Street Photography Awards 2016: 2nd Place, Series
"I take pictures on streets around the world. My images are candid, never staged—serendipity is the soul of an image: it makes it authentic and believable."
"Everything has to go"—the new edition of Previously on Hans Lucas (#9) brings together a diverse—and at times unstable—range of images, texts and video that in their sum propel us forward with the force of a parade.
In the final summers before the violent outbreak of war between Ukraine and Russia, a small military camp for children presaged the growing militancy and fraying unity that was soon to come apart in spectacular fashion.
Street Photography Awards 2016: 3rd Place, Series
A strikingly enigmatic set of images that play on feelings of artifice and the ever-more tenuous line between our public and private worlds.
An impressive, thought-provoking group show explores the idea of how "belief" (both secular and religious) continues to change and transform in contemporary cultures around the world.
The latest edition of Previously on Hans Lucas (#8) addresses a wide range of conceptual subjects including isolation, companionship, spirit, and a personal search for identity—learn more about this innovative monthly photography publication.
A destabilizing series composed of manipulated video stills drawn from footage shot by soldiers in the Middle East. The final results leave us grasping for the differences between fiction and reality on these distant battlefields.
Award-winning photojournalist Sergey Ponomarev discusses the challenges—both personal and political—inherent to a career spent documenting conflict and its consequences around the world.
These diptych portraits of the same person, same pose, 20 years apart, evoke the magic that is at the heart of photography and portraiture—and a short, touching video interview with the photographer reveals more!
Exploring the relationship between the communities in Indonesia and the powerful elements of nature that surround them—sea, mountains and even slumbering volcanoes.
A striking series that forces us to confront our stereotypes about those living in poverty: these portraits capture homeless women and their children against the bustling backdrop of commerce in Buenos Aires.
For all its negative contemporary connotations, this project aims to depict migration in a positive way: after all, we humans have been moving and migrating for thousands and thousands of years.
Japan continues to deal with the psychological reverberations of the 2011 earthquake—this series, shot on the shores of a river running through Tokyo, meditates on change, uncertainty and the ephemerality of life.
Every morning, there is a moment when we, as parents, part ways from our children—us to work, them to school. Yet the current reality of mass shootings in the US (and in other parts of the world) forces us to realize how fragile and precious this moment of
Sobering documentary photographs tell the grim tale of the life and conditions of brick-workers in Nepal—these bleak hellscapes aim to raise awareness about this disaster for both human rights and the environment.
Aunties: Magical Summers in the Russian Countryside
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A story of the quiet, faithful companionship held between two sisters for decades, beautifully shot and told over the course of many summers in rural, traditional Russia.
Schools in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan are attended by an equal number of boys and girls—a great accomplishment in this part of the world. But while the will is there for an education, frequent electricity shortages make for a challengi
I began developing Elements in 2011 when I was shooting a portfolio of reflected architectural imagery entitled The City Reflections Project. In that work, my focus was on creating “paintings” from kaleidoscopic colors and patterns I saw in the windows o
A childhood fascination with a distant and far-off land has grown into a 15-year (and counting) documentary project about life in this fiercely traditional yet quickly changing country. Portraits, landscapes and documentary images paint a compelling, diverse
Awash with celebrity appeal and dripping with excessive bling, St. Tropez lived up to the glamourous image I’ve always kept of the small fishing village turned pouty paradise for the jet set elite. A last minute change of plans brought me to this mesmerisin
Jaw-dropping cinematic mural photographs from contemporary Africa — lamenting the loss of open lands where wild animals once roamed free. 14 amazing images and two excellent videos.
"Weekdays of the Arkhangelsk Village" (1986 - 2016) is a photo-narration about the problems of the Russian village Malye Ozerki situated in Plesetsk District of Arkhangelsk Region. Malye Ozerki is gradually dying, houses are getting deserted and ruined. In t
As Charles Darwin suggested, humanity is not so far removed from the animal kingdom as we might like to think — these photographs take up this line of thought in saturated, vibrant detail.
Christian Nilson presents his observations on Switzerland, his adopted home. He emigrated from Sweden at the age of eleven, and subsequently lived in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and other countries. During his life abroad, he always looked upon his tempora
This is the photo story about the pink salmon fishing season. The photos were taken on Sakhalin island in August 2016.
Sakhalin island is the largest Russian island in the North Pacific Ocean, close to Japan. Moreover, the Island was claimed by both Russia a
"To me, photography provides endless creative revelations about daily life—a way to discover unnoticed but beautiful views of nature in our infinitely varied world."
From sunny picnics to KFC (with a local twist), this series digs past the conventional, highly negative representations of North Korea and instead opens up a more intimate understanding of this long-mysterious land.
The Poems: Visual Explorations into the Unconscious
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Utilizing the language of the unconscious and of dreams, these visual poems transport us into irrational but emotionally rich worlds, where locked away feelings unexpectedly rise to the surface of our minds.
