We all know that wars have mostly negative effects on people. The soldiers are fighting for a reason: for democracy, to end terrorism, to liberate a nation from a dictator’s rule. These soldiers are also the ones with their lives on the line. In perhaps one of the most interesting photography projects ever made, Marked [...]
The best thing about art is that there are no limits to what the artist chooses to come up with. The same goes for photography. No one can dictate or set any boundaries to what the photographer can or cannot shoot. Alexander Harding chose to shoot amazing images where light was his subject in Visible [...]
Photographers can find inspiration from their everyday lives or from the subjects that they have chosen to shoot. For example, Seymour Templar chose to draw from how people communicated using their mobile phones in his project called “Social Lights.” Ted Sabarese wanted to show the connection (if ever there was one) between people and the fish they [...]
Animals have feelings, too. That’s something I’ve always believed in, having grown up in an environment and in a family that loves animals. And Isa Leshko has managed to capture this simple, little truth in her photography projected called ”Elderly Animals.” Isa traveled far and wide to visit and photograph elderly animals or those that were nearing the [...]
What you see isn’t always what you get. I once heard this photographer give some advice to another: “To be a good photographer, you shoot what you know. To be a great one, you shoot what you do not know in order to get to know it.” Sounds confusing, I know, but it makes some [...]
There’s no doubt that what comprises the “world” varies from person to person. However, you can be certain that what people think of it is also what they can see in it: nature, trees, telephone poles–and books strewn all over the place? If you happened to come across that last scene, then you might have [...]
The two most important elements in a shoot are your subject and your equipment. Without one or the other, you won’t be able to shoot anything, really, because: a.) there’s nothing to shoot (no subject); or b.) you have nothing to shoot with (no equipment.) When people think of a “subject,” they often call to [...]