Photography

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Photography encompasses the practice or process of producing an image through the effect of light on a photo-sensitive material. It is undoubtedly one of the most popular and widely available media in contemporary art, having been invented in the late 1830s. Since then, the many different styles and forms of photography have grown exponentially in popularity.

There are numerous approaches to photography, from photo-abstraction to photojournalism and docu-photography. Meanwhile, photography movements have emerged from almost every generation, and they range from the Düsseldorf School and Diaristic Photography to New American Color Photography and Modern Photography.

Phillipe Chancel in North Korea – Photos of the Arirang Mass Games

Photography / 3 minutes of reading
Every year, North Korea holds a lavish and extravagant celebration for its ruler known as the Arirang celebrations, held at the May Day Stadium in Pyongyang. The Arirang celebrations can be classified in the same category as the Olympic celebrations. The audience is always treated to a highly choreographed show, the likes of which have

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Nadav Kander in Kurchatov – This city has never appeared on any official maps

Photography / 10 minutes of reading
If it were possible to take a picture of the entire earth’s surface, the mosaic of human co-existence would be a sight to behold. Some areas are military grounds, mining cities or tourist destinations, while others are education hubs, just to mention a few. It is hard to appreciate that in the midst of all

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Huang Qingjun’s intimate portraits of Chinese families – Family Stuff

Photography / 4 minutes of reading
Usually, life is viewed from the perspective of people as they appear in public. It is not unusual to come across a rich-looking individual only to realize that their background or where they call home is not as lavish. When what we consider normal is transformed inside out, a whole new dynamism of sights emerges.

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Oliver Wainwright in North Korea – Pyongyang interiors & bizarre colors

Architecture, Photography / 2 minutes of reading
Oliver Wainwright North Korean Interiors documents the unique architecture and the interiors of various regions of North Korea and its capital Pyongyang. Not many photographers get the opportunity to explore this isolated country owing to its closed state; however, Wainwright took the opportunity and ran with it. The interiors that he documented were very kitsch

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Our top 10 from Art Basel Unlimited Switzerland 2017

Installations, Photography, Sculptures / 8 minutes of reading
Since being introduced in 2000, Art Basel’s Unlimited section shows artworks such as large-scale sculptures, video installations and performances that may not fit in the traditional art-booth framework. This is our top 10 selection of this year’s Unlimited. All comments on the works below are citations from Gianni Jetzer, the curator of Unlimited (2017). “Nick

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Braco Dimitrijević’s casual passersby – These people are not famous

Installations, Photography / 7 minutes of reading
Braco Dimitrijević’s Casual Passer-By series are a series of canvas-based photographs created as from 1971. The works feature large-scale images of people that the artist met in the streets. Each piece comes with the exact time and place where the artist met with the person. However, he did not always put the exact date. These

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Eddo Hartmann’s Setting the Stage – North Korea in calm photos

Architecture, Photography / 7 minutes of reading
Despite being a highly secretive state, documentary images of North Korea have somehow managed to seep into the mainstream media in recent years. Those outsiders who have been granted access to the country are usually afforded limited freedom. As a result, the images they sneak out of the region typically are of totalitarian dictatorship, government-sanctioned

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These photos of Burning Man will make you want to go immediately

Photography, Sculptures / 1 minute of reading
Victor Habchy is a French photographer and director. He was lucky enough to get a ticket to Burning Man, an annual festival in the middle of the desert of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert in the US. He describes the event as life-changing, spending a full week without electricity, sleeping in a tent in the desert

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Qiu Zhijie – Luckily these are not real tattoos

Performances, Photography, Tattoos / 2 minutes of reading
Qiu Zhijie is well known for his capacity to add provoking new meanings to traditional Chinese calligraphy. In many of his works, Qiu incorporates calligraphy into modern media to fuse important elements from his culture into his art. His Tattoo series, released in 1994, explores the state of one’s independence and invisibility. Qiu’s ‘Tattoo’ series

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Andreas Gursky’s Stock Exchanges – Humans reduced to a blob of color

Architecture, Photography / 2 minutes of reading
Andreas Gursky is a German photographer and professor. He is most well known for large format architecture and landscape color photos, and following the 1990s, Gursky has been using technology and computers to edit and enhance his photos. First Stock Exchange photo in 1990 Gursky is known for using an elevated vantage point as his

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Alain Delorme’s Totem – Colorful madness in Shanghai

Photography / 3 minutes of reading
French artist Alain Delorme’s Totem series features images of towering stacks of objects that appear to teeter perilously like totem poles. His project name is ambiguous because it almost indicates that the project is about the dazzling heights of the Shanghai skyscrapers. However, the entire project focuses on migrants attempting and struggling to ferry their

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Abbas Kowsari’s surprising photos of veiled female police squad in Iran

Photography / 1 minute of reading
In 2003 the first females ever graduated from Iran’s police academy in the capital city Tehran, after undergoing training for three years. Spiritual leader Ayatollah Khamenei himself had to give permission to Tehran’s police chief Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf to create the first all-female police unit. Abbas Kowsari about his project “During Qalibaf’s time as police

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Prohibited photos from world’s most isolated country – Michal Huniewicz

Architecture, Photography / 3 minutes of reading
A lot of attention was recently drawn to a series of photographs taken by London-based photographer Michal Huniewicz. These photographs are somewhat prohibited as they show the real side of North Korea. The only way how tourists can North Korea Tourists who want to visit North Korea are only allowed to do so through pre-arranged

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