Dodho Magazine – Page 2

The difference between seeing, looking, and reading a photograph

Jan 26, 2026

Seeing a photograph is not the same as understanding it. The distinction between seeing, looking, and reading images reveals how meaning is constructed, why most photographs remain superficial, and what it means to engage critically with photography today.

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Walker Evans and the ethics of looking without intervening

Jan 26, 2026

Walker Evans’s work raises a lasting ethical question in photography: is it possible to look without intervening? Through restraint, distance, and refusal of sentimentality, his images challenge the idea that documentary photography must persuade, act, or dramatize in order to be responsible.

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Sequencing photographs: how to build rhythm and meaning

Jan 22, 2026

Sequencing photographs is not about order, but about meaning. This article explores how rhythm, contrast, and visual relationships turn individual images into a coherent photographic language.

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How to know if you are evolving as a photographer

Jan 21, 2026

Photographic growth becomes visible through changing questions, greater patience, long-term projects, and a shifting relationship with doubt, time, and personal criteria rather than external validation.

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Photography and post-reality: when images stop being evidence

Jan 21, 2026

In the age of post-reality, photography no longer functions as unquestioned proof. This article explores how images have shifted from evidence to narrative tools shaped by context, belief, and interpretation.

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Roger Ballen Spirits and Spaces: The First Color Monograph and a Descent into the Ballenesque Mind

Jan 20, 2026

Roger Ballen’s Spirits and Spaces marks his first major exploration of colour after five decades in black and white, expanding the Ballenesque universe into a haunting psychological landscape where space, instinct, and the unconscious collide.

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How to use artificial intelligence in photography without losing your personal voice

Jan 20, 2026

This article explores how photographers can use artificial intelligence as a creative tool without sacrificing their personal voice, emphasizing intention, authorship, and conscious control over automated processes.

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Ansel Adams did not photograph “nature”: landscape, construction, and manipulation in classic photography

Jan 20, 2026

Ansel Adams is often seen as a symbol of photographic purity, yet his landscapes were carefully constructed and heavily manipulated. This article revisits his work to reveal landscape photography as interpretation, not neutral documentation.

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Instagram and photography: the problem isn’t the platform, it’s the dependence

Jan 19, 2026

The problem with Instagram and photography is not the platform itself, but the dependence on it. When images are created for algorithms and likes, photography loses autonomy and depth.

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CONDO London 2026: 50 galleries, 23 venues, one collaborative exhibition across the city

Jan 19, 2026

CONDO London 2026 turns London into a month-long gallery route, with shared exhibitions across 23 venues from 17 January to 14 February 2026.

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Documentary photography as objective testimony

Jan 16, 2026

Documentary photography is often seen as objective proof, yet this text questions that assumption, revealing how every image is a constructed, situated interpretation of reality rather than neutral testimony.

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Yebizo and the Yebisu International Festival: Expanding the Language of Contemporary Audiovisual Art

Jan 16, 2026

Yebizo presents the 15th edition of the Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, a key platform for contemporary audiovisual practices exploring film, photography, performance, and alternative forms of visual expression.

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Sebastião Salgado and the aesthetics of suffering: Beauty, morality and controversy in humanist photography

Jan 14, 2026

Sebastião Salgado’s work sits at the crossroads of beauty and discomfort, raising enduring questions about ethics, aesthetics, and the representation of human suffering within humanist photography.

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Winners: Fine Art Awards

Jan 13, 2026

We are pleased to officially announce the winners and finalists of the prestigious Fine Art Awards, celebrating the finest talents in photography. This recognition represents a hallmark of excellence in the field.

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Street photography as a pure genre

Jan 13, 2026

Street photography is often misunderstood as images simply taken in public spaces. This text argues for street photography as a pure genre, defined not by location but by intention, ethics, time, and a disciplined way of seeing.

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The Last Resort by Martin Parr: A Landmark Exhibition in Contemporary Documentary Photography

Jan 13, 2026

Martin Parr’s The Last Resort is a landmark series that redefined documentary photography, confronting class, leisure, and consumption in 1980s Britain with an uncompromising and still unsettling gaze.

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Henri cartier-bresson and the false decisive moment: How the concept has been simplified until it became empty

Jan 12, 2026

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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Pluie d’Images Festival 2026: Contemporary Photography Exhibitions

Jan 12, 2026

The Pluie d’Images Festival returns to Brest with free exhibitions across the city, exploring the night as a space for contemporary photographic expression.

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Diane Arbus and the Myth of the Cruel Gaze: Ethics, Context and Contemporary Readings

Jan 9, 2026

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.

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PhotoBrussels Festival 2026 Redefines Photography Through a City-Wide Network of Exhibitions

Jan 8, 2026

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.

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How to build an authentic, non-generic personal photography project

Jan 8, 2026

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.

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Understanding Street Photography: Practice, Meaning, and Its Role in Contemporary Visual Culture

Jan 1, 2026

Street photography examines everyday urban life through history, ethics, observation, and visual culture, revealing how people share public space in modern cities.

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The Globalization of Street Photography

Jan 1, 2026

Street photography evolved into a global visual language, shaped by diverse cultures, urban realities, and photographers beyond Western cities.

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Robert Capa and the mythology of the brave photographer: Risk, staging and heroic narrative

Jan 1, 2026

Robert Capa is often seen as the archetype of the brave war photographer. This article explores how risk, narrative, and myth shaped his legacy and our idea of photographic truth.

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Erotic Photography and the Art Market

Jan 1, 2026

Erotic photography reveals how the art market negotiates desire, value, and legitimacy. Between provocation and institutional acceptance, these images expose the tensions that define what is allowed, collected, and celebrated within contemporary visual culture.

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Winners: Color Awards 2025

Dec 23, 2025

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.

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Art and Ecology in Non chiamatela Gaia by Paola Francesca Barone

Dec 23, 2025

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.

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GuruShots: Your Magazine Shot

Dec 23, 2025

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!

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Jeff Schewe’s The Art and Dilemma of Shooting Street Portraits: Truth in the Streets

Dec 23, 2025

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.

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Imaginative Transmutations by Artur Leão: A Photographic Journey

Dec 23, 2025

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.

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Gregor Radonjič – Metascapes: Where Matter, Mind, and Landscape Intertwine

Dec 23, 2025

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.

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Origins by Michael Naify: A Photographic Journey Through Brazil’s Mining History

Dec 23, 2025

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.

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The Weight of Light by Wendi Schneider : Monochrome, Gold Leaf, and Emotional Depth

Dec 23, 2025

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.

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Color in Street Photography: From Black and White to Contemporary Vision

Nov 13, 2025

Color transformed street photography, expanding beyond black and white to capture the atmosphere, complexity, and visual identity of contemporary cities.

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Famous Street Photographers: The Most Influential Artists in the History of Street Photography

Oct 12, 2025

Discover famous street photographers who shaped the genre, from pioneering masters to contemporary voices redefining urban visual culture.

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Practical Surrealism: What Man Ray Taught Photography

Sep 22, 2025

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.

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Gurushots: Tell a Story

Sep 15, 2025

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.

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Street Photography Between Art and Documentary

Sep 13, 2025

Street photography exists between art and documentary, blending observation and interpretation to capture real urban life through a personal visual language.

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Winners: Monochromatic Awards 2025

Aug 13, 2025

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.

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Street Photography and Public Life: Documenting How We Live Together

Aug 13, 2025

Street photography documents public life, revealing how people share urban space, interact, and navigate everyday social experiences in the city.

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GuruShots: Photogenic

Aug 12, 2025

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.

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Reverie; A Photographic Journey by Daniel Bellman

Aug 12, 2025

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.

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Johan Letellier: Being a Photographer in Times of Overexposure

Jul 21, 2025

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.

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The Shutter as a Mirror: When Self Portraits Were Not Selfies

Jul 21, 2025

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.

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Markku Lahdesmaki Photographs the Soul of Sirkus Tähti

Jul 18, 2025

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.

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Robert Welsh: Urban Photography Rooted in Memory and Everyday Life

Jul 17, 2025

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.

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Leanne Trivett S: Being a Photographer in Times of Overexposure

Jul 16, 2025

Leanne Trivett S. reflects on creating honest, emotional imagery in a visually saturated world, embracing authenticity, slowness, and connection as acts of resistance.

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Alexa Cushing, Due West: A Photographic Journey Through Los Angeles

Jul 16, 2025

In Due West Alexa Cushing reimagines Los Angeles as a fractured dreamscape where glamour and dissonance coexist in surreal harmony.

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