DESIENNA

Luca Desienna is an Italian photographer based in London and Berlin. He regularly works for the Sole24Ore monthly magazine Intelligence in Lifestyle covering a variety of commissions UK based. He works mainly within the Editorial and Documentary but he’s currently working also in Music and Fashion photography and Black and White film is his longterm passion , however he’s not keen to be classified into a specific genre.

http://www.lucadesienna.com/

TRIBULATIONS

Spurred by the rapid disappearance of the world's indigenous peoples and their oral traditions, Phil Borges abandoned his dentistry practice to pursue his first love, photography. For the past 25 years, he has traveled to the farthest reaches of the globe to meet with persecuted Tibetan monks engaged in nonviolent struggle and embattled tribespeople of the Ecuadorian Amazon who must defend their way of life by any means necessary. Through interviews and portraiture, Borges documents his subjects and their tribulations with dignity, and conveys their rarely heard stories.

http://www.philborges.com/

FASHION-ISH

Olivia Bolles, aka Olivia Bee, is a 15-year-old photographer from Portland, Oregon. These photos are from her “fashion-ish” and “lovers” series. Her videos are also quite impressive.

http://www.oliviabee.com/

LEIBOVITZ

 

Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, the photographer’s first book, was published in 1983. The same year Leibovitz joined Vanity Fair and was made the magazine’s first contributing photographer. At Vanity Fair she became known for her wildly lit, staged, and provocative portraits of celebrities.

book: Photographs, Annie Leibovitz

CHARCOAL PHOTOGRAPHS

Dirk Dzimirsky’s works are quite amazing. Dzimirsky’s works are in many private collections around the world, including USA, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France. Most of Dzimirsky’s works are in pencil or charcoal on paper, with added highlights in white.

http://www.emptykingdom.com/main/featured/dirk-dzimirsky/

CHILDISH CREEP

I came across this photographer Anna Hurtig on Onexposure, and I really loved her creepy/moody child portraits. Too many photographs of children are cutesy and boring, so I like seeing a photographer be a little more creative with their subject matter.

http://www.annahurtig.com/

ASHES AND SNOW

Gregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow is an ongoing project that weaves together photographic works, 35mm films, art installations and a novel in letters. With profound patience and an enduring commitment to the expressive and artistic nature of animals, he has captured extraordinary interactions between humans and animals.

http://www.ashesandsnow.org/

UNREAL FILM STILL

 

Born in Shanghai, Yijun Liao obtained an MFA in Memphis and now resides in Brooklyn. Her latest series, Stills from Unseen Films, is a tribute to films that she has not seen. She pretends that the images are from real films, characters lost in thought and acting in roles that exist only in her mind.

http://chngyaohong.com/blog/china/yijun-liaopixy/

DROPPED

 

David Levine is an artist by way of acting, he has a degree in intellectual history, English literature, and directing, but it's hard to feel comfortable characterizing him as anything else. Born and bred in London, David never had any other ambition than to pursue his passion in photography. He describes his parents as neither ‘encouraging nor discouraging' but it didn't really matter as his mind was set and no-one could have stopped him from going after his dream.

http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/

BOMBAY INDUSTRY

Dilip Bhatia, an alumnus of the Brooks Institute of Photography, has freelanced for all the top advertising agencies in India and shot the very best from the Indian film industry over the last 17 years.

http://www.dilipbhatia.com/

MIRROR OF SELF-EXPRESSION

 In 1966, Eikoh Hosoe was introduced by his sister-in-law, the photographer Hisae Imai. His approach to photography is philosophical, "… To me photography can be simultaneously both a record and a mirror or window of self-expression… The camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eye and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory." Renowned Japanese author, Yukio Mishima wrote of Hosoe’s photographs, “God is dead, and naked human beings face the world shameless and without pride.”

http://www.designboom.com/portrait/hosoe.html

THE DARK ROOM

"The dark room" is a photography exhibition planned as part of a project lunched by Amnesty International Italy under the title "I am against the death penalty because...". 

The objective of this project is to generate awareness on the brutality of death penalty getting testimonials from the art and show businesses involved and using various forms of expression, such as photography, drawing and story writing.

http://vision.xitek.com/column/201007/08-47236_2.html

CASTELL

After earning a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography in 2006 from East Carolina University, Brie Castell worked as a photography professor at both Pitt Community College and ECU.  She is a featured artist in the Fall 2009 issue of Eyemazing Magazine, an award winning Amsterdam-based photography publication. Castell's photographs are widely collected all over the world, and are in many public and private collections.

magazine: Eyemazing, fall 2009

ONE TO WATCH

Fan Shisan is originally from Sichuan province but currently lives and works in Shanghai. Over the past few years, Shisan has established himself as a “one to watch” photo- and videographer in the local creative scene.

http://fanshisan.com/