Tomáš Vocelka: Austrian Winter

Winter landscapes near Austrian villages of Ehrwald and Lermoos in the Tirol Zugspitzearena, January 2016. Tomáš Vocelka is a journalist and photographer. Currently he isemployed as an editor in the biggest Czech quality newspaper MF DNES. His journalist career started at small regional weekly Krnovské Noviny - Region, where he worked as photojournalist. Tomáš specializes is landscape,...

PhotoBiography: Laura Plageman

Laura Plageman is an artist and educator who lives and works in Oakland, CA. Her images explore the relationships between the process of image making, photographic truth and distortion, and the representation of landscape. She is interested in making pictures that examine the natural world as a scene of mystery,...

Jati Putra Pratama: Surreal Landscapes

Jati Putra Pratama turns landscape photos into surreal works of art by contorting the scenes to include unusual angles. The Jakarta, Indonesia, graphic designer made waves on Reddit after posting one of his pieces, spawning a flood of copy-cat work, and even a tutorial. Many online commentators write that Pratama’s...

PhotoBiography: Meike Nixdorf

Meike Nixdorf, born 1976, is a German visual artist. She holds a B.Sc. in Psychology from Freie Universitaet Berlin and was educated in photography and video at the School of the International Center of Photography during her three year stay in New York, 2005-2008. Her work has been exhibited in...

PhotoBiography: Elger Esser

Elger Esser was born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1967 and was raised in Rome. In 1986, he moved to Düsseldorf, where he worked as a commercial photographer until 1991. He then attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, studying with Bernd and Hilla Becher, until 1997. A trip to Lyon in 1996 marked...

Interview with Landscape photographer David Köster

David Köster is a Germany based landscape photographer. In his images he stages wild, epic nature sceneries. By means of dramatic perspectives, an atmospheric imagery and the systematic use of natural light Köster creates works which often appear to be paintings rather the photographs. For his artistic pictures David has...

PhotoBiography: Olaf Otto Becker

Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959) follows in the tradition of Herbert Ponting and William Bradford, early photographers who travelled to the Polar Regions to photograph these dramatic and unexplored landscapes. Like his predecessors, Becker aims to find a balance between both the artistic and the scientific in his photography. Olaf...

Interview with Landscape photographer Thomas Kneubühler

Born in 1963 in Solothurn, Switzerland, Thomas Kneubühler has been living in Montreal, Canada since 2000. In 2003, he completed a MFA at Concordia University, Montreal. His work has been presented in exhibitions in both Europe and North America, among others at the Québec Triennial at the Musée d’art contemporain...