In Hlynur Pálmason’s Godland (2022), photography is not merely a narrative tool: it lies at the heart of the film, connecting Danish priest Lucas to an unforgiving Icelandic landscape. Shot on 35mm, this third collaboration between the Icelandic director and Swedish cinematographer Maria von Hausswolff is a visual masterpiece, with its static portraits and vast […]
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From Moving Shots to Stills in ‘Ida’
I’ve been thinking about this one for a while, you might believe that is a photo series here, but those shots are indeed stills from the movie Ida! Director Pawel Pawlikowski gives us a portrait of post-war Poland through the story of Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska), a young Polish girl who lives in a convent. An […]
Clayton Bruce Lyon Delves into Myths & Stories of Sangre De Cristo Mountains
Clayton Bruce Lyon grew up in Kansas City, United States. At 22, he graduated with a degree in photography, and currently works as a photographer and video producer in northwestern Arkansas. Clayton hopes to change the way people view the world with meaningful work. His series Sangre de Cristo is composed of images taken in […]
Pascal Liénard Investigates Religious Heritage in Rural World
Pascal Liénard is a photographer living in Belgium in a natural park called the Land of The Hills (Pays des Collines), Picardy Wallonia. This wide preserved plain, very green, rural and agricultural allows him to feel this little loneliness he is looking for. On the other hand, it is close enough to the capital, which […]
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 […]