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.
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“My First School” is dedicated to the children of Pakistan and their common desire for proper schooling
My strength lies in perfecting the image, this is my principle and vision.
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".
The project was commissioned by Vedema, a Luxury Collection Resort, one of Santorini's most unique and prestigious hotels, built around a 400 year old winery made of dark volcanic stones.
It’s a very general thing to say, but I’m sure that everything you see and experience has an influence on how you see things, and then on your work.
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.
I am curious. How do people around me treat themselves, and how do they relate to their bodies?
During summer 2013 and 2014 I spent a few weeks in a region in southern germany called Allgaeu. It is a big tourist destination both for summer and winter.
Michael Schnabel is a photographer whose creative ambitions are unusually demanding. His work is characterized by the complexity of its subject matter: a veritable world of motifs that he is capable of visualizing and realizing down to the last detail
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
Naumachia is a spectacle representing a mock sea fight which gave the Roman emperors in arena or basin water dug for that purpose. It seemed to me that we played today still, every summer
“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.
The Krokodil is a home-made drug produced with highly toxic chemicals such as iodine, paint thinner, hydrochloric acid and red phosphorus scraped from the strike pads on matchboxes.
Dublin-based photographer Martin Marcisovsky captures some interesting silhouettes fixed in equally engaging landscapes.
The association DAMM ZONE MULTIPLE AUTOGESTITE (DAMM means Diego Armando Maradona Montesanto), that in the recent past was a squat centre, is based in a three floors building downtown Naples - as the name of the association tells, it is in the Montesanto block.
For me photography is more than capturing reality, or getting a fantastic composition. For me, photography is above all, storytelling. I'm a published writer for over 12 years, with 3 best sellers and always several stories on my head ready to be written.
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.
Ellie Davies (Born 1976) lives in London and works in the woods and forests of the UK. Her gained her MA in Photography from London College of Communication in 2008.
Photographer, but above all an artist. Devoted almost exclusively to his personal research since 2009, he asks us about the future of our society through his other passion, women.
The german artist based in the Netherlands has been completely devoted to photography only since 2011 as a fulltime artist, followed by a rapid rise as a highly successful photographer
The human towers in Catalonia (known in Catalan as “Castells”) are traditionally built in festivities and competitions in the region of Catalonia, in Spain. During these events each team (known as “colla”) builds and dismantles its own human towers.
NYC is the ONE city, the one that rules all other cities. I've always dreamed of visiting NYC since I saw the first movies featuring this amazing place. At the point when photography became a essential part of my life, I did not only yearn to visit the city,
Dystopia is a photographic series reflecting a forsaken society. Dehumanisation, economic downfall, social neglect, disaster & decline are the main ingredients.
The Mayan People constitute about half of the population of Guatemala. The majority live in remote mountainous areas where they are left to live or die.
Photography has become the lens through which we observe and analyze the evolution of architecture.
On Nov. 8, 2013, Typhoon Yolanda (International name: Typhoon Haiyan) hit the Philippines recorded as the most powerful tropical cyclone and deadliest typhoon.
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.
I’ve been photographing dance for 16 years, and now came the moment for this joy to be converted to an aura of energy of the naked body.
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.
A selection of uncut flowers. Like a mandala constructing beauty before it is swept away. We follow the spiral down to the nucleus and its impulse to return us to the world.
This series of photographs presents a love story that passes through different stages until it reaches to the stability and emotional maturity that we all crave for in a relationship.
I never planned to become a photographer it came naturally. I spent a lot of time participating at dog sports contests. Watching and participating alone was too boring there is always a lot of waiting time.
Roy Hessing is a Dutch photographer, based in Munich. He made a photo series of plant seeds in motion, combining steady light with flash light.
Watchdogs are dogs used to protect a person or property against threats. The use of guarding dogs originates over thousands of years ago.
The Forgotten series was established this year. Presents people who became forgotten under the layers. Each photo represents other place and layer.
Infrared images are surely something attractive, something that normal people can easily appreciate without being professionals and are a wonderful way to “see” this world with different eyes.
I was allowed to accompany an avalanche dog team for a day up in the mountains in Melchsee Frutt, Switzerland. It was a great desire of the dog handlers, to have some action shots from there dogs. So I made a few snapshots of the dogs in action during the training.
Fantasy is my drug. The world today is so grey and sad, and fantasy is the only thing that makes me see something different and good. It can also make people more optimistic. How could the world have evolved without fantasy?
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.
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.
I process the films at home and then scan them. I work on an image for a few weeks or a few months thinking about how i wish the final image to appear.
Sixty year old flamenco dancer with energy of a savage, but self-conscious young girl. She teaches dance in Jerez de la Frontera. Together with musicians plays, sings and dances for public under the eye of a mysterious master.
Like spying through a keyhole, I project myself into the lives of the passengers and crew of a big cruise ship. Through my camera I observe this multitude of people, always the same and always different, giving rise to a huge and cosmopolite isolated society on the seas.
I can say that I always took photos as often as I was able too. Practicing photography with all your passion all the time is the best way to find your own style.
Some times I just make something spontaneously in my living room just because I want to create something new and just have fun
