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 […]
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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 […]
Collecting Colours and Patterns with Paul Garcia
Paul Garcia is a painter, writer and photographer based in Liverpool, England. He graduated from biochemistry and then studied journalism, with the idea of becoming a scientific writer – but decided to be an artist instead. His modest lifestyle, living in a self-sustained farm with electricity provided by solar panels, is in a big way […]
Monty Kaplan
Javier Federico Kaplan, aka Monty Kaplan, is an Argentinian photographer and filmmaker based in Miami. He defines his style as eclectic and minimal. Eclectic in the sense that he’s always interested in capturing a specific mood, from the most upbeat, colorful pictures to dour and gloomy ones. His main concerns are always light (or lack […]
Erik Mowinckel
Erik Mowinckel is a Norwegian photographer who grew up in a suburban area outside Oslo. His first few years of photographing involved him and a friend of his staging photographs of each other in spaces that they saw as photogenic. This somehow evolved to how he works today, walking around, searching for something to photograph […]
Alexis Vasilikos
Alexis Vasilikos is a greek photographer based in Athens, also known for co-editing Phase magazine. Embracing a narrative form, his colorful images explore the presence of sublimity in everyday life. If you live in Athens, he is currently having a solo exhibition titled Here Is All There Is at Christina Androulidaki Gallery. More on his […]
Lara Gasparotto
Lara Gasparotto is a 26 years old photographer from Belgium that has a special eye for poetically capturing people and moments. No matter what the main subject is in her pictures, from a landscape to a portrait, what is really captivating is that perfect mix of innocent and sensual that’s present all along her work. […]