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    Erwin Recinos: Earthlink Orange County Photo Series
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    Erwin Recinos: Earthlink Orange County Photo Series

    Jun 12, 2025
    Erwin Recinos’ Earthlink series captures the soul of Southern California through vivid photographic postcards taken along the Metrolink rail system. Created for the Earth Day 2023 campaign “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Rides,” the series blends themes of sustainability, community, and urban identity. With a decade-long career documenting Los Angeles culture, Recinos offers a personal and timely vision of places that may soon be transformed by time and progress.
    
    Silence in Photography: The Power of Leaving Things Unsaid
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    Silence in Photography: The Power of Leaving Things Unsaid

    Jun 12, 2025
    Silence in photography is not absence, but presence tuned just below the surface. It is what happens when a frame stops explaining and begins to suggest. The image no longer performs, it invites. A viewer pauses, leans in, and something shifts. That quiet tension, hard to measure yet deeply felt, is what gives certain photographs their lasting weight. They do not need to shout to leave a mark — they simply know when not to speak.
    
    
    What You Probably Didn’t Know About Leica Cameras
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    What You Probably Didn’t Know About Leica Cameras

    Jun 11, 2025
    A Leica is not just a camera, it is a way of being in the world. From its nearly silent shutter to the ritual of loading film, every detail is designed to make the photographer an active part of the image. It gives you nothing for free. It forces you to look, to wait, to earn the photograph. And perhaps for that reason, every click carries a different weight. You do not shoot out of habit, you shoot with intent.
    
    The True Story of Gina by João Coelho: A Life Between Shadows and Dreams
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    The True Story of Gina by João Coelho: A Life Between Shadows and Dreams

    Jun 10, 2025
    Gina walks into the night each evening, wearing high heels that bruise her feet and a wig that helps her become someone else. She doesn’t sell her body out of choice but out of necessity, shaped by years of silence, abuse, and abandonment. What began as a survival mechanism has become a life lived in the alleys of Luanda, where fleeting intimacy pays for food and fleeting highs provide relief.
    
    Street Photography Urban Poetry or Privacy Invasion
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    Street Photography Urban Poetry or Privacy Invasion

    Jun 10, 2025
    Every image is both a gift from the city and a possible intrusion into someone’s invisible shield. Street photography walks that delicate edge where a poetic moment can suddenly become an intrusive gesture. Capturing the invisible demands sensitivity, but also an ethical awareness that goes beyond the shutter.
    
    Lolita Dreams by Tianhu Yuan: Redefining the Lolita Subculture in China
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    Lolita Dreams by Tianhu Yuan: Redefining the Lolita Subculture in China

    Jun 9, 2025
    In Lolita Dreams, Chinese visual artist Tianhu Yuan documents the transformation of the Lolita fashion subculture in China, highlighting how its participants have distanced it from Western misconceptions. Through intimate portraits and interviews, he reveals a world where cuteness, elegance, and femininity become tools for self-expression, cultural reinterpretation, and identity beyond the Nabokovian narrative.
    
    10 little-known curiosities about Elliott Erwitt
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    10 little-known curiosities about Elliott Erwitt

    Jun 9, 2025
    Elliott Erwitt may be known for his sharp wit and iconic dog portraits, but behind the humor lies a story full of unexpected turns. From mopping floors to pay for film school to directing comedy shorts for HBO and inventing a fake artist to mock the contemporary art world, Erwitt’s career is a masterclass in blending discipline with irreverence.
    
    La Gacilly-Baden Photo 2025: Australia and the New World
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    La Gacilly-Baden Photo 2025: Australia and the New World

    Jun 9, 2025
    From June 13 to October 12, 2025, the elegant spa town of Baden near Vienna becomes something extraordinary: an open-air museum stretching over seven kilometers. The La Gacilly-Baden Photo Festival returns for its eighth edition, turning the streets, parks, and gardens into a massive gallery of over 1,500 large-format images.
    
    How Image Excess Reduces the Quality of Our Attention
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    How Image Excess Reduces the Quality of Our Attention

    Jun 6, 2025
    In a world saturated with images, the real casualty is not photography but our ability to truly see. The constant scroll, the dopamine-driven tap, the avalanche of visual content have numbed our eyes to the subtle and the slow. We no longer look, we skim.
    
    
    GuruShots: Mostly White
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    GuruShots: Mostly White

    Jun 5, 2025
    Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots "The Worlds Greatest Photo Game" in a photo challenge contest titled "Mostly White"  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.
    
    Rencontres d’Arles 2025: an invitation to Disobedient Images
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    Rencontres d’Arles 2025: an invitation to Disobedient Images

    Jun 5, 2025
    From 7 July to 5 October 2025, the Provençal city of Arles will once again become the world capital of photography with the 56th edition of Les Rencontres d’Arles. Under the theme “Disobedient Images”, the festival offers more than forty exhibitions spread across Romanesque chapels, former factories and other heritage sites that converse with today’s photographic creation.
    
    American Cars in Cuba by Jeffrey Milstein: History, Ingenuity, and Vintage Heritage
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    American Cars in Cuba by Jeffrey Milstein: History, Ingenuity, and Vintage Heritage

    Jun 4, 2025
    Upon arriving in Cuba, you’re greeted by iconic classic American cars that seem to freeze time. Due to the U.S. embargo, Cubans have kept these vehicles running “one piece at a time,” creatively mixing parts from different years and models. This mechanical legacy has become a national treasure: from meticulously restored taxis for tourists to working cars with a unique patina that tells decades of makeshift repairs.
    
    Memory Pods: Botanical Portraits of Aging, Memory, and Loss
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    Memory Pods: Botanical Portraits of Aging, Memory, and Loss

    Jun 3, 2025
    Douglas Stockdale’s Memory Pods reflects on aging, memory, and Alzheimer’s through semi-abstract photographs of Aloe Vera flowers and seed pods. The images mirror life’s progression from vibrant youth to the fading of memory offering a poetic meditation on the emotional and physical impact of dementia.
    
    
    
    
    10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Robert Mapplethorpe
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    10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Robert Mapplethorpe

    Jun 2, 2025
    Robert Mapplethorpe’s legacy is often reduced to leather, lilies, and controversy, but behind the iconic images lies a far more complex figure. From Catholic altars built in his childhood bedroom to secret collaborations with the New York City Ballet, these ten lesser-known facts reveal an artist obsessed not just with perfection, but with mystery, control, and the unexpected poetry of imperfection.
    
    
    
    
    Winners: Portrait Awards 2025
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    Winners: Portrait Awards 2025

    May 8, 2025
    We are proud to reveal the names of the 100 photographers who have been honored as winners and finalists of the 2025 Portrait Awards, a recognition that affirms their remarkable standing in today’s photographic landscape.
    
    Nude Photography Today: Censorship, Algorithms, and the Uneasy Space Between Art and Control

    Nude Photography Today: Censorship, Algorithms, and the Uneasy Space Between Art and Control

    May 4, 2025
    Nude photography has never been a stable category. From its earliest appearance within academic traditions to its uneasy circulation across contemporary platforms, the nude has functioned less as a genre than as a stress test for visual culture. Every era redraws the line between what can be shown and what must be hidden, and nude photography is where that line becomes most visible. What has changed in recent decades is not the controversy itself, but...
    
    The Australian journey by Regina Anzenberger
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    The Australian journey by Regina Anzenberger

    Apr 15, 2025
    In March 2024, Regina Anzenberger returned to Tasmania — a place that has deeply shaped her artistic journey since her first visit back in 1989. This island, with its wild landscapes and unique natural forms, once again became an endless source of inspiration. During her stay, Anzenberger captured everything that moved her: riverbeds, stones, leaves, trees, and mysterious seahorses.
    
    
    
    GuruShots: Night Photography
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    GuruShots: Night Photography

    Mar 11, 2025
    Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots "The Worlds Greatest Photo Game" in a photo challenge contest titled "Night Photography"  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.
    
    
    Charles C. Ebbets: The Man Behind Lunch atop a Skyscraper
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    Charles C. Ebbets: The Man Behind Lunch atop a Skyscraper

    Feb 23, 2025
    Who was Charles C. Ebbets, the photographer long associated with Lunch atop a Skyscraper? This in-depth biography explores his career, the controversy over authorship, and how one 1932 image taken during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza reshaped his legacy in photographic history.
    
    
    
    
    
    Altered States; Photographic series by Pygmalion Karatzas
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    Altered States; Photographic series by Pygmalion Karatzas

    Feb 14, 2025
    Altered states of consciousness have been a fascination of mine since my introduction to meditation techniques in the late '90s. Through practice and study, the culmination of this journey can best be described by the integral theory of philosopher Ken Wilber.
    
    
    Long Exposure Photography: Complete Guide to Time, Seascapes and Urban Landscapes
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    Long Exposure Photography: Complete Guide to Time, Seascapes and Urban Landscapes

    Feb 12, 2025
    Long exposure photography transforms time into visual substance. From minimalist seascapes and abstract landscapes to urban light trails and performance photography, this complete guide explores the technique, philosophy and contemporary practice behind extended shutter photography and its ability to reshape motion, space and perception.
    
    Aghori by Jan Skwara: Unveiling the mysteries of india’s most feared ascetics
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    Aghori by Jan Skwara: Unveiling the mysteries of india’s most feared ascetics

    Feb 12, 2025
    Aghori, most terrifying and scary Indian ascetics. It’s said that they exist between life and death. They usually live close to the crematory grounds and use human bodies for their religious rituals. They perform Puja sitting on the body and collect “human oil” from corpse fat. Aghori are scavengers – they eat human flesh – and this is why they are usually called “cannibals.”
    
    
    
    
    Marek Boguszak: The Harmony of Dunes in Shapes, Colors, and Perspectives
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    Marek Boguszak: The Harmony of Dunes in Shapes, Colors, and Perspectives

    Feb 5, 2025
    I love dunes - these perfect harmonious shapes and lines. Such perfect proportions, not touched by a human hand, are difficult to find anywhere else. Once abstracted from their surroundings, sand dunes reveal their beauty and clean forms, which can be presented freely from different angles, distances, and perspectives, and with boosted colors.
    
    Horrified B-Movie Victims by Greg McDonald
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    Horrified B-Movie Victims by Greg McDonald

    Feb 4, 2025
    The terrified nameless citizenry of 1950s and 60s B-movies, dressed in colorful outfits, are caught in horrified poses as they scream, flee, and try to shoot their way out of certain death from off-screen monsters looking to squash them: natural disasters, giant crickets, and alien landings.
    
    
    The uneasy place of nudity in contemporary photography
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    The uneasy place of nudity in contemporary photography

    Jan 29, 2025
    Nudity occupies an unstable position in contemporary photography, accepted only when it conforms to predictable codes. This article examines how the naked body continues to expose tensions around power, legitimacy, and control within visual culture.
    
    Winners: Fine Art Awards
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    Winners: Fine Art Awards

    Jan 27, 2025
    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. The selection process was conducted with the utmost rigor by a distinguished panel of experts, including renowned figures in the world of photography.

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