Bruce Davidson

Bruce Davidson (born September 5, 1933 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American photographer. He has been a member of Magnum since 1958. His photographs, notably those taken in Harlem, have been widely exhibited and published in a number of books. Began photography at the age of ten in Oak Park, Illinois. As a youth, Davidson was given the freedom to explore the streets of the city alone with his camera and in 1949, at the age of 16, he won first prize in the Kodak National High School Competition. He went on to attend the Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University. His college thesis pictured the emotions of football players behind the scenes of the game, and it was published in Life magazine in October 1955. Later he was drafted into the army and was stationed in Paris where he met Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of the four founders of the renowned international cooperative photo agency, Magnum Photos. After military service, in 1957, Davidson worked as a freelance photographer for Life Magazine and in 1958 became a member of Magnum Photos. (more…)

Photo of the Week #1

Bridge To Nowhere
by Ronnie Kinnie

“This image was taken in Halifax Scotia Canada. It connects to citys Halifax and Dartmouth. The fog rolls in extremely fast and so think you would not be able to tell thre is a city on the other side.” – Ronnie Kinnie

Adam Clutterbuck

In landscape photography, Adam Clutterbuck seek out strong and stripped down compositions, concentrating on scenes within the wider landscape – often featuring only a small number of compositional elements. Born in West Cornwall, UK, He grew up surrounded by the sea, and it is with little surprise that He find the majority of his photographs at the coast. (more…)

Ellen von Unwerth

From the moment Ellen von Unwerth picked up a camera in the mid-1980s, she has held the fashion world captive with a style that is at once elegant, evocative, and erotic. A former model, she began by snapping photos of her model friends, but soon after, von Unwerth emerged as a rising fashion star, shooting for Vogue and, by 1989, the edgy campaigns for Guess that made Claudia Schiffer a household name – an ad campaign that von Unwerth continues photographing to this day. Her riotous and seductive images have filled four books (one forthcoming) and appeared inside and on the covers of almost two decades’ worth of fashion and celebrity magazines, including Harper’s Bazaar, Interview, I-D and V. The German – born mother of one will no doubt go down in fashion history as a pioneering female photographer, but it is her almost preternatural sense of what is sexy that separates her from all the rest. (more…)

Underwater world by David Doubilet

David Doubilet is honored to have his underwater imagery considered to be among the best by editors, peers and colleagues the world over. He has photographed over 60 stories for the National Geographic Magazine where he is currently a Contributing Photographer-in-Residence. David has documented our changing underwater world since his first assignment with the Geographic in 1971. In addition to the Geographic, David’s work continues to appear in countless publications worldwide and he is a contributing editor and feature columnists for the Behind the Shot in Sport Diver Magazine (US) and Seascapes and Dive Magazine (UK). (more…)

Daniel Vojtech’s extreme photos

Daniel Vojtech was born February 19, 1986 in Czech republic. From 2005 to 2009 he is student of Thomas Bata university in Zlin – Advertising photographer. From 2005 he is main photographer and photoeditor of magazine Board and magazine Dirtbiker. From 2007 Daniel cooperate with Nikon and awarded by Nikon in 2007 as Nikon pro No. 1. Daniel Vojtech is the young photographer with focus on modern extreme sports and around it lifstyle. (more…)

High Key and Low Key

Both High Key images and Low Key images make an intensive use of contrast, but in a very different way. When approaching a shoot of a dramatic portrait, the decision of making it a High Key, Low Key or “just” a regular image has great impact about the mood that this picture will convey. While High Key images are considered happy and will show your subject as a tooth-paste poster; Low Key portraits are dramatic and convey allot of atmosphere and tension. Let’s explore those two dramatic lighting alternatives. (more…)

Joon Brandt

Joon Brandt is the owns one of the most insane portfolio you will ever see, as a photographer he is total talent without the fact that he is just as amazing as a director, this mix makes Joon Bandt a one of a kind Photographer and Director, here is your chance to see both sides of his work.

Joon Brandt was born in 1975 in Halden, a southern town in Norway. He graduated in 1998 from the School of Media and Film in ITC. After graduation he started working at Media Design, doing visual effects work for TV and film. Moving to the buzzing new film city of Fredrikstad he did freelance VFX work for Zwart Arbeid while at the same time building his own reputation as a director and photographer.

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Anna Voytenko

Anna Voytenko is the new blood of ukraine photography. Anna take photos in style called hyperrealism and almost all here photos are documentary, photojournalism or emotional portraits. She born 1979 in Kiev, Ukraine. Graduated from National technic universety. Anna won gran-pri of contest “Reinoks” (Moscow, 2008). Particepent of a lot of exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia, Poland and so on. Here photo was published in such magazines and newspappers: Day, Today, What? Focus, What’s on, Domus, DFoto, DCamera e.t.c. Also, here book “Iza” was published in 2008. (more…)

Fan Ho

Award-wining photographer Fan Ho has won 280 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide since 1956. Ho has been elected Fellow of the Photographic Society of America, Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, England; Honorary Member of the Photographic Societies of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Argentina, Singapore and etc, and was honored with One-Man-Shows in the above countries. Ho’s works can be seen and have been published in many International Photographic Annuals all over the world.

Fan Ho has been invited by 12 Universities in Taiwan and Hong Kong as “Visiting Professor, ” teaching the art of film-making and photography. Fan Ho has written five books, one of them containing all his award-winning prints that is currently a permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. Hong Kong Yesterday is Mr. Ho’s latest book done by MB Editions. (more…)