Ding Ren is a Chinese-American photographer and writer currently based in Amsterdam… She is also the co-founder of google sheep view, an avid knitter, and member of the White Light Collective (alongside Isa Gelb & Oliver Liria). She photographs only with analog because it “preserves the tangibility of the medium” while in digital photography, the elimination of the photographic process […]
Author: Laura Uslar
Anne-Sophie Landou Portrays her daily Life with a sensitive Eye
Anne-Sophie Landou is a French photographer whose life centers around the camera shutter. She takes and sees pictures every single day because for her it’s vital, exciting and beautiful. Words were her first love, but images have always been her fascination. She started taking pictures at the age of 14 with her parents’ digital camera, […]
Elsa Bleda’s colorful Pictures Reflect on human Emotions
Elsa Bleda is an artist and photographer based in South Africa. When it comes to expressing her emotions and telling her stories, photography is the closest thing to her. Its her way of communicating her inner world and exploring with the outside one. For her images she focuses on quiet moments, unsaid emotions and untold […]
Kristen McNevins
Kristen McNevins is an American photographer whose sense of curiosity and interest in art lead her to discover this medium. From the click of shutter to developing the image in the darkroom, she felt fully engaged in the making of the image. It became a medium of expression when she sought to follow her feeling […]
Redefining Sensual Aesthetics in Le Mépris
The Cannes Festival just came to an end, and we are now experiencing a strange nostalgia, wanting to revive the films that remind us of that event. This is why it seemed just right to dedicate this month’s Movie Stills to Le Mépris by Jean Luc Godard (1963). It features some of the most impressive […]
Michał Niemyjski
Michał Niemyjski is a Polish photographer from Legnica, currently living in Wroclaw. He’s currently a Visual Communication student, but he’s also a classical musician graduated from the Academy of Music. He considers photography a full time job since he’s always looking for something to photograph. Coming from a demanding musical background, he felt he had little […]
Xavier Aragones
Xavier Aragones (b. 1979) is a Spanish photographer based in Terrasa, a town near Barcelona. He began getting interested in photography in his early twenties, when he started to take long aimless walks on his own around Barcelona, the city where he was living in at the time. A photographic camera seemed to him the […]
Francesco Sambati captures color Spaces
Francesco Sambati is an Italian photographer from Lecce, a city located in southern Italy. Unlike many photographers we’ve featured at Velvet Eyes, his first approach to photography was through the camera of a mobile smartphone. He took a photo for fun, began to work on it and he loved it. So he slowly began to […]