Shen Chao-Liang made over 100 photographs between 2006 and 2011. In his introduction to his book, Stage, the artist explains his fascination with these stage trucks, their history, how they are made, and the life that surrounds the performers and business owners. The artist followed many stage trucks to remote...
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Interview with Documentary photographer Maxim Dondyuk
- How did you get into photography? I started doing photography after my third try. When I was a child, when my mother and I were sitting in a red room. She was an amateur photographer and constantly took pictures of our whole family on camera ZENIT. I remember I...
Danila Tkachenko: Escape
I travelled in search of people who have decided to escape from social life and live all alone in wild nature, far away from any villages, towns or other people. Most of my trips were done in Russia. I grew up in the heart of the big city, but I’ve...
David Leventi: Opera Houses
The architectural photographer David Leventi probably got a taste of this famous tenor’s words many times in the eight years he spent producing Opera. For this project, Leventi shot more than 40 opera houses in almost 20 countries, from the tiny (Teatro di Villa Aldrovandi Mazzacorati, capacity: 80) to the...
PhotoBiography: Robert Hutinski
What is in the photos is what I think I see. - To observe - To document - To communicate - To warn - To take a stand. Today, the political permeates most practices in the everyday of an individual who both executes and produces them and only rarely (in...
Olya Ivanova: Water Memory
The Moscow Canal was built to connect the Moscow River with the Volga River. In the 1930s it helped to deal with the shortage of water in Moscow. Now it delivers more than 60 percent of the drinking and industrial water to the city of Moscow. During the Second World...
Simon Norfolk: Time Taken
The Michael Hoppen Gallery is delighted to announce Simon Norfolk’s third exhibition of photographs with the gallery: Time Taken, a poetic tracing of time on the war-torn landscape of Afghanistan. Between 2013 and 2014 Simon Norfolk visited the Bamiyan Valley in Afghanistan, an area of the country once famous for...
Life in Britain During the Blitz
A collection of very rare color photographs of life in London and across the UK during the Blitz have been released to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain. The images are on display as in the Imperial War Museum in Manchester, as part of their Horrible Histories®:...
Patrick Kauffmann: Berlin Underground
25 years has passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the symbol of the Cold War. Now the wall is almost completely gone, just like so many other historical monuments from Berlin's dark history. Perhaps one of the best places where you still can sense the history of Berlin,...
PhotoBiography: Michal Chelbin
Based in New York City, Israeli-born, Michal Chelbin has been shown in solo and group shows in the US and abroad in venues such as the Photographer’s Gallery in London , Hendrik Andersen Museum in Rome , the National Portrait Gallery in London , and the Tel Aviv Museum of...