2 years of living in Canterbury, Kent. Returning home to St. Petersburg. Feeling that something is not done yet. Memory draws the White Cliffs. Nature, objects and people around them look a bit melancholic and frozen in time. By its nature the white color somewhat neutralizes the effect of poly-chrome...
Aerial Typology of Cruise Ships by Jeffrey Milstein
New York based photographer Jeffrey Milstein at his latest series focused on massive cruise ships. To give them new perspective he photographed them from a hundred feet above. Take a look at this stunning aerial photographs of giant cruise liners – you may even notice passengers on the deck. Website: jeffreymilstein.com
PhotoBiography: André Lichtenberg
André Lichtenberg (born 1964 - Brazil), currently lives and works in UK. Lichtenberg is a fine art photographer (with a scientific background). His projects investigate childhood patterns and memories in connection with studies of the environment and architecture. His images are carefully constructed using techniques that fluctuate between science and...
Interview with Documentary photographer Brian Finke
- How did you get into photography? My interest in photography began when I was a freshman in high school when I took my first photojournalism class, with the idealistic motivations of social awareness and from reading about the amazing life and work of photojournalist W. Eugene Smith. - Where...
PhotoBiography: Troy Paiva
My light-painted nightwork captures the abandoned and discarded underbelly of the American West. I sneak through fences during the full moon to capture the inevitable march of nature, scrappers and developers, who conspire to erase the fading memories of all these things we once held so dear. I convert these...
Gus Powell: The Lonely Ones
Gus Powell’s photographs have been published in The New Yorker regularly for the past few years as opening images for our Goings On About Town section. When I asked Gus recently if good pictures were to be had after he scouted an art installation for us, he answered, “I do...
Raffaele Petralla: Mari People, a Pagan Beauty
There is a population with Finnish ancestors living in a rural area near Joshkar-ola, in the Republic of Mari-El, Russia. They are called Mari, speak a language belonging to the Ugro-Finnic and use a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet. They settled in this area around the fifth century a.C....
Alexander Gronsky: Norilsk
Norilsk is an industrial city in Russia north of the Arctic Circle. Built in 1935 by forced labourers of the Stalinist regime to exploit the mines of the region, it is now ranked among the most polluted places in the world. Alexander Gronsky was born in 1980 in Tallinn, Estonia....
PhotoBiography: Laura Plageman
Laura Plageman is an artist and educator who lives and works in Oakland, CA. Her images explore the relationships between the process of image making, photographic truth and distortion, and the representation of landscape. She is interested in making pictures that examine the natural world as a scene of mystery,...
Justin Barton: Transnistrian Patriot
The true nature of national identity and our elemental need to bond with patriotism is questioned in the face of portraits of nationalists of a country that doesn’t exist, but whose symbols have exerted a potent enough influence to maintain a frozen conflict for 25 years. During the split of...