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.
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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.
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.
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.
Heroes is my first series of photographs. This series of portrait represents the main two sides of my conception of manliness, a combination of strength and fragility.
“Dreamland” is a place, a plan of the mind, where one in which creativity and physical beauty of the landscape combine to give strength and interpretative narrative.
The Surreal Line came about during another project to document my trips on the London Underground. At the time, I'd only recently developed an interest in photography, and always had my camera with me, ready for opportunities to take photos during my tube commutes.
Since my first visit in Dessau I’m fascinated by ”Bauhaus“ architecture. Dessau is an industrial city in the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt and it is famous for its UNESCO world heritage ”Bauhaus“ buildings.
The wonderful bottled specimens seen here were all photographed in the charles Darwin Centre, part of the Natural History Museum in London.
Joris van der Ploeg (1989) launches a new series of work at his new solo exposition “Transcendence”. Again the young female is the central theme, which makes the work characteristic for him as an artist.
For me, surrealism is about trying to explain something abstract like a feeling or a thought, expressing the subconscious with a picture. For my work I use my own inner life, thoughts and feelings as seeds to my pictures.
Wolf Ademeit, born 1954, lives in Rheinberg, a small town near Duesseldorf, Germany. The author prefers calling himself a hobbyist, though his professional life has been always closely connected with this field – he owns an advertising agency and a photo studio.
I wanted to do something more than just a nice picture so I decided to show different feelings created in a box, and the series got the name “Boxed emotion”.
I come back from a journey in South India.It is not the landscapes which affected me, nevertheless they are my favorite subjects. What most affected me, moved, they are Indians themselves.
In 'Fertility' series the author turns to mythology and daily graft of ancient women in Slavic culture to reconsider the role of a woman in the modern society.
Mindaugas Gabrenas‘ latest project Back to the City was created living in New York City and traveling around the US. Here author combines his passion for landscape and cityscape photography by mixing an American wild landscape with New York City cityscape.
This displacement has the further advantage of evoking an imaginative fantasy or narrative which expands well beyond the image. Jean-Bastien’s early life and travels to the Indian sub-continent probably has a lot to do with his skill and sensitivity in this regard.
There is so much sincerity, light, and simplicity in children portrait, it is so interesting to take pictures of them as they are full of love, surprises, and are generally open to the world. I love and am fascinated by children's eyes
The Minotaur, a monster, was condemned to live in the Labyrinth to hide the shame of his parents.But as in a life, behind the appearances, there are always many hidden messages…
She wants to show of improbable landscapes that can if we are very careful, be our daily with a little imagination and poetry.
Conceived and built during the British Raj, India’s railway lines are still the main arteries of the country’s traffic system. In hectic, overcrowded train stations travelers fight for space inside (or even on the roof of) one of the seemingly endless trains.
If Apaches are able to save any money after years of working in zabojkas they usally buy a popular Korean car
Jean-Bastien Lagrange is a Paris based photographer with a serious sense of place and style.
On my trips to India I noticed a certain car model that was to be seen everywhere and easily transcended the boundaries between social classes. It was driven by businessmen, government officials, taxi drivers and politicians.
This machine is working like my heart beating. Without breaks. This is my way of life and self-realization. In the beginning it was hard as everything.
The world is a different place when the sun goes down, and just as beautiful, with far fewer people wandering around it, therefore, perfect for the landscape photographer; although he indicates he is now more of a twilight and nightscape photographer than landscaper.
I used to find a good spot for an image and then be joined by some guy with better equipment than me who would prop up a carbon fibre tripod and take exactly the same photo as me. That's not art, it's completely boring and pointless.
Nature is able to adapt. Recently, for instance, great catastrophes, as petrol spills in the sea, did not produce, in some cases, all the predicted effects thanks to the extraordinary resilience of ecological systems.
Keeping this definition in mind the conceptual Temptations series was created fixating on the negative lifestyle habits and addictions of humans around the world.
Dwarfs, with a deformed or child-like body, dressed up and made up to frighten audiences in a Ghost House, and it instantly brings to mind old freaks shows. It shocks immediately, as a terrible step backwards in terms of human rights, a disabilities.
For me the ‘Russian Season’ is a personal project and I take the pictures from my understanding and vision of Russian nature and Russian soul. Certain illustrations of this series especially refer the viewer to Russian fairy tales and folklore.
Ever since her art school days, Saskia Boelsums had been fascinated by the many possibilities and results that photography could create. Over the past few years, Saskia has spent more time working with this medium.
This body of work represents a step from behind the veil of ideas and techniques to find earnest revelations of my struggle to be whole with my fragmented sense of self. It is a reach for connectivity with others and a reconciliation with the stabbing isolation
This is why I have always taken a particular liking to Diane Arbus and her statement »A photograph is a secret about a secret.« I don't see a picture, I see a story. Often some different opinions. And sometimes a development.
Pursuing the work carried out with my series " Lacanau-Océan 2014" I begin a new series on the country near of which I live: French Vexin. It is about a farmland which receives its own mysteries which the only light can reveal.
My photographs start with a strong central “event” then comes location and colour. They contain surrealism, the unusual and the quirky. I use eroticism and frequently narrative elements to that lead the viewer to conjecture what may have happened before or after the frame was taken.
Laurent Baheux (born 1970) is a French photographer known for high contrast black and white photographs of nature and wildlife. Baheux's work about Africa and wildlife is featured in art photography
This idea “Mode à Paris” came to my mind for organisational reasons, because i was in Paris for another project, and I used it as much as I could. I wanted to tell about the world and dimensions of the Paris fashion week-goers, in this case.
I am Thierry Dulau, a french Graphic designer and Photographer in Aquitaine (France). I love capturing beautiful sites of France (castles, medieval towns, cities ...) This country has a very rich heritage and you only have to wait towards the end of day
Marta Kochanek is a Portrait Photographer. Photography was always the hugest passion of hers. As she follows it, Marta was offered to spearhead a large, independent archival project for Annie Leibovitz in New York in 2011.
In Lewis Carol’s Through the Looking Glass, Alice finds a world that is familiar, and yet not quite right. After reading a poem in the looking-glass world, she notes: `Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas
Gennadiy Chernomashintsev was born on the 23 July 1968 in Donetsk (USSR) now Ukraine.When he was a child, didn’t ever think about photography.
