Before the Peace Broke by Richard Hill
Like many Americans, both my mind and news feed have been filled with thoughts and images related to the events that occurred in Dallas this past Thursday. I was moved by photos I saw by Richard Hill the following day, many which were titled "...before the peace...
In Spirit and Truth: An Interview with Laura Valenti
In Spirit and Truth: An Interview with Laura Valenti by Romina Mandrini A couple of years ago I enrolled in a six-week online photography course that would impact me – both as a person and as an artist – in ways I never could have imagined. This workshop not only...
Life on the Subway by Fabio Giavara
Everyday I have to take the subway to go to work. During the travel period (approximately one hour), I have the opportunity to watch people who spend their time on the underground. Thousands of people, many differences between them: workers, students, children,...
Everyday Poetry – by Efi Logginou
I consider everything around me like cinema, novels or theatrical plays. Stories and scenes of life, trying to make sense in the world around me. Everyday poetry. My name is Efi Logginou. I am an actress. I moved from Greece to Berlin over one year ago. I didn't know...
The Children of Varamin by Soheil Behroozi
To live in Varamin, Iran, enveloped by immensely polluted air, is to literally live in the midst of furnaces of fire. The poor and unemployed from different cities come to Varamin to work under horrendous working conditions inside the furnaces to make bricks. There...
April In Paris – by L. Bird
‘April In Paris’ is the first series of the project ‘f r a g m e n t s o f a w o m a n ‘ s l i f e’ . Each series is the story of a real and ordinary moment, lived by a woman and documented by ten diptychs with a short story inspired by them. This storytelling project melts photography and literature, explores their own borders, flirts with reality and imagination without trying to find a reasonable balance between them.
The Photographers of Cusco by Paul Yule
When I first arrived in Peru, in 1979, photography had somehow already shaped my impression of the place. Before leaving London I had been to an exhibition of the work of Martin Chambi, the brilliant photographer from Cusco whose work from the 1920s and 30s seemed not...
(De)lighted by the Light by Caren Sturmer
I love windows - the openings in walls that invite the light in. I think that perhaps light is God’s way of asking us to notice. Looking back at the long stretch of years my photographs span, I find many images of windows… a long wall of visual time punctuated by...
You Are Not Alone by @vondav
The first contact with our artistic side I would guess occurs at an early age, through the knowledge of colors and shapes. In my case, I met arts by obsessive stages. In my childhood I used to draw, as a teenager I played music, and now in my adulthood I have taken...
Life through Hipstamatic with Michel Veld
My name is Michel de Veld I'm a nurse, working on a team for home care, helping people with dementia and psychiatric disorders. I live and work in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Combos Lens/ Film used on the pictures above are: Aatto / Blackeys44 ...
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