Rhein II by Andreas Gursky

The day before yesterday photo below was sold by Christie’s auction house for $4,338,500 and become world’s most expensive photography. You may find more works and read about Andreas Gursky in our article.

Rhein II by Andreas Gursky

Daido Moriyama

Daido Moriyama is a Japanese photographer noted for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan. Born October 10, 1938 in Ikeda, Osaka. Daido Moriyama studied photography under Takeji Iwamiya before moving to Tokyo in 1961 to work as an assistant of Eikoh Hosoe. He produced a collection of photographs, Nippon gekijō shashinchō, which showed the darker sides of urban life and the less-seen parts of cities. In them, he attempted to show how life in certain areas was being left behind the other industrialised parts. Though not exclusively, Moriyama predominantly takes high contrast, grainy, black and white photographs within the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, often shot from odd angles.  (more…)

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Turkey Cinemascope by Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a Turkish photographer and film director. Born in Bakırköy, Istanbul on 26 January 1959, Nuri Bilge Ceylan spent his childhood in Yenice, his father’s hometown in the North Aegean province of Çanakkale. His interest in the art of photography, kindled during his time at high school, blossomed at the Boğaziçi University photography club, where he also took passport-style photos to earn some pocket money. As well as photography, he also became involved with the mountaineering and chess clubs. The university’s extensive library and music archive played a significant role in fuelling his passion for the visual arts and classical music in particular. Meanwhile, the elective film studies course he took with Üstün Barışta and the film club’s special screenings did much to reinforce his love of cinema, which had taken root earlier during showings at the Cinémathèque in Istanbul’s Taksim. These were the years before DVD and video when films had to be watched at the cinema.  (more…)

Moving pictures by Chris Friel

Chris Friel is a British colour blind painter who bought a camera in 2006 and has not painted since. His work is influenced by the land and seascapes of his home town, Whitstable, in Kent, and by the challenging environments he encounters in his parallel career as a television documentary sound recordist. By simply moving his camera during exposure, Chris creates beautiful and otherworldly images of the landscape around him. He has been shortlisted for Landscape Photographer of the Year for the past three years running. His images have been exhibited in the South Bank Centre, on the Santiago subway in Chile, projected behind the London Sinfonietta in the Royal Festival Hall, and nearer home in Whitstable. Chris is one of the finest contemporary landscape photographers in the UK today.  (more…)

The Street Photography Awards

INTERNATIONAL AWARD 2012

The International Street Photography Award is looking for exceptional, international photographers that display a unique style and depth of work in the genre of street photography. The genre crosses over into portraiture, documentary and art photography, see the 2011 finalists for inspiration and a guide to what defines street photography.

The International Awards are open to photographers from anywhere in the world and photographs may be taken anywhere in the last 10 years. 

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Thursday 5 January 2012.

INFO & ENTER HERE >>>

Nils Jorgensen

Nils Jorgensen was born in Denmark in 1958 and educated at The King’s School, Canterbury, UK. He went on to study photography at the West Surrey College of Art and Design. In 1982, after working for the Associated Press in East Africa, he joined Rex Features Ltd based in London. In 2002 Nils joined online street photography collective In-Public. Nils has exhibited in the UK and America. His work was featured in new Thames and Hudson’s ‘Street Photography Now’ book and has recently been acquired by the Museum of London. In July 2011 his photographs were exhibited at London St Pancras International Station as part of The London Street Photography Festival.  (more…)

World around Nina Ai-Artyan

Nina Ai-Artyan is a professional photographer from Russia. Graduated from Moscow State Textile Academy as an artist-designer. Next 2-3 years she was working according to her specialty. Photography became her passion in 2003 and since then she concentrate only on photography.

As she said, from the very beginning of her photographic way, she was especially attracted by the street photography genre. As something very desirable and difficult. Street with all its variety, sometimes absurdity, diverse of modern world and the ability to see and combine seemingly incompatible seems is an ideal place for photographer. Photographer who appreciate ​​spontaneity and prefers to observe and follow extracting from the ordinary something unexpected.  (more…)

Fine art nudes by Mikhail Palinchak

Mikhail Palinchak famouse Ukrainian photographer. Was born in 1959 in Uzhgorod, Ukraine. Photography became his passion at the age of 12. Most of his craft has been self-taught from journals available in the old USSR. In the past he worked as a professional photojournalist for a regional newspaper. Over the past 20 years his works have been shown in more than 400 exhibitions across the world (USA, UK, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, France e.t.c.). Mikhail Palinchak is an artist of international federation of photoart (AFIAP).  (more…)