In the Wake of Memory and Emotional Change

VJ Martin

In Surface-Level Ghosts, VJ Martin fuses psychiatry and art to explore memory and perception.

Honouring the Ancestors

Shannon Nahara

Shannon Nahara’s Honoring the Ancestors explores time, memory, and the psyche through layered photographic collages.

The Sony World Photography Awards Winners 2026

Citlali Fabián

Exhibition 17 April until 4 May

Stitching Memory into Being

Olga Shatokha

Olga Shatokha explores memory and displacement, mending fractured home through tactile photography.

The relationship between space and remembrance

Susana Espana

Susana Espana examines the intersection between domestic space and the internal landscape of memory.

Rose Water

Seth Cook

In Rose Water, Seth Cook reflects on love, language, and cultural connection. The project began while learning Farsi to deepen his relationship with his Iranian wife.

Sculptured Assemblages and Psychological Installations

Yi Hsuan Lai

Yi Hsuan Lai’s photography explores the space between the body and the environment.

Silk Veil Through the Trees

Charlotte Schmid-Maybach

Charlotte Schmid-Maybach reimagines the photographic landscape as tactile and atmospheric.

La Loba

Ornella Orlandini

A journey guided by instinct and intuition. In La Loba, Ornella Orlandini reflects on feminine cycles and the wild nature within.

Trás-os-Montes landscape

Paulo Monteiro

Here, I've come across the morning fogs, the rivers, the birds and the trees.

Sorry for the lack of contact

Katerina Kouzmitcheva

Sorry for the Lack of Contact—this phrase has become a recurring refrain in the past few years of my life.

Motion and Emotion

Adam Docker

For me, photography is more than a visual medium—it is a profound exploration of humanity, culture, and identity.

In the evening, in the woods

Paola Tornambè

My photography is artistic and based on long exposure that allows me to melt different layers of images to create a pictorial effect.

Crisis of Faith

Viktoriia Sorochuk

What is religion and what is faith? What is the connection between the two?

DO NOT PASS

ZeWei Peng

Contemporary China resembles a runaway high-speed train, leaving my memories and language trailing behind.

The Artivists

Issue nr. 1 2022

Artdoc Issue #1 2022, The Artivists, brings the views of artivist photographers about topics like justice, environment and genocide. We present two major projects of Gideon Mendel about the devastating effect of climate change. In addition, we show the work of Jan Banning, who is fighting for the release of an innocent prisoner. Barry Salzman visualises traumas of modern-day holocausts, photographing landscapes at different sites of genocide. Finally, Nicolas Boyer shows the dark side of everyday life in Japan. In the face of the recent horrific developments, the work of honest photographers remains highly relevant.

Female Visions

Issue nr. 6 2021

In this last issue of the year, Artdoc Photography Magazine presents the vision of female photographers. Female photographers have a great capacity for empathy with which they metaphorically portray the world of emotions and personal experiences. Through the camera lens, they do not record factual reality but they show their expressive and subjective vision of the turbulent world. Featured in Issue 6 Female Visions: Rania Matar, Cecilia Reynoso, Katja Liebmann, Catherine Dovellos, Daria Dar, Maura Jamieson, Lara Gilks and Paula Rae Gibson.

Lens Based Art

Issue nr. 5 2021

In this issue #5, Artdoc brings the photographer as the lens-based artist, who shows us the reality we tend to overlook. Michele Borzoni photographs the often hidden places where people work. Peter Bialobrzeski showed the chaos in the outskirts of Mumbai. Dario Mitidieri photographed Syrian families in an open-air studio. Chloe Sells constructs landscapes with layers of textures and colours to express her experience of nature. And the exhibition Lens Based Art shows the work of experimental photographers.

Invisible Realities

Issue nr. 4 2021

In Artdoc Issue #4 2021we bring photographers who investigate our complex reality. French photographer Mathieu Asselin said this about his documentary project Monsanto: a photographic investigation: “You can have your own truth, but you cannot have your own facts.” Indian photographer Alakananda Nag delved into her city’s history, concluding that the Armenians could be the founding fathers of Calcutta. French photographer Florian Ruiz distorted his images as a metaphor for the environmental distortion of the radioactive sites in China. The Artdoc exhibition Documentary Stories shows different photographers who all engage in new ways of visual storytelling. In his essay, Koray Değirmenci discusses the validity of the manipulated digital image. We should read modern multi-layered photographs as metaphors of invisible realities.

Where is Paradise?

Issue nr. 3 2021

In many parts of the world, humans are looking for a better life in political freedom, social justice, and happiness. In Artdoc Issue #3-2021, we bring stories of defectors, refugees and survivors. Tim Franco photographed North Korean defectors in Seoul. Charlotte Schmitz took images of refugees arriving at the Greek islands. In Peru, Max Cabello Orcasitas captured the grief of the survivors of the battles between the government and the Shining Path. Sébastien Cuvelier searched for Paradise in Iran and found walled gardens. Finally, Simon Norfolk photographed the struggle against global warming in the Swiss glaciers.

Art and Documentary

Issue nr. 2 2021

Is documentary photography art? In Artdoc Issue #2-2021, we bring artistic approaches to documentary photography. First, Cuban photographer, Ricardo Miguel Hernández, shows that national identity is a construction of collected memories. Next, Chris Dorley-Brown digitally blended many shots of East London corners into realistic and natural photographs. Romanian photographer Roxana Savin staged her pictures of the monotonous life in a gated residence. Argentinian photographer Guillermo Srodek-Hart photographed the many old rural bars and shops in his country. Finally, Russian photojournalist Valery Melnikov documented the last Armenian inhabitants of the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh.

Mindful Photography

Learn the Art of Meditative Photography

In the Mindful Photography e-guide, the act of photographing becomes something more than visual — it becomes a form of attention. A quiet dialogue between self and subject, between presence and perception. This guide is not a manual of techniques. It is a carefully composed invitation to pause, breathe, and create from within stillness. What does it mean to look with awareness? What happens when we stop chasing images and allow the world to approach us instead? At its core lies a simple yet transformative idea: that photography can be a meditative act — one that does not rush toward outcome, but unfolds from awareness. Experience what it means to practise photography with presence.

What is Art Photography

E-Guide on understanding photography as an art medium

Art photography is a compelling blend of creativity and visual storytelling, transcending traditional photography to stir the imagination and evoke emotions. It goes beyond capturing moments, using images to communicate ideas, provoke thought, and establish a deep connection with viewers. This guide explores the essence of art photography, revealing its role as a window into human experience and a reflection of societal issues. You’ll discover its power as a communication tool and its ability to merge art with documentary photography. Dive in to understand this expressive art form and unleash your creative potential through the lens.

How to read images

Learn how to read photographs as a visual language

We have to understand photography as a language. A photograph is an image in which various signs are embedded, just like texts have words. Words form a sentence, and the sentences together tell a story. We can read pictures the way we can read a book. We can search in the photograph and look for the meaning. But in a picture, there are no words and sentences. We have to grasp meaning from the totality of the image, in which every detail plays a part. In this guide, you will learn how to read images and the way the photographer produces meaning in photographs.

How to create a photo project

Create a meaningful story as a photo project

A photo project is more than just a collection of images—it's a unique narrative told through a harmonious blend of style, emotion, message, subject, and technique. Each photograph within the series works together to convey a compelling story. By approaching your photo series with the same care and intention as you would a written story, you can create a powerful visual narrative. Unlock the secrets to creating captivating photo projects with our comprehensive guide. Start creating your unique photo project today. In this guide, you will learn to develop a distinctive and personal visual language that sets your work apart. Learn how to select and refine subjects that form the foundation of your photo projects, and you will master the art of constructing a cohesive and compelling photo series that tells a powerful story.

How to get into a gallery

Essential tips for photographers: How to Get Your Work into a Gallery

Securing a spot in a gallery is a highly sought-after accomplishment for many photographers in the ever-evolving art world. The significance of such an achievement is not limited to the mere display of artwork but extends to the attainment of recognition. Recognition in the art world is crucial as it validates an artist's work, increases their reputation, and opens doors to new opportunities. This guide delves into the nuanced art of gallery representation, offering practical and actionable advice to art photographers on gaining their audience's attention and admiration, thereby increasing their chances of recognition.

The Abstracted Earth

Artdoc Group Exhibition

The natural world abstracted — a photography exhibition exploring atmosphere, surface, and form.

The Abstracted World

Artdoc Group Exhibition

The Abstracted World is an online photography exhibition bringing together works that engage with abstraction as a way of seeing, sensing, and surviving in politically uncertain times.

The Inner Lens — Inner Landscapes

Artdoc Group Exhibition

The Inner Lens — Inner Landscapes presents photographic work that explores the natural world as a space of reflection and emotional resonance.

The Inner Lens — Inner Worlds

Artdoc Group Exhibition

The Inner Lens — Inner Worlds presents a contemplative look at the unseen worlds we carry within.

The Expressive Eye

Artdoc Group Exhibition

The Expressive Eye brings together artists whose work unites aesthetic strength with conceptual depth, creating a dialogue where vision and reflection meet.

Crossing Identities

Artdoc Group Exhibition

Crossing Identities brings together photographs that explore what connects us across borders, cultures, and experiences. In gestures of care, resilience, belonging, and shared presence, the exhibition traces the threads of humanity that transcend boundaries.

Remembering the Future

Mark Klett and William L. Fox

This monograph—a collaboration between photographer Mark Klett and writer, art critic, and cultural geographer William L. Fox—emerged from expeditions the two men were a part of in 2023 and 2024 to the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), a remote nation in the mid-Pacific.

The Artist's Books Special Edition

Francesca Woodman

This luxurious box set includes facsimiles of Francesca Woodman’s eight remarkable artist’s books, containing reproductions of her original silver gelatin prints and transparencies as objects each tipped in by hand.

Bureaucratics Revisited

Jan Banning

Bureaucratics Revisited is a fully revised, expanded edition of the highly successful and three-times-reprinted book Bureaucratics (first published 2008, Nazraeli). For that project, Dutch photographer Jan Banning undertook a unique global journey through the offices of civil servants. Over five years and across nine countries, he trained his lens on the largely unnoticed human face of bureaucracy.

A Soulful of Whispers. The Plea of the Unrealized

Matthieu Zellweger

A Soulful of Whispers takes us to the crossroads of reality and a dream-like world. As one grows older, one looks back, fleetingly at first, then more deliberately. What did I achieve? What must I focus on? Such interrogations are kindled by a growing sense of nostalgia for bygone years. Matthieu Zellweger embraces blurriness and crepuscular light close up: storytelling elements to engage viewers in a subjective and introspective experience, and to symbolize the constant flux inherent to the passage of time.

Diaries

Josef Koudelka

Distilled from sixty‑nine journals kept over the course of fifty‑plus years, Josef Koudelka: Diaries offers a look inside the mind and artistic process of the iconoclastic Czech photographer renowned for a life in exile and legendary projects on the Roma, the 1968 Soviet-led invasion in Prague, and the devastating impact humans have on the landscape.

Lettres D'amour À La Photographie

Daido Moriyama

Daido Moriyama, a photographer whose work has had a profound impact in Japan, Europe and the United States, is best known for his photographs of seemingly mundane subjects – often street scenes – rendered in high-contrast black and white, with raw layouts where the image spills beyond the frame.

XPOSURE

United Arab Emirates

Xposure International Photography & Film Festival is where the magic of visual storytelling comes alive.

le Pavillon Populaire

France

The Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier's photographic art space open to the public free of charge.

Shift Books

Germany

SHIFT BOOKS is a Berlin-based publishing house specialising in the publication of art and photography books. With a diverse publishing programme, SHIFT BOOKS creates space for discussions on gender, political and cultural issues and thus offers an important contribution to social debate.

Fo­to­stif­tung Schweiz

Switzerland

Founded in 1971, Fotostiftung Schweiz is a private non-profit foundation, devoted to preserving, researching and conveying photographic works.

Foto Colectania

Spain

STANLEY/BARKER

UK

Each book that STANLEY/BARKER publishes is produced with the utmost care.