The dawn of mankind, a time with no rationality. An ancestor contemplating the cosmos perceives the necessity of a divinity. The Second Cosmogony takes place along with the miracle of self-thinking consciousness. In that moment he knows he exists for a reason; he's got the significative element and this had...
Interview with photojournalist Pavel Volkov
Pavel Volkov - photographer from Russia, actually lives in Moscow. Started his career as a freelancer working for various photo agencies in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, covered different social topics concerning Russia and relevant events in the country. Covered the events on the Maidan, in Crimea and south-east of the...
2016 Monochrome Photography Awards Winners Gallery
Monochrome Photography Awards is proud to announce the winners of their 2016 photography competition! French photographer Michel Kirch has been announced as the overall winner of Professional category with the title: Monochrome Photographer of the Year 2016 and $2000 prize money. His winning image, called ‘Vertical Horizon’ shows Persian harmony...
Anna Filipova: Arcitc Coal
Svalbard is a cold, dark and isolated island in the Arctic Ocean, situated about midway between continental Norway and the North Pole. Norway and Russia are the only two nations with settlements there. Large-scale coal mining that established communities in Svalbard during the 1920s remains the main industry to this...
Michel Le Belhomme: The Two Labyrinths
While I hold a great respect for classical traditions of photography, I believe it is indispensable to place them in perspective. “The Two Labyrinths” explores its most blatant legend: landscape and its representation. Landscape, the ultimate romantic subject, most often expresses itself from the angle of the contemplative or the...
Helio Leon: The Purple Room
An exploration of my personal Istanbul underworld in 2012. Alone again in the city of chaos. I only find sense through the camera, to investigate the dream and the nightmare: desire, intimacy, love, abandonment. And I find reflections of my past, my family home, the corridors. My grandmother as a...
Antonio Aragon Renuncio: Sorcière. The Witches. The Soul Eaters
Les Sorcières. The witches. The soul eaters. At Burkina Faso. In the middle of the deep savannah. Far from everything. Close to nowhere. Even today in the Mossi tribal culture many women are accused of being “witches” by their neighbors, simply because they assume that they are responsible for any...
Galina Kurlat: Child Portraits
In this new series of portraits of children between the ages of 6-12, I explore the vast interactions of the child and his or her reaction to being photographed using an antiquated and unfamiliar method. Drawing from a rich history of child portraits from the 1800s, including post-mortem photography, I...
Adam Entwistle: PORTALS
Till your eyes foist a vision dazzling on the wind, line 14, Sylvia Plath, November Graveyard Bold yet intimate nature scenes induce mystical experiences in the viewer, charged by the capturing of the photographer’s projection. A bleak, melancholic beauty forms from vast open moorland. Along with imposing ancient stones from...
Alia Ali: Cast no Evil
Throughout life we are presented with endless examples in which individuals and groups have been excluded from communities based on appearances, beliefs and actions. When this happens, there must always be two, those who impose standards, the decision makers, the 'included,' and those they exclude. Communication can be used to...