In the previous twelve months, twelve prestigious judges have selected the weekend portfolios. We’ve decided to present them all to you again this November. In December, the judges will review their selections and choose one or two finalists. You, the readers, will then vote ...

03.11.2012[ read full story ]

These are the portfolios chosen by David Fahey, from the Fahey Klein Gallery in Los Angeles.

08.01.2012[ read full story ]

Toby Old was born in Stillwater, Minnesota in 1945. Although he fostered an artistic vision of the world from an early age, he started out majoring in biology at Hamline University, and then moved on to the University of Minnesota where he trained to be a dentist. At the height of the Vietnam War he...

07.01.2012[ read full story ]

This project arises from my childhood admiration of special effects. What interested me were the means developed to create an illusion. In this series, special effects are achieved with pitiful means: masking tape, tracing paper, staples, and all in a studio with artificial l...

07.01.2012[ read full story ]

You can’t write good literature with good thoughts alone. And you can’t take good pictures if you let your emotions get in the way. Arno Brignon, a young father and photographer, know this well. He offers us this a vision of a moment from his family life, seen from a distanc...

14.01.2012[ read full story ]

Photographing women. They will always remain a mystery, from their birth to their final moments. In the resort to black-and-white, in its nuance and contrast, the mystery is only deepened.

07.01.2012[ read full story ]

On October 23rd, an earthquake with 7.2 magnitude on Richter scale, hit the Kurdish towns of Van and ercis, in Southeast Turkey, with a population of near half a million people. More then 650 people perish under the 2.900 buildings that collapsed, according to a ICRC(International Comitte ...

07.01.2012[ read full story ]

At the other side, the “Rive gauche”, there is nearly nothing. Two boatmen. An enormous extension of sand, mixing of beach and desert, plucking from the Ganges up to the infinite. In the horizon, lost in the haze, the mirage of a forest. The heat wraps everything. A lost family, bathin...

07.01.2012[ read full story ]

These photo series based on fragile human existence. Water tortured body leads soul towards awakening at new value and light. Water washes all the sins, thoughts, all the past. New-born human is ready to enter the world again.

07.01.2012[ read full story ]

Guido Castagnoli’s photographic investigation of the urban landscape of small Japanese towns takes us far from the stereotypes associated with contemporary Japan. There is no frenzied megalopolis, no rapidly expanding techno-city. Nor are there signs of the kind of extreme minimali...

14.01.2012[ read full story ]

As American Falls fades from my life, I find myself vainly attempting to lock it's memory to a position of tenderness and beauty--backdropped by allergy ridden summers and iced over winters; of cleaning steamy french fry furnaces one hour, and frigid potato freezers the next.

14.01.2012[ read full story ]

Valérie Gondran (b. 1969) lives and works in Grenoble. She first looked through a viewfinder when she was nine years old. This magic moment marked the beginning of an enduring link with photography. She strives to tell small tales of travels and journeys, without being too conclusive, so t...

14.01.2012[ read full story ]

Photographic works generally documenting the American social landscape. Particular interests include issues of land use and the environment, documentation and preservation of the architecture of the recent past, and documentary projects to create visual records in the manner of national...

21.01.2012[ read full story ]

Kir Esadov was born in 1988 in Moscow. He received a B.A. in social pedagogy in 2008 from the Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, After graduating, he worked at children’s Special school of type V(for children with severe speech disorders).

21.01.2012[ read full story ]

William and Kate? Albert of Monaco and Charlene? Those are nothing compared to the wedding of the year!! September marked the happiest event ever made and ever celebrate, with astonishing outfit of all the guests, all rigorously white: THE MARRIAGE OF THE DONNA CANNON.

21.01.2012[ read full story ]

Pavel Platonov is a twenty-one-year artist from Russia. He began to experiment with photography several years ago. Now he study at the Architectural University and make installations with complex geometric objects.

21.01.2012[ read full story ]

Stanislav Markov
Photographer, Producer and graphic designer.
Born 1985 in Moscow, Russia. Living and working in Moscow.

21.01.2012[ read full story ]

I am a 52 year old American photographer from Rochester, New York. Although I am a self taught photographer, I am grateful for all the input and feedback teaching from colleagues over the past two years that has helped me better under- stand the medium.
I have been photographin...

29.01.2012[ read full story ]

Tuberculosis is one of the most life threatening diseases infecting millions of people globally. A disease that has been an issue since pre-war and up to the present time. An airborne disease that spreads through the air and can infect a person who has inhaled even a small amount of ...

29.01.2012[ read full story ]

A lorry on the edge of the forest, a street leading to nowhere, the remains of a petrol station, a delivery van in an empty car park – the photography of Elmar Haardt (born in 1974) shows scenes which change between aes­thetic beauty and uneasy emptiness. The sight of car parks,...

29.01.2012[ read full story ]

These are the portfolios chosen by Chris Boot. Chris Boot is currently the director of Aperture, an American publishing house, gallery and magazine.

24.11.2012[ read full story ]

Through the series Corpus Christi, I wished to pay tribute to the architectural aesthetic of the new places of worship and to their hymn to minimalism, which has represented a genuine creative inspiration in modern religious architecture.

03.03.2012[ read full story ]

I just completed a photo essay at the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge… "The challenge begins on 4th of December, with 17 teams from around the world. More people have been into space than have rowed the Atlantic, and it is rightly considered as one of the toughest challenges on th...

03.03.2012[ read full story ]

Laura Noel’s pictures show us the attitudes, defiance, enjoyment, resignation, and contentment, of those who continue to smoke cigarettes in the face of public disapproval. More importantly, these portraits reveal that for some smokers, cigarettes are a way to enter into a state of contemplat...

03.03.2012[ read full story ]

I always wanted to be a writer but now I am a photographer. My writing was mostly depictive, so taking up photography was something I just needed to do. I am strongly influenced by the idea of decay of Western civilisation.

11.03.2012[ read full story ]

Jacques Camborde is a photographer who lives and works in Toulouse. He trains his lens on things unseen at first glance. What he reveals gives rise to a different perception of accepted meanings, an enchantment of the real.

11.03.2012[ read full story ]

Whenever I’m in Venice, walking around, taking pictures, my fusion with my surroundings is such that I perceive the village, its lagoon, its islands, as an extension of myself. It’s a sweet and peculiar intoxication. Nothing is more strange and exciting than to lose o...

10.03.2012[ read full story ]

While images are my passion, photography is my way of experiencing the world and seeking the answers. It’s a never-ending process of learning, a pretext to meet others and find myself in life changing situations.
It is to know the truth about myself.

17.03.2012[ read full story ]

My photographs are believable images shifted beyond the time and space of the moment of the shot. They incorporate an element of ambiguity into the representation of reality.

17.03.2012[ read full story ]

Alexander Sedelnikov was born in 1986 in Kasli, Russia. He is one of the founders of Verso Images, an association of independent photojournalists.

17.03.2012[ read full story ]

The protagonists of this series – realized in 2010 – live in Valtiberina, Central Italy. They are living their adolescence, a period of life often put through prejudice and rhetoric. These photos aim to show their quest for uniqueness, in the framework of the intimate relationsh...

17.03.2012[ read full story ]

The brutal life conditions inside Brazilian prisons, where tens of men cohabit few square meters’ cells under very bad health and hygiene service as well as, the random procedure of convicts’ placement managed by security authorities reveal the State’s inability to guarantee imprisonment in...

25.03.2012[ read full story ]

In 2006 after living one year in Stockholm I started to work on my paradise essay. It’s my personal vision on the city and its people. I’m searching for a direct, grittier mood, an atmosphere that is different from the usual stereotype of Stockholm and Scandinavia.
Through symbolic image...

17.03.2012[ read full story ]

I started making images about my family on a regular basis upon completing my course in the School of Theology in Singapore. It was also around that time that I started having a sneaky suspicion that the reason why I have always felt the need to create is because I was first created by an uncreate...

25.03.2012[ read full story ]

This series — shot in the fall of 2011 in a temporary food court set up inside Beijing’s Olympic Park — reveals a visually and viscerally overloaded fast-food culture that may make some mouths water and other bellies ache. Concentrating on the saturated visual displays of the foo...

31.03.2012[ read full story ]

Many of the trees I have photographed have survived because they are out of reach of civilization; on mountainsides, private estates, or on protected land. Certain species exist only in a few isolated areas of the world.

31.03.2012[ read full story ]

This project is a study of a unique place in the American landscape, and self discovery journey, that appeals to my vernacular taste, intuitive work process, and sense of style and order.

31.03.2012[ read full story ]

The geographical extent of the high north is difficult to describe with certainty. The region’s scale and diversity create an ambiguity when trying to explain or classify its boundaries. Much like the Australian ideal of outback, the high north is a phrase that can be shaped depending o...

31.03.2012[ read full story ]

Acid and burn violence are worldwide phenomenon, however the countries with highest rates of attacks are Bangladesh, Pakistan, Cambodia, Nepal and Uganda. Most victims are women; many of them are below the age of 18. However, in recent years even children, older people and young men...

31.03.2012[ read full story ]

These are the portfolios chosen by Guillaume Clavières, Director of the Photo Department at Paris Match.

24.11.2012[ read full story ]

James Clancy was born in 1971, close to the rural town of Newmarket in North Cork, Ireland. In his early years he received his education in the local schools, but time came where he needed what it could not give him, so he moved to Cork City. Moving to Cork, James studied and worked in f...

04.02.2012[ read full story ]

Most of my photography projects are experimental and can rarely be
called documental or even descriptive. I am always looking for an
alternative technique, or a new aesthetic. This probably makes me a
“user of photography” rather than a photographer. My main goal is to
provoke an aest...

04.02.2012[ read full story ]

I call this project Almost a Portrait as I try to explore a certain regard about the exchange of affections and complicity between the portrayed ones and myself as photographer. Because I find a lot more. Expectations that not came real, agreements and disagreements, certainties that be...

04.02.2012[ read full story ]

Pristine slides are subjected a series of destructive physical, chemical, organic and biological processes. The results are strange visual ruins that contribute to the world of la photographie plasticienne.

11.02.2012[ read full story ]

This is a chronicle of a Colombian Village.
A journey through the spirit, and timelessness of the place and characters: Milagros, Kiko and Sandro.

11.02.2012[ read full story ]

Performing Forms is a collection of photographs and videos produced simultaneously by Franck Olivas as part of a cycle of “photo-choreographic” performances created in Spring 2011 in Monaco. Dancers and musicians were invited to improvise on themes before a variety of set pie...

11.02.2012[ read full story ]

The overall concept is to represent each person with a symbolic object telling us about his personal history. The somewhat small size of the object reflects the enormous suffering of the person.
Some are posing with a medicine box, a suitcase, a bloodstained T Shirt, a diploma, an...

11.02.2012[ read full story ]

Full name, Oğulcan Büyükkalkan.Born in 29th of March, 1991 in İzmir, Konak. He studied at Halitbey İ.Ö.O. He went to Süleyman Taştekin high school after that.

18.02.2012[ read full story ]

Twelve images, some mysterious places, a heavy atmosphere and an unanimated body lying down could describe this series, imagined by the author. The Ergo Vivo series (“thus I live” in Latin) presents some real strong images, each of them made in weird places carefully selected by Thierry ...

18.02.2012[ read full story ]

An autodidact since 2008, Sandra Fastré has developed a personal vision of everyday subjects, one that seeks to reconcile story and image. In Originel, a series begun un December 2011, Fastré chose to approach the cycle of life by blending the body with nature.

18.02.2012[ read full story ]

As a result of my female nudes, I have heard from women all over the world about their journeys, discoveries, fears, longings and passions. As a woman I try and honor those feelings in my nudes. Many of the women I photograph remain friends and our stories become intertwined over time. We understand one ...

18.02.2012[ read full story ]

In this ongoing (2007-) project the artist has been exploring the everyday life in Latvia. Around 2006 Latvia was one of the fastest growing countries economically in the European Union. A few years later, as a result of crisis, Latvia became the poorest. These snapshots reflect the conse...

18.02.2012[ read full story ]

According to my research, the act of remembering is an unstable and profoundly unreliable process. The more we “remember” an event the more we are likely to change it with time.

25.02.2012[ read full story ]

Today I can no longer remember the events leading up to the moment where I felt the need to take photos, cut them into pieces and rearrange them to create new images. My move towards collage and photomontage always seemed perfectly natural, and it’s a method I’ve used in my work in the press, in p...

25.02.2012[ read full story ]

Marcin Owczarek was born in 1985 in Wroclaw. At the age of twenty, he began studying photography at The College of Photography in Wroclaw, graduating with an honorable mention for his cycle Brave New World, which presented an idiosyncratic version of a future world. Owczarek is fascinated...

25.02.2012[ read full story ]

Following the completion of several photography projects on the human being, I took several retreats to Cistercian monasteries. In these isolated religious communities, monks retire behind cloisters in order to devote themselves entirely to God.

25.02.2012[ read full story ]

Why limit dance photography to the stage? I’ve explored this question for the last fifteen years. Each exposure is a new page, each sequence another challenge, each meeting with a dancer its own adventure, thanks to them.

25.02.2012[ read full story ]