CONCEPT
- Concept Europe
  A Space Odyssey-style evolution by Sonia Payes
  
  A Space Odyssey-style evolution, is Alchemy (2021), a collection of 14 vibrant chromogenic prints. Each one reiterates the same basic composition and design, with Ilana’s avatar recurring indomitably across two orderly rows.
  
  America Concept
  Fragments by Anne-Marie Giroux.
  
  Fragments is a project within a project. Since 2020, I have been working on an installation project entitled Drifts Drifting Phase II which will be presented at Espace Produit Rien in Montréal in April 2023. The installation proposes a questioning of human and artistic drift, theme that I have been exploring since 2014. Adopting a critical and mocking approach on the relevance of the very essence of the art object, I also question the relevance of being an artist, and particularly, the relevance of being a woman artist.
  
  America Concept
  The surreal photography of Giovanna Viola
  
  My current work arises out of a necessity for connection and communication, a feeling that was born when I moved to a country away from everything that was known to me - a different language, an unfamiliar culture, no friends, no family, but full of a million ideas.
  
  Asia Concept
  Metamorphosis by Xuan-Hui Ng
  
  Metamorphosis Project was selected and published in our print edition 22. Hokkaido is the second largest and northern most island in Japan. It produces many agricultural products like potatoes, wheat, corn and soybean. It is home to volcanic mountains, lush forests, rolling fields and expansive lakes. The distinct seasons and significant temperature swings between night and day give rise to breathtaking natural phenomena like mist, frost and diamond dust.
BIO
- B&W Bio Europe
  Portraits from the wilderness by Graeme Purdy
  
  Portraits from the wilderness was selected and published in our print edition 21. My photography has been inspired by nature, wild animals and my love of the outdoors. More recently, I am driven to help protect our wildlife and wild places.
  
  America B&W Bio
  Secret garden by Fenqiang Liu
  
  Secret garden was selected and published in our print edition 21. Spring, many nesting pairs of Great Egrets gather at Kraft Azalea Garden in Central Florida, the United States to begin their nesting rituals. I was inspired to share with the world the beauty of the Great Egrets.
  
  Bio Europe
  Still life by Daniela Constantini
  
  The Still Life series was selected and published in our print edition 21. Daniela Constantini is a Mexican photographer living in Bern, Switzerland. She graduated Visual Journalism and Documentary Practice program at the International Center of Photography in New York.
  
  Asia Bio
  Unusual Landscapes by Kaushik Dolui
  
  We humans are part on nature but man-made artifacts in vast landscapes may also affects our mind in a different way. All I tried to express how much it attracts us in forms, colors and shapes against a vast mountain landscape of timeless terrain.
CITY
- City Europe
  Turin; You Do Not See by Riccardo Surace
  
  The project titled What You Do Not See, Unordinary tells the story of the City of Turin, my city, seen through the eyes of passersby. All photographs have been captured with a long exposure technique; in other words, I mixed then history of the city with my own history, my life experience. In fact, after five years spent fighting a disease, my artistic purpose is primarily that of representing the all too familiar feeling when, as a young man wandering through the city, one feels invisible, and yet still he is thoroughly involved in its daily frenzy.
  
  B&W City Europe
  The big dream of small towns by Wojciech Karliński
  
  Blocks - complexes of apartments connected by a common spatial structure, in larger agglomerations functioning as blocks of flats. Their construction, supported in the communist-ruled Poland, was a sign of progress, especially since before the war.
  
  City Europe
  Firmitas by Iván Cáceres
  
  Within the development framework of a project for the renewal and redefinition of our current democratic system, it is essential to tackle the problem of historical memory, especially in relation to the Spanish Civil War, by questioning the past and the present with a critical eye.
  
  B&W City Europe
  The invisible man by Marius Surleac
  
  The invisible man was selected and published in our print edition 22. Unexpressed emotions, hidden from the eye of the crowd, waiting to be found, like a gold nugget in the mud, sitting, unattended but pulsing, pumping every second until someone could sense that vibe.
SHOT
- America B&W Shot
  Underwater by Mike Potts
  
  I see the water as a metaphor for a dream medium and I try to meet my subjects on that boundary and hope that we are able to take the viewer from tranquil peace to a burst of creation and back again. Underwater project was selected and published in our print edition 22.
  
  Europe Shot
  He / She by Stefania Pucci
  
  Andrea is a woman. In a man's body. This is the definition of h*self that everyone has when it has to do with him. This description, however, doesn't tell what exactly Andrea is. This description doesn't tell anything about strength, anything about the pride, doesn't tell anything about the road h* traveled to be here now.
  
  Europe Shot
  Conceptual portrait; Faces by Seigar
  
  This conceptual portrait series was inspired by the lyrics of the song Mercury by Steve Lacy: "You think I'm two-faced, I can name twenty-three / My layers, all these sides". This work represents a metaphor for personality traits conveyed through my longest and still ongoing project My Plastic People.
  
  Europe Shot
  Sahara Giants by Alice de Kruijs
  
  When in 2000, the palaeontologist Paul Sereno went to look for new dinosaur bones in the Sahara Desert, he did not expect that he would return from there as an archaeologist. Arriving in the northeast of Niger, Sereno and his colleague’s day after day sifted through the sand of Tener, one of the most inhospitable deserts in the world, which even the nomadic inhabitants of the Sahara call “desert in the desert”.
STORY
- America Story
  Spatial Relations by Shannon Randol
  
  How the singular subject, viewer in the case of photography, is located in relation to other objects is referred to as spatial relation. Often happening subconsciously, ways in which objects respond to each other impacts the use(s) of a particular space.
  
  Asia Story
  A Himalayan Journey By Abhijit Bose
  
  The beauty of The Himalayan Region is its color and mood. I explored almost every season and made trips towards Terrain Region. It was a treat to my senses when I used to watch changes in color of a region just fifteen minutes away from another place getting washed in torrential rain. I realized nature as the biggest chameleon.
  
  Europe Story
  Til All Is Correct by Louise Fago-Ruskin
  
  I like to think of my Great Uncle Moszek hovering somewhere between floors 8 and 12 of Nalewki Street 9 in the Warsaw ghetto. It is a safe place, this imagined placement of his body. Down below the streets of the ghetto are not safe. A German soldier has been killed and revenge is about to be sought. Boots are heard on the ground, moving ever closer to number 9.
  
  America Story
  The Disappearing Land by Claire Maen
  
  The California Central Valley has gone from a semi-desert state to one of the most productive lands in the world in less than 180 years. It now produces more than half of the United States' fruits, nuts, and vegetables.
NUDE
- America Nude
  Flesh and Bones, Life Dance by Dave Hanson
  
  The body is the coat of our bones and the choir house of our souls. Its beauty is inherent and yet mysterious. Artistically, for me, the nude has always presented challenges and opportunities to be able to create images that are visually interesting and authentic.
  
  Europe Nude
  BlackDust by Olivier Valsecchi
  
  BlackDust is a three years long project reinvestigating the theme of Incarnation and life cycles, dear to Valsecchi. While highlighting the artist’s photographic mastery through near-to monochromatic images, Black Dust is the final chapter to Valsecchi’s
  
  Europe Nude
  Odd Bodies by Peter van Stralen
  
  Peter van Stralen studied to become a graphic designer at the Academy of Arts in Arnhem, The Netherlands. During this study, his interest in photography was awakened. Since then, he has been working as an autonomous artist/photographer, whose non-commercial activities have mainly been focused on staged black and white photography.
  
  America Nude
  Nude Photography; The Rituals of Life by Michael Bomberger
  
  As a photographer, there is something especially satisfying about the moment you start to edit images from a shoot - and this is especially true if the shoot included American model Stephanie Lauren.
NEWS
- Europe News
  Exhibition; Altres móns, altres mirades by Elena Molina
  
  The photographic exhibition "Altres Móns, Altres Mirades", by Elena Molina, is a solidarity project, whose proceeds will go entirely to the Malaika Foundation
  
  News
  Discover The Beauty And Usefulness Of Architectural Photography
  
  If you're an architecture lover, you know there's nothing like seeing the perfect photo of a stunning building. Architectural photography is a specialized type of capturing images that reveal the beauty and intricacies of buildings and other structures. This blog post will discuss this art and some of its most common uses.
  
  News
  Winners: Color Awards 2022
  
  We are honored to present 100 amazing photographers as the winners and finalists of the 2022 Color Awards. According to the criteria of our jury, which has judged all the images from four basic factors: Technique, impact, composition and style.
  
  Europe News
  Looker Watchers of the forest
  
  Artist Gary Dawes has created a series of art works entitled LOOKER – Watchers of the Forest, which aims to raise awareness to the threats faced by trees, woodlands and forests around the world. The first art exhibition to be displayed along the Major Oak trail at the reserve.
DNA
- Dna Europe
  Exclusive interview with Henriëtte HJIMvanGasteren
  
  I have had the privilege to interview Henriëtte HJIMvanGasteren, formerly known as Lilith, for Dodho Magazine. In this honest and sincere conversation, she shows us why she is so interesting as a creator, and also as an artist persona.
  
  Dna Europe
  Interview with Alain Schroeder; published in our print edition #20
  
  Belgian photojournalist Alain Schroeder has been working in the industry for over four decades. First as a sports photographer in the 80s, then shooting book assignments and editorial pieces in art, culture and human stories.
  
  America Dna
  Interview with France Leclerc; published in our print edition #20
  
  France Leclerc, born in Québec, Canada, is an independent photographer who currently lives in Chicago. Her early career was in academia, but her true passion for documentary and street photography has now taken over.
  
  Dna Europe
  Interview with Ann Prochilo; published in our print edition #20
  
  Ann Prochilo brings extraordinary dreams of mixed elements, and thoughtful reflections to her images, being in the intersection of different worlds but still connected to her roots. Her surprising works are the result of a striking and complex process of work and way of thinking while trying to have her feet on the ground with everyday questioning about which is her place in the universe.
DODHERS
- DodhersPhotosatriani
  Templar Geographies
  
  Portugal is for me a country of cracked and yet brilliant beauty; when you are there, you breathe its decadent and yet amazing grandeur; a lifestyle that is reluctant to emergencies and even to fashionable is perceived; impervious to the most vulgar novelties. The liturgies of haste and appearance there seem to be somewhat deflated.
  
  DodhersPhotosatriani
  Cronorifugio
  
  Light and time. These two essential concepts in photography are also fundamental for our being and in our life. Here and now, I feel that the time has come to talk about the time.
  
  Dodhers NewsPhotosatriani
  Fotopoesie: The backstage story of a photo book
  
  An image only makes sense if it "sees the light" and if it is seen by someone. Otherwise it would be just a visual thought. In my opinion, the best way to bring an image to life is through a book.
  
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  The Fetish
  
  I once won the Vogue/Sotheby’s Cecil Beaton Award, a competition for young photographers with a series I shot of a shoe. They were among the first pictures I took in what was to become my new style.
MAGAZINE
- Magazine
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  Issue 22
  SEPTEMBER 2022 | PRINTED VERSION
  Foteini Zaglara | Diane Meyer | Xuan-Hui Ng | Marius Surleac | Mike Potts | Bob Newman
  
  Issue 21
  JUNE 2022 | PRINTED VERSION
  Ewa Cwikla | Urs Bigler | Bootsy Hooler | Fenqiang Liu | Graeme Purdy | Daniela Constantini
  
  Issue 20
  MARCH 2022 | PRINTED VERSION
  Sara Camporesi | Alain Schroeder | Susanne Middelberg | France Leclerc | Ann Prochilo | Thomas Jerusalem
  
  Issue 19
  DECEMBER 2021 | PRINTED VERSION
  Patrizia Burra | Elena Molina | Christos J.Palios | Emmanuel Monzon | Riccardo Magherini | Ivaylo Yorgov
DIGITAL
- Issue 22
  SEPTEMBER 2022 | DIGITAL VERSION
  Foteini Zaglara | Diane Meyer | Xuan-Hui Ng | Marius Surleac | Mike Potts | Bob Newman
  
  Issue 21
  JUNE 2022 | DIGITAL VERSION
  Ewa Cwikla | Urs Bigler | Bootsy Hooler | Fenqiang Liu | Graeme Purdy | Daniela Constantini
  
  Issue 20
  MARCH 2022 | DIGITAL VERSION
  Sara Camporesi | Alain Schroeder | Susanne Middelberg | France Leclerc | Ann Prochilo | Thomas Jerusalem
  
  Issue 19
  DECEMBER 2021 | DIGITAL VERSION
  Patrizia Burra | Elena Molina | Christos J.Palios | Emmanuel Monzon | Riccardo Magherini | Ivaylo Yorgov
GALLERY
- Color 2022
  BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE YEAR 2022
  The use of color is about more than creating true to life images. When used carefully, color can make photos more emotional and more compelling.
  
  Monochromatic 2022
  BEST PHOTOGRAPHERS OF THE YEAR 2022
  We believe that monochrome photography is truly unique, it is timeless, endowed with classic tints from when photographers only had this possibility.
  
  Selfhood
  VICHY MARTIN
  Vicky Martin (UK) is an international award winning fine art professional photographer. Her first introduction to photography was whilst studying art and design at college in the 90s.
  
  Dead Goat Polo
  ALAIN SCHROEDER
  Belgian photojournalist Alain Schroeder (b.1955) has been working in the industry for over four decades; first as a sports photographer in the 80s.
CALL FOR ENTRIES
- Call For Entries
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  We are looking for 6 fantastic photographers who want to give an incredible impulse to their career. We are going to put your photographs in front of the eyes of the directors of the best galleries, festivals and agencies around the world.
  
  Nude Photography Awards
  DEADLINE | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2022
  We invite you to participate in the first edition of the Nude Photography Awards. we are looking for the best nude picture for this year, 2022. Our call is open to any artistic interpretation of nude photography.

Visual poetry : White Moon by Tatiana Saavedra

Tatiana Saavedra is a a moon enthusiast and photographer based in Portugal who tries to create visual poetry because there is something very special in colors and dreams. From a young age she has been interested in photography and cinematography later on.

Tatiana Saavedra

These pictures are from a trip between Croacia and Slovenia and I tried to express the feeling of melancholy that follows me around through a symbiosis between man and nature in harmony.

The feeling & atmosphere are what I explore and they give me endless possibilities. The warmth from the moonlight, the depths of the ocean are where I find sense in my reality. I strive to create visual poetry from what colours and dreams reveal to be fascinating. The central theme of these picures revolve around a sense of space, documentary ambience, little stories for whom loneliness is a daily affliction. Those moments where capture because otherwise would be gone forever.

Visual poetry | White Moon | Tatiana Saavedra

Tatiana Saavedra

Patagonia by Nias Zavatta

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The spirit of DODHO’s printed edition is first and foremost an opportunity to connect with a photographic audience that values the beauty of print and those photographers exhibited within the pages of this magazine.

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Monochromatic Awards 2022

The best 100 images along with the winning images published in the yearly book ``Monochromatic - Best Photographers of 2022

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Spatial Relations by Shannon Randol

How the singular subject, viewer in the case of photography, is located in relation to other objects is referred to as spatial relation. Often happening subconsciously, ways in which objects respond to each other impacts the use(s) of a particular space.

Asia Story

A Himalayan Journey By Abhijit Bose

The beauty of The Himalayan Region is its color and mood. I explored almost every season and made trips towards Terrain Region. It was a treat to my senses when I used to watch changes in color of a region just fifteen minutes away from another place getting washed in torrential rain. I realized nature as the biggest chameleon.

America B&W Shot

Underwater by Mike Potts

I see the water as a metaphor for a dream medium and I try to meet my subjects on that boundary and hope that we are able to take the viewer from tranquil peace to a burst of creation and back again. Underwater project was selected and published in our print edition 22.

Nude Photography Awards

We invite you to participate in the first edition
of the Nude Photography Awards. We are looking
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Our call is open to any artistic interpretation of nude photography.

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Concept Europe

A Space Odyssey-style evolution by Sonia Payes

A Space Odyssey-style evolution, is Alchemy (2021), a collection of 14 vibrant chromogenic prints. Each one reiterates the same basic composition and design, with Ilana’s avatar recurring indomitably across two orderly rows.

City Europe

Turin; You Do Not See by Riccardo Surace

The project titled What You Do Not See, Unordinary tells the story of the City of Turin, my city, seen through the eyes of passersby. All photographs have been captured with a long exposure technique; in other words, I mixed then history of the city with my own history, my life experience. In fact, after five years spent fighting a disease, my artistic purpose is primarily that of representing the all too familiar feeling when, as a young man wandering through the city, one feels invisible, and yet still he is thoroughly involved in its daily frenzy.

America Concept

Fragments by Anne-Marie Giroux.

Fragments is a project within a project. Since 2020, I have been working on an installation project entitled Drifts Drifting Phase II which will be presented at Espace Produit Rien in Montréal in April 2023. The installation proposes a questioning of human and artistic drift, theme that I have been exploring since 2014. Adopting a critical and mocking approach on the relevance of the very essence of the art object, I also question the relevance of being an artist, and particularly, the relevance of being a woman artist.

Featured Stories

B&W Concept Europe Featured

Fábula y drama de la soledad by Alessandra Favetto

Exploring the facets of solitude and loneliness in a self portrait project. This series was first exhibited in April 2016 in Sevilla, Spain, Weber-Lutgen Gallery.

America Concept Featured

Urban sprawl, emptiness by Emmanuel Monzon

This project was selected and published in our print edition 19. Deserts of the American West and their poetic and chaotic processions of motorway interchanges, cities without centers, residential zones without inhabitants.

B&W Europe Featured Story

MiRelLA by Fausto Podavini

MiRelLa is the story of a woman, a mother, a wife, a grandmother. Mirella is 71 years old, she spent 43 years of her life with the only person loved. 43 years of sharing, difficulties, laughs and beautiful moments

Europe Featured Shot

Portraits by Richard Ansett

My style and relationship to photography has been built from this foundation and I have come to realize that my fascination with other people’s lives is entirely relative to my own lack of understanding and sense of dislocation.

Bio Europe Featured

Pets photography; Wet Dog by Sophie Gamand

Sophie Gamand is a French photographer living and working in New York. Since 2011, with both a documentary and artistic approaches,

America City Featured

Urban environments; Mea Shearim by Alexandra Buxbaum

Alexandra Buxbaum’s work has focused on documenting the human experience of various people and cultures living in disparate urban environments around the world.

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B&W City Europe Featured

Conversations by Philip and Caroline Pegden

It is often assumed that people in large cities are incommunicado and more so now, in a world dominated by social media, played out on the handsets of smart phones. However, this series of photographs highlights that social communication is irrepressible.

Europe Featured Nude

It´s just love by Sophie Ebrard

Pornography is the largest and most profitable market in the world today. However, the industry and its works are still subject to widespread scrutiny and taboo.

Europe Featured Story

Shadow Of White by Nicola Ducati

A photographic project to discover the deep north and the people who have inhabited these hostile territories for millennia, once uncontaminated and which today face new challenges.

Asia Featured Shot

Hyung S. Kim – Haenyeo: Women of the Sea

The photographer, Hyung S. Kim who was inspired by the historical and geographical uniqueness of “Haenyeo” known as a female diver for living

America B&W Concept Featured

Imaginations ; A Series of Whimsical Nostalgia by Nathan Wirth

Robots that serve and protect or destroy; monsters that emerge from the sea; aliens that arrive from faraway solar systems; superheroes that fight crime and unimaginable evils; wizards that orchestrate fellowships; heroes and villains that clash in galaxies far, far, far away

B&W Europe Featured Shot

Intimate diary; Jazz Notes by Giuseppe Cardoni

It is a declaration of love by Giuseppe Cardoni, but also by an Italian region, Umbria, which has always hosted the most important jazz festivals and where the author took most of his photographs.

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Points of the compass by Suvobroto Ray Chaudhuri

Examining life by over-thinking all the various life paths in front of you will always present a scary picture. In this journey over the last few years of your life, you might have been trying to figure out which path to go on.

Dna Europe

Anatomy of a photograph by Kamila Karpinska

It’s very funny story. I was on Christmas/New Year’s Eve vacations with my husband. We arrived to Berlin Sofitel Hotel like every year this period. We woke up after first night and there was a fantastic light of morning sun after the night snowing.

City Europe

L’Illa by Rodrigo Roher

Its enigmatic and majestic presence attracts anyone who dares to contemplate the Mediterranean from the beaches of Benidorm. Like a magnet, it exerts a power of attraction that neither my camera nor I, we could nor wanted to escape.

Concept Europe

Floral photography; Silent Beauties by Julija levkova

Influenced by the Dutch Masters, Julija Levkova's still life floral photography captures the inherently magical beauty of the floral realm.

City Oceania

Minimalism architecture : Mihai Florea

I consider myself a minimalist architectural and photographer with a desire to create abstract images from the reality surrounding me.

Asia Featured Story

Soul of India by Suvobroto Ray Chaudhuri

The village is panorama of the charming scenes of nature. The scenery of the changing seasons has a profound effect on the village life. It brings a divine touch into human mind and makes life full of divine beauty. 60 percent of the population still lives in villages of India.

Asia Story

Fleeing for life: Syrian refugees in istanbul by Turjoy Chowdhury

Since the outset of the conflict in March 2011, increasing number of refugees from Syrian Arab Republic has sought asylum in Turkey. Escalation of violations in Syria in 2012 and onwards created dramatic increases in humanitarian needs.

America Concept

Texas Relics by Steve Knight

This definition forms the foundation of the photography series Texas Relics by Steve Knight. The photos attempt to represent his interpretation of this definition through the following criteria: preserved history; a stasis that has resulted in decline; a rejuvenation of things once lost

Asia B&W City

Shirren Lim ; Crossroads – Tokyo

This series were made between Nov 2015 and July 2016 in Tokyo, Japan; using my Ricoh GR. I decided to do a mini project concentrating on its many crossroads around the Shinjuku district in Tokyo.

These pictures are from a trip between Croacia and Slovenia and I tried to express the feeling of melancholy that follows me around through a symbiosis between man and nature in harmony.

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