Atul Pratap Chauhan is a Delhi based commercial and advertising photographer. ‘Nanhe Pahalwan’ brings to fore the raw exuberance of ancient Pahalwani culture in India. Pahalwani traditionally uses the body as the means to explore oneself. The affect is much deeper than what is seen on the surface. For young Pahalwans,...
Philipp Lohöfener: Atlanticwall
Philipp Lohöfener was born in 1974 in Bielefeld, Germany. 1998-2006 he studied Photography & Design on University of applied Science (Bielefeld/ Germany). From 2001Philipp lives and works in Berlin. Built between 1942 and 1944 the „Atlantikwall“ should protect Nazi-Germany from allied invasions. About 8000 bunkers were constructed along the coast from...
Frank Herfort: Imperial Pomp – Post Soviet High-Rise
In documenting a unique phenomenon, the German photographer Frank Herfort has journeyed to the most remote areas of the former Soviet Union. After the collapse of the regime, a strangely pompous architectural style sprung up throughout the new republic. It conflates the aesthetics of monumental Soviet architecture with the Western...
Bernhard Lang: Tulip Fields
Aerial Photographs of Tulip Fields in the Netherlands. The Netherlands are the world's main producer of commercially sold tulips, producing as many as 3 billion bulbs annually, mostly for export. At this moment there are about 150 species of tulip bulbs with in total 3000 different varieties. Bernhard Lang is...
Frank Herfort: Time In Between
The whole world is frozen in a condition of waiting. The people on these photos seem to be totally absorbed in a deep, paralyzing, enchanted slumber. And we have the uncanny sneaking feeling that this time there is no prince on his way to kiss them awake again. “This moment...
Jennifer Garza-Cuen: Detroit
Jennifer Garza-Cuen is an artist concerned with the complex weave of social structures, with groups and sub-groups and the continued impulse to categorize and define.Working in a constructed-documentary style she explores ideas of cultural memory and inheritance through the revision, reenactment and recounting of myths. With a basis in the tradition...
Bernhard Lang: Densely Populated Beaches From Above
Munich based photographer Bernhard Lang created series of aerial photographs of seaside resorts at the Adriatic coastline in Italy, between Ravenna and Rimini. Photographed August 2014. Website: bernhardlang.de
Jan Kempenaers: Spomeniks
During the 1960s and 70s, thousands of monuments commemorating the Second World War called 'Spomeniks' were built throughout the former Yugoslavia; striking monumental sculptures, with an angular geometry echoing the shapes of flowers, crystals, and macro-views of viruses or DNA. In the 1980s the Spomeniks still attracted millions of visitors...
Franck Bohbot: Light On – Neons of New York
Brooklyn based artist photographer Frank Bohbot documents illuminated facades of small shops, restaurants and services. Born in the southernmost suburbs of Paris, France (1980), photographer Franck Bohbot moved to New York City in 2013. He is a documentarian with an eye for the theatrical who found his way to photography by way of...
Joey L.: Holy Men
Joseph Anthony Lawrence, best known as Joey L., is a Canadian-born photographer and director based in Brooklyn, New York. Having borrowed his father’s digital point-and-shoot camera at the age of 10, Joey turned to photography as a means of expressing his creativity, which ultimately transformed into a lifelong passion. His...