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Karina Bikbulatova: The two parallel

Karina Bikbulatova: The two parallel

This black-and-white series of photos ‘about two sisters abandoned by their father, a reunion which can be no question. Just because they don’t know about each other the most important thing…’ They meet once a year in a small village, – communicate, play, weave braids to each other, but don’t know that they are sisters. Gulshat lives in a poor…
Bryce Morrison: Heavenly Bodies

Bryce Morrison: Heavenly Bodies

Heavenly Bodies – the nudes, is a selection from a larger body of work. Throughout the series, each model is told to display themselves in front of the camera in the way they would like to be represented. Due to the lack of posing the images are raw portraits of individuals who are being captured simply as they are. Bryce…
Elisabetta Gatti: Migration

Elisabetta Gatti: Migration

By the end of November, Milan Central Railroad Station becomes the meeting point for starlings preparing to migrate. But the show lasts just a couple of days, and you have to be ready. The first sign is when you start seeing some coming here from the parks of the town. At the beginning, they are just small groups, but in…
David Maisel: Proving Ground

David Maisel: Proving Ground

David Maisel’s (born 1961) Proving Ground comprises aerial and on-site photographs made at Dugway Proving Ground, a classified military site covering nearly 800,000 acres in Utah’s Great Salt Lake Desert. A primary mission of Dugway is to develop, test and implement chemical and biological weaponry and defense programs. After more than a decade of inquiry, Maisel was granted access to…
Patrick Desgraupes: Unveiled Memories

Patrick Desgraupes: Unveiled Memories

Sometimes Time seems to freeze. A deep sense of harmony and “déjà vu” can fill us. The impression of being inhabited by a sudden level of consciousness. Silence fills the space and becomes palpable. But silence, perhaps, is only the resonance of forgotten memories, and the veil, a manifestation of the persistence of this vision. Patrick Desgraupes is a French…
Vintage: Portraits by Ruth Harriet Louise (1920s)

Vintage: Portraits by Ruth Harriet Louise (1920s)

Ruth Harriet Louise (1903 – 1940) was an American professional photographer, the first woman photographer active in Hollywood; she ran Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s portrait studio from 1925 to 1930. Louise began working as a portrait photographer in 1922, working out of a music store down the block from the New Brunswick temple at which her father was a rabbi. Most of her…
Interview with Kaushik Dolui

Interview with Kaushik Dolui

How and when did you become interested in photography? In my childhood days, I did the drawing and painting, later in my mid-twenties I developed an interest in photography .I joined in a short course in photography at that time. Later I participated in different photographic salons under FIAP and PSA patronages and won many awards/acceptances over the time and…
Hampus Danielsson: Sweet Dreams

Hampus Danielsson: Sweet Dreams

What is a nightmare? Paralyzed by fear in the middle of the night, what is the culprit? Trauma, poor health, lousy self care, a malfunction of the amygdala (the part of your brain responsible for controlling anger and fear) or something much more ominous? Are these bumps in the night the product of Rapid Eye Movement, or a visit from…
Fluence. The Continuance of Yohjl Yamamoto by Takay

Fluence. The Continuance of Yohjl Yamamoto by Takay

In his latest book, Takay presents photographs that pay homage to the creative power and style of the great Japanese designer, Yohji Yamamoto. Fluence was shot primarily in Tokyo, Japan. In it, Takay has captured the magic and mystery of artistic forces and his native country. The images in Fluence are shot in black and white which punctuate the subject…
Vintage: Three Eyed Cats by Weegee

Vintage: Three Eyed Cats by Weegee

Arthur Fellig, known by his pseudonym Weegee was a photographer and photojournalist, known for his stark black and white photography. The three eyed cat meaning relates to the symbolism of the mythical creature that appears in many ancient spiritual texts. This creature appears as a cat with a third eye between its eyebrows, symbolizing the third eye chakra that we…
Matthew Tuffield: Shapes of Architecture

Matthew Tuffield: Shapes of Architecture

Exploring Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne recently on my holidays with my camera and trusty tripod, enabled me to capture, with long exposure techniques, the most amazing and unique architectural designs Australia has to offer. The shapes, textures and design elements, mixed with perfect weather, helped me to create some of the beautiful long-exposure fine art photographs in this collection. The…
Vintage: New York by Andreas Feininger (1940s)

Vintage: New York by Andreas Feininger (1940s)

In advance of World War II, in 1939, Andreas Feininger immigrated to the U.S. where he established himself as a freelance photographer. In 1943 he joined the staff of Life magazine, an association that lasted until 1962. Feininger became famous for his photographs of New York.
Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures

Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures

This is a new edition of Lead Belly: A Life in Pictures, the rich visual biography of legendary American folk musician Lead Belly, originally published by Steidl in 2007. Here is a treasure trove of rare photographs, news clippings, concert programs, personal correspondence (including letters from Woody Guthrie), record albums, awards and other memorabilia, some of which was discovered in…
Interview with Tatiana Kurnosova

Interview with Tatiana Kurnosova

Tatiana Kurnosova is a fashion photographer, stylist and blogger with almost 10 years working experience in fashion industry. Tatiana’s career has begun since her first trip to Milan. Since then she has never stopped going forward and growing as an artist. Multiple awards – winner, published photographer and author of “All you need to know about model test shoots. The…
Ted Witek: Power of Femininity

Ted Witek: Power of Femininity

Ted Witek was born and raised in the United States (Connecticut) and has since lived in Germany, Portugal and Canada. He now resides in Toronto and Lisbon. Having the artistic good fortune to travel widely, his photographs illustrate several chapters of his life. Ted’s work displays a unique visual curiosity and the ability to capture what might otherwise be passed…
Robert Adams: Summer Nights, Walking

Robert Adams: Summer Nights, Walking

In the mid-1970s, Robert Adams began recording nocturnal scenes near his former home in Longmont, Colorado. Illuminated by moonlight and streetlamp, suburban houses, roads, sidewalks and fields seemed transfigured. 25 years after first publishing a sequence of these pictures in 1985 as Summer Nights, he revisited his project, amending its title and completely re-editing its contents to create a more…
Han Shun Zhou: Frenetic City at Kickstarter

Han Shun Zhou: Frenetic City at Kickstarter

Frenetic City is photobook that lets you experience the intensity and chaotic environment in one of the most densely populated cities in the world. This monograph consists of elaborated photographs of overpopulated city landscapes, depicting density, loneliness and loose of identity, created in the streets of Hong Kong from 2014 to 2019. With a population of over 7 million but…
Analogien: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Peter Weller, August Sander

Analogien: Bernd & Hilla Becher, Peter Weller, August Sander

Remarkable pictures and sources of inspiration for Bernd and Hilla Becher are the focus of the presentation and at the same time enter into a dialogue with selected works by the photographer couple. The photographs of Peter Weller (b.1868 in Hommelsberg, d.1940 in Düsseldorf) and August Sander (b.1876 in Herdorf, d.1964 in Cologne) already inspired Bechers in the 1960s. While…
Michigan’s Great Lakes: Photographs by Jeff Gaydash

Michigan’s Great Lakes: Photographs by Jeff Gaydash

Photographs of Michigan’s sprawling coastlines are the focus of a new exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA), Michigan’s Great Lakes: Photographs by Jeff Gaydash open from November 16, 2019 through May 3, 2020. In his images of Lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior as well as Lake St. Clair and the Detroit and St. Clair Rivers, Gaydash’s large,…
Leonard Freed: Police Work

Leonard Freed: Police Work

Magnum photographer Leonard Freed worked alongside the New York police for several years, documenting the gritty reality of life on the beat at a notorious time of soaring crime and great social unrest, with the city near bankruptcy. Of his near-decade with the police department, Freed observed that “What I saw were average people doing a sometimes boring, sometimes corrupting,…