Author: Michael Nguyen

The 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

Some 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

The 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

Angelo 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

Tales 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

Mats 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

Mountains 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

Though 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,

Renate 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

Born 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,

The 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

Erfan 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

Tristan 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

There 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

There 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

Although 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

“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

Sylvain 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

The 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

Souvik 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

The 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

Look 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

All 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

The 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

Maria 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

The 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

Chinese 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

This 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

Hardship 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

This 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

They 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

Minimalism, 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

For 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

In 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

This 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

The 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

The 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,

Yves 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

As 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

A 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

In 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