As a lover of black and white photography, I came across the works of many, among which the name Nobuyoshi Araki resonated with me the most.
Here I am in Tokyo now, having met my hero. Dreams are never too big, nor too impossible.
Giving a voice to communites which are hidden from our everyday life is the main goal of many documentary photographers. Close human contact makes great pictures but certainly there is more behind if you want to display the truth. You need to be physically strong and have inner integrity to […]
There was nothing left. She felt like a prisoner in her own body. Then she discovered the real magic – art. Guided by her physical and emotional pain, she transferred her inner fragile world into reality with pencil lines and shades of light. Elfie Kristiana is a Belgian […]
The civil war that ravaged former Yugoslavia, his home country in the 1990s, determined his style. His raw, monochromatic pictures are an emotionally vivid documentation of everyday violence in a city plagued by neglect. Winning in a green card lottery was his ticket out and a chance for […]
Hans Madej is a man locked in the tesseract of history. Through his work he explores how the echoes of our familial and social past resonates within us in ways both apparent and subtle, as well as how the oppression of few affects the lives of many. Madej […]
There are many photographers who focus on capturing the actual refugee crisis in Europe, but not many of them are using the long-term approach in terms of building a strong relationship to the community. Panos Kefalos did it naturally. His life is captured in life of others and his […]
A story of a young and lost person trying to feel free and find love. An emotional exploration of the human condition. An effort to understand how we express freedom, intimacy, closeness; how we seek true connection with the inner self and the other. How do you perceive the […]
Hanna Jarzabek is very talented and perceptive author who mainly deals with communities outside of the majority. As an example of her work, I have chosen a long-term work with lesbian couples living in Poland, which is still characterized by a traditional society in which the issue of homosexual […]
These photos will pull you completely into the intimate world of the fragile soul. They are very imaginative and expressive but at the same time gentle and emotional. This is a work of talented photographer Danai Simou from Greece. Athens is the jewel of art. Are there lot of […]
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.