It was a Wednesday at the beginning of March when it happened. The day was a cloudless one and the sky was an unreal, harsh blue. There was a light dusting of snow on the ground which reflected the sun brilliantly. I remember blinking. And then I remember us terminating our baby.
In the course of my travels, I happened upon landscapes that had a mysterious power. Their contemplation mobilized my imagination and provoked an emotional reaction that went beyond the appreciation of their beauty.
What could be more banal around the age of 50 than trying to understand what is essential to our existence and taking a step back from the race we are leading within our society, and try to put this last stage of our existence into perspective.
Big cities, special light installations of festivities and buildings, objective light, conceptional paintings with handmade lightpainting tools and spectacular light shows in nature are the basic tools Angelica works with to visualize AngelsView light paintings.
Dissolution is proud to present Postcards Home, the latest photo project by Diana Smykova. This series explores what constitutes home through dialogue and visuals, sharing the stories of individuals from different countries and backgrounds and how their sense of home is formed through their experiences of migration and identity in the modern world.
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.
This is a visual diary of myself, using others to represent the sensuality I remember and still feel. Longing and wanting are companions that do not diminish with age. My exterior may not represent my inner beauty or the evocative experiences I carry forward.
The "Lichen Rock" photography collection features stunning and unique images of lichen-covered rocks that I have captured over several years. In this collection, you will be introduced to rocks that have undergone a long and evolutionary process to create beautiful and intricate patterns and textures.
Norma Córdova, aka, shesaidred, is a Mexican-American photographer, filmmaker, and artist. Her image-based work creates illusions that conjure imagination without presenting a factual reality. They invoke femininity, self identity, and wonder. She is based in Oakland, California shooting traditionally - film, polaroids
Every Friday dervishes gather an hour before sunset around some of the big mosques in Khartoum and Omdurman. A circle is formed and the ritual begins.The ceremony starts with the Madeeh - chanting words of gratitude to the Prophet Mohammed.
"Parts of Life and morning flowers", still-life photography study, celebrates the presence of body organs, which are essential for vitality! Frequently these scenes are accompanied by beautiful altered mourning and grieving flowers. Flowers are frequently part of a grave scene; burial locations are surrounded by flowers!
Born in Cologne in 1924 under the name of Karl Heinz Hargesheimer, Chargesheimer studied graphic arts and photography at the "Kölner Werkschulen" (1943-46). From the beginning of his career, Chargesheimer pursued different artistic interests, ranging from opera, theatre, costume design and painting to photography.
The series Sleepwalker focuses on the darker emotions we feel, especially the ones that creep out at night. I am looking for that hallucinatory tension one feels between sleep and wakefulness. As a child I always thought dreams were projections in your brain that would play like a movie on the back of your closed eyelids.
[Berlin] In collaboration with the Kunstbibliothek and the Freundeskreis Yad Vashem e. V., the Israeli Holocaust remembrance centre Yad Vashem is showing its much-admired exhibition Flashes of Memory: Photography During the Holocaust for the first time in Germany at Berlin’s Museum für Fotografie.
At the onset of the Pandemic, I lost my mother; I had just flown back from being with her and I would not be able to return to pay my last respects. Simultaneously, my eldest son was preparing to leave for college, and the comfort of our daily routines, established for years were about to end abruptly.
[New York] In 1969, Richard Avedon was at a crossroads. After a five-year hiatus, the photographer started making portraits again, this time with a new camera and a new sense of scale. Trading his handheld Rolleiflex for a larger, tripod-mounted device, he reinvented his studio dynamic.
My long-term photographic project is included in what we call Street Photography, so popular and with so many followers in the world that it is internationally known by this english language term. Street photography was born with the appearance of manageable cameras that allowed photography spontaneous in public places.
This image came from the collection 'Feelings will hurt me'. When I was living in LA - I felt like I couldn't get close to anyone intimately. I live a life where sometimes people don't believe what I do, and at the time I was feeling very much in pain, after a sexual experience resulted in being backstabbed and emotionally beat up.
What does the issue of flight and equal rights have to do with a tomato crate? How do you reconcile drops of water with exclusion? Can the ease of children playing on the beach be a call for the future? Can not every moment influence or change our lives.
Kiss by the Hôtel de Ville by Robert Doisneau; This photograph is one of the icons of eternal love. A young man stands in the street, surrounds his girlfriend with his arm and kisses her passionately in front of the Paris City Hall, stopping the world around him.
A journey through India project was selected and published in our print edition 23. Once upon a time, in a land not so far away (Modern day Lumbini) lived a benevolent prince born to the chief of the shakya clan. Trained in wrestling, swimming, and archery, entertained by dancing girls, and instructed by wise brahmins the prince’s life floated on every possible luxury, however his soul drowned in a mysterious sadness.
«It’s not that she’s mean, but good and bad are the same to her.» This sentence of Jean Giono about the Durance is at the origin of this book. These are not illustrations, but rather a treasure hunt operating by association of ideas where each image is related to a sentence by Jean Giono
Curious Devices project was selected and published in our print edition 23. Jeanette May’s still lifes reveal our complicated relationship with obsolete technology by juxtaposing the seductive designs and the inner workings of Curious Devices. Her photographs display a reverence for finely crafted merchandise, industrial design, and scientific wonders.
After discovering that she had Parkinson’s disease, Torrance York focused her camera on the challenge to integrate this life-altering information into her sense of self. In Semaphore York’s photographs speak metaphorically about her shift in perspective post-diagnosis.
In my travel to South Sudan I spent three days in Tochmanga, a Mundari cattle camp not far from Juba, the capital. When we arrived, my reaction was sort of disappointment: the camp was practically empty, there were only children and some adults.
The Chinese community settled in Havana's Chinatown was, at the beginning of the last century, one of the most densely populated Chinese communities outside of China. It was at the great gate of the “Barrio Chino” in Havana where the idea for this photographic project was born: to visually explore and document the similarities and contrasts between China and Cuba.
Despite the very strong smell, dried fish are considered a delicacy in Bangladesh, the south asian nation next to India. Bangladesh, located at the Bay of Bengal, has the longest stretched Sea Beach in the world and fishing is a traditional way of food supply and economic income. Along the shore there are many small fishing villages dotted along the beach.
How many years spent in this city. By now I know her well: years of work for Caffè Florian and its vernissages; the oldest historic café in the world, opened in 1720, in the years of maximum splendor of the Venice carnival…
Words are not inherently suitable to embrace any even blurred concept of time, and beside all speech being made nowadays around the sense of family, its true nature belongs to the undetectable trace we leave through centuries, and to our relationship with time itself.
The magical hidden world project was selected and published in our print edition 23. These photos are one of my personal best from the past few years. Most of them are from one place where I spend every spare moment to take photos.
Growing up I always had an affinity with the night. It was when I did my most productive work, alone in my bedroom free from noise and distractions. I would find comfort in the subdued light and quiet stillness, losing a sense of time and being absorbed in the moment of creating art.
Pride and prejudice project was selected and published in our print edition 23. This ongoing series of studio portraits of young men is intended to challenge the viewer with social constructs that are centered around masculinity and femininity. Gender bias, gender roles and stereotypes can affect everyone negatively.
I first met Lexi at the beginning of her medical gender affirmation journey in December 2020. At 58 years old, she had identified and lived as a woman for decades behind closed doors. She was born and raised in Ecuador where the LGBTQ community faces intense discrimination which often ends in violence.
With the innovation of digital technologies such as artificial intelligence in the 21st century, the world of metaverse is being witnessed around our lives such as games and movies. The age of mixing virtual with reality. In the metaverse world, the cyberspace where virtual and reality are harmonized is called mixed reality MR.
As far as I remember, I have always questioned my own identity, and in fact, the mere notion of identity. I was born and grew up in Bogota, Colombia, a South-America high-altitude city, spreading north to south, ranging from the poorest to the wealthiest neighborhoods, where the notion of classes is very vivid.
At daybreak, the light is splendid on the plain of Mapusa road. The laundry seems to float in the void. The laundry team is already hard at work. They are low caste people, none of them speak English, but after exchanging tea and cigarettes contact is established and I spend the morning with them.
To celebrate this anniversary, the Lambert Lambert agency is moving to a new location in the heart of Paris. Carole Lambert and her team have taken over a special place at the far end of a paved, tree-lined courtyard in the Marais.
Mitsuharu Maeda creates works based on the concept of journey. It's a more evocative landscape, with snow as a motif. This is because I believe that the severe yet beautiful snowy scenery, which has lost its color to the extreme due to monochrome,
We are in the Borkou desert, in the Sahel; that torrid plain burned by an implacable sun and a wind that roars until exhaustion. However, this is where the Tubus, since ancient times, decided to live.
A heavy life crushes. A light life is unbearable. This body of work reflects the dark side of desire in relation to the search for lightness. Without desire and overcoming obstacles, life becomes meaningless.
A series of Contemporary Photographic Film Noir made up of Portraits, street scenes, mysterious landscapes and digital manipulations - all shot in glorious monochrome.
The distinction between grief and depression might seem insignificant to some, but the chasm between the two is big enough for guilt and confusion to bounce around in the turbulence, gaining velocity until it’s almost hard to tell the difference. One mocks the other, as if it’s a competition to determine which is more painful.
This project of mine IS NOT a wildlife project but a PORTRAIT FINE ART project to capture the personality of the bird and the spirit that animates them through poses and looks, through the eyes, the most important organ for these birds.
My style is closely related (to) but not limited to fine art photography. About my personal style, I wouldn't say it has a specific description. I'm in a phase where I'm experimenting quite a bit so it's a "process in progress."
Coney Island Beyond the boardwalk is the title of this project. I am a documentary photographer who has spent the last dozen years working with and photographing the people that live in the housing projects in Coney Island.
Lake Turkana is found in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia. It is the world’s largest permanent desert lake and the world’s largest alkaline lake. The Omo, Turkwel, and Kerio rivers flow into the lake, but lacking outflow, its only water loss is by evaporation.
Jacques-Henri Lartigue was a master photographer who captured the beauty and joy of life through his art. His ability to turn simple moments into works of art, as well as his use of the camera and experimentation with different techniques, set him apart as a visionary in the field of photography.
I understand landscape photography as an exploration of an unknown space beyond my intimate and civilized experience. On the border of the city, modernity, technology and progress.
