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…)

William Eggleston

William Eggleston, born in Memphis, USA in 1939, has, for almost fifty years, photographed his fascination and disdoin for everyday American civilisation. His work focuses on what he sees as the captivating banality of the Southern states, where the desire, alienation and solitude of everyday life become extraordinary, thanks to his rare sense of detail.  Of course William Eggleston didn’t ‘invent’ color photography, as John Szarkowski once stated somewhat provocatively. But he did facilitate the breakthrough of color photography in the museum context.  (more…)

Chema Madoz

With Chema Madoz‘s work opens up unexpected spaces, forms of great strength, reaching us all, as it reminds us of something and forces us to unlimited reflexions. Through his photographs we advance to understand strange things of forms and the circles which constantly are produced in nature. New dimensions led by metaphor alters the perception of an immediate reality. The absurd, the paradox, the humor – why not the wittiness – are to be found at the photographers studio. The idea commences it’s process of superiority of the object and establishes a given discontext. The irony with which Chema Madoz assaults recognizible objects creates a relationship with viewers that leads to paths of a parallel universe.  (more…)

The Street Photography Awards

The International Street Photography Award is looking for the world’s best street photographer as part of the first annual London Street Photography Festival in 2011. It is open to all photographers, anywhere in the world. The winner will receive £1,000 plus an all-expenses paid trip to the festival’s opening night in London – a fantastic opportunity for any photographer to take advantage of the festival’s activities, network and to promote their work. Total first prize value £2,750.

Application deadline: 31 March 2011

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Geometry of life by Umberto Verdoliva

Umberto Verdoliva was born in Castellammare di Stabia, Naples in 1961. Now residing in Treviso, Italy. Photography is not his profession but an essential part of him. As Umberto says he could not live without it. The street is his stage. He watch the show trying to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary in his way of seeing. The light, shadows, geometry, the moment are the tools He use. Take a look on great street photos from Italy. (more…)

Vivian Maier

The story of Vivian Maier and her recently discovered work has been circulating for a while now ever since photographer John Maloof posted about his discovery. Vivian Maier, a French-born photographer who died in April 2009 in Chicago, where she had lived for 50 years. A Chicago photographer, John Maloof, recently purchased around 40,000 of her negatives from a small auction house that was selling all her possessions, including furniture. He is gradually going through the negs, which date from the 1950s to 1970s and posting selected pictures on a blog. She seems to have no living family, and an obituary that appeared in a Chicago paper was probably placed by people she worked for as a nanny. Maloof was contacted by a researcher who said that she was a Jewish refugee from wartime France, was a loner and poor. (more…)

Spare by Alexander Glyadyelov

The children in Aleksandr Glyadyelov’s pictures do not live normal lives. The humiliating poverty experienced by the majority of Ukrainians has pushed these kids out of their homes and onto the streets where they spend their days searching for a crust of bread, and their nights looking for a place to sleep. Some prefer the violence of the streets to homes filled with alcohol and drugs. Basements, begging, thefts, alcohol, violence, drugs, cruel treatment – these are inevitable parts of the daily struggle. When Alexander Glyadyelov looks into a childs eyes and receive his or her gaze in response, He is not looking at a statistic, but at a child. Photographs can reveal pain, which He search for, even while he wish it did not exist. Alexander Glyadyelov photographed the children over the next month until, without warning, they changed sleeping quarters, and he lost them. He met them again two years later, only to lose them after three days. Some of these images are spontaneous; others are the result of endless research. The rest are the product of long-lasting, trusting relationships. (more…)

Results of EXPOSED 2010

Finnaly judges selected the best photos of 2010 that was send to EXPOSED International Salon of Photography whick takes place in Slovenia under the patronage of FIAP, PSA, UPI and FZS. Overall was sent more than 11,000 photos from 1162 authors from 63 countries. Was accepted 2398 photographs and awarded 68 of them. (more…)