She lived her childhood in an artistic ambient environment . She has chosen the camera as her main artistic expression.The approach to photography and its development was almost entirely self-taught.
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This photographic series of works is a symbolic attempt of connecting a human being with his place of living. In times when distance is no longer a barrier and when settling down and identifying with space is getting harder.
Looking at Antigone Kourakou´s photographs, one fully perceives the suggestive range of photographic abstraction. Although there is scarce visual information that connects the pictures with the real scenes, the situations, and the events they were born out of, the photographs imperatively call for our interpretation.
Loneliness and isolation are conditions that a human being has difficulty of coping with. It is even proven that it can seriously shorten your life expectancy.
Victoria comes from the art curating profession. From first-hand experience, I’d say not all of us who curate -but certainly a part of us- do it for the same reason as the creators: to communicate.
It all starts with the idea. I find inspiration by reading books, magazines or looking at the old paintings of the Dutch Master painters.
Alessandro Ciccarelli (Rome, 1979) began to study photography under the guidance of visual artist Akiko Young, then perfecting the techniques of darkroom and digital post-production
The way of working in series is very characteristic of this photographer. Also the sum of many photographies in the alone one, as a counterfoil of stills that they summarize the time and the space in an alone instant.
"This pink cat" series is about those moments in life when we put on a mask and but the cost of that mask is turn our souls inside out .In my life I am often faced with the duplicity of humanity.
My photographic work focuses mainly in urban landscape and it has been affected by the current situation in my country, Greece, which from has entered a state of transition that extends to present day.
Nino Cannizzaro was born in Palermo, he lives between Bagheria and the places where photography, he loves and practices since 2007, takes him with a look at the human and urban landscape.
I define myself as a storyteller. I tell stories through whimsical, surreal images. Everytime I create an image in relation to a feeling, thought or situation, a burden has been lifted off my shoulders, my soul smiles.
Genetic memory is the memory which we received from our ancestor via DNA. Information about something viewed, heard or experimented long time ago, from somebody who shared with us the same genetic material.
This series of photographs made with these simple, everyday objects commonly around us, consists of very personal works in which the author uses humor, dreamlike, irony, poetry and visual language, creating visual metaphors
My choice of subject comes from my interest in ideas about people and I want create a kind of sensual directness in my work such as primeval emotions while addressing such fundamental issues as memory, eros, mortality and pain.
Paul Roustan is an award-winning artist based in Los Angeles, known for his work in body painting, photography, and conceptual performance.
Surviving Threads visually explores the destructive effects that Alzheimer’s disease has on memory, specifically, the deterioration of details in recalling actual events. By depicting scenes with soft and selective focus, these images portray the loss of memory and gradual decay of personal recollection
“Esprìts” is a project performed by a Holga camera. It is a project-diary, a series of photographic notes about faded memories that often appear like spirits. These photographs are instinctive, evolving over time and form a body of work which I hope will never end.
I see aged structures as store houses which hold history, spirit, experience of all beings and seasons which have passed through them. I viscerally feel this move through me and touch them through my lens. There is something powerful in a structure
After the birth of my idea, I start with the preparations. This can take a long time to complete. It begins with the creation of the backdrop and the costumes and ends with consideration which facial expression I want to see on my model.
The project ‘Limits of existence’ are self-portraits compiled by the author with MRI scans. It is a case-record, in which the body appears as a subject to internal researches and the only way of communication with the outside world.
I always cringe whenever I’m required to come up with a landscape photo for a photo contest or magazine submission. Sure, there are some phenomenal landscape photos out there, but in my opinion, landscape photography is simply a matter of being in a certain place and knowing how to use your camera.
‘In Pain’ a series, exploring the subject of suffering. Pain is a universal human experience. Defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage."
Europe is now facing the largest migration movement on its soil since the WW2. Thousands of refugees are crossing lands, seas, mountains and borders to find a shelter and finaly peace here.
I met Olivia on stage, at a performance of anything goes, where she was playing a lead role. I was the Designer & Head Make-up & Hair Artist for Vintage Styling during the show.
His imagery entails surreal and melancholic scenes inspired by the inner world of dreams and psychology, where he invites the viewer to interact with the internal world of solitary figures
The creation, the life, the power…the water is filled with tremendous energy. It is the winner of pleasure and delight, it gives life, but also poses a risk, threat, it can destroy us.
"Arhaic" project is made using archaic traditional romanian projections and solarisation, a representation of an original spirit that lives in us.
The scenes were shot in a big beautiful house. Five models play the family roles. A wealthy Chinese immigrant family and a mix race child, facing problems among three generations.
Is serie from summer 2015. Andrea Koporová in this art work mirrors the story of a man with his little fear and uncertainty took a step to happiness.. "touch the sky"
Since 2003 Chris has a deep focus on the theme of lightpainting-photography and lightart-animation. By his permanent experimental research and development he´s today one of the pioneers in the international lightpainting-scene.
I quickly realized that nowadays, taking a bath, is one of the rare situations completely for yourself, where you can take time and space, thinking, reflecting and maybe let emerge emotions deepen buried in your heart.
Distanza is a work of 7 images. I’ve been asked by Terre Rare, a cultural foundation, and L’Aquila municipality to present an artist project around a specific subject
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been in some kind of battle with my self-image. I’ve always struggled with the way I perceived myself vs. the way others perceived me.
The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created,’ Meghan O’Rourke observed in her memoir of loss
After a life in photography, in 2009 he created his publishing house to publish his own projects.
Cao Dien was born and raised up in Vietnam but he just moved to the United States a couple months ago to study screenwriting. In Vietnam, he did color grade for MVs and short films and he began to take pictures when he studied in high school but that was just for fun.
Civilized states are willing to finance museums where you can see rare species of fauna. Special decorations, high quality stuffed animals, made by the best craftsmen. For each exhibit the natural habitat is recreated.
Ian Flandres first visited Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 2011 where he stumbled across a young street-prostitute prospecting along the Mekong River. After a brief discussion he became struck and ultimately haunted by the look of despair and desolation in her eyes.
The Best Female Photographers published in Dodho Magazine. The great stories by Julia Fullerton Batten, Dina Oganova, Aria Baro, Kata Sedlak and Vanessa Paxton.
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
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.”
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.
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.
John's profession is IT, his passion is photography. Photography was always important in John's life. His father was an experienced hobby-photographer and founded at least two local photography-associations.
My current job is full time employee in Emirates Groups. In 2008 when I first bought DSLR I just think photography as hobby and my passion.I don’t decide yet which photography genre I will go for seriously.
Looking at the world, children focus their attention on details. For most of us, these fragments are trivial. Kids can’t have an all-embracing view, for the world around them is too abstract, too wide.
Often, inside each one of us, opposing drives make themselves felt and alternate within as light illuminates and shadow darkens our minds. Black and White. Good plays Evil. Chess figures offer an opportunity to explore this dualism.
