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CONCEPT
- Art and Ecology in Non chiamatela Gaia by Paola Francesca Barone
  
  For the first time in the history of humanity, thanks to technology, photos, and satellite sensors, we are experiencing the planet in its entirety and seeing its definitive face, not only generative, but predominantly destructive.
  
  Imaginative Transmutations by Artur Leão: A Photographic Journey
  
  In the land of my forefathers, I explore key sites related to speleology, searching for what Mircea Eliade describes as a religious experience of autochthony.
  
  Cibografia by Luigi Boccia: A Journey Through Food and Meaning
  
  Cibografia is my way of seeing. A visual language that uses food to speak of matter, shadow, and light. A continuous search for meaning in what is usually consumed too quickly.
BIO
- Gregor Radonjič – Metascapes: Where Matter, Mind, and Landscape Intertwine
  
  I see the landscape as a manifestation of many forces (inner and outer) that drive our physical and psychological world. As we now understand, a gap exists between reality and what we perceive as real. Therefore, my photographs are intentionally more suggestion than description.
  
  The Weight of Light by Wendi Schneider : Monochrome, Gold Leaf, and Emotional Depth
  
  The Weight of Light is a body of work born from the intimate experience of aging and sadness at the world’s diminishing values — its ethical erosion, loss of compassion, and widening divisions.
  
  All We Find, All We Leave Behind by Julie Derbyshire: Art, Symbolism, and Reflection
  
  This project was made during a recent artist residency at the Pouch Cove Foundation in remote Newfoundland, Canada. Using a makeshift still-life table covered with a paper tablecloth in the live/work space that became my home during my stay.
CITY
- Betty Goh Explores Urban Rhythms in Her Project Subconscious
  
  Subconscious captures the adrenaline and vibrancy of city life, juxtaposed with the unspoken loneliness, tension, and dilemmas lurking beneath the surface. Through her introspective street photography, Betty delves into her soul and subconscious
  
  Reverie; A Photographic Journey by Daniel Bellman
  
  Reverie is a visual meditation on the act of daydreaming, a journey through images that unfold like fragments of a dream. Each photograph stands on its own, yet gains depth through its connection to the ones before and after, inviting the viewer to abandon logic and drift into a state of intuitive reflection.
  
  Robert Welsh: Urban Photography Rooted in Memory and Everyday Life
  
  Born in Boston and self-taught behind the lens, Robert Welsh captures the overlooked beauty of urban neighborhoods, from San Francisco’s Chinatown to the streets of India, weaving memory, identity, and daily life into timeless photographic essays.
SHOT
- Jeff Schewe’s The Art and Dilemma of Shooting Street Portraits: Truth in the Streets
  
  As a street photographer, I’m drawn to the raw, unscripted energy of real people moving through real spaces. Street portraits are my way of documenting life as it unfolds, and over the years I’ve learned that shooting with or without permission brings its own rewards and its own challenges.
  
  Persona Project by Marie Dew – The Fragility of the Social Mask
  
  With Persona, I continue my exploration of identity and the tensions between the visible and the invisible, between what we show and what we are, which I began with my series Je est un autre (2017). This new project questions the social mask, its density and its fragility.
  
  Exploring Midlife Crisis: The Emotions Through Nanthan’s Lens
  
  Midlife Crisis: The Emotions is a conceptual fine art series that explores the unspoken struggles men face in midlife — a turbulent phase where vulnerability, resilience, and healing collide. Through stark black-and-white portraits, the work reveals the internal landscapes men rarely express openly, offering a raw reflection on identity and transformation.
STORY
- Origins by Michael Naify: A Photographic Journey Through Brazil’s Mining History
  
  Origins is a body of work that attempts to scratch the surface of a rich but brutal history—a history of discovery and exploitation in the mineral-rich region of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
  
  The Art of Patachitra by Luciana Trappolino: Tradition and Empowerment in West Bengal
  
  In West Bengal, there is a village where women known as Chitrakar are the bearers of a tradition dating back over 2,500 years: the painting of singing scrolls called Patachitra, or scrolls.
  
  The Long March by Zexuan Zeng : A Photobook of Memory and Fiction
  
  I was born and raised in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, the center of CSR, where the "Long March" began. "The Communist Party came out of here" is how they put it. Patriotic education filled my schoolbooks, and party emblems with red stars and signs about the "Long March" appeared on almost every street corner.
AI
- The Relevance of Stories and the Need for Meaning
  
  When I was a child, I remember that a rather cruel way to expose the “gullible” and then make fun of them was to say, “Look! There's a flying donkey!” while pointing your index finger at any spot in the sky
  
  Roberto Brunetti: Alchemy and algorithms, speaking to the unconscious
  
  It was one of those days that I would call the same as a thousand others, when we immerse ourselves in socials to postpone the tediousness of real life. Sometimes I believe that Meta's algorithm perceives our moods; perhaps it measures the pressure with which we touch the screen of our mobile phone and, through an artificial intelligence, assigns it a precise mood.
  
  Everything Comes: Semana Santa in a Near Future
  
  Holy Week in Spain is something sacred: a mixture of religion, devotion, faith, idolatry, and folklore. It was to be expected that some creator would eventually put generative Artificial Intelligence at the service of this event as well. I felt that Juan Pablo de Miguel’s daring, provocative, and futuristic video proposal had a perfect place on an avant-garde, pluralistic, and international visual platform like Dodho.
DNA
- Salvatore Montemagno: Being a Photographer in Times of Overexposure
  
  Salvatore Montemagno he has developed a visual language rooted in the quiet influence of 20th-century painting and the suspended tension of cinema. His portraits, imbued with painterly atmospheres, explore themes of absence, memory, and psychological resonance images that linger like unfinished stories.
  
  Alain Schroeder on “Being a Photographer in Times of Overexposure”
  
  His work centers on people, their struggles, and their environments—stories that resonate far beyond the frame. Recognized with countless international awards, including Nikon, POYI, and World Press Photo, his career is synonymous with excellence.
  
  Margrieta Jeltema: Being a Photographer in Times of Overexposure
  
  Jeltema transforms the act of photographing into a craft of patience and poetry. She creates silver-gelatin contact prints, albumen prints, experimental works, and hand-colored pieces, each carrying the physical trace of time.
PULSE
- Practical Surrealism: What Man Ray Taught Photography
  
  Man Ray taught us that photography is not here to obey. It is not a stenographer of reality, nor an optical procedure that certifies the existence of what we already saw. In his hands, the camera is not a recording machine but a thinking device, a portable lab where chance, irony, and disobedience become method.
  
  The Relevance of Stories and the Need for Meaning
  
  When I was a child, I remember that a rather cruel way to expose the “gullible” and then make fun of them was to say, “Look! There's a flying donkey!” while pointing your index finger at any spot in the sky
  
  The Shutter as a Mirror: When Self Portraits Were Not Selfies
  
  Before the selfie became a performance, the self-portrait was an act of quiet risk. Photographers like Vivian Maier, André Kertész and Claude Cahun turned their lenses inward not to build a brand but to ask a question.
FLASH
- Winners: Color Awards 2025
  
  We are pleased to reveal the winners and finalists of the 2025 Color Awards, a distinction that celebrates the remarkable talent and creative vision of this year’s selected photographers. Each of them has demonstrated an outstanding ability to translate emotion, light, and form into powerful visual narratives that stand out in today’s photographic landscape.
  
  GuruShots: Your Magazine Shot
  
  Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots "The Worlds Greatest Photo Game" in a photo challenge contest titled "Your Magazine Shot" Over 100,000 photos were submitted. GuruShots is a platform for people who love taking photos. GuruShots believes that taking photos is an amazing way to express one’s self. Wanting it to be fun and meaningful, GuruShots turned the sharing of ones photos into an exciting game packed with plenty of opportunities to show off one’s talent. Every month almost 4 billion votes are cast in over 400 themed challenges!
  
  Gurushots: Tell a Story
  
  Dodho Magazine partnered with GuruShots "The Worlds Greatest Photo Game" in a photo challenge contest titled "Tell a Story" Over 100,000 photos were submitted. GuruShots is a platform for people who love taking photos. GuruShots believes that taking photos is an amazing way to express one’s self.
B&W
- Art and Ecology in Non chiamatela Gaia by Paola Francesca Barone
  
  For the first time in the history of humanity, thanks to technology, photos, and satellite sensors, we are experiencing the planet in its entirety and seeing its definitive face, not only generative, but predominantly destructive.
  
  Jeff Schewe’s The Art and Dilemma of Shooting Street Portraits: Truth in the Streets
  
  As a street photographer, I’m drawn to the raw, unscripted energy of real people moving through real spaces. Street portraits are my way of documenting life as it unfolds, and over the years I’ve learned that shooting with or without permission brings its own rewards and its own challenges.
  
  Imaginative Transmutations by Artur Leão: A Photographic Journey
  
  In the land of my forefathers, I explore key sites related to speleology, searching for what Mircea Eliade describes as a religious experience of autochthony.
FOCUS
- The Art of Silence by Dubontemps – Photography Between Shadow and Light
  
  In times saturated with noise, the series “The Art of Silence” invites us on a journey into the peace of nature. Each photograph offers a pause, a refuge, where silence, as an act of listening, allows us to rediscover the essential in simplicity.
  
  Markku Lahdesmaki Photographs the Soul of Sirkus Tähti
  
  On a summer evening in Orivesi, Finland, photographer Markku Lahdesmaki stepped into the magical world of Circus Tähti. From backstage shadows to center-ring brilliance, his lens captured the performers’ quiet moments and dazzling acts in a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of life under the big top.
  
  The Forgotten Places by Frédéric Demeuse: Photographs of Untamed Nature
  
  In The Forgotten Places, Frédéric Demeuse takes us deep into the world’s last untouched forests, primeval ecosystems where wild beauty reigns and serenity emerges from natural chaos. Over more than a decade, he has captured the living poetry of cloud forests, temperate rainforests, and remote woodlands across Europe, Central America, and Africa.
MAGAZINE
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  SEPTEMBER 2025
  Sophie Cool | Trevor Cole | Ralf Dreier | Josef Büergi | Rodrigo Lodi | János Kenesei
  
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  Paul Kroh | Michael Seif | Andrej Verzola | Julie Derbyshire | August Langhout | KP Madhavan
  
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  MARCH 2025 | 10th Anniversary Special
  Laura Berbel | Yevhen Kostiuk | Mark Seymour | Ingrid Weyland | Susanne Middelberg | Jeff Schewe
  
  Issue 31
  DECEMBER 2024
  Felix Abrudan | Liam Man | Francis Malapris | Markku Lahdesmaki | Chris Yan | Francesco Berlingerio
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The Making of the Shiva by Abhishek Nandy

GAJAN is a hindu folk festival celebrated mostly in the Indian state of West Bengal and is associated with the worship of Lord Shiva.

B&W Concept Europe

The mirror by Robert Hutinski

Today, the political permeates most practices in the everyday of an individual who both executes and produces them and only rarely (in most cases) questions and examines their origin.

Asia Story

The Pasar Malam by Aryan Pramudito

It was a rainy dusk in Jakarta, on mid December 2016. Me and my family went to a Pasar Malam, a local Night Festival in Jakarta.

Asia Story

Football Fever in City of Joy by Pritam Dutta

India has never played in the Football World Cup and the sport struggles to attract anything even remotely similar to the enthusiasm which cricket, the national obsession is universally greeted with across the country.

Story

Rebirth

“Rebirth” is a philosophical story of human desire for transcendence and a Faustian dream of achieving immortality through creation at a symbolic level. It is a story of the cycle of life

B&W Europe Shot

The quarrymen by Markku Lähdesmaki

The quarrymen was selected and published in our print edition 17. Driving a country road in Orivesi...some of my best stories start that way. Nearly every summer we spend time in Orivesi, in the southern part of Finland.

Concept Europe

Architecture photography; The geometry of Gianni Galassi

Galassi uses architecture in his photography, drawing freely and profusely from the wide urban setting to create an artificial picture-square, an Appearance rather than an Existence.

Concept Europe

Fantasy is my drug – Chiara Fersini

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?

B&W Europe Shot

The Medina of Marrakech by Benjamin Angel

The Medina of Marrakech is a fascinating place in many respects. It enjoys a unique location, near the high Atlas Mountains of central Morocco. Founded in the early years of the Almoravid dynasty, around 1065, it is surrounded by high walls.

Concept Europe Focus

Window Project by Davida Carta

This project was not born as a cohesive body of work. In fact, it surfaced from an editing process during my first semester of residency at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, where I am currently studying to get my MFA in Photography.