How did you get into photography ? I got into photography quite naturally trying to catch things I like best, i.e. Architecture. Where do you get your creative inspiration from ? Quite different things influenced me : the American paintings of Edward Hooper, or those of the Italians of the...
Moises Saman: Kurdish Fight Against ISIL
In late-November 2014 Moises Saman returned to Iraq to photograph the ongoing Kurdish fight against ISIL. In late-2013 ISIL forces made serious gains in Iraq thus enlarging the conflict that had previously been isolated to Syria. The Iraqi military had reeled in the face of IS attacks while Kurdish forces...
Eric Bourret: Timescape
Eric Bourret is an "artist walker". His work has been influenced by English land artists and landscape photographers. Since the start of the 1990s, he has been travelling the world on foot, over every kind of terrain and at every altitude, making images he sees as "experiences of walking, experiences...
Portraits of Celebrities by Art Kane (1960s)
Art Kane (1925 - 1995) was one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. A bold visionary, Kane’s work encompassed fashion, editorial, celebrity portraiture, travel, and nudes with a relentless and innovative eye. Like his contemporaries, Guy Bourdin (1928 - 1991) and Helmut Newton (1924 - 2004), Kane...
Stephen Shore: Uncommon Places: The Complete Works
Originally published in 1982, Stephen Shore’s legendary Uncommon Places has influenced a generation of photographers. Among the first artists to take color beyond the domain of advertising and fashion photography, Shore’s large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape stands at the root of what has become a vital photographic...
PhotoBiography: Martina Lindqvist
Martina Lindqvist (born Finland 1981) studied Photography at Hull College followed by Photographic Arts at The University of Westminster, London, UK. Her inspiration is drawn from childhood memories of places where she grew up and visited as a child in Finland. Lindqvist's unsettlingly still landscapes have the quality of an...
Jenny Riffle: Scavenger
“There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.” -Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Riley grew up in rural eastern Washington. As a child he read Mark Twain’s stories of Tom Sawyer and...
Lori Nix: The Power of Nature
Visions of the future, horror scenarios or purely idyllic scenes? The photographic works by the New York artist Lori Nix show a world without people – a world reclaimed and ruled by Nature. Lori Nix (born 1969) is a storyteller par excellence. In her photographs she whisks the viewer off...
Interview with photographer Jaime Travezan
- How did you get into photography? While studying architecture in the 80's in my hometown, Lima, I got a job as a journalist for a local newspaper. Many of the articles had to be documented with photographs, this made me take a camera and start to do my first...
Historic photos of China (1889-1891)
In the 19th century, the great Chinese Diaspora began. Losses due to emigration were added to by conflicts and catastrophes such as the Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–79, in which between 9 and 13 million people died. In 1898, the Guangxu Emperor drafted a reform plan to establish a modern...