Retablo Nº1 – Unidentified Migrant, Tijuana, Baja California Norte, Mexico, 2003
© Paul Turounet

Paul Turounet long term project “Estamos Buscando A – We’re Looking For” explores the cultural and emotional concerns of Mexican emigrants that are trying to cross the United States border. It is a really engaged and personal body of work, as Paul [...]

© Miyuki Okuyama

In this article Miyuki Okuyama, in addition to telling her childhood in a small village in northern Japan, explains her personal vision of photography. For Miyuki Okuyama, instead of documenting some kind of tangible reality, photography provides an access to a parallel world in which we can lose ourselves in our dreams and [...]

Winter, Scrooged – © Aaron Hobson

I really like the panoramic format, and I think it is a shame that usually it is used only for classic landscape, most of the pictures out there have the 1:1 or 2:3 format. It is the same for music, i love the 20′ tracks of the 70’s, and I [...]

Global Summer #10
© Yiorgos Kordakis

Yiorgos Kordakis, a Greek photographer who was one of my favorite discoveries in Arco Madrid, contributes to Camera Obscura with an article about his series of large format Polaroid Global Summer. He explains why he is fascinated by sea and summer holidays, and why he wants to compare the differences between [...]

© Maleonn

I always deeply loved Meleonn work. His surreal, melancholic and sometime grotesque staged photographs are always brilliant, nostalgic and touching. The colors are wonderful; they remind prints from the 50’s, old hand colored photos, or watercolor. It is really the work of a master.
For Camera Obscura Maleonn wrote a wonderful article about his Postman [...]

© Tim Carpenter

Tim Carpenter sent me a long, comprehensive and excellent article which explains in detail the theoretical and practical motivations that underlie his vision of photography and his last project: a most serene republic.
Among other things, Tim Carpenter discusses in particular the idea of “Beauty” and “apparent ease of execution” derived from Robert [...]

© Yumiko Kinoshita

Yumiko Kinoshita is a Japanese photographer whose delicate images make me immediately think of brightness and lightness.
In the following essay she speaks about the importance of travel in her life and her photographic work. In addition to the description of a photographic session in Ireland, Yumiko Kinoshita writes some ideas about art [...]

© Fabiano Busdraghi

The mannequins are not the reality of our society, but only a reflection of its surface.
Fashion, how to dress, image care, are all superficial aspects of Western consumer society, but still reflect its essence. The mannequins are a reflection of this reflection. The street is the surface of the city, a reflection [...]