Archive for March 2009

On Wisconsin, by Mark Brautigam

© Mark Brautigam

On the site of Mark Brautigam there is a single portfolio: “On Wisconsin”. A series of large-format photographs of landscapes, buildings, cities and portraits. Photographs from the stunning palette, the cold tone of snow, calm and quite, as silent as they where suspended outside of time. I particularly like Mark Brautigam photos [...]

Facing South: Southern Identity in Transition, by Kendrick Brinson

© Kendrick Brinson

Kendrick Brinson is a young freelance photographer based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her current photographic emphasis focuses on photographing the eccentricities, stereotypes and romanticism of the Deep South of America.
She is also a founding member of Luceo Images, a photo collective of like-minded passionate photographers. Her personal photoblog is Box of Light.
Following [...]

Between dreams and waking, by Martin Stranka

Daydreamer
© Martin Stranka

Martin Stranka work is characterized by a dreamy and quite atmosphere that I particularly like. Monochromatic pictures of tiny silhouettes of wanderer in an empty nightly landscape, portraits that seems old souvenirs, details of hands and foots. A wonderful and intimate universe of melancholy and metaphysics.
Following text and photos by Martin [...]

Any males, by Didier Illouz

Kamel
© Didier Illouz

Didier Illouz works with photography, graphics, digital manipulation and movies.
In his series “Any males” he photographed people from his entourage, and than -thanks to the possibilities offered by digital editing- he mixed their faces with that of an animal of his choice.
The result are hybrid beings, part man, part beasts, which [...]

Same same but different, the backpack travelers by Jörg Brüggemann

© Jörg Brüggemann

The series “Same same but different” by Jörg Brüggemann portrays young backpacking travelers from western countries, which -from an alternative form of traveling- today represent a new form of mass tourism, with its codes, its recurring traits and its diversity.
It is a topic that particularly interests me, because when I travel I [...]

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More or less a year ago I began to publish English translations of the articles appearing on Camera Obscura, as well to translate in Italian all those articles who were written directly in English or French. From a site mainly in Italian, with time Camera Obscura has turned into a site where the English and [...]

Self-portrait and human sculptures by Levi van Veluw

Landscape I
© Levi van Veluw

Levi van Veluw is a young artist that works on self-portrait. But it does not simply photographs his face or body, he add on his skin and visage a lot of heterogeneous elements, building a complex sculpture and transforming his face in a miniature landscape. All the process is a self [...]

Looking through, photographs on ice by Galina Manikova

© Galina Manikova

A few years ago, when I was starting to work with historical and alternatives printing techniques, I discovered the site of Galina Manikova, and I suddenly fell in love. I finally founded an artist/photographer who does not simply printed on paper, but worked with an incredible variety of media and techniques, and the [...]