Maruschak is a photographer, yet such a title is an oversimplification of her practice. While photography, both practical and archival, has been a jumping off point of her work, she is ill content to limit herself the to strictness of the traditionally understood documentary photographic image. Maruschak recalls her early inclinations to paint on her photographs, recollecting.
There is a big difference between a photographer who takes pictures at a certain place for a few months and the one who has been taking pictures there for several years and the place has become a home for him. Why do the photographs of Cuba by Ernesto Bazan differ from the others? […]
I am interested in many places across the world and the everyday life of their inhabitants. It touches me very personally, because also I’m looking for where I belong.
Ever since the rise of #MeToo and the death of Kim Wall I have been thinking about violence and assault towards female journalists and photojournalists on assignment, especially through the lens of my own experiences. Odds are that you are either a woman who has posted #MeToo, or […]
The expressive position is very strongly felt in the work of a Spanish documentary photographer Miguel Oriola.
Alena Dvořáková and Viktor Fischer
There will always be someone better. Every photojournalist I have ever met says this. There will always be someone better so the work you do needs to mean something. Anyone can take good pictures, but it takes a great deal of time, work, and caring to tell a […]
Finalists and winner of the competition are already known. In the following article we offer a backstage review of the jury’s rating with commentary and entire series that have been nominated to the final. At the same time we have also attached a point rating (0 – the […]
You can submit your documentary series to DOFOTOS until the end of August 2017. All you need is to read conditions and submit your pictures throught the form at our website. First series have been successfully submitted. Do not hesitate and join us. We are introducing international jury, which […]
Photographer Michal Novotny, far ahead of these events, decided in Odessa to capture drug addicted children living literally underground. He got help from Ukrainian non-profit organization Road to home, which tries to take care of them.