At night, the Japanese capital sleeps deeply but isn’t drowned in darkness not lost in silence. The highly traveled areas of the city transform into a sleeping megalopolis. There, you discover the city’s whispers, its secret passages, and become immersed in oversized typography and images of childhood heroes decorating vertiginous...
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...
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...
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...
Ragnar Axelsson: Faces of the North
Ragnar Axelsson was born in Iceland in 1958 and started his training as a photographer at the age of 16 in a traditional photographic atelier. At 18 he was already a staff photographer at the leading Icelandic newspaper, Morgunblaðið, and has ever since continued his lifelong documentation project on the...
Edward Burtynsky: Quarries All Over the World
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. About his project Quarries Burtynsky says: I had found an organic architecture created by our pursuit of raw materials....
Joey L.: Omo Valley
While Ethiopia's sky-heavy terrain leaves its residents engulfed by a jungle of impressions, myths and searing truths, their daily existence remains tinged with sociopolitical issues, a sense of spirituality, and an undeniable nearness to the animal world. Joey L. is a Canadian commercial photographer, director and published author based in...
Greer Muldowney: Hong Kong
Greer Muldowney is an artist, photography professor and independent curator based in Boston, Massachusetts. She received an undergraduate degree in Political Science and Studio Art from Clark University, and an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She has acted as the Curator for the Desotorow Gallery in...
Markel Redondo: China’s New Cultural Revolution – Tourism
Chinese Tourism Boom looks at the growing Chinese tourist trade as the number of Chinese tourist increases dramatically year by year. The project is a satiric comment on the mass movements of people for cultural and "scenic spot" consumption. It concentrates on the social interactions between group members and leaders, tourists...
Jeroen Nieuwhuis: People of Cuba
Jeroen Nieuwhuis lives in the Netherlands. He started photography at age 11, capturing friends with the camera he got for birthday. After a couple of years, he started shooting portraits of friends and posting them on different forums to receive feedback on them. Slowly he developed his own taste in photography and started to look at images differently....