Monochromes is a personal project which is a collection of images taken over the years in various places starting from my hometown area, travel destinations to the countries I resided at the time.
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"Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable," Wallace Stegner, American writer. I'm not convinced of Stegner's point about new places, because I'm working out what I think about "character" and changeability.
There are moments in the fierce – and so much the more beautiful – battle with the self (Gosh, what an outdated and pathetic phrase, isn’t it? Yet, using any other one would mean self-betrayal) when you feel that the road ahead is leading inevitably to a dead end.
“Almost Black” evokes a moving picture that even as it grows dark and opaque, still contains some light. Imagine the downward movement of the eyelids and what can be seen when half closed. On certain occasions we squint to focus on an image, reducing the amount of light in order to see clearer.
Any meaning is only capable of containing a partial truth, so I try to take pictures devout of all meaning; I don’t want there to be an identifiable time, space, theme, personality, event or statement. In that sense, I’m trying to take pictures of nothing
Two years ago, I took a ride using the train. After experiencing such world, all I wanted to reach is the human inside the train, not the one taking the train every now and again. My aim was the one who permanently and constantly using it.
Maybe sometimes the meaning of a photography doesn’t reside in transcending the one thousand words’ border.
My field of reference is “the street”; I neither seek extraordinary events, nor do I travel around in quest of a subject to photograph. I have been photographing the “riches” of everyday life on a daily basis.
Ludovicu’s disappearance. He arrived in Montescaglioso ( Italy ), with his family, from Romania . Ludovicu was 57 years old and he was suffering from Alzheimer. One day in December 2013, he went out from his home and he never came back.
The annual Pacific County Fair takes place in Menlo, WA., and is one of the oldest fairs in Washington, having started in 1896. The county is about 3 hours southwest of Seattle in Pacific County, which is situated along the Willapa Bay and is named for the nearby Pacific Ocean.
The series “Tibetans in Exile” by Victoria Knobloch is a collection of photographs showing the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in exile regions such as Nepal/Kathmandu; Ladakh in northern India as well as Bir and Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh. And it will be continued….
As everywhere else, the citizens were kept in a catatonic state, distraught by exhausting workdays, and diverted and gathered in big conglomerates for their leisure. There they could find amusement, shops, technologic gadgets. Above all they could not think and feel.
They say that the Great Flood is threatening; is it possible that we know something about things that already happened?
Most of my photos related to the sea. For me, the sea is a source of tranquility and energy source. During walks near the sea, I see the various objects that form the visual images, abstracted from the reality of everyday life.
My childhood I've spent at my grandmother's house in Romania, near Carpathian Mountains. Seeing human's strong bond with earth, observing nature, landscapes around influenced my understanding of earth beauty and mens connexion with it.
My project is to pursue this work of studies of sea landscapes which for me represents a real subject the serenity of which I like passing on.The photographers whom I admire particularly are Ansel Adam, Edward Weston but also Michael Kenna, Yucel Basoglu or Volker Birke, among others.
A photographic artist, Kathy Corday's motto is, "Magic happens in the blink of an eye." As a former Walt Disney Imagineer and current PBS talent, Ms. Corday’s camera is an extension of her soul.
After every five years, the time for general election comes in Bangladesh, bringing with it a fresh season of despair and uncertainty. For the last couple of months, the nation has been passing through sheer horror
I feel I am lost for words to describe the photo of mine as it is not wordy and some people find it minimalistic. Silence, horizon, loneliness. I want to tell much with few words.
A series of silhouettes of preserved animals. While many of these creatures are over forty years old, their bodies are still perfectly intact. Humans have managed to stop the process of decay and preserve bodies long after there is no longer life on the inside.
Self-Untitled is an on-going self-portrait series that aims at establishing connection through vulnerability, and combating the shame that separates us from one another. Shame can be understood as the fear of disconnection.
That is Carnival: a common spirit more than just a date. It’s a bizzare energy, a cathartic atmosphere, slipping through the streets, surrounding blocks, and revealing itself to those who are willing to be inspired.
Matteo was born in 1986. He lives and works in Ravenna (Italy). Starting from his first years of university, he slowly develops a deep love for photography, which soon becomes a big part of his life.
Jan Møller Hansen is a self-taught and passionate photographer, who works with social documentary. He is also a senior diplomat with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. Presently, he is based in Kathmandu, Nepal.
The V.I.P. Portrait Gallery is a series of black and white portraits of potatoes. It is a study of form, a collection of diverse shapes and textures.
My main focus in photography is to show the beauty of landscapes and architecture without the colors. I am a self-taught photographer with basic training in Photoshop.
I love water and it can be found in most of my photos, but it is never the main subject. I use the water and the sky as a canvas on which I place my subjects.
I was immersing myself in black and white fine art photography: landscape, waterscape and architecture. My most current works revolve around the areas of architecture.
I was born in a little village at the North Sea coast in the southwestern of The Netherlands. The seaside is my natural habitat, and ever since my youth my cultural inspiration.
The State of Mind series deals with the “thinking moments” and the uncertain atmosphere surrounding the people and places encountered on the road. The book is a limited edition of 500 copies and can be acquired online.
We were both pleased with the results, but I still felt I could take the technique further.
Every year, on the 19th of August, thousands of Orthodoxs, moved by faith, flock to the holy mountain of Grabarka to celebrate the Transfiguration. Many of them get there on foot, on their knees or carry the traditional orthodox cross for many miles as a sacrifice to God.
The idea for this portfolio was born one day a few years ago, while I was in the bar of the small town where I live, when I heard some elderly people pointing out a man who had just entered with the nickname "figlio di un cane".
Despite the gentrification and the increase of mass tourism, the areas around Portobello and Golborne Road still have a strong community identity and a pulsing heart.
Victoria Knobloch is a German photographer based in Leipzig. She is known for her soulful and authentic black-and-white style. Her work embraces the fields of vanishing cultures
“Bari Tales” is a street photography diary in Bari. it tries to tell the city in a different light showing with no filter the raw realism of Bari streets.
Sensual Fragments is meant to be an ode to sensuality in which the women is displayed in her purest form. As part of a minimalist approach, this series leaves no room for any tricks so as to focus only on the essential.
I began exploring the streets of Manhattan with my camera at the end of 2001. Manhattan, a place where styles intersect, decades collide and cultures converge as the numbers of buildings in our borough explode.
Photography has become the lens through which we observe and analyze the evolution of architecture.
Sweat and labour in intense daily training to get ready for what may be the last chance of a professional career.Leonard Bundu is an Italian boxer born, from a Sierra Leonese father and an Italian mother in Freetown, Sierra Leone, in 1974.
“Me, her and Tokyo” is a collection of images all shot on a Samsung Note II while roaming the streets of Tokyo, pushing my daughter in her pram with my wife at my side.
The sharpest impression of Cuba I've got, was an impression of running after two black guys, who tried to hide in Havana's alleys with my camera. It was on the second day of my stay on the island.
Frozen situation the set is called of photography collection that use from documentary and montage method of photography. This collection can be study of two viewpoint: Photographic & Semantically .
The words I never said to you. The words I wanted to say. The unmeaning sense of those words that I never had the opportunity to tell.
"Deep In A Dream - Sheep Meadow" is a portfolio that I started in 2006 but ultimately shelved because of my discomfort taking such intimate & vulnerable pictures of people while they were completely unaware.
The world is not static; it is not a given. Consciousness is not static and it is not a given either.
Welcome in the geography of the variable-geometry exile. He will not tell you where from he goes, he will not tell you where he goes... Difficult in these cases there to present he.
The city of joy is not my birthplace. I came here as a migrant from a small town to search for a better future, better education and a better life. From then to now the city has changed drastically. And so it has within my mind and soul.
