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 […]
The Unconventional Color of Stephen Shore
A great pioneer in his field, Stephen Shore (b. 1947) is a contemporary artist that has influenced a whole generation. Known for his objective and “banal” images, he has travelled across the world capturing everyday moments, with more than 50 solo exhibitions, and several monographs including the two famous American Surface & Uncommon Places. His […]
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 […]
Penetrate the humid atmosphere of Louisiana in Down by Law
Down by Law (1986) is a quirky movie of the new American independent scene directed by the singular Jim Jarmusch and photographed by Robby Müller (that we have seen on Paris, Texas alongside Wim Wenders). The story takes place between New Orleans and the Louisiana Bayou, both beautifully highlighted by a combination of good use of […]
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 […]