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...
Streets of Vancouver in 1950s and 1960s
Fred Herzog was 20 years old—a late comer to photography—when he brought his first camera in 1950 and began shooting black-and-white pictures in his native Germany. Two years later, in search of work, Herzog traveled to Canada, eventually settling in Vancouver, where he still lives and works today. In 1953...
Petros Koublis: In Landscapes
The area that surrounds Athens is composed by a certain antithesis, as the vast urban surface meets with the countryside. Surrounded by the silence of centenarian olive groves, meadows, mountains and seas, the city today struggles to carry the weight of its own existence, facing a rather tough and tense...
PhotoBiography: Harry Fayt
Born in 1979 in Belgium, Harry Fayt has a revelation at 15 years old looking through fashion magazines. As many teenagers, he’s fascinated by models, but photographers who sublime them with fantastic photographs fascinate him more. That’s where his passion for fashion photography starts. At 16, dreaming about photographing great...