In Surface-Level Ghosts, VJ Martin fuses psychiatry and art to explore memory and perception.
Shannon Nahara’s Honoring the Ancestors explores time, memory, and the psyche through layered photographic collages.
Olga Shatokha explores memory and displacement, mending fractured home through tactile photography.
Susana Espana examines the intersection between domestic space and the internal landscape of memory.
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.
Yi Hsuan Lai’s photography explores the space between the body and the environment.
Charlotte Schmid-Maybach reimagines the photographic landscape as tactile and atmospheric.
A journey guided by instinct and intuition. In La Loba, Ornella Orlandini reflects on feminine cycles and the wild nature within.
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.
Here, I've come across the morning fogs, the rivers, the birds and the trees.
Sorry for the Lack of Contact—this phrase has become a recurring refrain in the past few years of my life.
For me, photography is more than a visual medium—it is a profound exploration of humanity, culture, and identity.
My photography is artistic and based on long exposure that allows me to melt different layers of images to create a pictorial effect.
What is religion and what is faith? What is the connection between the two?
Contemporary China resembles a runaway high-speed train, leaving my memories and language trailing behind.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 presents photographic work that explores the natural world as a space of reflection and emotional resonance.
The Inner Lens — Inner Worlds presents a contemplative look at the unseen worlds we carry within.
The Expressive Eye brings together artists whose work unites aesthetic strength with conceptual depth, creating a dialogue where vision and reflection meet.
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.
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.
Monochrome Silence, the second part of The Meditative Lens exhibition, presents photographic works that speak through absence—of colour, distraction, and noise.
Shot over a decade on the Isle of Sheppey, where photographic artist Laura McCluskey was raised, Close to Home is a tender interrogation of how ties to family and place may fray and contort yet never break.
Produced between 2016 and 2025, Venezuelan Youth is Silvana Trevale’s contribution to her homeland: a testament that distances itself from portrayals of crises to offer a sensitive and profound view of the complexities of Venezuelan identity as seen through the eyes of its youth.
For her new book, Tavakolian has trawled through her archives not to pick her best work, but instead to dig up what she refers to as her »eyesore« photos from the early days of her career, when, at the age of sixteen, she had started to work as a photo journalist in Tehran.
Although there have been a range of international exhibitions exploring different aspects of environmentalism in the last couple years, Into the Time Horizon promises to be one of the most expansive in scope that a US institution has presented thus far.
In her debut photobook, Nathalie Rubens offers a photographic meditation on the liminality of ageing—juxtaposing two very different yet intricately connected »comings of age«: the transition into young adulthood and the passage into post-menopausal life.
Crossing, is about the Roxham Road border site between New York, USA and Quebec, Canada.
Exhibition Places Beyond by Erik Johansson is open from tomorrow, September 25th at Fotografiska Tallinn. Johansson is up-and-coming Swedish photographer, currently living in Prague.
Galerie Springer Berlin is opening the exhibition An den Strömen (At the Streams) by Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler on October 3 to mark the EMOP European Month of Photography Berlin 2020. This new and previously unpublished series emerged from the summer of 2019 onwards for the exhibition Kontinent – Auf der Suche nach Europa (Continent – in search of Europe) by the Ostkreuz photographers’ agency at the Academy of Arts.
Laure Cottin Stefanelli, Etienne Courtois, David Denil, Katherine Longly, Renée Lorie, Sebastian Steveniers, Wiktoria Synak, Florine Thiebaud, Pierre Vanneste, Sybren Vanoverberghe.
Untitled, Astroturf, 2007 © Lynne Cohen, Courtesy Olga Korper Gallery
Martine Franck (BE, 1938-2012), who was born in Antwerp, discovered a passion for photography while on a long journey through Asia in 1963. Once she had returned home to Paris, she set herself as a freelance photographer and created portraits and reportages for the major American magazines, including Life, The New York Times and Vogue. Martine Franck claimed wonder and a deep joy for humanity, with all the empathy she displayed.
American photographer and film director Alex Prager pushes the boundaries of reality and fiction in her work - to the extent that the melodramatic scenes make the photographs seemingly alive. The exhibition Welcome Home plays on nostalgia, memories and reconstruction of reality, telling viewers unrepeatable stories.
Xposure International Photography & Film Festival is where the magic of visual storytelling comes alive.
The Pavillon Populaire, Montpellier's photographic art space open to the public free of charge.
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.
Founded in 1971, Fotostiftung Schweiz is a private non-profit foundation, devoted to preserving, researching and conveying photographic works.
Each book that STANLEY/BARKER publishes is produced with the utmost care.
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