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Erotic Photography and the Art Market
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
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.


GuruShots: Your Magazine Shot
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!








Practical Surrealism: What Man Ray Taught Photography
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
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.


Winners: Monochromatic Awards 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.


GuruShots: Photogenic
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; A Photographic Journey by Daniel Bellman
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.



Markku Lahdesmaki Photographs the Soul of Sirkus Tähti
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.






The Forgotten Places by Frédéric Demeuse: Photographs of Untamed Nature
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.



Florence Gallez: Being a Photographer in Times of Overexposure
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.

Nude Photography in the Age of Censorship and Algorithms
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.

Eternal Family by Byun Soon Choel: Virtual Portraits Reuniting Displaced Families
In Eternal Family, South Korean photographer Byun Soonchoel uses cutting-edge imaging technology to virtually reunite families separated by the Korean War. Blending documentary intent with digital reconstruction, his portraits offer a haunting vision of what could have been, where memory, absence, and technology converge to heal invisible wounds.

Unfiltered Autobiography: Nan Goldin’s Radical Legacy
Nan Goldin never staged a version of herself. Her photographs were not declarations, but confessions, raw, bruised, trembling. She used the camera not to construct identity but to survive it. In a world obsessed with curating imperfections for aesthetic effect, Goldin exposed the cost of real intimacy.


Art Without an Audience: Lessons from Vivian Maier’s Legacy
Vivian Maier spent her life creating in silence, walking the streets with a camera but no desire for recognition. In an age that equates visibility with value, her refusal to share feels almost radical. What if she was right? What if the true act of creative freedom is not to be seen, not to perform, but to observe quietly and trust the work to speak for itself, eventually, or maybe never?


What Henri Cartier-Bresson Would Not Shoot Today
Henri Cartier-Bresson taught us to wait for the decisive moment, but in today’s image deluge that quiet fraction of a second risks drowning in algorithms and selfie rituals. This piece argues that the French master would decline to photograph the polished influencer latte, the staged disaster clip, the AI-fabricated sunset and the disposable story that vanishes after a day.