Monochrome Photography Awards 2017 – Winners Gallery

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...

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....