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.

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.

Rethinking Iconography in Contemporary Photography

The Language of Images

From religious iconography to contemporary photography, the role of symbols continues to evolve. As visual codes open to interpretation, photographs invite viewers to explore meaning through their own perspective.

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.

Human Stories

Issue nr. 5 2020

In Artdoc Photo Magazine Issue #5 2020, we bring stories that treat different aspects of human life. Andres Serrano photographed homeless people in the streets of Brussels. Gregg Segal shows children from all over the world surrounded by the food they eat. Nelson Morales brings his project about muxes, people considered to be a third gender. The exhibition Human Beings, not Human Skins, is an answer to the global phenomenon of racism. The essay The Selfie as a Neoliberal Commodity explains why we take selfies.‍

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 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.

Echoes of Being

Artdoc Group Exhibition

In a time of global tension, polarisation, disruption, and uncertainty, these works turn the lens toward what connects us at the core: our shared human experience.

The Meditative Lens II - Monochrome Silence

Artdoc Group Exhibition

Monochrome Silence, the second part of The Meditative Lens exhibition, presents photographic works that speak through absence—of colour, distraction, and noise.

Albert Watson. Kaos

Albert Watson

KAOS presents a kaleidoscopic overview of Watson’s career to date and the dazzling array of subjects, objects, people, and places he has encountered along the way.

Emerald Drifters

Cig Harvey

Photographer and writer Cig Harvey’s new work is a poetic, richly saturated exploration of life through pigment.

Trophy and Treasure

Francesco Neri

Italian contemporary photographer Francesco Neri (b. 1982) uses family photos found in his grandparents apartment as the inspiration for his current exhibition and publication, Trophy and Treasure, at the photography museum SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne (July 2017)

Returning to Benjamin Art in the Age of AI

Victor Burgin

Walter Benjamin’s essay of cultural criticism ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ has become a ‘classic’ text, one which resonated through the twentieth century and beyond.

EVERYTHING IS PHOTOGRAPH: A Life of André Kertész

Patricia Albers

EVERYTHING IS PHOTOGRAPH immerses readers in the heyday of a now-lost version of photography and the life of a consummate interpreter of the world around him. Freshly seen, formally vigorous, emotionally rich, and aesthetically charged, Kertész’s images speak of the medium as a tool for human connection, inquiry about the world, self-narration, and self-invention, even as they project its mysteries.

Ground Rules

Alejandro Cartagena

Alejandro Cartagena Ground Rules A comprehensive survey of a prolific photographer who fearlessly charts the dreams and dystopias of Mexico today.

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.