The American Dream is a national ethos of the United States, the set of ideals (Democracy, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, and Equality) in which freedom includes the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility for the family and children, achieved through hard work in a society with few...
Interview with documentary photographer Patrick Joust
How did you get interested in photography? Do you have an educational artistic background? It started humbly and it has stayed that way. I wanted to take pictures, kind of as a hobby, which began after I first moved to Baltimore in 2002. That was after dropping out of an...
Dina Oganova: Frozen Waves
All my childhood I was listening stories how some boy/man with friends were stealing a girl, to get a married after her. Sometimes girls didn’t even know who will be their future husbands and they didn’t have choice and decided to stay . It was a big shame to come...
PhotoBiography: James Nachtwey
James Nachtwey (born March 14, 1948) is an American photojournalist and war photographer. He has been awarded the Overseas Press Club's Robert Capa Gold Medal five times and two World Press Photo awards. In 2003, Nachtwey was injured in a grenade attack on his convoy while working in Baghdad, from...
Tatiana Gulenkina: Things Merging and Falling Apart
Things Merging and Falling Apart (2010-2016) consists of unique type C contact prints (photograms) created in a color darkroom using long exposures. Says Tatiana: My interest in cameraless photography came from a desire to capture not a decisive moment, but a time lapse, a movement or transformation of fragile organic...
Gabriele Orlini: El Sol de Manana
Villa 31, built in the 1930, is the oldest of the villas miserias in Buenos Aires. Are spaces of urban segregation, barrios locked in the metropolis, born as a result of the first migrations from within the country and from Europe in the early XX century. While going through different...
Daro Sulakauri: Deprived of Adolescence
Georgia has one of the highest rates in europe for early marriages. Marriages occur mainly in Kakheti and Adjara regions, it is mostly shown among religious and ethnic minorities. In villages large number of girls are taken out of school to be married. After going to a wedding in a...
Photochroms of Scotland from 1890s
The Kingdom of Scotland emerged as an independent sovereign state in the Early Middle Ages and continued to exist until 1707. By inheritance in 1603, James VI, King of Scots, became King of England and King of Ireland, thus forming a personal union of the three kingdoms. Scotland subsequently entered...
Interview with fine art photographer Elsa Leydier
Elsa Leydier was born in 1988 in France. After studying languages, she entered the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles in 2012. After graduating in 2015, she came to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she currently lives and works. Her work has been shown in numerous shows like...
Emel Karakozak: Budding
Woman is a being through which man feel connected to nature as woman is very similar to nature in birth-giving and life-blooming characteristics. That is why many languages use the term of ‘mother nature’ while referring to nature. Since she is the bridge between life and man, and the forgiving...