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…)

Gueorgui Pinkhassov

Gueorgui Pinkhassov is a photographer, born in Moscow (Russia) in 1952. He began his interest in photography in his teens, and enrolled at the Moscow Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1969. Following college and two years in the army, he joined the film crew at Mosfilm. Continuing his interest in still photography he became a set photographer at the studio. His work was noticed by the film director Andrei Tarkovsky, who invited Pinkhassov to be unofficial photographer of his film Stalker.

Being awarded independent artist status by the Moscow Union of Graphic Arts in 1978 allowed Pinkhassov far more freedom to travel, allowing him to exhibit his work internationally. In 1979 his work was noticed outside of Russia for the first time, in a group exhibition of Soviet photographers held in Paris. Previously, his work had mainly been seen in a number of Russian magazines, including L’artiste Sovetique.  (more…)

Trent Parke

Trent Parke (born in Newcastle, Australia in 1971), the first Australian to become a Full Member of the renowned photographers’ cooperative Magnum Photo Agency, is considered one of the most innovative and challenging young photographers of his generation. Whilst working as a press photojournalist during the first years of his career, he received numerous national and international awards, including five Gold Lenses from the International Olympic Committee, World Press Photo Awards in 1999, 2000 and in 2005.  In 2003 Parke was awarded the prestigious international W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his series Minutes to Midnight. Parke documented his journey around Australia over a two-year period, examining ‘the current and changing state of the Australian nation’. Capturing the mood of a still young and emerging nation, Parke examined the disjuncture between the perception of the Australian ‘way of life’, with its nostalgia and romanticism, and the more complex reality.

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Faces by Lee Jeffries

After an accidental acquaintance with a homeless girl that was huddled under a sleeping bag in a doorway in London’s Leicester Square a former accountant Lee Jeffreys (Lee Jeffries) began photographing the humilated and offended in the cities of Europe and America.

Manchester born photographer Lee Jeffries has marveled professional photographers, amateurs and passers-by with his honest, compelling and raw portraiture. His strength not only lies in his use of stark contrasts but in capturing the humanity of his subjects. When we view them, far from finding their age repulsive our own fears, anxieties, and scars are instantly reflected onto them like a mirror. We cannot help but stare at ourselves in admiration.  (more…)