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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
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“When I step outside into the world, I see geometry. This is my North Star, my organizing principle around which all other objects are placed. Geometry grounds me and it grounds my photos. It helps me to
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The Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin will launch the major retrospective exhibition, “Helmut Newton: Legacy”, on 31 October 2021. Originally scheduled to coincide with the photographer’s 100th birthday, it was postponed for a year due to
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As Witkin noted in a 2010 interview, “The body is the armor of the soul.” The subjects of Witkin’s images – the body, the nude, the still life – are controversial, because Witkin finds as
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“In a unique manner, David Drebin’s work combines voyeuristic and psychological viewpoints. He offers the viewer a dramatic insight into emotions and experiences which many of us have doubtlessly felt at some point of our lives.”
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Lea Lund & Erik K’s photographic collaboration is a story about love, a photographer finding her muse, and a subject claiming his identity. Lea, born and raised in Switzerland, and Erik, born and raised in
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Stop violence against women – “A topic that has always concerned me and that I wanted to deal with artistically in view of the increase in acts of violence in the time of the pandemic.”
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Olga 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.
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In 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
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This series showcases the work by Jack Savage within mixed media photographic genres – studio portrait photography -painting and graffiti – created as a contemporary celebration for his love of 1980’s street art – with
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Heinrich Heidersberger‘s iconic 1971 photograph Kraftwerk der Volkswagen AG is turning fifty. This anniversary presents an opportunity to (re)discover the photographic work of one of the most fascinating German photographers, who developed his own photographic
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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
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The basis of the work by Hermann Fuchs on abstract photography is not a conceptual but an aesthetic approach. “The intention is to further develop the understanding of abstract painting with photographic and image-forming means.
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During his strolls through Munich in the Corona Pandemic, documentary photographer and photo artist Michael Nguyen photographed Munich’s most colourful architectural façade. The MIRA Shopping Mall opened in 2008 in Munich. The West, North, and northern
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Remembering Venice, like a page out of an old fairy tale book. The medieval city of Venice, with its cobblestone pathways, fabulous canals, and many bridges – is certainly one of the most beautiful and
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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
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Magical Surrealism – The unreal, the dreamlike is a fundamental element of surrealism. Freud’s psychoanalysis influenced this art movement. Yet the surrealists themselves were by no means dreamers, disconnected from reality. Rather, the majority of
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Inspired by Deconstructivism in architecture, Gigi Chung’s works explore the geometric juxtaposition of various building edifices. These surfaces contain unifying patterns and elements which create pulsating visual rhythms, facilitate eye movements within the image. Depart
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Today photographer Jack Savage talks on TAGREE about his interests, passions and his career as a conceptual photographer. He is a fine art photographer and digital artist. Born in Northampton, England (1980) – He was educated
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Combining 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,
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Photographer Susanna Majuri died suddenly in spring, 2020. She studied at the Turku Art Academy and gained her Master’s degree in photography at what is now Aalto University School of Arts, Design, and Architecture. Her
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Foto Relevance is thrilled to announce Pelle Cass for Crowded Fields, a solo exhibition featuring selections from a critically acclaimed, ongoing series of work capturing hours of dynamic action in a single still frame. A
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The defamiliarisation of things we encounter every day – in this case buildings – is intended to cause irritation and open up other perspectives. Architecture becomes the starting point for a new independent work of
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Covid-19 came. Life changed around the world. Forever. Award-winning fine-art photographer Julia Fullerton- Batten felt she couldn’t sit around helpless. During her evening permitted exercise, walking around her local neighbourhood, she noticed people looking out
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Italian photographer Maria Serra is unafraid to show us her dark world, but sometimes with her courage, openness and poetry, she lets a ray of hope shine through. Her photographs shows her inner world.
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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
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Martin 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
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It took Ángel Castillo Perona almost ten years to find a satisfying visual language that combines his passion for this medium with Impressionist painting. Thanks to the technique of multiple exposures in the camera (and
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The series of animals by Marcel van Balken in lost places is a conceptual serie of old, derelict and no longer inhabited buildings with a rich history. Characteristic, abandoned locations all photographic sets where the ‘lost
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Ahmad Kaddourah is an Abu Dhabi-based photographer from Palestine. His interest has originally emerged from an architectural background as he studied architectural design. Later through developing his study with the passion for photography, he began
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While in music it seems natural to transform existing works of others, to incorporate them into one’s pieces or to create new variations, this is rather rare in photographic art. To integrate works of other
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In the period following her graduation from the Photo Academy in Amsterdam (December 2019), Renata has created a number of series with a strong personal signature. Atelier K84 in Amsterdam is proud to announce the first self-initiated
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No one understands the simplicity and complexity of this life better than Ibrahim Nabeel. Living in Jordan, where individual life seems simple but constrained in an intricate society, Nabeel knows how to walk the fine line in
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“Not In Kansas” is a series of constructed narratives, inspired by the tenacious, self-reliant character Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. Her particular narrative resonates with our artist, Vicky Martin, on multiple levels: she exudes
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Ibrahim 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.
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“We all strive in photography to find the essence of the human – probably a futile endeavor, but possible with approximations. I do the same in my profession as a psychiatrist. While the communication with
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Stéphane 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
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KITES – A VISUAL POEM is a visually poetic series by Jasbir John Singh from Singapure that mixes fine art photography and free-form movement. The performer Syazwan Rahmad, uses the medium of white powder to
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“My name is Antonio, I am living in Spain. In these images I try to show the duality of things, of images, of thoughts. Faced with a unique reality, a “beautiful” or unique image, with
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Tales Yuan (Tianhu Yuan) is a photographer from China. 2020 and 2021 were very successful for him: 2021 British Journal of Photography OpenWalls Arles, Single Image, Winner, 2020 Life-Framer Street Life Awards, Winner. 2020 Sony
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An entrance. A window. A door. Portals connect locations and humans. The existence of Gigi Chung’s imposing appearance evokes imagination in the world beyond. Portals can lead to adventures and provide a glimpse of an
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Massimiliano Balòs photos create a sense of mood, atmosphere, dreamlike and drama scenario. The artworks blur the line between art photography and painting. Most of his compositions are abstract. They focus on shapes with little indications
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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”. She has
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Is 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,
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22-year-old Ghanaian rising-star, Derrick O. Boateng, is inspired by the richness of the African lifestyle. Radiating positivity and energy, Derrick’s ultra bright afro pop portraits offer a new perspective on Africa,- often viewed through a
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Mu Chum is an independent publisher, photographer and artist based in Nanjing, Hefei and LA. His works are often drawn from life, and digging out the inner life from the simple things. He insists that works should
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This is a studio shot image of the model Daveyboy Granules. Davey is a punk rocker, and as such collects a lot of cool clothes and props – such as Gas Masks and WW2 regalia.
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Inspired by the colors, lights, and shadows in the Baroque paintings of the great Caravaggio, Laura Malaterra’s “Caravaggesque Lights” is a series of images dedicated to portrait, spaces, objects, and light.
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Naraphat Sakarthornsap lives and works in Bangkok. As a member of LGBTQ+, in many of his works, he wants to present the stories of inequality in society through photography and installation art based on his true
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Clean, simple, and yet fascinating. One can say so about Franc’s pictures. The cleanness and simpleness are achieved by basic blocks of colors, the simplicity of composition, the minimalism of arrangement.
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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 them
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Bogdan Kotewicz lives and works in France near Paris. His first contact with photography dates back to his youth. At that time, however, it was a brief fascination “that quickly gave way to other forms
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For Dutch artist Guda Koster, there’s more to clothing than meets the eye. Through her installations, living sculptures and photos, the Amsterdam-based creative the fashion theme through ground-breaking lenses. Cover Image: One Leg by Guda Koster
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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
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In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf reflects on her experiences at an imaginary school, Oxbridge. While dining, she notices that male scholars are served delicious food and their wine glasses are quickly
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South African photographer Gavin Goodman had a vision to create a series influenced by traditional African headwear done with a modern and simplistic touch. Commissioning a local origami artist as a unique way to bring
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“At the age of 55, after graduating from the Institute of Visual Arts at Taipei City University, I created artworks that take human life as their starting point. In my photo artworks I show the
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Curiouser and Curiouser is a conceptual series of photographs influenced by the story Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Vicky Martin was inspired to create this series from personally identifying with the theme of not belonging that features prominently
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Vibrant. 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
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“Against the tide of our time where everything is speed, greedy consumption, trivialization of coldness, where feelings are haggled, I set down my tripod and set my digital eye on my environment, failing which I
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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
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Laura Malaterra creates surreal images that express the suicide of the world and shake our conscience. She has set out to realize the visions of our minds and shows surreal visions. A ruined world wrapped
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Massimo Siragusa received four World Press Photo Awards, three Sony World Photography Awards and two MIFA Awards. The Italian photographer is born in Catania. Massimo lives in Rome, where he teaches Photography at the IED-European Institute
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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
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Bernd Walz has been traveling with his camera in country areas of Germany for several years and takes pictures for his project “Rural Areas”. He loves wide, open landscapes that spread out seemingly endlessly under
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Open the door, then you step into another place, another time. You will live in a movie. Exclusive, Intimate, Secret. You will meet not people but characters. But first, you have to answer the secret
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Mattia Baldi is impressed by how the human perception of beauty is changing. Modern technologies are going to make us see things that don’t exist, augmented reality, our faces will be perceived as we want.
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The Nowhere series by Xavier Blondeau is first and foremost an urban story. An underground story where the absence of landmarks leads us to feel the emptiness that gradually settles between us. The underground car
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The Pastel Glow series evolved while Lee Smith was vacationing on Florida’s Gulf Coast. “As I walked the beaches and neighborhoods, I was taken by the gradation of blue that was created when the water and sky
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A new work assignment in Baku, Azerbaijan, in January 2020. Wulf Rössler has never been there before and there was not much for him time to prepare the trip. Baku, a name he only knew from Formula
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When 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
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The photographer Emy Maike is a patient observer with a focus on the adventure in the working process. During her excursions into nature, she takes its influences into her state of mind then processes it
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Young swimmers playing in the cool blue water pools of the brief summer season. The days are bright and long, but these sunlit months are fleeting, like childhood itself. Sandrine Hermand Grisel watch them, aware,
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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
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What is outside is no longer outside. Trees, forests, mountains, rivers, lakes. Michael Nguyen has transformed these elements in his artworks into feelings, fantasies and dreams. They become part of our inner nature, part of
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Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sarah Bultitude grew up surrounded by photography. Her Grandfather and Father were both avid amateur photographers. She loved watching prints emerge from her Father’s garage darkroom and sat through countless slide
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Nature is the common thread of Thierry Lairth‘s images. The themes that are dear to him, water, the forest, and its edges, the fields that dot his everyday world. Among these themes, water occupies a
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Let us take a look into the small treasure box of Lena Lisken’s collected works. She has come to Berlin as a stranger to neatly sort the wildly scattered objects of a colorful drawer before our
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Cuba is an interesting travel destination because it is one of the few Communist countries left. Everything seems to be stuck in the 1950s – the roads, the buildings, the shops. For many, Cuba is
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Rock Paper Scissors by Vicky Martin Bound by Vicky Martin (great) Expectations is a series of portrait and still life photographs which explore ideas of conformity to the stereotypical, individual and societal expectations of femininity
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Frank 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
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In his new series from 2020 Jack Savage strives to create modern photographic art – imbued with the same free-thinking, experimental and innovative approach, and creating the same impact that the musical genre of “Krautrock”.
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What 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
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Shuchuan Liu is a photographer from China, based in Japan. He mainly shots architecture and urbanscape pictures. In his opinion, it is easy for people to empathize with the beauty of an urban landscape, but
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It seems to me that since the outburst of COVID-19 at the beginning of the tear 2020, I, or actually, all of the people of this planet have been living in an alternate, surreal, unimaginable,
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Elena loves to create surrealistic conceptual work bathed in color and is often inspired by everyday life and popular culture. She is an international Conceptual Photographer and Art Director. Having lived and worked in the U.S
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Gundula Walz loves the sea, the open space, peace and quietness of this special landscape. She uses long-exposure photography to visually reproduce exactly these moods. During the digital post-processing of her photos, she often “paints
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The series “Selfhood” is in part inspired by the proverb “The eyes are the window to the soul” and a desire to challenge the need to see the eyes within a portrait. The intention in each
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10 seconds self-timer – that’s how much time I have to position myself in my “black box”, which I built especially for the recordings in my studio. Blurriness is wanted.” Martina Singer’s photographs are characterized
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It was in 1996 when Philip Mckay entered the world of digital art. He never took it serious, he was just learning about layer masks, smart objects, masking and the 3d side of photoshop. Over
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“I have long been drawn to and inspired by artists and art forms that evoke solitude, mystery, or self-reflection through color, chiaroscuro, and geometry. I pay particular homage to the patterns and abstractions of the
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“We can make art out of everything around us only if we look from a different perspective.” That is the belief of Muhammad Al Masri, a photographer and an amateur chess player in Jordan. From
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Yves Noir centers his photographic work on depicting the human being in his original state. Against this background, his nude portraits are particularly not intended to present erotic moments, but rather to convey the natural
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Black is an insulating element that envelops female bodies, sometimes fragile and sometimes mysterious. Mystery and a feeling of anxiety pervade them, always denying the face to the observer. Starting from a classic theme: the
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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
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Kicking off its third year of Hasselblad Heroines, Hasselblad continues to celebrate the achievements of female photographers around the world. Starting on International Women’s Day on 8 March 2021 is this year’s first Hasselblad Heroine
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GUS, the Spanish photographer combines a variety of photographic techniques, especially multiple and long exposures, and takes us on a magical journey into the depths of his imagination. His images are complex, simply executed and
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Sherrie Nickol is a fine art photographer who captures moments in time – and in life – with an almost tangible warmth and energy. She grew up in Osceola, Arkansas and has lived her adult
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“Brutalist Symphony” is an ongoing series of photographic captures of William Pereira’s brutalist architecture. Brutalism has often been associated with cold and unwelcoming facades. This series of images seek to emphasize the contrast in light
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“In Conversation With” is a conceptual series in which Jasbir John Singh invited different personalities to freely express themselves in front of his camera without any creative direction from him – an act he termed as
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Photo by Jasbir John Singh Impressive photographs selected in August 2020 from our Instagram account #tagreemagazine. 14 pictures with a great story. See the great work by our storytellers: Shobha Gopinath (Singapore), Roderick Field (United Kingdom), Flerida
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We have selected 10 impressive pictures featured in August 2020 in our Instagram #tagreemagazine (btw, there is a lot to discover) from 10 photographers you should follow on Instagram: Jürgen Sobkowiak, Antonio Luis Remartinez, Gus, Donell Gumiran,
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Gigi Chung is a San Francisco-based fine-art photographer who mainly works in medium-format digital photography. She has come to focus on architectural abstracts with a minimalistic approach. She finds the juxtaposition of light, shadows and lines in architecture
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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,
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A follow up to Jack Savages critically acclaimed series “Noirisms”. This series is again indebted to the ghosts of our shared cinematic past, and the cinema of Film Noir (1920-50). Monochromatic tones and shadows are prevalent –
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These photographs radiate beauty, harmony and tranquillity. They seduce our gaze and cast a spell. Only at second glance does their disturbing and cryptic message unfold. Photographer Heinz Innerhofer and musician Tina Auer are the visual
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Michael Nguyen is a Photoartist living in Munich. Is this world real? Or is it just all in our head? What if what in our head is all that is true? Or maybe all of
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Jack Savage is a 39-year-old fine art photographer from Northampton, England. He has always retained a passionate interest in photography, cinema and the arts since a young child. His earliest forays – were into Super
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“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
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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
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Karim 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
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Jürgen Sobkowiak is a freelance photo-artist from Germany. In fact, he loves the photo art and not the photography because the only thing that fascinates him is the artistic expression. In his artworks (influenced by
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Kanella (Nelly) Tragousti is a photographer and artist, born in Amalias Greece, in 1959. Kanella has lived in Berlin since 1987 where she works as a free artist. Since then she had several group and
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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
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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
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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
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