About his project The Forgotten People of Kurdistan says Giacomo Sini: I usually travel in Middle East and year by year by wandering around photographing the conflictual situation, I’ve started to share more strong stories with the Kurdish community. I’ve always had a great interest and passion on Kurds since I...
Eli Reed: A Long Walk Home
Eli Reed: A Long Walk Home presents the first career retrospective of Reed’s work. Consisting of over 250 images that span the full range of his subjects and his evolution as a photographer, the photographs are a visual summation of the human condition. They include examples of Reed’s early work;...
Patryk Karbowski: Halfway
A middle-sized city in the center of Poland, halfway between the mountains and the Baltic Sea. Neither rich, nor really poor, with a typical history of a region’s industrial capital which blossomed in the time of state socialism and lost that position after 1989. Such places evolve in a very special way. With...
Chien-Chi Chang: Jet Lag
“Today is Monday, so this must be Zurich.” For those who travel a lot, the world becomes a steel-and-concrete construct of interchangeable flight crews, hotel rooms, and check-in counters. In this jet-setting life, the most important thing is that the power adapter fits. For Jet Lag, award-winning photographer Chien-Chi Chang...
Francoise Gaujour: Stay Alive
In the 1950s and '60s, Bombay Beach in California was a thriving resort. Guests swam, water-skied, and golfed during the day, then headed to the yacht club to party into the night. Now, Bombay Beach is a bleached, rusted, abandoned wasteland. The water smells of salt, petrol, and rotting fish....
Raphael Olivier: North Korea Vintage Architecture
Raphael Olivier is a french photographer based in Shanghai, China, with an interest for urban development and mega-city lifestyles. He works on commercial assignments around Asia covering architecture, interiors, corporate, industrial, hotels & resorts, lifestyle and documentary. Pyongyang, capital city of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (a.k.a North Korea),...
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...
Eirik Johnson: Barrow Cabins
These pictures depict seasonal hunting cabins built by the native Inupiat inhabitants of Barrow, Alaska as seen through the extremes of the Arctic summer and winter. The cabins are situated at the Northern most stretch of the United States, along the shores of the Chukchi Sea, part of the larger Arctic...
Interview with Documentary photographer Brian Finke
- How did you get into photography? My interest in photography began when I was a freshman in high school when I took my first photojournalism class, with the idealistic motivations of social awareness and from reading about the amazing life and work of photojournalist W. Eugene Smith. - Where...