It’s the Sum that Makes the Photo by Ursula Abresch

“There’s more to a moment than what you see with your eyes.There are the thoughts at the time, the sounds, the smells, what you touch … and more. All these are real and integral to my photography.It’s the sum that makes the photo”  Ursula Abresch

 

How I Created the Bokeh Effect in “Seedlings” by Ursula Abresch

A Great Eye by Andrew Lucas

Glamour photographer, teacher and much more, it seems that Andrew Lucas likes a lot what he does. I like it too, starting from his great eye for women sexy portraits that he shows in his 500px page.

An Untold Novel by Dmitry Ageev

The first thing you notice in Dmitry Ageev‘s photographs are the eyes. They are striking, compelling, they draw the viewer in and make you wonder what they are thinking about. Even though some of the poses are similar, each set of eyes tells a different story. They are pensive, pleading, daring, questioning, frightened, loving. He captures, not just the face, but the person; whether it is a real person or a fictional character the model is playing. You can almost hear what they are thinking or what they would say if they could speak. Each one is a character study for an untold novel just begging to be written.

Very Wide Angle of View by Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji

23 years old Photographer and Physics student from northern Iran, interested in Panoramic and Architecture Photography. “I have been taking photos for 5 years, and have learned much through talking to other photographers, sharing my pictures and receiving feedback, and watching tutorials on the internet. Most of my pics are Covering very Wide angle of view (show Entire Building in one Picture ) and also they are High Dynamic Range. for me light is very Special element in Photography.” – Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji

Multiexpo by Frank Machalowski

In Multiexpo I show analog multiple exposures of Berliner and other european citys sightseeing hotspots photographed from several positions on one frame. The buildings, structures and sculptures are taken from different perspectives, as well as the different visitors they look. The multiplication and intensification of positions and fields of view appears to distort the structures and reduce them to their core. They literally vibrate under the attempt to capture the time even in the pictures. Frank Machalowski

Frank Machalowski is a German award winning photographic artist and photographer, who lives and work in Berlin. Frank first got into photography as a hobby years ago. At first he was mainly into digital photography, but then he started shifting back to film as he found the charming characteristics and atmosphere of film photography to be most fascinating. Today he develops and prints his photos on his own. His major areas of interest are the city as well as the country side, two opposite fields but to him they kind of attract.

A World Behind the Scene by Mary Ellen Mark

Since the late 1960s, I have worked on many film sets. Sometimes a magazine assigns me a story but, more often, I am hired by the film studio as what is called a “special stills photographer.” A special stills photographer works on a film set for any number of days or weeks and makes photographs which are used for publicity or advertising. The advertising pictures are for the one-sheet poster–usually, the concept and design of the poster is the work of the advertising art director and the film company, and I collaborate with them very closely to produce what is needed. The publicity photographs are used for magazine covers and stories. I make some portraits of actors in the studio, but most often they are taken behind the scenes, which has always been one of my preferred ways of working, especially in a surreal atmosphere like that of a film set. Mary Ellen Mark

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Hands as a Canvas by Guido Daniele

Since 1968 Guido Daniele has been painting and participating to personal and group art exhibitions.In 1972 he started working as hyper-realistic illustrator, in co-operation with major editing and advertising companies, using and testing different painting techniques.
Since 1986 he has been working and improving his personal usage of airbrush: he paints back-stages in different sizes (the biggest ones can be 400 square metres) for artistic and advertising pictures, tv commercials and tv programmes. He also creates trompe l’oeil, both in private houses and public buildings. In 1990 he added a new artistic experience to his previous ones: using the body painting technique he creates and paints models bodies for different situations such as advertising pictures and commercials, fashion events and exhibitions.

What I Try to Show by Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark was born in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,  and began photographing with a Box Brownie camera at age nine. In 1966 or 1967, she moved to New York City, where over the next several years she photographed Vietnam War demonstrations, the women’s liberation movement, transvestite culture, and Times Square, developing a sensibility, according to one writer, “away from mainstream society and toward its more interesting, often troubled fringes”. As Mark explained in 1987, “I’m just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence”. Her shooting style ranges from a 2 ¼ inch format, 35 mm, and 4×5 inch view camera. She also uses a Leica 4 for most photographs and Nikons for long-range shooting. Mark loves shooting with a Hasselblad for square format and she shoots primarily in black-and-white,using classic Kodak Tri-X film. This is a first post, another one will follow.

“I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject.  There’s nothing much interesting about me; what’s interesting is the person I’m photographing, and that’s what I try to show….”  Mary Ellen Mark

Your Body is My Canvas by Alexa Meade

Los Angeles-based artist Alexa Meade has made a name for herself by turning real people into walking, talking works of art. Using acrylic paints, she paints on the skin of human subjects in a way that optically flattens them into two-dimensional paintings.

Tempted by Poetry by Raymond Depardon

Raymond Depardon, born in France in 1942, began taking photographs on his family farm in Garet at the age of 12. Apprenticed to a photographer-optician in Villefranche-sur-Saône, he left for Paris in 1958 He joined the Dalmas agency in Paris in 1960 as a reporter, and in 1966 he co-founded the Gamma agency, reporting from all over the world. In 1978 Depardon joined Magnum and continued his reportage work. Depardon has made eighteen feature-length films and published forty-seven books.

“I’m coming from journalism, but at the same time I’m tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.”  Raymond Depardon