These images aim to capture the vibrant spirit of the Cuban people. While many of them face numerous hardships on a daily basis, including finding food to put on their tables, they are a kind, generous and resilient people.
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My grades in school were always D’s and F’s. Mostly because I didn’t go to classes that bored me. I would go to the library and read instead. I was a voracious reader, and I credit that with my survival into adulthood.
I am passionate about photography and art in general since I was a child. Every time I had the opportunity to go to a new place like a school trip or with my parents, I took my small camera, and I captured everything.
Frank Ross is out by Adrian Saker
Aug 19, 2021
When everything falls silent and the world feels distant and its noise fails to drown out the quiet voice coming from within, anxiety creates a space for dialogue with our own mortality and with the knowledge that everything that is, will ultimately one day be gone.
American Desert-Ed by Daniel Skwarna
Aug 17, 2021
If you drive south from Los Angeles on Interstate CA-111 along the eastern shore of the Salton Sea, past Bombay Beach, Frink, Wister, Mundo, and around the migrating geyser, you’ll reach Niland, one of the poorest counties in California.
Since a young woman I have been documenting myself through self-portraiture. It wasn’t just showing myself – it was knowing and self-discovery - an interaction between me and myself.
Introduced in 1925, the Leica I transformed photography by making it truly portable, allowing photographers to move freely and capture life as it unfolded. Its compact design, 35 mm format, and intuitive operation shifted photography from a staged practice to an observational one, laying the foundation for what would later become street photography.
The quarrymen by Markku Lähdesmaki
Aug 10, 2021
The quarrymen was selected and published in our print edition 17. Driving a country road in Orivesi...some of my best stories start that way. Nearly every summer we spend time in Orivesi, in the southern part of Finland.
Conversations with Myself was selected and published in our print edition 17. This work represents a coalescence, of becoming. In looking at myself channel my mother, and every woman who came before me.
Bright shadows was selected and published in our print edition 17. Andreas Theologitis presents his new photographic creation. He tries to take his work one step further while remaining true to the fundamental principle he has been following insistently over the recent years: The exploration of the various aspects of the naked human body.
They look beautiful, gracious and sometimes mysterious! They are lonely cottages carrying a bag full of stories! I first met them in India, my own country.
Coney Offseason by Daniel Skwarna
Jul 29, 2021
Coney Island was shuttered and deserted. The Atlantic was frothing angrily, beating the shoreline and throwing walls of stinging spray at the beach and boardwalk, as if trying to topple the old Parachute Drop, standing watch over the Riegellman Boardwalk.
When you're ready to purchase a new camera, it can be hard to know which one is the best choice. There are so many options out there, and they all have their own features that set them apart from other models.
Dunescapes by Mohammed Arfan Asif’s project was selected and published in our print edition 17. Dunescapes is an ongoing project for more than a quarter of a century in an expanse called, The Empty Quarter in the United Arab Emirates
Isolated with Covid 19 by Anirban Mandal
Jul 26, 2021
I was diagnosed positive with Covid 19 along with symptoms of headache, complete loss of smell, coughing and a lot of tiredness on May 2nd 2021. Life changed somewhat and I shifted myself to an isolated stay in the apartment in Newtown, Kolkata.
My Approach to a Men’s Fashion Shoot
Jul 19, 2021
I was once asked by a fashion magazine to shoot a men’s fashion story. It was going to feature suits. Before the words even left their mouths, I knew exactly where I wanted to shoot it.
GuruShots: Mostly White
Jul 15, 2021
Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots "The Worlds Greatest Photo Game" in a photo challenge contest titled "Mostly White" Over 100,000 photos were submitted and more than 45 million votes were cast!
Photographing the real Brazil
Jul 14, 2021
I had always been interested in visiting Brazil, but everything I had ever read about the place would be enough to scare anyone away. Swarms of children attacking tourists on the beach, the extreme poverty, hordes of pickpockets and never-ending stories of street gangs, made me wary.
Chongqing municipality, People’s Republic of China, population of 34 million. One of the world’s highest demographic and economic growth rates.The central urban area of 15 million souls is infused by almost 300 000 newcomers every year.
I like to live photography interwoven with other disciplines in a sort of a great artistic connection. So, I try to approach the photo composition and techniques thinking of examples
In this fusion of my two series, Out of the Darkness and Enlightenment, I explore a common theme: the transformative power of light displacing the darkness. Light embodies wisdom, healing, and growth in humanity’s passage from the dark to light ages.
In the wake of Covid-19 Pandemic and the recent surge of cases in India, the health and social infrastructure of the country found itself under pressure.
In his new series Embodied Extinction the artist returns to the source of the ancient, simple photography techniques, raising the subject of the origins of photography.
The parallel between the still image and cinema has been something that I have been thinking about for quite some time, particularly as a lot of my current freelance work involves working with both stills and moving image in the same commercial sphere.
Amid this Pandemic when we all went into lockdown it was a mixed feeling of anxiety, fear and monotony. Being a photographer it was sometimes very frustrating to sit indoors though it was essential for the current condition.
I’m not here is a series of self-portraits photographed in an abandoned hospital. The project is a reflection on mental illness and about identity in a state of transition.
Photography has always been, since the beginning of it, one of the best arts. There is one thing that is fundamental for the management of knowledge: memory.
The first time a human being tried to communicate with an image he used a color, with which he colored his hand and covered entire walls with handprints, "signs" that from the depths of a cave have crossed millennia and now have come down to us: the first sign of awareness.
Dodho Magazine Issue #17
Jun 30, 2021
As a magazine made by photographers for photographers, we understand your work and your passion better than anyone else. Our magazine is a must for the best professionals of the industry.
The photography series ‘The Truth’ is a personal reflection on lockdown in London: with its subtle meetings with loneliness, death, and traces of human presence.
Reasonably big territory, densely occupied by living, sentient beings and crowded architecture that humans build their lives around, according to a social and economic structure, as well as their cultural activity.
As a photographer, my goal with this project was to capture the essence of the unique and ever-changing New Orleans cultural landscape and preserve it for others not fortunate enough to witness these colorful events first hand.
The American South has an essence that sparingly reveals itself, thus requiring unprecedented determination and patience to photograph all its splendor.
During the isolation resulting from the pandemic, family has taken on a new centrality. Our connections to our ancestors and our descendants often feel stronger than connections to those around us.
I like to take long walks in Chicago, the city in which I live. Even though I’ve walked the same streets many times there are always new things to see.
Samuel Feron has been photographing Nature for 2 decades, exploring remote and sparsely habited areas all over the world. He tries to go beyond what the eyes first see, assuming that Nature has secrets in itself.
Peering into dark, empty spaces. On the outside, looking in. Camera pressed up to smeared, steamy glass. Glimpses of shiny Christmas decorations; cleaning products and hand sanitisers; abandoned drinks and occasional humour. Grasping at fragments.
My project aim to dig the loneliness and difficulties of being in a relationship, mostly when the relationship is essentially at an endpoint.
Allianz Arena, soccer stadium of Fc Bayern Munich during the corona lockdown by Michael Nguyen
Jun 17, 2021
A sunny day in February 2021 and a cloudy day (Easter Sunday 2021) during the Corona Lockdown in front of the Munich Allianz Arena, soccer stadium of FC Bayern Munich with 75,021 seats. It was the venue for the 2006 soccer World Cup.
Rotterdam festival: in the city of arts, Dodho will provide QR codes for the latest edition
Jun 16, 2021
This year, Dodho Magazine will be present in one of the most artistic cities in the world: Rotterdam. As in previous years, the magazine will do its best to make the photography industry a better place.
Change in uncertain times as one seeks the creative pulse in what seems disarray: The Pandemic; an emotionality all can relate, to the tune of unity and sympathetic understanding and curious, creative leanings into the uncertainty.
The second wave of Corona virus in India has fallen so heavily that it exceeded daily infection and total infection rate of first wave in the year 2020 and so far highest in the world.
Before I first visited Corsica, I read a collection of text fragments by W. G. Sebald, building blocks for a book about Corsica that was left unfinished at his premature death.
My Two Decade Brush with Neo Pictorialism
Jun 11, 2021
When I started as a photographer, my knowledge of the photographic landscape was rather limited in terms of the history of photography and the movements within it.
The area is home to some of the rarest plants and rainforests, many endangered species of animals, pristine rivers with high aquatic biodiversity, and the largest ice fields outside of Greenland and Antarctica.
In Birdwatching and Silver Sunbeam, Rainy Siagian attempts to observe the way the midnight sun affects the landscape in Iceland.
I think that Dodho provides a fantastic opportunity for those who want to be recognized by an informed public and by their peers. Seeing my work in the pages of Dodho, well, it is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me, and I have photography to thank for it.
Travel is the recurrent theme of all my experiences, understood not as achieving a goal, but as an approaching to places and cultures.