Monochrome Awards announced the winners of thair 2017 photography contest! Canadian photographer Ian Pettigrew has been announced as the overall winner of Professional category with the title: Monochrome Photographer of the Year 2017 and $2000 prize money. His winning image, called ‘Bailey’ is a part of an ongoing series of what...
PhotoBiography: Nick Brandt
Nick Brandt (born 1964) is an English photographer who photographs exclusively in the African continent, one of his goals being to record a last testament to the wild animals and places there before they are destroyed by the hands of man. In 2001, Brandt embarked upon his ambitious photographic project:...
Roger Wehrli: Bilbao – Photographs since 1988
In the 1980s, Bilbao, metropolis of the Basque Country in Spain, was considered the country’s most polluted city and its mining and iron industries were in decline. In 1993, seven years after Spain had joined the European Union, a radical transformation was initiated, moving away from manufacturing to service industries...
Walter Mittelholzer Revisited – From the Walter Mittelholzer Photo Archive
Walter Mittelholzer (1894–1937) was a pioneering aviator and cofounder of Switzerland’s legendary airline Swissair. From his earliest flights, he was also an avid aerial photographer, and his spectacular views of the Swiss Alps have been popular ever since he began publishing them in the 1920s. Mittelholzer also participated in expeditions...
Photojournalist: The Life Story of Ara Guler
Photojournalist, a book by Nezih Tavlas, provides a compelling and in-depth look into the life of Ara Güler who is regarded as one of the most accomplished documentary photographers of the 20th century and the pioneer of photojournalism in Turkey. The book lists all of Guler’s professional accomplishments while also...
Kashef Chowdhury: Dhaka. Memories or Lost
Upon setting foot in Dhaka, it becomes clear that this is a city steeped in history. One of the oldest settlements in Bangladesh, it is today among the largest cities in the world, and rapid, often unplanned, urbanization has vastly outpaced sustainability, threatening the historic buildings and communities that make...
PhotoBiography: Paul Hart
British photographer Paul Hart (b.1961) explores our relationship with the landscape, in both a humanistic and socio-historical sense. His work usually concentrates on a specific geographical region where he photographs intensively over a number of years. He works solely with the black and white analogue process. Hart studied at Lincoln...
Interview with documentary photographer Patrick Joust
How did you get interested in photography? Do you have an educational artistic background? It started humbly and it has stayed that way. I wanted to take pictures, kind of as a hobby, which began after I first moved to Baltimore in 2002. That was after dropping out of an...
Interview with fine art photographers Gerald Berghammer & Ina Forstinger
“The exciting thing about landscape photography is waiting for the right moment. In our case, patience is not only a virtue but a precondition.” - Gerald Berghammer, Ina Forstinger Gerald Berghammer and Ina Forstinger´s analogue black-and-white photographs originate in cities such as Vienna, Venice and Dubai, in the mystical landscapes...
Antony Cairns: LA-LV / OSC
Antony Cairns (b.1980) is a British photographer living and working in London, England. He studied Photography at the London College of Printing, graduating in 2002 with first-class honours. He has a profound interest in the history of photography and alternative printing methods and his practice is rooted in chemical-based techniques....