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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
Bizarre Publishing and Black Box Gallery present Purgatory & Paradise: SASSY '70s Suburbia & The City, Meryl Meisler’s book launch and exhibition.
The photographs are about the journey. They are about people like myself, who are in between places….in-transit…..en-route. In this environment, there is a special kind of introspective communication
I am old and grey. I am alone inside these four walls and I can only talk to my loneliness. My loneliness is killing me inside.I am almost imperceptible to those people, who are happy in their busy own world. Sometimes, I feel like a critter, for whom these humans had a stiff-arm.
I love to take pictures that are calm and on point. Working together with the subject as a team I can build up a trust that help me direct the shoot in a natural way.
I started to search for faces and eyes who express Desolated life, and I usually photograph people outside life . For example inside a bath house, where I made some portraits of the workers in front of their changing room in a static pose.
Born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary in 1912, Marton was self-taught in photography but was trained in drawing and sculpture. By the mid-1930s, Paris had become a haven for artists, as well as, a refuge for Jews and other people escaping the violent oppression of Hitler’s Third Reich.
The Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA) will launch a photo gallery in the SM Aura Premier shopping mall in the Filipino capital, Manila, showcasing winners and finalists from the 4th season of competition ‘Life in Colour’.
Herb Ritts (1952–2002) was a leading American fashion photographer of the 1980s and 1990s, known for his beautifully printed, formally bold, and sensual black-and-white images of supermodels
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.
The group, long active in advocating for the rights of brothel workers in Kolkata, felt the need to do something for the children of the sex workers as well as their mothers.
The Ravestijn Gallery is pleased to announce ‘Recycle (Prelude)’ by Jean-Francois Lepage, an evocative new series of deconstructed and metamorphosed photographs from the artist’s image archive.
I'm a photographer Victoria Art from Kiev, Ukraine. I am inspired by talented people and photography "8 stories Vivienne", was devoted to rethinking creativity British designer Vivienne Westwood.
More than 100 fortune tellers shops, located in this bare concrete building behind a taoist temple in Hong Kong. Alleys of good fortune with rows of shops spread over two floor levels
The Korowais, a society company at the ancient culture in which we live in the trees of a forest that protects and nourishes. Discovered in 1974, the semi-nomadic tribe operates in near autarky in the dense jungle of Papua.
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.
The world of mine is a world apart, where religion is omnipresent, it is a profession that is still dangerous to our time.
My reference field in the photography is the street, the people and the scenes that take place in it. I can say that I use the camera to record what is going on inside me, through what my eyes see I try to compose an image which best reflects my mood.
A medium conceived as a space of transformation where different disciplines merge together with the aim of originating images full of energy and vitality.
It happened that exactly the place of the last 40 days of my residence in UK became a small town at the North Sea coast Herne Bay.
My portraits are frontal taken at eye level,looking directly and ahead, the face cast in shadow showing a strong and determined expression.
Each portrait in this photographic series—“Portraits”— is a cinematic narrative photomontage, a fictional representation meant to seem like snapshots of "reality."
I’ve never done many fashion assignments; usually it’s something that bores me since it’s all about creating fake situations that are aesthetically pleasant.
"Les Mémoires” is the first series of mine, which is going back to the roots. The photos consist of the superposing dreams of thousands and me where we studied from the age of eleven to nineteen in Saint Joseph High School.
Belfast Photo Festival presents a day of one on one portfolio reviews with Irish, British and International experts. The purpose of these reviews are to provide both photographers and artists working with photography the opportunity to meet one on one with professional from the UK, Europe and America.
The “Ascension” works are what I’ve termed a cinematic narrative photomontage series that references the moment of enlightenment or that sense of rising to "full comprehension of a situation.”
My name is Dina and I tell animate stories about inanimate objects”. I'm a person with little paper cities, sugar cubes, moon from polymer clay, doll's miniatures, broken cups, handmade Rube Goldberg machine, repainted puzzles, wire trees, cardboard dragons and spilled coffee.
Seven worlds teeming with life promise all the fun of searching and finding – and nothing is impossible.
Fotomuseum Winterthur presents the first major retrospective in Europe of the work of Paul Strand (1890–1976), one of the great photographers of the twentieth century.
We open up in Łódź (Poland) on May 28th and we will be watching, celebrating, listening and discussing until 7th of June.
on April 23, 2015, photographer Mustafa Dedeoglu's 40 Istanbul photographs will be exhibited in Exhibition Building in the Lithuanian Parliament (Seimas Exhibition Gallery)
During the Edwardian era in Britain (1901 to 1911) over 1.5 million men and women were employed as servants in the homes of the wealthy. Being ‘In Service’ was a way to escape poverty, but it was not the relatively comfortable life frequently illustrated in today’s media.
The insect world is something the average human rarely pays any close attention to that is unless they are invading your home.
This photograph which has been awarded to the HIPA was conceived in an unusual way for me.
The Book of Genesis describes the biblical 'Garden of Eden' (Paradise) which was created by God for the the first man and woman - Adam and Eve.
