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Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary by Jean-Pierre Daunis – Between Reality and Abstraction

Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary by Jean-Pierre Daunis – Between Reality and Abstraction

Feb 16, 2026

Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary… Street scenes are Jean-Pierre Daunis’s main source of inspiration, which he photographs in an instinctive way. He allows himself to be guided by his sensitivity in an attempt to render everyday life more aesthetic.

Free Flight by Li Wei – Performance, Risk, and Freedom Beyond the Body

Free Flight by Li Wei – Performance, Risk, and Freedom Beyond the Body

Feb 16, 2026

My artistic practice uses high-altitude technologies as a medium to allow the physical body to break free from the shackles of gravity and achieve free flight in the air. This is not merely a visual expression, but a concrete exploration and philosophical response to the cultural concept of transhumanist art in the intelligent age.

Las Vegas by Michael Ruggiero – A Lifelong Photographic Portrait of a Changing City

Las Vegas by Michael Ruggiero – A Lifelong Photographic Portrait of a Changing City

Feb 16, 2026

Las Vegas is a lifelong project rooted in my childhood memories. In the early 1960s, my parents regularly drove seven hours from San Diego through the Mojave Desert to spend weekends in the downtown casino district off Fremont Street, long before corporate redevelopment reshaped the area.

Columbus Drive by Pam Connolly – Reconstructing Family History Through Image and Thread

Columbus Drive by Pam Connolly – Reconstructing Family History Through Image and Thread

Feb 16, 2026

Columbus Drive uses photography and weaving techniques to literally reweave stories about childhood in suburban New Jersey during the 1960s and 1970s. Using her archive of family snapshots, the artist reprints the photographs digitally on canvas and slices them into strips.

Brickmakers of Fianarantsoa by Pierrot Men: Tender Photographs of Workers in the Shadows

Brickmakers of Fianarantsoa by Pierrot Men: Tender Photographs of Workers in the Shadows

Feb 13, 2026

As much as he can, he tries to bring his lens closer to what makes up the essential yet often invisible pieces of the rural puzzle. On the outskirts of Fianarantsoa, at dawn, brickmakers are already at work, before the heat becomes overwhelming.

Between Then and Now – Patricia McElroy on Aging, Memory, and the Search for Home

Between Then and Now – Patricia McElroy on Aging, Memory, and the Search for Home

Feb 13, 2026

The complexities of aging—and the quiet, sustained labor of caregiving—often unfold beyond public view. These experiences are deeply human, yet they rarely linger in the spaces where we are invited to look closely.

Abandoned Villages of Hong Kong by Stefan Irvine: The Stories Behind Hong Kong’s Abandoned Homes

Abandoned Villages of Hong Kong by Stefan Irvine: The Stories Behind Hong Kong’s Abandoned Homes

Feb 13, 2026

Stefan Irvine’s photo book, Abandoned Villages of Hong Kong (瓦落叢生), published by Blue Lotus Editions, is an invitation to explore the forgotten corners of this vibrant city and to discover the haunting beauty hidden within its parks and islands.

In the Shadow of Neon by Ties van Brussel: Exploring Japan’s Nighttime Streets

In the Shadow of Neon by Ties van Brussel: Exploring Japan’s Nighttime Streets

Feb 13, 2026

Moving through Japanese cities after dark reveals a landscape shaped as much by absence as by illumination. In In the Shadow of Neon, light fragments the urban environment, while darkness invites speculation about what remains unseen.

The Koan: Alejandra Nowiczewski’s Photographic Dialogue with Zen Buddhism

The Koan: Alejandra Nowiczewski’s Photographic Dialogue with Zen Buddhism

Feb 12, 2026

“The koan is intended to synthesize or transcend the dualism of the senses. It is to be nourished in those unknown recesses of the mind which lie beyond the threshold of the relatively constructed consciousness, and where no logical analysis can ever reach. Its objective is the arousing of doubt and pushing it to its furthest limits.”

Among the Thousand Colors of Naples: Francesco Mercadante’s Chromatic Vision

Among the Thousand Colors of Naples: Francesco Mercadante’s Chromatic Vision

Feb 12, 2026

Ten years after the passing of Pino Daniele, Naples continues to vibrate on the frequencies of his “music of feeling.” From this lingering echo emerges the photographic series Among the Thousand Colors of Naples, a project that abandons the rigor of documentary realism to embrace a dreamlike, almost Impressionist dimension of the city.

The Real Mumbaikars by Ulka Chauhan: Faces, Streets, and Everyday Life in Mumbai

The Real Mumbaikars by Ulka Chauhan: Faces, Streets, and Everyday Life in Mumbai

Feb 12, 2026

A sprawling, chaotic city of contradictions, often defined by the height of its skyscrapers or the glamour of its film industry. Yet, for those who truly know its rhythm, the real Mumbai is not found in the air-conditioned boardrooms of Nariman Point or the redeveloped residences of its suburbs.

Kyrylo Pecherik on Documentary Photography, Presence, and Life Shaped by War

Kyrylo Pecherik on Documentary Photography, Presence, and Life Shaped by War

Feb 12, 2026

Kyrylo Pecherik is one of the featured authors of Issue 35 of Dodho Magazine. Born in Odesa, Ukraine, he began photographing everyday life during his school years, later working as a photo correspondent for regional newsrooms across the country. Since 2022, his work has continued to focus on documenting people and situations shaped by the war.

The Refuge by Cyrus Cornut: An Urban and Natural Exploration of Montpellier

The Refuge by Cyrus Cornut: An Urban and Natural Exploration of Montpellier

Feb 11, 2026

This work is the result of an artistic residency commissioned by the Transit photography collective, with a creative grant from the city of Montpellier, France. A residency is a process of research. The aim was to focus on the city of Montpellier and its rapidly changing urban space.

In the Beginning: Leslie Gleim and the Living Process of Volcanic Land

In the Beginning: Leslie Gleim and the Living Process of Volcanic Land

Feb 11, 2026

In the Beginning…After moving from Ohio to Hawaiʻi in 2007, I began rethinking the origin of land itself, imagining a time when it existed in a fluid, molten state, shaped through volcanic evolution and continual transformation.

Three Lost Years by Yelena Zhavoronkova, A Visual Response to the Pandemic

Three Lost Years by Yelena Zhavoronkova, A Visual Response to the Pandemic

Feb 11, 2026

Waiting—long, tiresome months and years of waiting—for the news, for the vaccines, for any break in the narrative, for good developments, for positive change, for our lives and everyone else’s, and simply looking outward.

65 MPH by Marsha Guggenheim, A Photographic Journey Through Memory

65 MPH by Marsha Guggenheim, A Photographic Journey Through Memory

Feb 10, 2026

Using Intentional Camera Movement (ICM)—a photographic approach that combines a slow shutter speed with deliberate camera motion—65 MPH is a body of work created while traveling as a passenger through California’s San Joaquin Valley.

Michael Rababy Documents American Gambling Culture in Casinoland : Tired of Winning

Michael Rababy Documents American Gambling Culture in Casinoland : Tired of Winning

Feb 10, 2026

CASINOLAND – Tired of Winning is the result of a thirty-year-long photography project in which Michael Rababy documents American gambling culture. Rows of shrill slot machines, glowing billboards, and gaudy splendor appear alongside exhausted faces, weary expressions, and lost games.

Silent Farewells: Suicide Among the Elderly by Oded Wagenstein

Silent Farewells: Suicide Among the Elderly by Oded Wagenstein

Feb 10, 2026

In many countries, suicide rates among the elderly are disproportionately high, yet older adults are often excluded from discussions on mental health and suicide prevention. However, for the families and loved ones left behind, each suicide leaves broken hearts and unanswered questions.

Normandy Then and Now: D-Day Landscapes Through the Lens of Paolo Ameli

Normandy Then and Now: D-Day Landscapes Through the Lens of Paolo Ameli

Feb 10, 2026

In the annals of history, there are moments that define not just a generation but an entire era. June 6, 1944, forever etched into the collective memory as D-Day, was one such moment. The beaches of Normandy bore witness to a pivotal chapter in the history of humanity.

Kseniia Melanina on Capturing Strength and Vulnerability Through the Body

Kseniia Melanina on Capturing Strength and Vulnerability Through the Body

Feb 9, 2026

Kseniia Melanina is one of the featured artists in Issue 35 of Dodho Magazine. Her work develops through a progressive and conscious relationship with photography, understood not only as a technique but as a way of seeing and thinking about the world.

Epiphany by Giannis Angelakis: Capturing Theophania in Chania’s Old Harbor

Epiphany by Giannis Angelakis: Capturing Theophania in Chania’s Old Harbor

Feb 9, 2026

The term epiphany originally referred to a moment of divine insight—a sudden, luminous break in the ordinary fabric of existence through which something transcendent becomes visible. Over time, its secular usage gained prominence, particularly through the works of Irish novelist James Joyce.

Through the Ice by Laurie Swope: A Photographic Study of Cold Water Plunging

Through the Ice by Laurie Swope: A Photographic Study of Cold Water Plunging

Feb 9, 2026

The small swimming hole varies in size from about six to ten feet wide throughout the winter, depending on the enthusiasm of the cold-water plungers chipping away at the ice each day. Yet the range of human experience within this small area is remarkable.

Florida Boys by Josh Aronson: Reimagining Masculinity Through Landscape

Florida Boys by Josh Aronson: Reimagining Masculinity Through Landscape

Feb 9, 2026

Florida Boys, an ongoing photographic project by Josh Aronson, examines how the American landscape participates in the formation of identity, particularly masculinity, belonging, and coming of age in the contemporary South.

Midlife: Elinor Carucci on Aging, Identity, and Womanhood

Midlife: Elinor Carucci on Aging, Identity, and Womanhood

Feb 6, 2026

In Midlife, Carucci confronts the realities of aging and transition. Over seven years, she turned the camera on herself and her family to explore common themes of physical change, identity, and mortality, particularly from the perspective of womanhood in midlife.

Central Park – Zeckendorf Project by Cynthia Karalla: When Landscape Becomes Perception

Central Park – Zeckendorf Project by Cynthia Karalla: When Landscape Becomes Perception

Feb 6, 2026

For more than three decades, my photographic practice has been shaped by a persistent desire to test the limits of the medium. In the late 1990s, I engaged deeply with emerging digital technologies, pushing and exhausting all the possibilities the digital world could offer.

Clark James Mishler Interview: Life, Work, and Long-Term Documentary Stories

Clark James Mishler Interview: Life, Work, and Long-Term Documentary Stories

Feb 6, 2026

Clark James is one of the featured authors of Issue 35 of Dodho Magazine. His work is rooted in a documentary tradition based on time, proximity, and sustained observation, where photography becomes a tool for understanding people through their environment, their work, and their shared rituals.

Vladimir Antaki’s The Guardians: Artisans, Memory, and Urban Identity

Vladimir Antaki’s The Guardians: Artisans, Memory, and Urban Identity

Feb 5, 2026

In his photographic series The Guardians, Antaki presents profound and intimate portraits of artisans and shopkeepers, whom he sees as custodians of unique “urban temples.” These modest spaces—shops, market stalls, and workshops—exist far from conventional landmarks, yet they embody the authentic cultural fabric of their communities.

Eclectic by Alexandro Pelaez: Film Photography Between Reality and Abstraction

Eclectic by Alexandro Pelaez: Film Photography Between Reality and Abstraction

Feb 5, 2026

Eclectic is a ten-year series of double-exposure photographs depicting street environments from different cities, as well as countryside and beaches around the world. Each location reveals its own personality, whether marked by liveliness or calm, through its colors and the elements that make it unique.

Bombay Beach: Bram Coppens Documents a Ghost Town Turned Bohemian Refuge

Bombay Beach: Bram Coppens Documents a Ghost Town Turned Bohemian Refuge

Feb 5, 2026

Bombay Beach was once a popular getaway for beachgoers until the 1980s, when the draining of the Salton Sea and rising salinity destroyed the lake’s ecosystem and drove businesses and private landowners out of the area, rendering Bombay Beach a ghost town. Despite this, by 2018 it was experiencing a kind of rebirth, with an influx of artists, intellectuals, and hipsters who transformed it into a bohemian playground.

Drought in Daraa by Amadeusz Świerk: How War and Climate Change Devastated Southern Syria

Drought in Daraa by Amadeusz Świerk: How War and Climate Change Devastated Southern Syria

Feb 5, 2026

Drought in Daraa. After years of war, climate change threatens southern Syria’s breadbasket. The Daraa region was once among the most fertile and greenest areas in Syria. For centuries, its fields and orchards supplied vegetables, fruit, and meat to the country’s markets and for export.

The Outside of the Inside by Martina Holmberg: Portraits of Presence and Vulnerability

The Outside of the Inside by Martina Holmberg: Portraits of Presence and Vulnerability

Feb 4, 2026

The Outside of the Inside is an ongoing portrait project that explores how inner experience becomes visible on the surface of the face and body. Through a series of carefully composed portraits, the work examines presence, vulnerability, and the complexity of being seen.

Qingjun Huang’s The Stuffs of Live Streamers

Qingjun Huang’s The Stuffs of Live Streamers

Feb 4, 2026

My work series, The Stuffs of Live Streamers, features nine live streamers in China from the post-pandemic period of 2021, a time when outdoor travel and activities were still heavily restricted. The pandemic dramatically changed people’s lifestyles over the previous two years.

American Bodegónes by Liz Obert: The Modern Western Diet Through Still Life

American Bodegónes by Liz Obert: The Modern Western Diet Through Still Life

Feb 4, 2026

This body of work reflects on mortality, the human condition, and our culture’s obsession with materialism. Through imagery inspired by Dutch and Spanish painting, it expresses the transience of our existence by exploring our shared relationship with food.

Silences by MG Vander Elst: Tracing Generational Trauma Through Images

Silences by MG Vander Elst: Tracing Generational Trauma Through Images

Feb 4, 2026

It began with a name I did not recognize, scribbled inside a book that once belonged to my grandfather. The book had traveled with me for over thirty years, unopened and untouched.

Jeff Schewe on Light, Shadow, Shape & Texture: Five Decades Behind the Camera

Jeff Schewe on Light, Shadow, Shape & Texture: Five Decades Behind the Camera

Feb 3, 2026

Jeff Schewe is one of the featured authors in Issue 35 of Dodho Magazine. His work is articulated through a deep relationship between thought, experience, and form, where photography operates as a language that goes beyond the visual to become a way of analyzing and understanding the world.

Mindful Reminiscence by Debra Achen: Documenting Nature in a Time of Climate Change

Mindful Reminiscence by Debra Achen: Documenting Nature in a Time of Climate Change

Feb 3, 2026

Over time, our perspective on a photograph evolves; it is transformed by our ongoing life experiences and social and environmental changes. Often, a sense of nostalgia or sentimental longing filters our memory of that captured moment in time.

Deep Sky Transformations by Carlotta Roda: Astrophotography Beyond Human Scale

Deep Sky Transformations by Carlotta Roda: Astrophotography Beyond Human Scale

Feb 3, 2026

Through deep-sky astrophotography, Carlotta Roda explores the universe as a space of continuous transformation, where time, matter, and perception exist beyond the human scale. Nebulae, galaxies, and stellar formations are approached not as distant scientific objects, but as symbolic landscapes shaped by processes unfolding across immense temporal and spatial dimensions.

Morning Rituals by Harvey Castro: Documentary Photography of Endurance and Belief

Morning Rituals by Harvey Castro: Documentary Photography of Endurance and Belief

Feb 3, 2026

For twenty years before becoming a photographer, I lived inside the logic of supply chains. My professional life was defined by throughput, flow, and process optimization, always seeking the invisible bottlenecks that slow things down or cause systems to fail.

Kaidan: Hiroshi Watanabe reinterprets Japanese Horror Through Photography

Kaidan: Hiroshi Watanabe reinterprets Japanese Horror Through Photography

Feb 2, 2026

Kaidan is a project that operates at the intersection of literature, photography, and cultural memory, reinterpreting the visual language of Japanese horror through a contemporary lens. Drawing from the traditional ghost stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn in the early twentieth century,

River of Death, River of Life by Muhammad Amdad Hossain: The Buriganga Between Collapse and Survival

River of Death, River of Life by Muhammad Amdad Hossain: The Buriganga Between Collapse and Survival

Feb 2, 2026

Dhaka was once a city shaped and sustained by water. Long before concrete replaced wetlands and flyovers crossed the sky, rivers defined its rhythm of life. The Buriganga, Turag, Balu, and Shitalakkha were not merely waterways; they were lifelines—carrying trade, protecting settlements, and shaping cultural memory.

A cornish walk by Stefano Azario: Landscape, Movement, and Memory

A cornish walk by Stefano Azario: Landscape, Movement, and Memory

Feb 2, 2026

There is little Lydzia loves more than a brisk Cornish coastal walk. The rain is almost constant, and even in summer the wind carries an edge that she seems to welcome. Sometimes they walk hand in hand, but more often he follows close behind, then rushes to catch up after stopping to take a photograph.

Beauty Madness by Sabina Grams : Contemporary Photography Challenging Beauty Standards

Beauty Madness by Sabina Grams : Contemporary Photography Challenging Beauty Standards

Feb 2, 2026

My new photo project, “BEAUTY MADNESS” (Schönheitskoller), explores modern beauty ideals that distort women, making them look like dolls instead of celebrating their individuality. The project questions these ideals in a satirical way, as society appears to be growing increasingly weary of them.

Susanne Middelberg: Between Strength and Vulnerability, the Portrait Behind the New Cover of Dodho Magazine

Susanne Middelberg: Between Strength and Vulnerability, the Portrait Behind the New Cover of Dodho Magazine

Jan 30, 2026

Susanne Middelberg has been selected for the cover of Issue 35 of Dodho Magazine. Her work moves between strength and vulnerability, exploring portraiture as a space where the body, identity, and emotional presence come into direct dialogue. Drawing from her background in contemporary dance and theatre, she creates images that feel intimate, performative, and deeply human, where every gesture carries narrative weight.

In the Rubble: Turkey’s Earthquake Tragedy by Svet Jacqueline

In the Rubble: Turkey’s Earthquake Tragedy by Svet Jacqueline

Jan 30, 2026

A firsthand account of arriving in Turkey days after the February 2023 earthquakes, documenting the devastation in Hatay, the intensity of rescue efforts, moments of fragile hope, and the political failures surrounding the tragedy, while bearing witness to stories that should not be forgotten.

Headshot by Tom Zimberoff — Boxing, Pain, and the Human Psyche

Jan 30, 2026

The blood-stained canvas holds a manifest allure for those who step through the ropes and expose themselves to the unrelenting force of an opponent who likewise seeks transcendence in the chaos of combat.

Stefano Battistelli Documents Indonesia in Notes from the Field

Stefano Battistelli Documents Indonesia in Notes from the Field

Jan 30, 2026

The journey begins in Jakarta on August 9, 2025. A vast megacity where traffic and contrasts narrate the recent history of Indonesia, a former Dutch colony and today one of the most populous and complex countries in the world. In the days leading up to August 17, the anniversary of independence proclaimed in 1945, the city shifts gear.

Brownie: David Katzenstein’s Visual Chronicle of Mexico in the 1980s

Brownie: David Katzenstein’s Visual Chronicle of Mexico in the 1980s

Jan 29, 2026

The photographs selected here from the Brownie book project were taken in Mexico, in different locations, between 1980 and 1986. This selection is a good introduction to the broader body of work referred to as Brownie.

My Mother’s Tender Script by Asiya Al Sharabi: Memory, Illiteracy, and Resilience

My Mother’s Tender Script by Asiya Al Sharabi: Memory, Illiteracy, and Resilience

Jan 29, 2026

My Mother’s Tender Script is a photographic and archival project that explores memory, illiteracy, and resilience through the life and traces of my mother, Shukriya (شُكْرِيَة), a Yemeni woman who never received formal education.