Inspired by Byzantine iconography, Verses of Emptiness explores the iconic potential of the photographic portrait. Rather than using the portrait to capture a person’s likeness, Verses of Emptiness asks whether an image of an ordinary person can rise above the portrayed, transcend them, and in doing so reveal a more...
Anna Filipova: Research at the End of the World
Ny-Ålesund is situated on the 79th parallel north on Svalbard archipelago, which makes it the most northerly permanent civilian settlement in the world. It houses the largest laboratory for modern Arctic research in existence. It has a very restricted access both because of the scientific project that are conducted and...
Julien Coquentin: Black Seasons
About Black Seasons series says Julien: I do not know when exactly this series started. Without a doubt not in the first picture. I think all this goes back much further, beyond my own memory. Some images which tumble out: a priest dressed in a long black cape, walking in...
Fulvio Bugani: Twilight
The ancient traditions and the call of the ancestors are the forces that drive some populations to stay connected to inhospitable places, which they perceive as part of their group identity. The seasonal return to these remote areas, is a return to tradition, a rediscover of their roots and a...
Alexandra Polina: Myths, Masks and Subjects
The protagonists of the photo series are members of visible minorities who were born, raised and educated in Germany. These images deal with a social gap created by prejudiced stigmatized view and use clichéd folkloric settings and common stereotypes to question it. The result is a collage of individual experiences, based...
20 Striking Photos from ‘Story’ Category – PhotogrVphy Grant 2016
We bring you a selection of 25 striking documentary photos awarded in 2016 edition of PhotogrVphy Grant. PhotogrVphy Grant is a non-profit initiative run by PhotogrVphy Magazine. It is open for submissions without any fees (free to enter) to support all photographers from every corner of the world.Our idea is to evoke...
PhotoBiography: Mark Power
Mark Power, born 1959, Harpenden, UK As a child, Mark Power discovered his father's home-made enlarger in the family attic, a contraption consisting of an upturned flowerpot, a domestic light bulb and a simple camera lens. His interest in photography probably began at this moment, though he later went to...
Luca Marianaccio: Buffetto All’italiana
Define exactly what a city signifies is very complicated. The reason is that human habitat is basically instable. Cities are in an ever occurring mutation. We know in every moment that we are urged by the consequences a good or bad architectural environment produces on us: if it didn’t have...
20 Powerful Portraits from ‘People’ Category – PhotogrVphy Grant 2016
We bring you a selection of 20 powerful portraits awarded in 2016 edition of PhotogrVphy Grant. PhotogrVphy Grant is a non-profit initiative run by PhotogrVphy Magazine. It is open for submissions without any fees (free to enter) to support all photographers from every corner of the world.Our idea is to evoke artistic...
Photochroms of New York City from 1900s
Photochrom is a process for producing colorized images from black-and-white photographic negatives via the direct photographic transfer of a negative onto lithographic printing plates. The process is a photographic variant of chromolithography (color lithography). The process was invented in the 1880s by Hans Jakob Schmid (1856–1924), an employee of the Swiss...