From the cobbled streets of Milano to rustic pathways that transcend borders, photography has been a tool that has enabled artists like Francesco Merlini to capture moments, emotions, and narratives that often go beyond what words can express. Merlini is not just any photographer.
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My Father's Toys project was selected and published in our print edition 25. These toys represented a world of magic and imagination, and I longed to touch them and bring them to life. Years later, after my father passed away, I became the keeper of this enchanted collection.
Japan fascinates its visitors with unexpectedly beautiful landscapes, charmingly courteous people and its tangible sense of history and cherished traditions.
The Other project was selected and published in our print edition 25. The Other poses questions of identity and invites us to consider the limited possibilities of expressing one’s true self. Limitations that we can feel due to society, our domestic situation, or even us.
As you wake up to sort of morocco coming to life, and you drive a two hour journey through the desert as the sun is rising over the sand dunes… i saw landscape, humans and visual stuff that i’ll never forget. it was special
"Analogy is the relationship of resemblance between different things," and this concept serves as the foundation that supports his creativity. He always plays with the senses, offering the viewer new and different sensations from what they perceive.
In this series, Gavin Libotte delves into our existence in and around water on a more spiritual plane. He acknowledges that our human lives form part of something larger. He visualizes individuals as unique drops of water belonging to the life's ocean.
The Miracle District project was selected and published in our print edition 25. Thieves with hearts of gold. Ex-cons with souls full of artistry and music. Families trying to live a normal life. In an average small Polish town from behind the curtain, welcome to the Miracle District, where the poverty mingles with pride painting a picture full of bitter charm.
Outer Dark project was selected and published in our print edition 25. This project is an intimate journey, a journey that requires a certain courage because looking inside is never easy. The search for a balance between light and dark, between tension and peace in a silence that is noise deafening.
Crystal clear chalk streams, akin to gin water, intertwine and meander through the counties of Dorset and Hampshire, in southern England, very close to where acclaimed British photographer Ellie Davies resides.
They got attacked with acid when they were young. By people who tried to disfigure them, to destroy their identity, who thought that they could do anything to women and that they could lead them to darkness and silence.
The artist and scientist within him are inseparably interwoven. Numerous aspects from both worlds unite in photography, enabling him to take an alternative view of the world and establish new connections among the elements of a scene.
Jacob Gils’ photography often features the natural world, with trees being a prominent subject in many of his images. Through his lens, Gils captures the unique beauty and character of these ancient beings, revealing the intricate details and textures of their bark, leaves, and branches.
Fine-art photographer, Julia Fullerton-Batten, has just completed a charity project, the profits of the sale of fourteen images are being donated UCIM.org.tr - a charity supporting survivors of the earthquake disaster.
Violence has now virtually become a tragic tradition in the Labor Day street celebrations in Paris and across France, as the number of casualties during clashes between police and protesters seems to rise with every year that passes.
"Static Mobility, in Time" is a reflection by Antonis Giakoumakis on his relationship with photography. With one or more clicks, he captures events and scenes, immobilizing time in the space where they occur.
The choice of the title "Images of the Subconscious" is no coincidence. Montes often finds himself photographing in the street, instinctively capturing images when something catches his attention. It's not he who seeks the photographs, but they who seek him. It's the images that compel him to stop, turn around, and press the camera shutter.
Everyone agrees that the United States of America are polarised. Paradoxically, it seems that the more we focus on the importance of communities, the more we forget the value of inter-community connections. While the community circles may be strong, the ties between them are much less so.
In this project, known as "Coastal Odyssey", Paul Bihr strives to depict the delicate symphonies of French beaches, extending from the Opal Coast to Hendaye. He relishes in capturing unique moments like ominous skies, shadows, and lights that dissect the scenery.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought to light the deplorable living conditions of seniors in many countries around the globe. The weakening of family ties, the deterioration of social connections and the precariousness of front-line workers have given rise to a model of geriatric care based on marginalization, a model which has revealed its flaws and forces us to rethink old age.
Here in Cameroon, from the depths of the Central African tropical jungle, crossing the Adamawa plateau to culminate in the ascent of the remote Vokre mountains, I spent some time with small ethnic minorities who fight to preserve the culture of their ancestors, hoisting the flag that gives them the right to freedom.
The key to finding these gaps, where reality is punctured and the other dimension emerges, lies in one's state of mind. Unfortunately, there is no formula or secret to learning how to reach that parallel universe.
The gang war and drug trafficking continue to be our own global curse. Europe and the United States are the main consumers. In recent years, West Africa and New Caledonia have become part of the new drug route to send drugs to Australia and Japan.
The series is about experiencing scenes or objects from daily life in a transcendental way and juxtaposing them in tableaus that rise above their literal context to communicate the mystery and magic I see in the world, with its discord, harmony or the confluence of both.
It was a Wednesday at the beginning of March when it happened. The day was a cloudless one and the sky was an unreal, harsh blue. There was a light dusting of snow on the ground which reflected the sun brilliantly. I remember blinking. And then I remember us terminating our baby.
In the course of my travels, I happened upon landscapes that had a mysterious power. Their contemplation mobilized my imagination and provoked an emotional reaction that went beyond the appreciation of their beauty.
What could be more banal around the age of 50 than trying to understand what is essential to our existence and taking a step back from the race we are leading within our society, and try to put this last stage of our existence into perspective.
Big cities, special light installations of festivities and buildings, objective light, conceptional paintings with handmade lightpainting tools and spectacular light shows in nature are the basic tools Angelica works with to visualize AngelsView light paintings.
Every Friday dervishes gather an hour before sunset around some of the big mosques in Khartoum and Omdurman. A circle is formed and the ritual begins.The ceremony starts with the Madeeh - chanting words of gratitude to the Prophet Mohammed.
Born in Cologne in 1924 under the name of Karl Heinz Hargesheimer, Chargesheimer studied graphic arts and photography at the "Kölner Werkschulen" (1943-46). From the beginning of his career, Chargesheimer pursued different artistic interests, ranging from opera, theatre, costume design and painting to photography.
[Berlin] In collaboration with the Kunstbibliothek and the Freundeskreis Yad Vashem e. V., the Israeli Holocaust remembrance centre Yad Vashem is showing its much-admired exhibition Flashes of Memory: Photography During the Holocaust for the first time in Germany at Berlin’s Museum für Fotografie.
My long-term photographic project is included in what we call Street Photography, so popular and with so many followers in the world that it is internationally known by this english language term. Street photography was born with the appearance of manageable cameras that allowed photography spontaneous in public places.
What does the issue of flight and equal rights have to do with a tomato crate? How do you reconcile drops of water with exclusion? Can the ease of children playing on the beach be a call for the future? Can not every moment influence or change our lives.
«It’s not that she’s mean, but good and bad are the same to her.» This sentence of Jean Giono about the Durance is at the origin of this book. These are not illustrations, but rather a treasure hunt operating by association of ideas where each image is related to a sentence by Jean Giono
In my travel to South Sudan I spent three days in Tochmanga, a Mundari cattle camp not far from Juba, the capital. When we arrived, my reaction was sort of disappointment: the camp was practically empty, there were only children and some adults.
The Chinese community settled in Havana's Chinatown was, at the beginning of the last century, one of the most densely populated Chinese communities outside of China. It was at the great gate of the “Barrio Chino” in Havana where the idea for this photographic project was born: to visually explore and document the similarities and contrasts between China and Cuba.
How many years spent in this city. By now I know her well: years of work for Caffè Florian and its vernissages; the oldest historic café in the world, opened in 1720, in the years of maximum splendor of the Venice carnival…
Words are not inherently suitable to embrace any even blurred concept of time, and beside all speech being made nowadays around the sense of family, its true nature belongs to the undetectable trace we leave through centuries, and to our relationship with time itself.
The magical hidden world project was selected and published in our print edition 23. These photos are one of my personal best from the past few years. Most of them are from one place where I spend every spare moment to take photos.
Pride and prejudice project was selected and published in our print edition 23. This ongoing series of studio portraits of young men is intended to challenge the viewer with social constructs that are centered around masculinity and femininity. Gender bias, gender roles and stereotypes can affect everyone negatively.
At daybreak, the light is splendid on the plain of Mapusa road. The laundry seems to float in the void. The laundry team is already hard at work. They are low caste people, none of them speak English, but after exchanging tea and cigarettes contact is established and I spend the morning with them.
To celebrate this anniversary, the Lambert Lambert agency is moving to a new location in the heart of Paris. Carole Lambert and her team have taken over a special place at the far end of a paved, tree-lined courtyard in the Marais.
We are in the Borkou desert, in the Sahel; that torrid plain burned by an implacable sun and a wind that roars until exhaustion. However, this is where the Tubus, since ancient times, decided to live.
A heavy life crushes. A light life is unbearable. This body of work reflects the dark side of desire in relation to the search for lightness. Without desire and overcoming obstacles, life becomes meaningless.
A series of Contemporary Photographic Film Noir made up of Portraits, street scenes, mysterious landscapes and digital manipulations - all shot in glorious monochrome.
This project of mine IS NOT a wildlife project but a PORTRAIT FINE ART project to capture the personality of the bird and the spirit that animates them through poses and looks, through the eyes, the most important organ for these birds.
My style is closely related (to) but not limited to fine art photography. About my personal style, I wouldn't say it has a specific description. I'm in a phase where I'm experimenting quite a bit so it's a "process in progress."
Lake Turkana is found in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia. It is the world’s largest permanent desert lake and the world’s largest alkaline lake. The Omo, Turkwel, and Kerio rivers flow into the lake, but lacking outflow, its only water loss is by evaporation.
