, touristic destinations and research institutions.
Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder and we are able to perceive it in every instant, place, space and time. But Beauty gains depth when it has the ability to touch us.
In this photo project I wanted to convey the ambiguity of human nature and the beauty of the unity of its opposite parts. In each of us there are such parts of the personality that we do not accept
This project evolved after several months of passing by the ruins of a house on my daily drive to work. I knew that this house, located in my hometown had suffered the direct hit of a rocket during the "Guardian of the Walls" military operation.
When arriving in Palm Springs, the first things you see are giant windfarms over desertic fields and miles of gated condominiums, golf courses, swimming pools, stores, and parking lots. Are you entering a vacation paradise, or a community fighting for its survival at the turn of the 21rst century?
That is when I developed an affinity for wildlife photography: walking by itself is not much fun, but I am lucky that my little suburban island of Alameda is a haven for wildlife (especially birds), and it kept popping at me in the most beautiful ways.
Like in many other nomadic countries, the horse in Kyrgyzstan has a very important place in rural life. It used to be the only way to travel in the high mountains of the Tian Shan, the sole companion of many shepherds and an ally in various horse games.
We love thoroughly planning our sessions and spend quite some time on building detailed concepts, carefully preparing each project’s features and environment.
The theme of the collection is "odd buildings," whether they're odd for their paint job, their architectural design, their graffiti, or their relation to other buildings.
The Omo Valley, in Ethiopia, is a circumscribed territory where numerous ethnic groups live. Each tribe is absolutely different from each other and has preserved its ancient and peculiar cultural traditions, so I immersed myself in this kaleidoscope of cultures.
Photographs taken on the beach of Albisola, Liguria, Italy. Starting from the concept of "Objet trouveè" - therefore without modifying the naturally found scene
Thousand years ago, Vietnam was always threatened by the invasion from the North, so the Vietnamese had to pass many wars to protect the properties and land…
We live in a hectic world where attention to the things around us is sometimes fleeting and divided. There are many stimuli creating an immediate need to react, an instant gratification.
This series is everything to me, but also nothing. It’s “nothing” because I went against all my technical instincts as a photographer. I did it with only my heart and soul, not with lights and a camera.
Like the rest of the globe, the Coronavirus forced Angelenos to quarantine and shelter in place. (un)real landscapes: Los Angeles plays itself explores what a pandemic society looks like — otherworldly, unreal.
Released in 1957, the Leica IIIg represented the final refinement of Leica’s original screw mount design, combining decades of mechanical evolution into a compact, highly precise camera used during a pivotal transition toward modern documentary practice.
Also of divinities such as thunder and lightning, without forgetting sorcerers, priestesses and healers, buffoons and masks. Thus, we arrived one day at the gates of the palace of Emir Babakari III, where we witnessed one of the most ancient rites of the gwari tribe.
These images are part of an on-going series of hand-sewn photographs that were taken along the entire 104 mile path of the former Berlin Wall. Sections of the photographs have been obscured by cross-stitch embroidery sewn directly into the photograph.
Inspired by the aesthetics of Edo Period Japanese shikki (Lacquerware), traditional Chinese brush painting, William Morris’s wall covering design and the Chinese Gongbi pictorial style.
Seas and oceans are central to the work of Dirk Roseport. With his Transcendental Tranquility - Oceans Project he makes a contemporary reference to a romantic tradition within painting: that of the artist/photographer shunning the turbulence of the 21st century.
In the exhibition "Barbara Wolff: Photographs" at the Goethe-Institut Bordeaux, works from the series "Biography" (1982 - 1989), "Metropolis" (2018 - 2020) as well as "Amazonia" (2019) will be shown in collaboration with Collection Regard Berlin.
Glass Faces present unique, enchanting, climatic and hypnotising portraits. Bewitching with natural beauty and somewhat unreal, mysterious, silent and oozing various emotions.
By necessity, choice or bad luck ... loneliness can take many forms. Whether it comes from punishment or, on the contrary, from a reward, it can go along with freedom, but does not hate disarray!
A place of retreat and sleep, a place of love, intimacy and lust, a land of dreams, a scene of birth, but also of illness and death - the bed has a multifaceted role in our lives and is thus one of the most frequently portrayed objects in art.
I once won the Vogue/Sotheby’s Cecil Beaton Award, a competition for young photographers with a series I shot of a shoe. They were among the first pictures I took in what was to become my new style.
In several regions of Russia the New Year is celebrated twice. The national republics of Buryatia, Tuva, Kalmykia and Altai, where Buddhism is traditionally practiced also celebrate the New Year according to the lunar calendar.
Every winter, in the Nordic lands, harsh conditions and extreme temperatures reveal the true power of nature. From the first snowfall, the great outdoors instantly become quieter.
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