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…)

Understanding Joshua by Charlie White

Charlie White exploring male self-loathing through photographic puppetry. Using a humanoid puppet he calls “complete fragility manifest in a body”. White presents human frailty through a fictional character, much as a novelist might. As Charlie White tells, his puppet, called Joshua, helps him to explore the themes of male self-image and self-loathing. White places Joshua in a series of vulnerable situations – at a cocktail party or a lover’s house – and photographs the scene. (more…)

Schilte & Portielje

Dutch couple Schilte & Portielje create a surrealist world inhabited by solitary, mysterious and audacious figures. Jacqueline Portielje (’58), who studied painting, and Huub Schilte (’53), an architect by training, met in 1975 and have inspired each other and were closely involved in each other’s work ever since. They started to collaborate under the name Schilte & Portielje in 1997, three years before they had started to explore computers as a resource for artistic expression, using it as a photography dark room and a drawing/painting tool. Their ideas about art were so complementary that creating works of art together became the rule rather than the exception. The results are digital collages starting with a selection of scraps from a large image bank. During the process of drawing, painting, of adding and subtracting, new possibilities and ideas are generated. Still, the work is mainly based on the intuitive qualities the two artists have honed over the years. There are no rules. Located in the area of tension between photography, drawing and painting, the figures play the lead role in the duo’s photographic works: they are characterised by the mystery that surrounds them; a sort of impenetrability, elegance and power. (more…)

Faces of life – Pedro Luis Raota

Pedro Luis Raota (April 26, 1934 – March 4, 1986) is famouse and world wide known photographer from Argentina, ranked as one of the leading exponents of American photography and the Argentine photographer who has received the most awards in contests and photographic halls all around the world. In some publications it is indicated that throughout his 52 years of life Raota obtained more than 3,000 gold medals. Pedro Luis Raota passed away in 1986 and we can say that His photography showed, sometimes, the dramatic side of the life, but always dealing the subjects with irony and humor. Sometimes he was criticized because some of his photographs were previously set up, but he always responded: “A Photographer imagines a picture, and if that picture he imagines doesn’t exist, he will create it just like a Film Director does”. (more…)

Surreal stories by Brooke Shaden

Brooke Shaden is a fine art photographer living and working in the Los Angeles, USA area. Her passion lies in creating new worlds through photographs. Her vision extends beyond the realm of the camera, creating images that resemble paintings and speak of an era that is not our own. Each image is a story.

Brooke has been said to encapsulate a new way of creating imagery for our time and has “…dramatically restated a new photographic feminist agenda for the 21st century.” Her use of the square format and heavy texture work to create a painterly aesthetic is redefining the boundaries of photography. With these tools at hand, she creates new worlds through her images. (more…)

Lara Jade Coton

Lara Jade Coton is an internationally acclaimed fashion, portrait and commercial photographer. Lara’s most compelling quality is the ability to colour her images with strong elements of romanticism, fantasy and a hint of darkness that tints her work with maturity beyond her young age. Her unique style has defined her work since picking up her first camera at the age of fifteen, when she first started experimenting with self-portraiture and themes of fantasy which she continues to develop and refine today.

At only seventeen Lara started her own business – Lara Jade Photography. Beginning by taking on small clients, she was soon able to demonstrate a strong understanding of how to develop the commercial side of her business to adequately deal with the high demand for her work. Lara’s momentum has continued to build, with clients ranging from Sony Music, the BBC and well known fashion and photography magazines worldwide. (more…)