Max

Nynke Brandsma

Near Amsterdam, nestled on a transient plot known as the Landje, Max, a 28-year-old, has chosen a life less ordinary.

My Kingdom

Sonja de Ridder

The images from the My Kingdom series are collages composed of photos from my city trips.

Ad Lucem

Gabriele Fossi

Light is the fundamental element of photography, its raw material. It is precisely the significance and dignity of this that becomes the focus of my work.

Dartmoor: A Radical Landscape

Showing the work of 18 artists and photographers spanning 1969 to 2024.

Second Nature

Kaya & Blank

The photographer duo Kaya & Blank explore the complex relationship between human influence and the natural world.

The Banana Generation

Hua Cai-Prossé

I am passionate about absorbing and translating the two worlds, two cultures, and two fronts.

When nature takes over our human world

Lori Nix & Kathleen Gerber

The two Cleveland-based artists, Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber make real-life dioramas depicting the world after nature took over our manmade cities.

Melothesia

Ricardo Guixà

Melothesia employs a cameraless technique where Ricardo Guixà applies high voltage current directly onto a photosensitive material.

Far from Home

Siyi Tang

Far From Home is an experimental project based on large format film.

In the evening, in the woods

Paola Tornambè

My photography is artistic and based on long exposure that allows me to melt different layers of images to create a pictorial effect.

Crisis of Faith

Viktoriia Sorochuk

What is religion and what is faith? What is the connection between the two?

DO NOT PASS

ZeWei Peng

Contemporary China resembles a runaway high-speed train, leaving my memories and language trailing behind.

Green House

Kinga Owczennikow

This project presents viewers with photographs of natural and urban scenes in seeming harmonious coexistence.

Afterimage

Glish Group (Ana Shubina & Tim Glinin)

The afterimage is an optical illusion where an image persists visually after its source is gone.

Pano Threads

Giuseppe Satriani

I always wanted to include in the frame everything I perceived with my eyes.

Life Today

Issue nr. 6 2024

In Artdoc Issue #6, 2024, Life Today, we present a broad collection of photographs portraying various aspects of our everyday lives. Life Today highlights the idea that all photographs inherently reflect the era in which we live. This issue captures the rhythms, connections, and stories that define our contemporary world. From natural landscapes to the intimacy of human relationships, and from everyday moments to abstract expressions, these photographs reveal our lives today. This issue features interviews with Richard Sharum and Mauro Curti and highlights the work of Diana Markosian, Emma Godfrey Pigott, Ludovica Limido, Mariet Dingemans, Cosimo Campagna, Hanne Jones Solfjeld, Giuseppe Satriani, Pieter Jan Boterhoek, Samara Meyer, and Olena Morozova.

The Unobserved

Issue nr. 5 2024

This Artdoc Magazine Issue #5, 2024, The Unobserved, showcases projects that focus on the often-overlooked details of daily life, capturing moments and scenes that typically escape our attention. Images of ordinary settings reveal the beauty, enigma, and significance within the everyday. By capturing these unnoticed aspects, the artists invite viewers to pause and appreciate the subtle rhythms and life patterns that go unobserved. This issue features interviews with Alba Yruela, Francesco Neri, and J H Engström, and highlights Yiming Zhu, Olga Zaverzhenets, Maria Semmer, Kaytlin Schmidt, Jerzy Wierzbicki, Elisabeth Sanders, Ole Marius Joergensen, Shijia Song, Paula Bardi, and Shannon O'Connor.

Expressive Nature

Issue nr. 4 2024

The Expressive Nature issue of Artdoc Photography Magazine showcases images of nature's beauty with underlying messages of humans' inner struggles. Hidden inside their visual expressions of nature, artists ask the fundamental question of who we are as humans. Photographers visualise this confronting contrast of nature’s strength and humanity’s fragility with enigmatic images, inviting the spectators to imagine their humble place in the world. This issue features interviews with Nadia Attura, Sandra Kantanen, and Alfredo de Stefano and highlights Ann Zhulan, Francisco Gonzales Camacho, Julia Casesnoves, Ludwig Spaude, Viet Ha Tran, Aya Okawa, Ekaterina Mikryukova, Florian Coëlo, Leonardo Bocci, and Maddy Loucas.

Invisible Threads

Issue nr. 3 2024

This issue of Artdoc Magazine, Invisible Threads, delves into the profound concept of our emotional and psychological connections with our past, countries, and families, as well as our shared beliefs and backgrounds. These invisible threads weave universal connections between people worldwide. Lee-Ann Olwage's work gravitates around gender and identity, and she touches upon the issue of dementia. Parisa Azadi returned to her homeland and found private moments of inner emotions reflecting the country’s challenging times. Danila Tkachenko photographed Ukrainian refugees before tourist landmarks in Europe against backdrops showing the devastation of their country.

Human Narratives

Issue nr. 2 2024

In Artdoc Photography Magazine Issue #2 2024 Human Narratives, we let you delve into photography's capacity to narrate the universal human condition. Artdoc Magazine invites you to explore human narratives and the emotions they evoke. We showcase images by photographers worldwide, conveying intimate stories of human experiences. These images speak to our shared experiences and feelings. We highlight the art of photography that recognises the universal stories that connect us all.

Creative Photography

Issue nr. 1 2024

In this Artdoc Photography Magazine issue #1 2024, Creative Photography, we bring photographic art that explores innovative approaches, showing the world in a new light. We interviewed two photographic artists who use light and beauty to elevate us beyond chaos and tension: Isabelle Menin and Christy Lee Rogers. Also, we bring the artist duo Lori Nix & Kathleen Gerber, who created dioramas with apocalyptic scenes. See also the many gifted artists experimenting with various photographic processes, like stitching prints, alienating hyperrealism, photographic distortion, photocollages, and high-voltage techniques.

What is Art Photography

E-Guide on understanding photography as an art medium

Art photography is a compelling blend of creativity and visual storytelling, transcending traditional photography to stir the imagination and evoke emotions. It goes beyond capturing moments, using images to communicate ideas, provoke thought, and establish a deep connection with viewers. This guide explores the essence of art photography, revealing its role as a window into human experience and a reflection of societal issues. You’ll discover its power as a communication tool and its ability to merge art with documentary photography. Dive in to understand this expressive art form and unleash your creative potential through the lens.

How to read images

Learn how to read photographs as a visual language

We have to understand photography as a language. A photograph is an image in which various signs are embedded, just like texts have words. Words form a sentence, and the sentences together tell a story. We can read pictures the way we can read a book. We can search in the photograph and look for the meaning. But in a picture, there are no words and sentences. We have to grasp meaning from the totality of the image, in which every detail plays a part. In this guide, you will learn how to read images and the way the photographer produces meaning in photographs.

How to create a photo project

Create a meaningful story as a photo project

A photo project is more than just a collection of images—it's a unique narrative told through a harmonious blend of style, emotion, message, subject, and technique. Each photograph within the series works together to convey a compelling story. By approaching your photo series with the same care and intention as you would a written story, you can create a powerful visual narrative. Unlock the secrets to creating captivating photo projects with our comprehensive guide. Start creating your unique photo project today. In this guide, you will learn to develop a distinctive and personal visual language that sets your work apart. Learn how to select and refine subjects that form the foundation of your photo projects, and you will master the art of constructing a cohesive and compelling photo series that tells a powerful story.

How to get into a gallery

Essential tips for photographers: How to Get Your Work into a Gallery

Securing a spot in a gallery is a highly sought-after accomplishment for many photographers in the ever-evolving art world. The significance of such an achievement is not limited to the mere display of artwork but extends to the attainment of recognition. Recognition in the art world is crucial as it validates an artist's work, increases their reputation, and opens doors to new opportunities. This guide delves into the nuanced art of gallery representation, offering practical and actionable advice to art photographers on gaining their audience's attention and admiration, thereby increasing their chances of recognition.

Life Today

Artdoc Group Exhibition

The Life Today exhibition celebrates the beauty, complexity, and diversity of life in all its forms.

The Unobserved

Artdoc Group Exhibition

The Unobserved" showcases photographers who are inspired to uncover the extraordinary within the ordinary, revealing the hidden beauty in everyday moments.

Expressive Nature

Artdoc Group Exhibition

The 'Expressive Nature' online group exhibition invites you on an immersive journey into the emotional and artistic resonances of the natural world.

Invisible Threads

Artdoc Group Exhibition

This online photo exhibition, Invisible Threads, delves into the subtle and often overlooked bonds that form the fabric of our existence.

Human Stories

Artdoc Group Exhibition

Human Stories is an online photography exhibition that aims to capture and convey the essence of the human experience through documentary storytelling.

Creative Photography

Artdoc Group Exhibition

We present "Creative Photography", an innovative online exhibition showcasing the boundless experiments of photography. In this digital realm, we invite you to immerse yourself in various visual research, where each photographic artist shows their view on their surroundings with unique techniques.

Genesis

Sebastião Salgado

Over 30 trips―traveled by foot, light aircraft, seagoing vessels, canoes, and even balloons, through extreme heat and cold and in sometimes dangerous conditions―Salgado created a collection of images showing us nature, animals, and indigenous peoples in breathtaking beauty. Mastering the monochrome with an extreme deftness to rival the virtuoso Ansel Adams, Salgado brings black-and-white photography to a new dimension; the tonal variations in his works, the contrasts of light and dark, recall the works of Old Masters such as Rembrandt and Georges de La Tour.

The Cruel Radiance

Susie Linfield

In The Cruel Radiance , Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images - and learning to see the people in them - is an ethically and politically necessary act that connects us to our modern history of violence and probes the human capacity for cruelty. Grappling with critics from Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht to Susan Sontag and the postmoderns - and analyzing photographs from such events as the Holocaust, China's Cultural Revolution, and recent terrorist acts - Linfield explores the complex connection between photojournalism and the rise of human rights ideals. In the book's concluding section, she examines the indispensable work of Robert Capa, James Nachtwey, and Gilles Peress and asks how photography should respond to the increasingly nihilistic trajectory of modern warfare. A bracing and unsettling book, The Cruel Radiance convincingly demonstrates that if we hope to alleviate political violence, we must first truly understand it - and to do that, we must begin to look.

Photography, A Critical Introduction

Liz Wells

Photography: A Critical Introduction was the first introductory textbook to examine key debates in photographic theory and place them in their social and political contexts, and is now established as one of the leading textbooks in its field. Written especially for students in higher education and for introductory college courses, this fully revised edition provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing. Key debates in photographic theory and history, Documentary photography and photojournalism, Personal and popular photography, Photography and the human body, Photography and commodity culture, Photography as art.

David Yarrow Photography

David Yarrow

For over two decades, legendary British photographer David Yarrow has been putting himself in harm s way to capture immersive and evocative photography of some of the world s most revered and endangered animal species. With his images heightening awareness of endangered species and also raising huge sums for charity and conservation, he is one of the most relevant photographers in the world today. Featuring his 150 most iconic photographs, David Yarrow Photography offers a truly unmatched view of some of the world s most compelling and threatened species. This collection of stunning images, paired with Yarrow s first-person contextual narrative, offers an insight into a man who will not accept second best in the relentless pursuit of excellence. David Yarrow Photography offers a balanced retrospective between his spectacular work in the wild and his staged storytelling work that has earned him wide acclaim in the fine art market. The intricacy and balance in these considered vignettes reinforces the work ethic in his research-based natural work. Yarrow rarely just takes pictures he almost always makes them. Whether it be in the wilds of Alaska or an old saloon bar in Montana, there will always be a preconception of what he is looking for in the final work. The consistency of this approach sets him apart from others in the field. Yarrow s work will awaken our collective conscience and true to form he has agreed to donate all the royalties from this book to conservation.

Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography

Robert Hirsch

The definitive history of photography book, Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography delivers the fascinating story of how photography as an art form came into being, and its continued development, maturity, and transformation. Covering the major events, practitioners, works, and social effects of photographic practice, Robert Hirsch provides a concise and discerning chronological account of Western photography. This fundamental starting place shows the diversity of makers, inventors, issues, and applications, exploring the artistic, critical, and social aspects of the creative process. The third edition includes up-to-date information about contemporary photographers like Cindy Sherman and Yang Yongliang, and comprehensive coverage of the digital revolution, including the rise of mobile photography, the citizen as journalist, and the role of social media.

The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present

Beaumont Newhall

o other book and no other author have managed to relate the aesthetic evolution of the art of photography to its technical innovations with such an absorbing combination of clarity, scholarship and enthusiasm. Through more than 300 works by such master photographers as William Henry Fox Talbot, Timothy O'Sullivan, Julia Margaret Cameron, Eugène Atget, Peter Henry Emerson, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Man Ray, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Ansel Adams, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Harry Callahan, Minor White, Robert Frank and Diane Arbus, author Beaumont Newhall presents a fascinating, comprehensive study of the significant trends and developments in the medium since the first photographs were made in 1839.

Fo­to­stif­tung Schweiz

Switzerland

Founded in 1971, Fotostiftung Schweiz is a private non-profit foundation, devoted to preserving, researching and conveying photographic works.

Foto Colectania

Spain

STANLEY/BARKER

UK

Each book that STANLEY/BARKER publishes is produced with the utmost care.

Dewi Lewis Publishing

England

Dewi Lewis Publishing is best known as a photobook publisher

PHOTOFAIRS New York

USA

Impressions Gallery

United Kingdom