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.
Nine black and white photography projects that strip India of its iconic color to reveal a deeper visual language, where ritual, identity, labor and human presence emerge with raw intensity and clarity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Street photography evolved into a global visual language, shaped by diverse cultures, urban realities, and photographers beyond Western cities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Color transformed street photography, expanding beyond black and white to capture the atmosphere, complexity, and visual identity of contemporary cities.
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.
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.
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.
Street photography exists between art and documentary, blending observation and interpretation to capture real urban life through a personal visual language.
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.
Street photography documents public life, revealing how people share urban space, interact, and navigate everyday social experiences in the city.
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.
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: Capturing Quiet Moments of Intimacy and Timelessness in Michael Sela’s Photography
Jul 15, 2025
Japan Within, Home captures intimate moments and timeless gestures of Japanese daily life, reflecting quiet connections and subtle beauty.
Street photographers work through walking, waiting, and observing, using patience and awareness to capture authentic moments of everyday urban life.
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 the age of automated censorship, nude photography faces new forms of control imposed by algorithms that ignore context and intention. This article explores how digital platforms reshape the representation of the body, turning nudity into a cultural and political battleground.