The photographic works of Bence Bakonyi represent the symbols of freedom, airiness and transubstantiation. Below their contemporary and young aesthetics, they provide us with deeper layers of interpretations. Body and mind – these qualities are entirely intertwined in the unique pictoriality he creates: a human blends into the landscape, the...
Edward S. Curtis: Indians of North America
Beginning in 1900, Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) set out on a monumental quest to create an unprecedented, comprehensive record of the Indians of North America. The culmination of his 30-year project led to his magnum opus, The North American Indian, a twenty-volume, twenty-portfolio set of handmade books containing a selection...
Francoise Gaujour: Stay Alive
In the 1950s and '60s, Bombay Beach in California was a thriving resort. Guests swam, water-skied, and golfed during the day, then headed to the yacht club to party into the night. Now, Bombay Beach is a bleached, rusted, abandoned wasteland. The water smells of salt, petrol, and rotting fish....
Michael Kenna: France
Michael Kenna first visited France in 1973 and has been photographing there since the early 1980s. He has produced thousands of photographs on subjects such as Mont St Michel, Le Notre’s Gardens, the Calais Lace Factories and Chateau Lafite Rothschild. France encompasses work from these projects and many others. Comprising...
Beth Moon: Ancient Trees
Beth Moon’s fourteen-year quest to photograph ancient trees has taken her across the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Some of her subjects grow in isolation, on remote mountainsides, private estates, or nature preserves; others maintain a proud, though often precarious, existence in the midst of civilization....
Kevin Krautgartner: Black and White Architecture Photography
Kevin Krautgartner was born 1988 in Schwelm, Germany. He graduated from University of Applied Sciences in Dortmund with a degree in photography and graphic design. He has since been living in Wuppertal, where he has mainly been working as a professional photographer and image editor. His work has taken him to many different countries...
Fabian Oefner: Oil Spill
Fabian Oefner is an internationally renowned artist, who uses photography to bring art and science together. His projects are often about showing scientific phenomena in an unusual and poetic way and therefore invite the viewer to stop for a moment and appreciate the beauty that is constantly surrounding us. His studio...
Marta Kochanek: Cognitive Bodies
The aim of the project was to capture a very sensual collaboration of the human’s body and extreme emotions that expresses both the physical and spiritual harmony. It was to immortalise the beauty of shape, the purity of art and the uniqueness of existence. Photographer’s job was to emotionally connect with the sitters...
Ilya Nodia: Smile
Ilya Nodia is advertising and portrait photographer based Moscor, Russian Federation. In Smile project Ilya shows beautiful and touching photoshooting smiles of old people. Says Ilya: This summer, the company Senior Group invited me to create with them a small but very touching and beautiful project about the smile. We visited...
Matthieu Gafsou: Terres Compromises
The full body of pictures that makes up Terres Compromises is rich in subtlety, curiosity and a wry and unabashed intelligence. Photographer Matthieu Gafsou set out to document an admittedly subjective, but nevertheless engaged and inquisitive experience of travelling around Israel, Palestine and Jordan with the various divisive and explosive conflicts that...