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MoreMarinka Masséus received the 1st place Sony World Photography Awards 2019 – Professional Creative Category, the 1st place LensCulture Portrait Awards 2019, the 1st place TPOTY 2018 and many others. Her photography is a way
MoreMichael Nguyen’s photographic artworks are paintings that lead us into our secret dreams, remind us of our past and lead us into the future without frames. We live in frames and we see this world
More“Why look into the distance…” So is a winged word based on the opening verses of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s quatrain “Erinnerung”. After the photo series respectively photo tour from Tenerife at the beginning of the year, longing
MoreSofia Dalamagka is a conceptual artist and photographer from Greece. She is trying to depict and interpret the world inside and around her. It’s a personal need, a deeper need to explore, to express herself
MoreThe photos in this portfolio depict Ruth Penn’s country, Israel, as she envisions it. Sometimes it is stormy, sometimes calm, sometimes it is scorching hot, sometimes it is rainy and cold. It changes moods instantly: from happiness
MoreOne of the reoccurring themes of An Laphan’s work is the cartography of the body. Depicting the soma in moving image, (computer-generated) photography and sculpture, he methodically dissects the outer skin, the surface, the protecting
MoreDiverse, different points of view and styles are presented in the section “TAGREEs windows”. We are neither elitists nor dogmatists in the world of photography. We are not alien to the world but also do
MoreIs this world static or dynamic? Chaotic or orderly? Or is it just a matter of perception, of how we feel? This series has its roots in ontology, the study of the nature of being,
MoreIn a way, the circus is the contemporary Real-Time-Real-Avengers-Marvel-Comic-Version of the theatre – not necessarily in its lightness or playfulness, but in the fact that there are people, extraordinary people and superheroes who do things that are
MoreDiverse, different points of view and styles are presented in the section “TAGREEs windows”. We are neither elitists nor dogmatists in the world of photography. We are not alien to the world but also do
MoreThe historical events of 9 November 1989 in Berlin will remain in the memory of Germans for a long time. That day was a holiday in the truest sense of the word, shaped by the
MoreAmadeus Ungethuem is living beneath the hills, by the rivers, sometimes in Vienna, mostly in Prague… taking pictures just came as looking around trying to see the reality behind surrealities. Maybe in bodies of living
MoreMassimiliano Balòs visual observations are clearly important characters in his stories. He asks that the viewer be sensitive enough to look deeply at his images, to see the details he has included in the frame
MoreMartin Fry bought his first camera when he was 16 and set up a darkroom in his bedroom. “My printing was rubbish!” After working for 20 years as a Carpenter and Builder he decided to
MoreChristophe Biget has a lot of difficulties to face reality, this reality that goes unnoticed, trivialized by the average passerby. If he captures these moments of life, in the asperities and singularities of everyday life,
MoreSome years ago, Gregg Friedberg was browsing a book of dance photos, came across Annie Leibowitz’ portrait of David Parsons – nude, in mid-prance – and he experienced a true epiphany: spontaneous conviction that were
MoreThe Healthcare Series has been in existence since 2013, when Peter Untermaierhofer visited his first abandoned hospital. A lot has happened since then. Abandoned manicomi, children’s homes and hospitals in Italy, Belgium and Germany have
MoreStéphane Pellennec is a French self-taught photographer living in Finland with his family since 1996. Since his childhood, he has used music and drawing for expressing himself. He started to be interested in making pictures in
MoreAngelo Facchini‘s passion for photography comes from a child, browsing through photo albums with beautiful black and white photos from the 70s of family groups. Growing up, the curiosity and the desire to photograph increased. In
MoreRoberto Segate has been image-making images in one form or another for years and began with traditional black and white photography when he was a kid but when he found that he was unable to
MorePeter Untermaierhofer is one of the best-known German actors in the field of lost places photography. His motifs are places and structures built by people, but abandoned and abandoned over time. In today’s ghost town
MoreElena Paraskeva’s received in September 2019 an award for her series “The Last Days Of Sara” at the International Photography Awards 2019, she received the LensCulture Portrait Awards 2019 – Jurors’ Pick and the Digital
MoreTales Yuan is a photographer living in Chongqing (China), a city built on mountains. His major in college was chemistry, a subject that seemed to have nothing to do with photography. However, during his master’s
MoreMats Reslow is a photographer living in Sweden in the countryside outside the city of Malmö. He has been creating mostly abstract paintings all his life but now the last couple of years he found
MoreMountains always mesmerize us. With their striking ruggedness. With their incredible heights. With their spectacular mass and commanding sights. Nothing we have ever made can be compared to them. That’s why they are both our
MoreFrank Peters is a Fine Art, Travel and Landscape Photographer from The Netherlands. “Fine art photography is the creation of tranquil non-existing moving moments”, Peters says. “Images that tell more about the photographer than the
MoreThough having an education in photography, Bettina Gouchet is working as a librarian in a school. That might have something to do with the fact that her photos are like literature. She is an author,
MoreVibrant. Graphic. Stylized. That is the color palette of Hardijanto Budiman. This complements, contrasts and punctuates so well the designed, industrial shapes and figures that he mysteriously uses. Sometimes for social commentators, sometimes for aesthetical
MoreRenate Wasinger is 37 years old and works full-time in the real estate industry. She lives with her boyfriend in beautiful Bavaria, near Rosenheim. Ever since she discovered photography for herself in 2013, photography has
MoreDiverse, different points of view and styles are presented in the section “TAGREEs windows”. We are neither elitists nor dogmatists in the world of photography. We are not alien to the world but also do
MoreDiverse, different points of view and styles are presented in the section “TAGREEs windows”. We are neither elitists nor dogmatists in the world of photography. We are not alien to the world but also do
MoreBorn and living in Pula, Istra, Croatia, Sandro Sardoz does not consider himself a photographer but an enthusiastic photo fanatic. In reality, he is all-rounded, a very versatile photographer with knowledge and command of all genres. However,
MoreDiverse, different points of view and styles are presented in the section “TAGREEs windows”. We are neither elitists nor dogmatists in the world of photography. We are not alien to the world but also do
MoreThe objectification of the female body is an effective form of dehumanization. Women’s sexuality is exploited and suppressed at the same time. Admired and reviled, chased and judged, praised and ridiculed. This oppressive societal schizophrenia
MoreDiverse, different points of view and styles are presented in the section “TAGREEs windows”. We are neither elitists nor dogmatists in the world of photography. We are not alien to the world but also do
MoreErfan Yazdanpanahi was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1991 and is still living there. He studied both photography and architecture in Azad university of Damavand (2010-2015) while working in a news agency as a photographer
MoreGreece, a country of Southeast Europe, is located at the southernmost tip of the Balkan Peninsula. In the northwest it borders with Albania, in the north with northern Macedonia and Bulgaria, and in the northeast
MoreToday photographer Jack Savage talks on TAGREE about his interests, passions and his career as a conceptual photographer. Jack Savage is a fine art photographer and digital artist. Born in Northampton, England (1980) – He was
MoreTristan Zhou is an award-winning photographer, videographer and cat lover based in Seattle, WA. Graduated from Shanghai Institute of Visual Art with BFA in Photography and San Francisco Art Institute with BFA in Filmmaking, he
MoreDonell Gumiran sees himself as an image-maker who captures and tells a story. A Filipino lensman sees his photography as a passion, not as a profession. He is currently working as a design director in a
MorePhotojournalist Abed Zaqout visually reports and documents violence in the Gaza Strip. “I became a photojournalist because it is my passion and my hobby and I find myself in this profession.” He is 33 years old
More“The title of my series is »The Arabian Desert by the eyes of its people«. Since I live in a country where the vast majority of land covered by deserts. I was inspired by the
MoreKarim Bouchareb is an Algerian Fine Art photographer while working as a legal administrator in an industrial company in Annaba(bône). He tries to fuse reality with the imagination of things that can take people out
MoreRuth Penn was born and is living in Israel. Until the day she retired from directing the Division of Special Education in the Israeli Ministry of Education, she defined herself as a Professional in that
MoreBased in Vienna, Austria, Andreas Franke has been named one of the 200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide. Known for pushing the boundaries of commercial photography, diving is his true passion. In 2010, Franke merged his
MoreSébastien Verdoliva is an amateur street photographer from France. He is 64 years old and never goes out without his camera for 45 years now. He came to photography because he realized quickly that it
MoreDiverse, different points of view and styles are presented in the section “TAGREEs windows”. We are neither elitists nor dogmatists in the world of photography. We are not alien to the world but also do
MoreThere is nothing more beautiful and liberating than indulging in one’s own pandemonium, nothing more reassuring of one’s existence, both spiritually and physically, and this belief of Mushfiqur Rahman has given birth to this particular
MoreStéphane Navailles is a street-photographer, living in France. He shares inspirations for his art with Tagree. “At this age, I take the time to use my senses, the photos are more than obvious. From San
MoreIbrahim Nabeel is a photographer from Jordan. Interested in art photography and fine art, he always tries hard to express himself by pictures, it’s the language of peoples first to him. “Out of the ordinary.
MoreThere is always a human presence in Vittorio’s pictures, big or small or even if no one is photographed. And that presence carries a story about them. Vittorio Scatolini, an Italian photographer, has told these
MoreMassimo Siragusa works have been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries in Italy and other countries. He received four World Press Photo Awards, three Sony World Photography Awards and two MIFA Awards. If you like
MoreDwi Rahmadani is a street photographer from Indonesia, living in a comfortable city called Bandung. He has some hobbies which he pretty much like: reading, playing music, drawing, making crafts, holidays, sports, watching films, and
MoreWith a variety of ethnic differences, the photographer from Indonesia tried to capture through the camera about the uniqueness of the differences. Although it cannot represent Indonesia as a whole, at least the description of
MoreAlthough there is a wide range of subjects in Willi Domröse’s photos, one can recognize something common about them: something that breaks the duality-dichotomy of this world. Be it an intriguing figure, architecture, or color
MoreJonathan Chapé is currently based in Portland, Oregon. He loves working with people to create images that break away from the ordinary. If you like this contribution you can support our cultural work here: Love
MoreFor Dutch artist Guda Koster, there’s more to clothing than meets the eye. Through her installations, living sculptures and photos, the Amsterdam-based creative explores the fashion theme through ground-breaking lenses. If you like this contribution
MoreBorn in 1968 in China, now living in Hong Kong, Mark Lam has never had an official education on Photography and Arts but it doesn’t stop him to make arts. Since he owns a smartphone,
MoreJohannesburg-based photographer, Aart Verrips has captured the attention of the South African fashion scene, while making a global and digital impact. “I want to step outside of the conforms of identity, race, and sex,” Verrips
More“I took these photos on May 1, 2019, during a demonstration commemorating Labor Day in Jakarta. The mass of demonstrators moved towards the presidential palace. They voiced the still many violations of the rights of
MoreWhat is reality? And how to understand it? For Leonid, a russian artist, the first thing to do is to distinguish things to discern their difference, their relationship and their truth. That’s why we need
MoreWhat makes us different from others and what this difference actually looks like? That are questions Gramm always asks himself. So he started started to take pictures since 5 years old and has never stopped
MoreNastPlas is an international creative duo based in Madrid, Spain and formed in 2006 by illustrator Fran R. Learte and creative director Natalia Molinos. Their work combines an impressive range of digital elements and abstract
MoreSylvain Devlichevitch got his first camera at 11, which ignited his passion for photography. But that passion is on and off and intertwined with other passions throughout his life until digital photography came to him
MoreSonya Fu, born 1982 is a visual artist from Hong Kong. Growing up in the former British Colony where East meets West, Fu is influenced by both Oriental and Western culture. If you like this
MoreThe German-based photographer Gudrun Oser surprises us with her composition and mise en scene of her photos. The props are usually every day objects but somehow she finds beautiful curves, geometric shapes, and even twists
MoreSouvik Sanyal is born in a small town of Tezpur, Assam in the northern part of India, he came from a very culture-rich family where art, literature and culture were always discussed. Therefore, from early
MoreGregory Moutsios was born in Proti Serron Greece, in 1965. He studied Pure Mathematics at Aristotle University. During his studies he was involved in an application development about Image Processing. Later he attended an one-year
MoreAnyone can take pictures today. The photographic art is completely different. Here an image conveys something that can be understood and felt by everyone in the world. This requires a photographer who not only selects
MoreOur society, the media, and the world we live in are Hajime’s main inspirations, as many other artists. But what distinguishes him from others is his independent, dark, humorous approach in portraying this modern hyper-connected,
MoreThe Palestinian woman Fadwa Rouhana has developed her photographic work though her own experimental efforts in a long journey with the camera, for being raised in a place shattered by hurdles and injustice, it became
MoreLook at Ana Luisa Pontes intriguing B&W photographs. There is always someone, walking, sitting, lying, dancing, doing something or nothing. The human presence against the nature or city backdrop gives Ana Luisa Pontes the sense
MoreNature nurtures us with the powerful light of colours’ infinite nuances, which we experience every day. That is the inspiration of a project Caterina Vitellozzi created to celebrate the great energy of colours – featuring
MoreWhen you look at Jürgen Sobkowiak’s images, you do not only see photographic artworks but also some performance and installation art, and above all authenticity. All is excellently done alone by himself without any artificial
MoreDody Setiawan Mawardi is a freelance photographer from Indonesia. “Photography is about existence. It is about the attitude of appreciation to what we see. It is about being grateful and accepting to what we witness.”
MoreAll the pictures in this series are taken during Suresh Jagad’s travel across India, mainly in remote parts of the country. India is formed of various states representing different people with different dressing cultures, ways
MoreWhat if words cannot convey our ideas? We turn to images. What if our reality is different and bigger than the reality? We turn to surrealities. That was the journey of Rezki Sterneanto, who becomes
MoreEverything has its secrets, which Jürgen Kadow sets out to find out. And those secrets show themself to Kadow as a whole new world. When he hears the song of a bird, when he reads
MoreOlga Merrill is Russian abstract photographer based in Maine, USA. However, she doesn’t recognize herself as a photographer. She uses photography as a tool like any instrument to play music or a brush for painting.
MoreThe greek photographer Lena Siopi from Thessaloniki has a special affinity: taking photos of ruins and abandoned places: homes, hospitals, factories, hotels, train stations… Inside these places she stands for a while and wait. For
MoreMaria Serra’s images are always dark, tragic and dramatic as they depict a constrained, oppressed and fragile femininity. However, the composition and the use of unusual props lend them a poetic quality. As so, they
MoreCreativity. Spontaneity. An innocent child. A mysterious man. A creator. A medium. Ralf Opiol is all that and more. Just like his mixed-media art, he is the combination of many things. You see the pieces
MoreTAGREE photographer Pedro Mesquita is the author of the book “Only at First Sight the Desert” (Só à Primeira Vista o Deserto). Watch this video with his impressive photographs. See also his portfolio “When an
MoreThe common purpose of art and science is to find the truth. That’s what Bernd Walz has been doing for all his life with photography. As a scientist Bernd Walz used photography only for documentary
MoreKanella (Nelly) Tragousti was born in Amalias Greece, in 1959. 1976 – 1980 She studied philology at Athens University. 1980 – 1983 “Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes“ of the Sorbonne University (Diploma about the relation
MoreIt is strange that basic dry shapes suchs as triangles, rectangles, circles can convey much emotion and feelings like the ones in Johan Lowie’s works. In this series, the almost geometric landscapes are based on
MoreThe Montreal-based street photographer Daniel Castonguay portrays the street life like no one else. He is a “silenced character” from afar, taking pictures of people, who usually walk or ride alone, in the rain, in
MoreChinese photographer Mei Sa Gou studied Fine Arts at the university. Then she photographed: “I like to work late at night. After each work is completed, there is only a moment of joy”. Then she
MoreThink again. Is the clear sky on a sunny day blue? Are leaves green? Are roses red? And is the blue you see the same as I do? For a dog, that sky is grey.
MoreCombining a variety of photographic techniques, especially multiple and long exposure, Gus takes us into a magical journey into the depths of his imagination. Using fine-arts techniques, mixed with modern photographs, his images are multi-layered,
MoreThis is collaborative studio portrait series by photographer Barry Pickering, modelled and edited by Pangea Prize winning digital artist Jack Savage. The theme is based upon time travelling – Barry casting Jack into different eras
MoreIn the 1980’s, after attending art school, Varvara Pershyn began showing still life oil paintings in a gallery in Soho, NYC. However, by 1988, as a single parent, she found she could not continue with
MoreHardship and joy. Victory and loss. Peace and war. Pedro Mesquita has witnessed all through his life as a radio reporter. But words alone could not help him tell the stories he wanted to tell. Then came
MoreThis is how a folk song by Matthias Claudius begins. What almost Alexander von Humboldt in 1799 and since then countless tourists have been driving to the island of Tenerife can only be circumscribed by desire and curiosity. This
MoreThey are places. But we don’t know where, as there is no horizon. Still they reflect the world, even without much context. They are places that we occupied. In time and space. Things happened around
MoreMinimalism, both as a philosophy of art and life, has deeply influenced George Digalakis’s work. He draws inspiration from various objects: the sea, the sky and from his emotional response to them. It is in the
MoreFor Johan Lindell from Sweden, life is a theatre, we are actors and the world is the stage. So we participate in this eternal play both consciously and unconsciously with our own expressions, feelings and movements. However, unlike
MoreIn this series, Dino Morri, an Italian photographer, takes us to Far East. To the countries of the sun, of humidity, of abundance. With his dramatic style, he shows us the colorful life of these
MoreThis color series by Jack Savage is indebted to his record collecting past, and love of Psychedelic and Progessive music from the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Again – as a certified Adobe expert in
MoreThey are surreal. Yes. Because they come from the dreams of this interesting Taiwanese artist – Ligin Lee. And those dreams reflect her feelings, her emotions, her subjective experience of life. For a picture, she
MoreIn the 1980s and 1990s Michael Nguyen works as journalist, poet, photographer, publisher, editor-in-chief of four special interest magazines, concert organizer, bookseller, online editor. Two book publications, anthologies, magazines etc. At his core, Michael Nguyen
MoreThe Italian photographer Domenico Masiello has been creating another reality from the reality with his digitally edited B&W photos. He usually takes out architecture landmarks and makes them extremely three-dimensional. By doing so, he gives
MoreJuan Dios Lopez Sepúlveda considers himself a designer of images, vocational and self-taught, taking as the main theme of his work the exploration of perception, the organization of visual elements, abstraction, modes of commercial reproduction
MoreIn his paintings, Hadrien de Corneillan investigates the relationship between man and his environment. He currently explores the industrial aftermath of the 1950s. Used to be a symbol of hopes and happiness based on progress
MoreThis special artist is from Vietnam, graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Hanoi. His focus on Abstract art has been all along as it allows him to express ideas and emotions stemmed from
MoreJudith in den Bosch started taking photos about 6 years ago. In the beginning, her subjects were just light, shades and the sea. Then she discovered the power of photo editing and her world has become
MoreA collaboration with Myanmar performance artist Kolatt and Hungarian visual artist Bálint Rádóczy. Premiered April 23, 2013, at ZHdK Zurich University of the Arts, Master of Arts in Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland. The art scene
MoreWhen you look at the series “Possible Landscapes” by the German photo-artist Torsten Richter, it feels like your well-trained perception got outsmarted. But you cannot describe it precisely. The images give an impression of what nature
MoreThe thematic intentions of Jack Savage behind the series POSTNOIRISMS, is the creation of: ‘’An Imagined future for contemporary British, Photographic Film Noir’’, blending sci-fi with the more traditional noiristic elements of mystery, femme faltales,
MoreYves Noir lays the main focus of his photographic work on depicting the human being in his original state. Against this background, his nude portraits are particularly not intended to convey erotic moments, but rather to
MorePaolo Naldi areas of interest are the visual arts and, above all, painting. After a long independent artistic activity in the European underground scene, he appears in conventional exhibition spaces in Italy and abroad (galleries,
MoreAs the contemporary photographic world moves as if in fast forward, this series from Jack Savage is committed to the power of memory, and the haunting events of our shared cinematic past. The title ‘Definitive
MoreA series of painterly portraits with an Old World Style. From the Italian Renaissance through to post Second World War – Jack Savage attempt to take his subjects back in time. All of the models
MoreIn his photo series “Methamorphosis” Heinz Innerhofer shows the changeability of human and his changeable nature. We experience phases of development and every 7 years one is a “new” person, and every decade attitudes, opinions
MoreA look into the sketchbook of the Greek artist Kanella Tragousti conveys the intensive and intuitive search for form, especially the human form of the body, which later appears again and again in various formal
MoreAt his core, Michael Nguyen is an artist, not a photographer but more a photographic poet or something he himself could not define. He moves away from the mainstream, at the same time blurs genres.
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