"The work by Mario Cruz hits you like a brick in the face. He uncovers the unimaginable nightmare of child slavery, something that should simply not exist in our time..."
Everytime I travel, I walk alone hours and hours, sometimes far from crowded center of cities. I took pictures of people in light posture, that created ironic or poetic relation between them and the setting.
First hours in Bangkok. Or Phnom-Penh. Or Hanoi. The wave of humid heat takes your breath away. The wave of bold, quirky colors takes your sight away. When every image feels like a punch in your face. May the audience share your sweet, colorful pain...
The body of work is visual anthropological research that looks at the construct of the colonial studio photograph. The featured images draw from a series of 21 Studio portraits, taken in and around Fort Cochin in Kerala between 2008-2011.
The images document
History is filled with examples of humans, often children, gone "feral"—raised by wolves, dogs, monkeys and more. These staged portraits recreate moments from these fascinating stories, probing into the question of what really makes us human.
Shot: Contemporary Tintypes Comment on American Gun Culture
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Utilizing darkroom techniques that date back to the Civil War, these tintype portraits offer an unusual, fresh perspective on the overheated debate surrounding gun control.
Plumigeri: The Still Beauty and Deadly Contradictions of Taxidermy
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A beautiful attempt to convey the personality and dignity exuded by stuffed bird specimens—while also wrestling with the twisted contradictions inherent in this bygone art-form.
In Namibia, a generations-long tradition of tapping the sap of palm trees runs counter to recent environmental protection efforts. Is this an essential cultural practice or merely destructive? These striking portraits investigate.
Discovering Asian Photography: Obscura Festival 2016
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Now in its fourth year, the latest edition of this beautifully situated festival in Penang, Malaysia shines its spotlight on Asian photography, giving a much-needed platform of visibility to original and relatively unknown work.
A Work In Progress: Inaugural Laureate from the Jerwood/Photoworks Awards
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A young, innovative practitioner returns to her roots in the Czech Republic to explore the dark, mysterious beauty that lies within the feelings of childhood.
Young Nomads: Child Horsemen of the Mongolian Plains
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The horse is deeply entrenched in Mongolian culture—shortly after children learn to walk, they learn to ride. This interview delves into the unique (though endangered) traditions of this ancient, nomadic people.
A former fashion photographer became obsessed with the people and places of Skid Row in Los Angeles—this is her story and the photos she made over the course of several years.
Collectives Spotlight #7: The Analogue Street Collective
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A diverse and eclectic group of photographers united by their desire to capture the soul of city streets—using (mostly) the irreplaceable medium of traditional film photography.
A near-psychedelic layering of brightly colored drips, drawings and inky fingerprints offer haiku-like meditations about the materiality of the street itself.
Plunged into the wild, color-filled streets of New York, an Italian photographer followed two key threads—red and blue—to make some visual sense of the city around him.
(Street) photography can be a lonely craft—which is why collectives are an ever-important means of support, feedback and community. Metro focuses on documentary storytelling while acknowledging their debt to the greats of street photography.
Taking inspiration from the idea that every person on Earth is connected, at most, by six degrees of separation, this series creates raw, intimate portraits that begin with a simple conversation in the street...
Stray Light: Imaging the Nocturnal Urban Landscape
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We have all but lost the night for our progress—in the place of ancient stars, we instead find foreign constellations of vanished surfaces and ephemeral, ever-changing flecks of artificial light.
"Like a fisherman who goes about his daily work without knowing what he will catch, I take my camera and dive into the streets...it is an adventure and I am always looking forward to it."
The worldwide popularity of Instagram has transformed it into a fascinating platform for international discovery and cross-genre experimentation—a popular collective offers 20 of their favorite picks.
In various parts of the world, photographing in public remains a touchy issue—using dramatic angles, framing and light, these images circumvent the debate and offer a fresh take on candid street portraiture.
The streets are free, open, magical and filled with the possibilities of endless beauty—this international collective of photographers is on a mission to capture such moments with passion and grace.
Albania, despite its proximity to Europe, remains an unknown spot on the map for many—these photographs take us on an emotional, subjective journey deep inside this haunted, sensual land.
"The Walks" is a series but also a pastime that portrait photographer Laura Pannack returns to again and again as an on-going project. The format is simple; she gets a train to somewhere she hasn’t been before armed with her Hasselblad and goes for a walk.
This project is about showing the unusual among the usual.
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I explore the chance moments of everyday life, with a focus on pedestrians. For me, streets and public spaces are inexhaustible sources of inspiration.
I always have a camera with me and take pictu
Morar Olimpiadas - Rio 2016, Landscapes of transition and partition
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The award-winning landscape and portrait photographer, Giles Price publishes his first photographic landscape book, Morar Olimpíadas, examining the physical transformation of Rio de Janeiro in the run up to the 2016 Olympic Games.
Between 2014 and 2016 Gil
An intimate, in-depth documentary account stepping into the lives of the Koreans of Kazakhstan—a people whose story has been largely untold and forgotten, even in the country that was once their homeland.
Great photographers can use almost any camera to capture memorable images—here are 30 photos made with an iPhone, recently published in a small, yet engrossing volume. Read on for our full review.
Waiting and watching: these are the tools of a street photographer. Given enough time, trivial, quotidian scenes can produce something greater—but only when given proper time to "happen."
Clever or unexpected (occasionally even shocking); bright verging on garish—step inside the world of this idiosyncratic street shooter and learn to see with a slightly more mischievous eye.
An intimate, 6-year project documenting the kaleidoscopic worlds which define the Caucasus. Often beginning in the streets, the camera involves the photographer into situations far beyond anything he could have imagined.
A wide-ranging, learned essay and photographic project which investigate the history of agriculture, hearkening back to the day when the practice lay at the heart of "living well"—sadly, so rarely the case today.
