Mountainland surveys the lives and societies of upland Southeast Asia with reference to the geographical and socio-scientific concept of Zomia, which understands the region as culturally different from the respective dominant lowland societies and tries to challenge the widespread perception and narrative of the cultural unity of Southeast Asia as...
PhotoBiography: Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky is known as one of Canada's most respected photographers. His remarkable photographic depictions of global industrial landscapes are included in the collections of over sixty major museums around the world, including the National Gallery of Canada, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the...
Lena Tsibizova: The Sulfur Miners
Sulfur mining is one of the most hard and dangerous works in the world. The miners works inside the crater of volcano Ijen (East Java), break the cooled sulfur into large pieces and carry it away in baskets and trolleys. Miners carry loads ranging from 75 kilograms to 90 kilograms,...
Babis Kougemitros: Edgelands
About "Edgelands" Babis says: These pictures are the product of my last two-year wandering in several places and areas of Attica, the zone between the city edges and the countryside. They depict vague, ambiguous and constantly changing landscapes that people’s misconceptions often reject them as being ugly or aesthetically unworthy. This time,...
Elena Helfrecht: Little Stories
About her work Elena says: My photographs come unfiltered and straight out of my core. They are personal and subjective, yet they show deep human concerns many of us are familiar with, but only few speak of. Nothing fascinates me more than our consciousness, which is the center of my visual...
Interview with fine art photographer Frank Machalowski
Frank Machalowski - award winning photographic artist and photographer, born in Berlin, Germany. After economic studies in Berlin he worked for 14 years as a business consultant. Almost 6 years ago he started his own business as a freelance photographer and an artist. He lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. How did...
PhotoIreland Festival 2017 – Dublin, 1-31 May
Celebrating its eight edition in 2017, PhotoIreland Festival brings to Dublin another exciting edition packed with free exhibitions, workshops, photobook launches, and talks. This year, the festival explores how Photography is used to share accounts of personal experiences related to conflict: The Recount of Conflict. The festival is divided in...
Probal Rashid: Rohingya Refugees in Bangladesh
Approximately 70,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh since October 9, 2016 after the Burmese military launched clearance operations. The U.N. human rights office said in their report that Myanmar's security forces have committed mass killings, torture and gang rapes of Rohingyas, as well as burned their villages....
Tatiana Vinogradova: Days of Melancholy
This series of portraits is focused on the life of gay people in Russia. It is a visual tale of melancholy, loneliness and uncertainty about the future. In Russia the level of intolerance toward homosexuality has been rising sharply. A 2013 survey found that 74% of Russians said homosexuality should...
Peter Ydeen: Easton Nights
Since the close of 2015 Peter Ydeen has been photographing at night in the Easton Pennsylvania area. Starting with images of George Tice's elegant night shots in mind, it soon matured into much more than he had expected. The night has it's own visual rules, it's own color wheel, and...