- How did you get into photography? From childhood on I had been into drawing and painting but was always looking for something more precise, faster. The first earned money from my after-school job was than invested into a camera. I did a lot experimenting, learning and playing around with...
Valentino Bellini: Bit rot
Bit rot is a colloquial term used in the computerized information systems environment to indicate the gradually decaying of data stored on storage medias or software over the duration of time. In this case, the concept is transposed from a virtual reality, made of bit and software, to a material...
James Mollison: Playground
For his latest book, Playground, Mollison has photographed children at play in school playgrounds, inspired by memories of his own childhood, and interested in how we all learn to negotiate relationships and our place in the world at a young age through play. For each picture, Mollison sets up his...
Marc Dantan: Xray Compagny
After realised the series "The Immortals", the stuffed animals from Deyrolle flames survivors after the terrible fire of 2008, I thought long and hard to talk again of these animals without life but seem eternal. I wanted to discover the secret world of their anatomy. I could with radiography bring...
PhotoBiography: Zhang Kechun
Born in Chengdu, People’s Republic of China, in 1980, Zhang Kechun studied art and design before to become a photographer and artist. His first work is “The Yellow River”, published and exhibited worldwide. Over a two-year period, Zhang took images of life along the river that has been plagued with flooding,...
Oleg Kaplan: Glass
Photographers seek to transform reality, though any; something in the photo may be beautiful - or terrifying, great or intolerable – even if in life it looks quite different. Transformation of reality - that’s what the art is, Syuzen Sontag wrote about it yet. Photo artist Oleg Kaplan was born...
Miikka Pirinen: Fight League Kids
When you think of MMA fighters you are likely to envision beefy men who have a whole extra set of muscles on top of their shoulders, or perhaps what you’ve learnt about the sport from film and television. But as Miikka Pirinen captures in his fascinating series Fight League Kids...
PhotoBiography: Julie Blackmon
The photographer Julie Blackmon's (born 1966) precisely choreographed domestic scenes apply an uncanny sense of balance, color composition, and proportion to households in various states of child-provoked disarray. The results hearken back to the work of 17th century Dutch painters like Vermeer and Jan Steen a "Jan Steen household," after...
Arturo Soto: When The Time Comes
I am interested in understanding what makes something worth looking at as a picture. This collection of images aims to transform appearances into imaginative prospects that distill a sense of beauty. They are notations in passing, to quote the great Nathan Lyons, factual and disperse like reality itself. The title...
Interview with Aerial / Abstract photographer David Maisel
- How and why did you get into aerial photography? My first experience with aerial photography was in 1983. I was invited by my professor, the photographer Emmet Gowin, to accompany him on an expedition to the volcano Mount St Helens, which had erupted several years earlier. The aerial vantage...