An interview with Tom Carter about his book CHINA: Portrait of a People, the result of a 2-year backpacking journey across China.

© Christian Erroi

The following was a conversation after-dinner in Harlem recently between artist Christian Erroi and librarian Deirdre Donohue.

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© 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 [...]

© 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 [...]

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 [...]

© gUi mohallem

“When I was a kid my auntie used to take me to those rituals.
I was in the middle of this circle of candles
and these women kept singing
things I could not understand.
I’m afraid they did something to me.”

gUi mohallem is a Brazilian photographer whose pinhole portraits about madness have caught my attention from the [...]

© Ch’ng Yaohong

Ch’ng Yaohong is a young photographer based in Singapore.
In addition to photographing for his personal projects and for commission works, Ch’ng Yaohong is also the author of one of my favourite weblog, Asian Photography Blog, and it is easy to understand why. Ch’ng Yaohong site is about two of my great nowadays [...]

© Hyeyoung Kim

Hyeyoung Kim is a photographer of Korean origin who, after living some years in Vienna and San Francisco, is now established in Hawaii.
Her black and white photos are an exploration of an inner world, a secret universe where everything is revealed: joy and suffering, fear, anxiety, peace and security. In her series “A [...]

© Marco Tardito

Marco Tardito’s photography, which is both personal and commercial is both subtle and poetic. It is a kind of poetry that expresses the soul like a whisper that conveys subtle emotions with touching melancholy.
Poetry that is an intimate story that pervades fashion and travel photography. Granular and pictorial fashion photography, that is delicate [...]

© Samuele Piccoli

Samuele Piccoli works mixing photography, photocopies, transfer techniques, collage and painting. The transfer of photocopies of photographs on drawing paper, using cleaning fluid/trichloroethylene or acetone, creates images with a pictorial look that I find very interesting. Samuele Piccoli then adds onto these photocopied photos some external elements, be they purely pictorial, collage, hand [...]

© Mohammadreza Mirzaei

Mohammadreza Mirzaei è un giovane promettente fotografo iraniano.
Le sue fotografie sono minimaliste e pulitissime, gli uomini sono ridotti a minute silhouette nere sotto un immenso cielo bianco, minuscole pedine sperdute in un prato verde sconfinato. Piccoli piccoli, visti dall’alto o da lontano lontano. Intenti nella recita senza fine della vita, in quei [...]

Interview with the Iranian photographer Mehrdad Naraghi.

Interview with Dorothy Simpson Krause about her landscapes photographs made from digital prints on various materials and mixed media.

Interview with Ruud van Empel about “word” his photographic collages or photo-montages of children and plants in a modern naif style.

Interview with Massimo Attardi: a muster printer of gum bichromate on wood and fine art nude photographer.