Anastasia Samoylova is a Russian-American artist who moves between observational photography, studio practice and installation. Floodzone points out the consequences of climate change in the southern United States, without the intention of making a visualization of disaster. Keeping her style, Anastasia made a book that is as effective as a good political speech which is […]
Author: Ilias Lois
‘The Blindest Man’ by Emily Graham
Emily Graham lives in London, she works primarily with color photography and her practice often deals with elusive subject matters; a search for the unknown, a psychological state, the act of communication and interpretation. At first sight, Emily’s latest work The Blindest Man seems to be a documentary project, but gradually adds puzzling conceptual elements which […]
‘Amour’ by Claudine Doury
Claudine Doury is based in Paris and shot the images of her latest photobook Amour during three visits to the Amur River, Russia, spanning almost 30 years: as a young photographer in 1991, six years later in 1997, and once more in 2018. Amur (translated to ‘Amour’ in French) means love. Amour is a multidimensional […]
‘Abendlied’ by Birthe Piontek
Born and raised in Germany, Birthe Piontek moved to Canada in 2005 after receiving her MFA from the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. Birthe’s art practice explores the relationship between memory and identity, with a special interest in the topic of female identity and its representation in our society. Abendlied, her recent […]
‘Snake Legs’ by Max Zerrahn
Max Zerrahn is a photographer based in Berlin. His first book Snake Legs 蛇足, published by White Belt Publishing, focuses in everyday scenes and details of a bustling metropolis, that would typically go unnoticed in the rush of a city of 38 million inhabitants. The consistent framing, which avoids the abstract snapshots, the smart double-view […]
‘Halfstory Halflife’ by Raymond Meeks
Raymond Meeks lives and works in the Hudson Valley, New York. He gains inspiration by book narrative and collaboration with writers of poetry and short fiction and the merging of image and text. Halfstory Halflife, his recent body of work, is a visual biography of the post-teen age, in a specific time of the year, […]
‘Polar Night’ by Mark Mahaney
Northern California based photographer Mark Mahaney has published his first book, Polar Night. The hemisphere tilts away from the sun during the winter months, communities near the North Pole experience a phenomenon known as the polar night: a period of uninterrupted darkness. In Utqiagvik, it lasts for approximately two months a year. When did the production […]
‘Nocturno’ by Monty Kaplan
Monty Kaplan is a photographer from Argentina. His work can be interpreted as a subjective anthropological exploration of the world. The series Nocturno can be seen as a blank canvas where Monty illuminates eclectically parts of his private universe. What do you think about the relation of peripatetic life and the action of photographing?This is […]