Iggy Smalls is a Norwegian fine-art and documentary photographer currently based in Barcelona. In 2013, while vacationing in Caracas, it happened to be the week former President Chavez died from cancer, a historical moment for the country and the world. As a photography student, she couldn’t miss the opportunity to document the trip with the backdrop of […]
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Reading beyond the photographic Diaries of Grace Ann Leadbeater
Grace Ann is a 25 years old American photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Growing up in a horse town outside of Orlando, stargazing every night with her brothers and neighborhood friend Robert, made her fell into a certain trance with nature. These were the moments that first encouraged her to take pictures and document everything… What got […]
Behind the Stories of Saleem Ahmed
Saleem Ahmed is a 27 year old photographer raised in Brookfield, Connecticut. He is now based in Philadelphia where he teaches photography and multimedia journalism. As an artist, he uses the medium as an attempt to articulate the ideas that live inside his thoughts and his notebooks. Saleem tries to create images that can tell a story […]
Tom Shea creates surreal landscapes
Tom Shea is a Utah (USA) based photographer working mostly outside of Salt Lake City and its surroundings where he was born. He also works as a photo “editor” for a small company that restores and digitizes antique or dated photos and video. He became interested in photography at a young age, but he didn’t […]
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 […]
The Urban Eye of Dominic Bugatto
Dominic Bugatto was born in Bradford, England but moved to Montreal with his family early on in his childhood, where he spent his formative years growing up. He’s currently based in Toronto where he lives with his wife & two kids. He works primarily as an illustrator/designer for newspapers and magazines. He’s been published in […]
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 […]