Interview with Portrait photographer Vinit Gupta

How did you get into photography? The first motivation to getting in photography was travelling, but later, while volunteering with Not to Profit Organisation, I realized how we can use photography as a tool for social and documentary research. In 2011 left my corporate job and start working with development...

Louviere + Vanessa: Resonantia

This September, Louviere + Vanessa will transform Candela Books + Gallery into an immersive, multi-sensory environment, incorporating animated vinyl record, film, and abstract photographs. While preparing for this exhibition we have been trying to wrap our minds around the labor-intensive process of New Orleans based artists Louviere + Vanessa’s new...

Eric Meola: Storm Chaser

Traveling across more than seven Midwestern states with a professional storm-chasing group called Tempest Tours, Eric Meola documented everything from hair-raising tornadoes to serene sunsets. While interested in the interplay between light and color in the sky, he also sought to portray signs of life in the old towns they...

Shinichi Maruyama: Nude Dancers

Shinichi Maruyama is Japan born photographer who moved to New York in 2003. In Nude series Shinichi tried to capture the beauty of both the human body’s figure and its motion. The figure in the image, which is formed into something similar to a sculpture, is created by combining 10,000...

Shen Chao-Liang: Stage

Shen Chao-Liang made over 100 photographs between 2006 and 2011. In his introduction to his book, Stage, the artist explains his fascination with these stage trucks, their history, how they are made, and the life that surrounds the performers and business owners. The artist followed many stage trucks to remote...

Interview with Documentary photographer Maxim Dondyuk

- How did you get into photography? I started doing photography after my third try. When I was a child, when my mother and I were sitting in a red room. She was an amateur photographer and constantly took pictures of our whole family on camera ZENIT. I remember I...

Danila Tkachenko: Escape

I travelled in search of people who have decided to escape from social life and live all alone in wild nature, far away from any villages, towns or other people. Most of my trips were done in Russia. I grew up in the heart of the big city, but I’ve...

David Leventi: Opera Houses

The architectural photographer David Leventi probably got a taste of this famous tenor’s words many times in the eight years he spent producing Opera. For this project, Leventi shot more than 40 opera houses in almost 20 countries, from the tiny (Teatro di Villa Aldrovandi Mazzacorati, capacity: 80) to the...

PhotoBiography: Robert Hutinski

What is in the photos is what I think I see. - To observe - To document - To communicate - To warn - To take a stand. Today, the political permeates most practices in the everyday of an individual who both executes and produces them and only rarely (in...