A park as an open grassy green area, designed for enjoying your leisure time, appeared on the wave of Romanticism in the XVIII century. Opened to public city parks appeared in Europe only at the beginning of the XIX century. Parks were promoting the cult of nature, harmony, quietness, seclusion....
Alena Zhandarova: Puree with a taste of Triangles
I like to try something what I didn't do before, to expand the perception of the world. I fascinate by the opportunity to try myself as a fabler with my own heroes, the chance to transform my inner feeling of the world to visual form, from chaos to cosmos. It...
Alain Schroeder: Living for Death
In Toraja, the rituals associated with death are complex, require extensive planning and are expensive. Therefore, when a person dies, it can take weeks, months even years for the family to organize the funeral. During this time, the deceased is considered to be "sick" and kept at home. Relatives continue...
Federico Floriani and Francesco La Porta: Cruo
Cruo is a series of still lifes on classic venetian food. Cruo means Raw in venetian dialect and that’s how we have treated the still life: leaving the food raw, natural, aggressive. The postproduction has been used in and ultra-real manner to create a dialectic dialogue between the classic aesthetics...
Christopher Thomas: New York Sleeps
Imagine a New York devoid of people, its empty streets, bridges and waterways as silent and magnificent as an Ansel Adams landscape. This is the New York that Christopher Thomas reveals in duotone photographs that are at once haunting and nostalgic. Employing a large-format Polaroid camera, Thomas shot many of...
Elena Anosova: Saagan Sag
Olkhon is the only inhabited island of the lake Baikal and a tourist resort center of the Siberia during summer-time. The island is a sacral place for several religions, shamanism and buddhism, and it used to be territory of neolithic people sites. For several winter months (2010-2015) I record everyday...
ND Awards 2016 – Winners Announced
ND Awards (Neutral Density Awards) announced the winners of their international photography contest! The judges reviewed 6422 entries submitted from 85 countries. Brooke Shaden (United States) has been announced as the overall winner of Professional category with the title: ND Photographer Of The Year 2016 and $2500 prize money. In...
Benoit Fournier: Resurgence
Resurgence is a work about the leaf as a trigger of memory. The people of Babilônia favela appear through the portraits made with chlorophyll from real leaves. Individuality is the core of the work: the leaf is unique and ephemeral, just like the people who appear through the chlorophyll. The...
Interview with fine art photographer Drew Nikonowicz
Drew Nikonowicz (born in St. Louis Missouri, 1993) earned a BFA degree from the University of Missouri - Columbia in 2016. His work employs analog photographic processes as well as computer simulations to deal with landscape and exploration in contemporary photography. He has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art...
Jennifer Garza-Cuen: Eden
'Eden' is part of a larger project entitled 'Wandering In Place’, which depicts a series of locations in the United States as a residue of my cultural memory, an inheritance. It is a metaphorical memoir, a narrative re-telling of facts and fictions and it is also my discovery of the...