I began making “urban landscapes” with a medium-format Holga---a $30 plastic camera---in September of 2001, in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. My heart was shattered then, and my career was momentarily stalled.
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My name is Katrin Viil. I´m an Estonian based visual artist who uses photography as her medium. I consider myself one of the first (female) photographers who consciously covers the topic of erotic-fashion-fetish photography in Estonia.
Palma de Mallorca (3 Jul / 30 Aug) Following on from Miao Xiaochun in the Aljub gallery, this summer the Es Baluard Museum of Contemporary Art presentsa solo exhibition of works by Michael Najjar, the internationally renowned German artist w
Chatting with Meryl Meisler
Jul 2, 2015
I am an emerging photographic based artist. After a career teaching art fulltime in the NYC public schools for over 3 decades, I am focusing on editing, exhibiting and publishing my tremendous archive as a series of photographic memoirs.
Koyaanisqatsi by Victoria Art
Jul 2, 2015
Reflection of watching a documentary trilogy Godfrey Reggio with music composer Philip Glass was embodied in the atmosphere of my shooting "Koyaaniskatsi". In the Hopi language, the word Koyaanisqatsi means "life out of balance".
5 Talented Female Photographers
Jul 2, 2015
The Best Female Photographers published in Dodho Magazine. The great stories by Julia Fullerton Batten, Dina Oganova, Aria Baro, Kata Sedlak and Vanessa Paxton.
This place
Jul 2, 2015
Tel Aviv ( 14 May / 6 Sep ) The complexity of Israel and the West Bank through the eyes of twelve internationally acclaimed photographers.
Photographs were taken during 2014-2015 in an asylum in Belgrade, Serbia. Residents belong to different age groups, corporal and mental competence. Common to all is that they were brought to the borders of existence, some of them are on the boundary between life and death
Josef Stalin deported the Ingush people to Siberia and Central Asia from their homes in Russia's North Caucasus in 1944. The Soviet dictator inflicted such harrowing displacements upon a number ethnic minorities deemed suspicious during the Second World War.
Portraits Talk by Aman Chotani
Jul 1, 2015
Aman Chotani , A Professional Travel Photographer who has found acclaim across major exhibitions and brands. His motto Travel to beautiful, Rusty, adventurous locations to capture untold stories, unseen traditions and unprecedented experiences.
Exhibition : Dong Wensheng – Continuum
Jul 1, 2015
Shanghai (13 June / 31 July) M97 cordially invites you to the opening of CONTINUUM, an exhibition of Dong Wensheng’s newest photographic works. The CONTINUUM exhibition includes works from two separate bodies:Continuum (2015) and Unbridled Waves (2010-2011).
It has been said that Erdmann Contemporary is difficult to pigeon hole. Perhaps because I have firm ideas of what I want, how I manage my gallery, and that I am involved in every step of the business.
Photo Shoot; Previsión by Ledokollov
Jun 25, 2015
At one moment people pandemonium, machinery hum, obsessive blinking store signs turn you into hearing nothing, seeing nothing, bustling city urbanite.
Fotofestiwal 2015
Jun 25, 2015
The 14th International Festival of Photography 2015 in Łodz is over. Almost 20 thousand people visited the festival’s center and Lodz-based galleries.
My passion to create is driven by my bicultural background as an Iranian-American. My work is a reflection of culture as well as the self, pursuing distinct and obscure emotions in an attempt to create a narrative and connect with humanity.
Winterthur (30 May / 11 Oct) A great find: almost 1,250 glass negatives dating from between 1910 and 1925 that had defied the ravages of time in the archive of the Swiss picture agency Keystone. While the quality of those photographs was well known, the circumstances under which they were taken were largely obscure.
Let’s go back down to memory lane and remember a moment of nostalgia when we were young and experience our first minor toothache and the remission in that infected tooth
As I enjoy a lot spending time in nature, especially around sea or ocean, I continued to travel in the last few years and the two projects I am presenting here are the result of this work.
Magnum’s First
Jun 18, 2015
Seoul (4 Apr / 15 Aug ) The Very First Exhibition in the History of Documentary Photography by Magnum Photos Rediscovered after 50 Years 2015’s
2009 marked the 30th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and 15 years since the war in Chechnya broke out. In both conflicts the Russian Special Forces (Spetsnaz) played key, front-line roles.
Chicago by Thomas Alleman
Jun 15, 2015
Chicago is, famously, America’s “Second City”, a reference to the inescapable hegemony of New York in our national imagination: the greatest urban achievement of the 20th century.
I grew up in Mozambique. My parents moved there just after the country won its independence. They were called by an atmosphere of hope and faith in the future. At my kindergarten I would stand on the roof with fists pointing to the sky shouting
New York (21 May / 10 Jul) Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new photographs by Gail Albert Halaban (American, b. 1970).
Berlin ( 3 Jun / 15 Nov ) The Helmut Newton Foundation has presented Newton’s works alongside that of other notable colleagues in the past; with this newest show including Frank Horvat and Szymon Brodziak, two photographers are invited who have made a name for themselves in fashion and portraiture.
The project ”Promenade” is a portrait of a place, Promenade des. A beachwalk with tourists all year round but also a natural promenade for people resident in Nice.
PHotoEspaña 2015
Jun 12, 2015
Madrid (3 Jun / 30 Aug ) PHotoEspaña 2015 is dedicating its programme to the photography and visual arts of Latin America, with an overview that shows its wealth, effervescence and solidity at the hands of its institutions, art centres, artists, experts, curators, collections and heritage
Nobody wonders where each day they carry their load of refuse, outside the city surely: but each year the city expands... The bulk of the outflow increases and the piles rise higher, become stratified,
MATTERHORN: Book & Exhibition Announcement
Jun 11, 2015
Switzerland (25 Jun / 8 Aug) Orada & Galerie Rigassi Bern are pleased to announce the release of the book titled “MATTERHORN: Portrait of a Mountain / Porträt eines Berges” by Nenad Saljic.
Soviet Photo Exhibition
Jun 10, 2015
Moscow (14 May / 6 Sep ) The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography marks its 5th anniversary by the exhibition that spans the history of Soviet and Russian photography of the 20th century as seen through the magazine Soviet Photo.
I was invited to Japan in the winter of 2013 /14 by a wonderful photographer and friend, Stephen Cairns. Stephen has been living and teaching in Japan for some years.
The project challenges two established norms, i.e., the invariance of color temperature and of exposure across a picture (beyond burning and dodging, of course). We call this technique “photosequencing.”
San Francisco by Thomas Alleman
Jun 8, 2015
Thomas Alleman - I left San Francisco in a slow-churning panic in 1988, worn-out and soul-sick from three years of doing reportage in the gay community, which was then being drowned in the first crashing wave of HIV and AIDS.
Using the Genre of Documentary, this body of work is about creating a variety of images which represent identification within today’s society by just focusing on a fraction of a person’s body, rather than the whole.
Paper House by Jessica Somers
Jun 5, 2015
Expectations, these are things put on us from birth. Who we are expected to be. How we treat others. What we do with our lives. Some expectations are gender specific. Some expectations find their way into our subconscious no matter how much we have been shielded from them.
Folk festival; Charak by Avishek Das
Jun 5, 2015
This Photo Series is from the Famous Festival " Charak" from the rural part of West Bengal, India .Charak Puja has its own special place in West Bengal, the state of festivals. It is a special folk festival, celebrated for bidding good-bye to the passing year.
Elliott Erwitt – Retrospective
Jun 5, 2015
Lucca (18 Apr /30 Augu) What is the meaning of telling the story of a great photographer through 136 pictures chosen among those in 60 years of career? The sense is: running through his life, intercepting his passions, perceiving his existential philosophy
I have travelled through many place in China, from far east to the north but have mostly found half developed cities, with not much culture left. I have this romanised phantasy about China
Anna Agoston - photographs of “living” plant elements found in nature. Prints are archival pigment prints, 100 plus years permanence, on thick Hahnemuhler photo rag 500 gsm paper.
Every day a new child comes to this home. I met Rani who came here at the age of 3. She was trafficked by her parents. Another girl Nimi also spent 10 years of her life here.
Stray dogs or pet dogs ,street photography or not street photography ,Shy me or not this project has brought me very close to dogs and also helped me to improve my photography in huge way. It gave opportunity to explore
Working with an immense variety of single images, comprised of a multitude of focal points with a play of light and illumination in each individual photograph, the whole picture then develops into an endless amount of dimension and a fascinating expression of movement.
Exhibition : Icons of Rhetoric
Jun 3, 2015
Nottingham (17 Jun / 10 Jul) A joint exhibition by photographer Chris Barrett and researcher Gianluca Spezza. Under Kim Jong Un's leadership, North Korea has made a conscious decision to be more proactive in the media world.
Thomas Alleman was born and raised in Detroit, where his father was a traveling salesman and his mother was a ceramic artist. He graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in English Literature.
Time fragments by Gabor Dvornik
Jun 2, 2015
A hunter to trap those individual moments in life which can be sometimes rare to see and to feel. This means that it is probably time itself with what I am dealing from day to day.
The city is like a jungle, here you need make a choice: you can be a victim or choose the path of a hunter or you can be nobody, walk the streets, eating a sandwich, looking blankly in front of you and think that today is very similar to yesterday.
When I was twelve my father took me to see the Steven Spielberg film, Jaws. We sat in the center of an old ornate theater where the screen seemed taller than any building in downtown.
Frontiers by Sandrine Arons
Jun 1, 2015
Frontiers offers a visual representation of my experience of multiculturalism, depicting an inner world of multiple languages, religions and cultural landscapes embedded in the mind as fragmented memories in search of wholeness.
DOCfield>15 is the third annual Barcelona Documentary Photography Festival, a collective initiative lead by the Foundation Photographic Social Vision that highlights the social value of documentary photography and photojournalism.