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Nigel Maudsley: Beauty in Death

6 July 2016 0

A dead plant is very beautiful, it’s fragility reminds us of our own mortality. Nigel Maudsley’s series was created after he lost his father. In therapy he learnt how to live in the moment, the ‘now’. The series was taken…

Drew Doggett – Shadows Alight; Portraits of the American West

27 June 2016 0

Photographer Drew Doggett travels 14,000 miles through America’s West to document 21 State and National Parks on the National Park Service’s 100th Year Anniversary. The images in this series were taken on a two-month journey in a 23-foot Airstream trailer,…

Paulo Monteiro: Carnival Dancers

28 May 2016 0

“Carnival dancers” is the title of a long-term project that aims to document the Carnival dances that take place in the island of São Miguel, Azores. Once very common, nowadays they are declining. However, in the municipality of Povoação there…

Black and White Nude Icebergs by Harry Fayt

1 May 2016 0

Harry Fayt is a young Belgian photographer whose work focuses primarily on aesthetic research related to the theme of water. Like many artists both past and present, the female figure, epitome of beauty, fascinates, influences and guides him in his…

Marco Castelli: A Micro Odyssey

3 April 2016 0

The trinomial photography, planets and bacteria and the binomials heaven and earth, finite and infinite, known and unknown, give shape to the emotions and reflections that Marco Castelli’s work wants to convey and inspire. Opposites vie for our moods and…

Nigel Maudsley: Dogs and their Owners

16 March 2016 0

I have wanted a dog all my life and my 4 year old Cockpoo has certainly changed my life for the better. I have made many new dog walking friends and this series questions the notion that dogs look like…

Antigone Kourakou: The Shadow Of Things

7 March 2016 0

Looking at Antigone Kourakou’s photographs, one fully perceives the suggestive range of photographic abstraction. Although there is scarce visual information that connects the pictures with the real scenes, the situations, and the events they were born out of, the photographs…

Miro Simko: Marathon

1 March 2016 0

The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team. ~ Phil Jackson The oldest annual marathon in Europe and the third-oldest in the world is the Peace Marathon, held since 1924 in…

Mary Ellen Mark: 20X24 Polaroid

20 February 2016 0

In 1995, Mary Ellen was introduced to the 20×24 Polaroid camera. She has worked with it often since then—both for editorial and commercial assignments and for her own personal projects. There are only a few working cameras in the world,…

Tomasz Gudzowaty: Synchronized Swimming

15 February 2016 0

Synchronized swimming, once known as water ballet, has grown from its humble origins to become a fully organized, internationally competitive sport, reaching the Olympics in 1984. It’s a female dominated discipline, though men compete internationally. Competitions are organized into four…

Black and White Close-Up Nudes by Igor Amelkovich

6 February 2016 0

Igor Amelkovich live in Chelyabinsk, which is in southern Ural mountains in Russia. He studied radio engineering at the South Ural State University. From 1985 to 1987 he served in the Soviet army, near Vladivostok on the Pacific coast by…

Cetywa Powell: The Art of Burlesque

14 January 2016 0

The Art of Burlesque is Cetywa Powell’s photography project, following the burlesque group, the Lalas. The Lalas, run by choreographer Erin Lamont, are a traveling burlesque group that fuse professional dance with striptease. Despite their striptease, Erin Lamont runs the…