https://life-framer.viewbook.com/ 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b0f61b6852f4d27df45088f2a65f0010_hd.jpg Antanas is a patient at Kanombe Hospital, Kigali, Rwanda. This image is part of 'Maternity Ward': a photographic documentary series about the doctors, nurses and patients in the maternity ward of Kanombe Hospital, 2013. It’s compulsory for every Rwandan to have health insurance, yet many struggle to pay the annual fees. If a patient is unable to pay their bill, their relatives are responsible for covering the costs and that can take months or even years, during which time the patient is required to remain in hospital. But seeing as many of Kanombe’s patients lost most or all of their family during the 1994 Genocide, they are forced to rely on the hospitals social worker for food and support. 'Maternity Ward' is the 4th part of Julia Gunther's ongoing project 'Proud Women of Africa': a photographic documentation about women that live or work in Africa. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/19f10f4d21902ede4a8ec036292a4429_hd.jpg With documentary photography I aim to portray the best aspects in each subject by working to produce a strong composition, whether it is landscape or portrait. I like to believe I give my photographs a voice so that there is a narrative as well as a subject. To me photography is a scientific phenomenon, that can record an image by freezing a moment in time, that which is often missed in the speed of everyday life. As I view my subject through the camera’s lens I aim to portray it as my eye sees it. I prefer to work with colour film because I believe this portrays reality, it holds a perfect memory of the photographer’s view. Then what I see through the camera’s lens is recorded forever on film. That memorable unique moment is not lost but recorded for all time. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ac69d6171763754f32f4c6adac5cb3de_hd.jpg It is said we reveal more about ourselves when we think no one is watching and with this in mind I explore spaces on the urban fringe where our attention is less intense. Spaces where visual incongruities and unexpected tensions brim with enticing potential. The Situationists sought out the ambience of urban hotspots and developed tools to assist in their exploration and exploitation. Best known of these were psychogeography and the dérive. Debord defined psychogeography as “the study of specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviours of individuals”. A dérive involves ignoring all your usual activities and motives for an unknown period of time and letting yourself be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters you find there. These two tools provide an ideal base for uncovering urban hotspots capable of manifesting themes that resonate with our “emotions and behaviours”. Therefore my aim isn’t to find places that represent preconceived notions of place but rather to photograph my response to place and let themes emerge over time as an inevitable part of this approach. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/16b7fe22725610338b724139de7d987c_hd.jpg I’m Just roaming around, but it is roaming with a clear intention. Looking for things in which I empty myself out, the camera almost like a therapeutic device where searching through this little viewfinder is like peeping through the keyhole hoping to see something hidden or longed for. Sometimes it is a shock. Sometimes it is nothing. An accumulation of energy, good or bad, that is what the camera is, what a photograph is. For me it is not the photographs that are important but the constant searching and the hope that one day I’ll come across that which I was searching for with the knowledge that I will never find it. This thing I’m looking for is called unconditional Love. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/fc1307e9c523046db0dee6c31bdd4d51_hd.jpg Jonathan Morer is a French visual artist working with photography, based in London since 2006. His photographs have been shown at the Saatchi Gallery, the Edinburgh International Festival, in New York's Times Square, and at other venues in London, Paris and Rome. His work is concerned with capturing from real life the core of what makes a photographic moment, unburdened by social or documentative cues. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/fd0f9ca25749baa27796e204784d8da5_hd.jpg I choose to photograph my family members in a rural, agricultural community in Northern Utah to subtly address issues such as land use in the Western United States, the increasing difficulty of the survival of family run corporations within agriculture, the fear of change, and disappearing cultural identity. The images show the relationship between age-old traditions, the impact of modern technology on the cowboy way of life, and the concept of identity via form and clothing. The wet plate collodion photographic process is used occasionally because it adds an extra dimension of juxtaposing the old with the new. The viewer should question what they see when they look at these photographs. It should also be noted that these photographs are partially documentary in nature and not contrived in presentation of subject matter. What you see in terms of dress and mannerism is an honest depiction of the reality of this current way of living. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/96c5b6371aeba64c8154427a4832b518_hd.jpg Shortly after buying my first medium format camera I flew to Iceland with my ex-girlfriend, headed into a winter of intensity and beauty. Eager to see the captured moments from the turbulent trip, I received a call from the lab saying all my rolls were blank due to improper loading of the film. After mourning the death of the images that never existed, I started questioning the reason why I take pictures; if the thrill of finding the moment, engineering the camera and recognizing the peculiarity of the ordinary was enough of a reason or if the final product was ultimately the purpose of shooting. Whatever the reason, I now make sure the film’s emulsion is facing the lens. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d1867d64fb79c272f6990683736109bc_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/dbcf598e3b8b65701a3243b27de5fc9c_hd.jpg Barbara Nerness is a photographer and musician residing in Berkeley, California. She uses photography to help understand the landscape of her inner world and its many transformations. The things she sees and that emerge on film are like frozen mirrors, for what we see is a direct reflection of who we are. She most enjoys looking in the desert for these windows into the world inside herself, a world which we all share yet struggle to communicate. She hopes that her pictures provide a sense of darkness and mystery - that puzzle, confuse, and delight - that reflect you back to you perhaps once, twice, or many times, as if you and her were both mirrors for one instant, facing each other, perfectly aligned. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a729b8f2b865c134c613df3703421b41_hd.jpg With a mixture of documentary and staged photography, I approach moments, which show both estrangement and familiarity at the same time, and in which we again find the yearning of our society for immaculate beauty and eternal youth. The made up aesthetics of my photography and the choice of motive following the classical genre of painting is a means to express my own ambivalence between self-image and self-discovery. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9ff628e25471d7162da2d1e5fe9b5e57_hd.jpg The places I wander rest at the margins of the urban environment. These sites reveal the earth marked by human presence. The photographs, titled as Encounters: present a depopulated world, a world presented as if without witness, while simultaneously offering the implication that some event has occurred. Here, nature sustains, not as mankind would have it, but nonetheless reasserting itself around the scars, and finding new expression. The view offers an uncanny index of humankind’s discarded fragments. The stuff of the world- the debris, the overgrowth, the forgotten objects, offer the suggestion that some event may have occurred; yet this becomes hardly reliable data. Instead the perspective is one of eerie detachment- like evidence of a crime scene. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d4bccb320b895171df88f5e25f925445_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d1571ec9edf43fc6078cf423936a66d9_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/1560edcf6223166a99a702ed351a6719_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/afca566aae15139dbae9cced066c1684_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a3b0ac80aef27d7ac856332696aceb3d_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b482f46d39676dccb76ca2e740b77afb_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e605c3296315f2944110998d7a2d71a7_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f7e0791665847caece76369580212fb8_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ff7e13c9f4a707a3c82a4a24c26c8514_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ece18020fe289ad5472683e2fb584983_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d4099393ed8e8b806fba52f8763e9c4f_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d23344682b83e2eb133c99683920d785_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/efe343015dc1f8d685eed187442b0d22_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c863b718847ce12f6549b4e2724a2161_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/db3c8148c4639fc8c927c265dbb73fd5_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d9acd74fe79c84699f3470c8427fe959_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/bd6d9575d86b44fbe76e38bdcf3c82ea_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f672c6af8663a8bf742d315da3d97423_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4d098b3e5b9523e3e2ed6b1963066a6f_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/7fa6b81d013c6ec95b51033a4510bd4f_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/71ca67e5d8a7d91da1be3bc22695427a_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/47411800f4e03986ea246c8c2df01c13_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/5b25e25139247f8bf1e95d08da306a37_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/0748af7be8311947210bfb5a1a9644d2_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b2521fb7683a514d309599d8393c9823_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4ed33125a7a71829654d7f930063061c_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/549c109212a33104b656fb547a7dd5d7_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c30525307484fcc0cb4e16090aa22bf9_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3825e2696309cba594b5ace103cbd2d1_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/de9d5421146dd18c5088ae4084aef65e_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a85627f63af26486986283e2f0383c5e_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/1f935c58fc5a5a65862b12fc81485000_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/8ae9f7d7906652f650fe1b2962739843_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/about-the-exhibition 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://life-framer.viewbook.com/jonathan-morer 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/fc1307e9c523046db0dee6c31bdd4d51_hd.jpg Jonathan Morer is a French visual artist working with photography, based in London since 2006. His photographs have been shown at the Saatchi Gallery, the Edinburgh International Festival, in New York's Times Square, and at other venues in London, Paris and Rome. His work is concerned with capturing from real life the core of what makes a photographic moment, unburdened by social or documentative cues. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a3b0ac80aef27d7ac856332696aceb3d_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d9acd74fe79c84699f3470c8427fe959_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/549c109212a33104b656fb547a7dd5d7_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/barbara-nerness 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/dbcf598e3b8b65701a3243b27de5fc9c_hd.jpg Barbara Nerness is a photographer and musician residing in Berkeley, California. She uses photography to help understand the landscape of her inner world and its many transformations. The things she sees and that emerge on film are like frozen mirrors, for what we see is a direct reflection of who we are. She most enjoys looking in the desert for these windows into the world inside herself, a world which we all share yet struggle to communicate. She hopes that her pictures provide a sense of darkness and mystery - that puzzle, confuse, and delight - that reflect you back to you perhaps once, twice, or many times, as if you and her were both mirrors for one instant, facing each other, perfectly aligned. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ff7e13c9f4a707a3c82a4a24c26c8514_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/7fa6b81d013c6ec95b51033a4510bd4f_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a85627f63af26486986283e2f0383c5e_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/noa-kastel 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ea376c5e50ab6118edef44e5fd40a814_hd.jpg Photography, to me, is a way to tell a story, once a personal and autobiographical, once about the world surrounding me. I use photos in order to reveal parts of the world which can be unnoticeable, but I find them special, I find them the essence of life. The world fascinates me. People fascinate me. I see stories everywhere. Sometimes I work hard in order to reveal them, becoming an integral part in my subject's life. In others, the story is flashing in front of me, so exposed, and in a split of a second is being captured in my camera.. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/53528f781d674e77387ccc0f2ecddd8b_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/035d045082d3deaee63fa6f5b7d02b3c_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/061cac21ded0261c2f9eaadb65271c81_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/brindusa-fidanza 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/be2072230f8221d6fe78eae592879d15_hd.jpg A Long Walk to Langa: the Sunshine Township There was of course Nelson Mandela’s “Long Walk to Freedom”. A road he wasn’t alone on; so many others joined him in the fight for freedom for all people, the freedom to imagine and create a new, vibrant and booming South Africa, rising like a Phoenix from the ashes. Langa, which literally translates “sun” from Xhosa, surprised me in May 2013. I saw the scars of its past, of the exile and the loneliness, the scars of isolation and despair. But as the hours went by, Langa enticed me with hope, joy, an insatiable energy, hard work and children’s laughter. Over the years, I have grown to love South Africa as a land of unimaginable beauty and of stark contradictions. It is a privilege to exhibit some of my initial work in Langa. I am looking forward to continuing this project, so much remains to be discovered. Brindusa Fidanza https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d42ddbcf3f139f95f3a22f0af21d25bb_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4c7b71e3517e41a4477e0bda79057ad3_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/0bf3ddbd55223e77bd0e054de035bb91_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/mike-workman 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/51a389a0b66c5673ce554a2e03a66147_hd.jpg It’s the old cliché really. “I see the world in a series of photographs, and I shoot because I can”. I don’t try and do anything fancy or try and prove something to others I just shoot what I see, various cameras and lots of different locations. I used to work commercially as a photographer and found after a while that I lost interest in it. I hated the same old formula so I started teaching 10 years ago because I wanted to work creatively again. I thought it would give me more time, but quite the opposite turned out to be true. When I have the time, I go out with something specific in mind to photograph like a daily typology. That doesn’t mean I will ignore a shot in front of me even if it doesn’t fit my daily brief. Cartier-Bresson apparently once said, “Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst”. I lost count ages ago, but I’m still enjoying it. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/8ecc4ccb1e537cc69f5715498ae0ceba_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a7a0ddf78da0743edd0427bc2adcbc50_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/7f53b92e8068d3e0262981db67545b4f_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/jennifer-colten 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9ff628e25471d7162da2d1e5fe9b5e57_hd.jpg The places I wander rest at the margins of the urban environment. These sites reveal the earth marked by human presence. The photographs, titled as Encounters: present a depopulated world, a world presented as if without witness, while simultaneously offering the implication that some event has occurred. Here, nature sustains, not as mankind would have it, but nonetheless reasserting itself around the scars, and finding new expression. The view offers an uncanny index of humankind’s discarded fragments. The stuff of the world- the debris, the overgrowth, the forgotten objects, offer the suggestion that some event may have occurred; yet this becomes hardly reliable data. Instead the perspective is one of eerie detachment- like evidence of a crime scene. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d4099393ed8e8b806fba52f8763e9c4f_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/47411800f4e03986ea246c8c2df01c13_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/8ae9f7d7906652f650fe1b2962739843_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/tom-law 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4ee3e996b09d3d9daf9cbe48ad639177_hd.jpg It was below freezing and after spending a couple of hours shooting by Lake Michigan, the cab ride back to the hotel was nothing short of paradise. 'Ashley in Chicago' captures for me the feeling of warmth and relaxation felt in that moment. This photo was shot on film, my preferred medium. Shooting on film restricts me in all the right ways: it allows me to pause and choose my frame carefully. My filmmaking background greatly influences my photographic style. I want my photographs to tell stories. Photographing people in their natural environment, and capturing their essence and identity, is a recurring theme in my work. I currently work at the visual research company BAMM, where photography and film plays a significant role in bringing people and their stories to life. Working in an ethnographic environment allows me to meet and capture different people and cultures around the world. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b2588194c777971639c8e7b223e70a7e_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/6b561402b3626a3572f38d865e1c832e_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/610c7111cecb4d5c200b85e59371615b_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/ransom-ashley 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d474d74a846852f562d54a9fbea34fb3_hd.jpg It was when I was young that I realized I wanted to be a storyteller, in any and every way possible. First starting in photography, and then moving into acting, I was searching to tell a meaningful story, to hopefully leave an impact on someone the same way the movies I watched growing up had an impact on me. This eventually led me back to photography, but with a completely different objective. I wanted to create photographs rooted in stories that I believe can connect with people. Getting much of my inspiration from the films and music I consumed, my photographs became shaped around emotional narratives and centered in exploration; exploration that's usually introspective as most of my photos are designed around some dramatic climax or resolution. I often make-up worlds for my subjects to exist in, creating images that connect emotionally to myself or someone I know as they attempt to bring a story to life. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3104db40a81b186a07e0d2ea02a0596c_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c11d8e7e4c178b3d2791b8264cd0a89d_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/03de1d881e8ea5c634354d62af104ccb_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/geraldine-haas 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a729b8f2b865c134c613df3703421b41_hd.jpg With a mixture of documentary and staged photography, I approach moments, which show both estrangement and familiarity at the same time, and in which we again find the yearning of our society for immaculate beauty and eternal youth. The made up aesthetics of my photography and the choice of motive following the classical genre of painting is a means to express my own ambivalence between self-image and self-discovery. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ece18020fe289ad5472683e2fb584983_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/71ca67e5d8a7d91da1be3bc22695427a_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/1f935c58fc5a5a65862b12fc81485000_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/manuel-branaa 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/96c5b6371aeba64c8154427a4832b518_hd.jpg Shortly after buying my first medium format camera I flew to Iceland with my ex-girlfriend, headed into a winter of intensity and beauty. Eager to see the captured moments from the turbulent trip, I received a call from the lab saying all my rolls were blank due to improper loading of the film. After mourning the death of the images that never existed, I started questioning the reason why I take pictures; if the thrill of finding the moment, engineering the camera and recognizing the peculiarity of the ordinary was enough of a reason or if the final product was ultimately the purpose of shooting. Whatever the reason, I now make sure the film’s emulsion is facing the lens. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e605c3296315f2944110998d7a2d71a7_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f672c6af8663a8bf742d315da3d97423_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3825e2696309cba594b5ace103cbd2d1_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/patrick-flood 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d1867d64fb79c272f6990683736109bc_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f7e0791665847caece76369580212fb8_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4d098b3e5b9523e3e2ed6b1963066a6f_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/de9d5421146dd18c5088ae4084aef65e_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/jacob-schuerger 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/0dfcebd199334a99ba00ba0973743966_hd.jpg I make images of what I know. I photograph the people around me. I photograph myself. I make images to discover, to uncover, and to examine. I make images to see, to remember, and to be able to forget. I use a camera as my mirror. I use a camera as my journal. My favorite new images are my least favorite old images. I make images to record my world. I make images to create my world. I make images compulsively. I cannot stop. I feel like I have barely begun. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/277e62faabcca9355219bcda3cf4170d_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/474e5f24757cde9b8873cb15732ffc23_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/2526be4e409a2b1ae0963975a4d2b2cc_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/gavin-withey 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/19f10f4d21902ede4a8ec036292a4429_hd.jpg With documentary photography I aim to portray the best aspects in each subject by working to produce a strong composition, whether it is landscape or portrait. I like to believe I give my photographs a voice so that there is a narrative as well as a subject. To me photography is a scientific phenomenon, that can record an image by freezing a moment in time, that which is often missed in the speed of everyday life. As I view my subject through the camera’s lens I aim to portray it as my eye sees it. I prefer to work with colour film because I believe this portrays reality, it holds a perfect memory of the photographer’s view. Then what I see through the camera’s lens is recorded forever on film. That memorable unique moment is not lost but recorded for all time. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d1571ec9edf43fc6078cf423936a66d9_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/efe343015dc1f8d685eed187442b0d22_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/0748af7be8311947210bfb5a1a9644d2_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/eric-bladholm 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/44a4736810cbccaf36a75d017aa935c8_hd.jpg Much of my work explores sculpturally and photographically 20th century Soviet-era industrialization and its aftermath effects on the landscape, people and culture, in relation to contemporary post-communist Eastern Europe. Eastern Europe of the 20th century was defined by war and the political systems fighting, and created by, those wars. Much of my work is based on time spent in three regions: The ‘Kresy’ or Polish/Ukrainian borderlands, the ‘Balkanized’ lands of former Yugoslavia, and the ‘Dobruja’ or Danube delta region where Romania, Moldova and Ukraine converge. All three regions share a recent history of pre-World War mostly agrarian societies that, post-war and in the aftermath of 20th century genocidal atrocities, industrialized rapidly, especially under communist rule. Furthermore, all three regions remain unstable as post-communist outposts belonging fully to neither the Euro Zone (EU) nor Russian ‘Customs Zone’ sphere of influence. At the core of my interest is the question of what defines or makes a person what they are or who they will become. Industrialization made war possible on a scale never imagined just as population centers were shifting to urban settings, creating a new dynamic in how people relate to where they live and work. As 20th century war survivors scattered globally, they carried with them characteristics and cultures that are unique to these regions, which are now shaping globalization. In return, globalization is quickly eradicating much of the landscape and culture that originally shaped these people. It is my sincere hope my work and images will connect viewers of all backgrounds and cultures to the importance of our connected histories, regardless of location, and especially connection to the universal traits I’ve seen everywhere I have photographed: the desire provide home, food and security for one’s family, often against powerful forces beyond individual control. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/74be6726a0d41addd26104a8cd8f67e0_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4b7cd82f8297a114a56fc1f145200e58_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/2d20e2a35599156eccc4555ab44e277d_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/dana-west 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e501c6b2f436a5e1704bf9d1c49391f1_hd.jpg “Like their personal lives, women’s history is fragmented […]” – Elizabeth Janeway. My work is an exploration into the contemporary fabric of women stained by living. I draw on personal life experience as both the artist and the subject in much of my work, building connections from personal narratives, including image and text through photography and artist books. My personal history mirrors that of other women faced daily with identity, religion, and cultural norms and expectations. Who are we, as individuals and as a collective? How do we take what family, religion, and society thrusts upon us and overcome to become the person we choose? “We have to dare to be ourselves […]” – May Sarton Photographs tell lies through slivers of reality. How much do we rely on images to provide memories of personal experience, how is collective memory of past events shaped and preserved, and how do they overlap, coexist, and inform each other? They are about the imprint left on every one of us as we travel through life. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b3bcabefa313263ef90bd93163a5ef5e_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/293a568bf3bafd098466965121121e4f_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/91fb066eaf2a1de8d3f05f8f58dbc604_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/megan-douglas 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/2121115255b3e82fca209783c520d5a6_hd.jpg Our unapologetic world and the presumed naivety of a child meet and clash to form this contrast that is the crossroads of human frailty and adaption. This harsh world finds its way into our lives early, and suddenly everything does not hold a glitter to our eyes. For Mckenzie, it is an age of understanding that never stops. As a kid we escape it through our imagination because everything was not as innocent as we thought. It is a coming of age, and we leave behind us, in a wake, our childhood. Death, violence, and cruelty are something we start to observe and understand and we wish that the world weren’t this way. We wonder why it couldn’t have stayed the same. We’ve been told the world is our oyster, but we realize that oyster is full of rot. No longer is Mckenzie ignorant of outside forces, but she feels the world is holding out an unfair hand. Mckenzie reminded me a lot of myself when I was her age: stubborn, unhappy, and imaginative. But as I photographed Mckenzie, I no longer saw my past self; I saw my present self--angry at the world for the way it is and trying to find escape through imagination. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4186b4d6e94f50fa1611b8f7461cbec0_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/7e77abf1dcd4b65252269f348cb1604c_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3034525a54cd4b7badde54d739a41308_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/miren-etchevery 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ced6d64af14103bce24a9ba7e7023e83_hd.jpg When land, sea and ski meet, an explosion of colors results. To create the photographs in my “Waterlines” series, I move my camera in different patterns, while exposing the image to the ambient light. Very simply, my camera is my brush, and light is my paint. This process allows me to capture both the intensity and nuances of the colors, and to capture the ephemeral and varied shapes and patterns that are created at the moment that land, sea and ski meet. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b538d35842cafcdb55bb945a9504df62_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/eb834255484c958869004573b465ee06_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f8e54bfcf810ddc45da7e749f38d3284_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/kasia-dabrowska 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/19beb2ae477fd8b67fc27d087aeb34f6_hd.jpg I enjoy the process of creating, after an initial idea sparks my mind. Exploring different options and directions how to capture that certain moment or detail that inspired me is what brings me thrill, that important joy. In my images I seek simple forms, shapes, angles and light, which has been encouraged by my architectural background. I constantly look for new solutions, new opportunities for my subjects and this usually leads to unexpected results. At the end it’s all my imagination, my interpretation of this surrounding world. I am grateful to share my images. I hope they evoke emotions and provoke thoughts in you, my viewer. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/672dc40c8dc2cb90cada3ca847d2c4ae_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ee533465570564b4820cd133245e6805_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e626087033846945d60f37593f4ee730_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/lodoe-laura 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/2291da3c3938dfad766c5966cd2a86fb_hd.jpg Lodoe Laura was born in 1991 in Ottawa, Canada, but spent much of her time growing up in Asia, where her father is from. From this, she developed a an interest in cultural environment, and its role in informing an individual's identity. Lodoe Laura is currently pursing a BFA in Photography at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her photography has been shown nationally and internationally. As an artist, she plans to continue her exploration of landscape and personal identity. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f35e8ad336fb53a698e8114e4df2e023_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/8de3bc4579d185d55a2cf0deab123b33_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/6d80777ee5aa28cdde01fd4b1ce011a0_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/sylvia-weston 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/fd0f9ca25749baa27796e204784d8da5_hd.jpg I choose to photograph my family members in a rural, agricultural community in Northern Utah to subtly address issues such as land use in the Western United States, the increasing difficulty of the survival of family run corporations within agriculture, the fear of change, and disappearing cultural identity. The images show the relationship between age-old traditions, the impact of modern technology on the cowboy way of life, and the concept of identity via form and clothing. The wet plate collodion photographic process is used occasionally because it adds an extra dimension of juxtaposing the old with the new. The viewer should question what they see when they look at these photographs. It should also be noted that these photographs are partially documentary in nature and not contrived in presentation of subject matter. What you see in terms of dress and mannerism is an honest depiction of the reality of this current way of living. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b482f46d39676dccb76ca2e740b77afb_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/bd6d9575d86b44fbe76e38bdcf3c82ea_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c30525307484fcc0cb4e16090aa22bf9_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/fiorenza-ianzini 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/5440719c4a48e440ae2b73ef5c93e72d_hd.jpg I am a native of Rome, Italy, and I live now in the States. I started my career as a cancer and radiation biology scientist and held academic positions at Washington University and the University of Iowa. I have paralleled science and art all my life, and only recently I departed from the academic life to devote my efforts to the art of photography. I am interested in a variety of subjects and I have a great trained eye for details. I am an avid traveler and an attentive observer of other cultures, habits and places. I am very close to the world of dance and I am captivated by body motions and variations, and how photography can depict, freeze an instant forever, and transfer to the observer so many different intriguingly emotions. My visualization of photography tightly connects with my scientific wisdom. Initiative and perseverance are at the hard core of both science and art. In science, initiative is needed to explore beyond the known, and perseverance is needed to accomplish endless repetitions. In art, initiative is needed to emotionally connect with the outside world and perseverance is needed to find the most inspiring way to represent this connection. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/00b54e6261e544be75b07812418146af_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/75feb25b91e548d3e26e18bbcada0b5a_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/akos-pinter 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f315027885ac7d1bcb2d6a929ffbcd54_hd.jpg I like my photographs to give a feeling of a mysterious and hidden world. I photograph people in their natural environment, in order to make emotion full pictures. I want to capture every little moments of everyday life and find a deeper meaning in them. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e491e33777f52847cc8d26264b56c851_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/6d617b84e96a87625c853bb5ea33ccd5_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/40a89ec608ddb213e9258f316f0a37fd_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/gelly-papalouca 2014-07-25 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/1edf268b87e1888fdcc4c27b02342da6_hd.jpg After completing her studies in Marketing Communications, Gelly Papalouca has worked for several years in the Digital Marketing industry in London. Returning in Greece, she changed her course and her great interest in digital photography took over as her new 'communication tool'. Her professional career in photography started as an assistant at a commercial studio and now continues as a freelancer. Always interested in various themes, but her favourite subjects are people (street, portraits, body) and travel. Often she will use self-portraits to experiment. Detail oriented, she loves daylight and atmosphere lightning. Her interest is to create emotions through her photography and capture real life moments and state. She’s looking for new challenges in the technical aspects of photography, but also in expanding into new areas of photography such as fashion photography, interior design and architecture photography. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/97f3a48fe680a6946070148183314ec1_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/932b7b6de3b9f5c5be73d243597e40d9_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b0d4fe156681083da8b54d8e18271e37_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/mattia-calissano 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/6417bc8153b0bc11bb05cd9ac41883bc_hd.jpg Like many others, I was taken by the passion for photography many years ago at the start of the digital revolution. Although now I’ve switched to film and have occasionally printed my own photos, semi-pro digital cameras offered me the possibility to experiment and learn a lot from my own mistakes, to try ideas and overall just to have tons of fun without feeling too guilty. Wasting electrons from digital photos did not feel as bad as wasting film! With regards to subjects I have always been attracted to street photography in its widest interpretation: anything that occurs outside one’s own control and in available light. This does not mean that I only take photos of people unaware of my presence but it is definitely what I naturally tend to pursue. Perhaps it is in street photography where the term 'shoot', which belongs to both the process of taking a photo and of shooting a gun, find its best manifestation. And so I 'shoot' people, buildings, roads, abandoned places, the silhouette of a scene, combination of all of them. Besides that subject, I am also particularly interested in composition as I think it often adds to a photo much more than a viewer is aware of. It is the power of the negative space which, although sounding like some kind of mystical blurb, has some strange power nonetheless. In my day to day life I am a doctor working on the genetic basis of neuromuscular disorders, hunting for the genes involved in these diseases, trying to keep an eye on the many bioethical issues arising in this field. But as often as I can I get away from science and take photos or do sculpture and painting as it keeps me sane! https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/26cd20993694372c882e58a43603e9da_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/50fd4fbdb055f6cae3cfb78e9c60068d_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/7aaca48013a4d62ab9c14995d65deb39_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/adam-cramb 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d8816690a2b6871a3aff4b437499c57e_hd.jpg Adam Cramb is a Northwest Coastal Multidisciplinary Artist. He is currently the Curator for the Malaspina Artist's Society. His work has been shown at PhotoHaus Gallery in Vancouver and the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art in the U.S. He has done pieces for L'oeil de la photographie, Lost in E Minor, and UnNomDeGuerre magazine. His work takes inspiration from the street, underground music, and contemporary art. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9cf677817abbf6548321e290817c73f8_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/559409019501d339ca5f2addc6fa28f5_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/cbfbd6b9c44936838a190bff25d34ac0_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/tim-aliev 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/47817098530031ca243fb22f331a75e7_hd.jpg Tim Aliev. I live in Moscow. I am 29 years old and I'm street photographer. Photography for me - it is a tool for social research. And the objects of this research is people and their interaction with the street environment. Street sport, street fashion, street rhythm, architecture, poverty and glamor of the street. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/59e2e0174c8d0e436840041a1de3a9c8_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d61b7150c58c1b41f253515919230f61_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/1839979f076997f1028f118fcca0b9a7_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/donald-elefson 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/0bb315777a0d720aecf18d70c49d2110_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/17c2468f4e49835c045c30f987a5d09b_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/80eebeddb66beaa24fabd939e6fb1de0_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a76c7eada4fbb8d0815d3058cd990241_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/ashley-helmuth 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e4c94ad7ef859dae9b4017413262cdd5_hd.jpg Ashley Helmuth is a contemporary artist, photographer, and men’s wear designer based in New York City. Her multi-disciplinary background influences all aspects of her work. A minimalist at heart, Ashley strives to create photography compositions that balance structure and fluidity through light and space. She’s most inspired by the interaction of light against the urban landscape. Ashley aims to capture the energy of light in contrast to the stillness of buildings. She prefers nighttime shooting as the contrast between light and dark is particularly apparent and vivid. The instantaneous nature of photography attracts her to create photos with energy and movement and make otherwise inanimate objects appear alive. Through experimental photography techniques, she ultimately wants to portray fantasy amongst reality. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/014a6bd885b6f6591767127d87169bf3_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/0121887b6a74259537cea6b851fa4c56_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b2ce741d476b37375e6b95f13661eda5_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/beh-yu-jin 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3a3ce99d8c9c706c714d85ed3a56b7d8_hd.jpg Photographer : a person who takes photographs, especially as a job. Me : a person who takes photographs, especially as a hobby I love traveling. My love for traveling sprouted from the lust for wandering and for new experiences. Traveling allows the taking in of moments of new cultures, new faces, and to be caught in a moment of spontaneous brilliance. Photography allows the capturing of these heart-warming moments and to breed the same feelings i had at that moment while i'm stuck in Singapore. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/8580df7f466b9a7737535c34b2f80df1_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/cd532e6a874a9b60beee24d543fd8826_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/ellen-foulds 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a415e1460da38864c685fba5d414e372_hd.jpg I started snapping in 2010 and since then my passion in photography just kept growing. In my first couple of months of using a DSLR, I attended workshops on Basic and Advanced Photography as well as the proper use of Strobe or Off-Cam Flash. After that, I taught myself to enhance my skills by reading articles online. I am a local photographer in Hervey Bay in the state of Queensland, Australia. We call our town “The Whale Watching Capital of the World”. I create post cards with spectacular images in the local area. I also create different souvenirs like mugs, fridge magnets, key rings, matted prints as well as framed prints and canvas, which can be purchased from the Regional Gallery and selected shops in town. This is my own way of promoting Hervey Bay. Landscape and nature are my favorite subjects in photography. Capturing the bizarre and phenomenal nature in the world is my goal when I am out and about with my camera. I like chasing lightning and storm if an opportunity arises. Creating a beautiful portrait is also a job that I seriously take. I consider myself a versatile photographer. Albeit, I love landscape and nature very much, I also have the forte of food and product, architecture, artistic nude, infrared, macro and tricks photography. After almost a year of residing in my new home town, I joined several photo competitions in Australia and have won multiple awards in 2013. The featured image was taken during last year’s Whale watching season; on board the vessel called “The Quick Cat II” with other 35 passengers both locals and tourists. The whales swam around the boat for over an hour playing hide and seek with everyone. A tourist photographer captures a close-up shot of the Whale’s blow. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/fb18d902d2a84255cdfcc74db9ff22a7_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/39153b009e033bae14a4eee926c0557f_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/578a46fbef0ce6c349f52fae83266c7b_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/valeria-gaeta 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/6a1da2c2c43db4edecb8174a6840c63c_hd.jpg I’m a young observer and thinker from Rome that lives, works and breaths in London, United Kingdom. Graduated in 2013 in Digital Photography from London South Bank University, after having studied at the Scuola Romana di Fotografia in Rome where I also learned analogic photography, I now can consider myself a mixed media artist that works with video, photography and performance. I use photography as a medium and I’m specialised in conceptual and contemporary portraiture. I’m now studying Contemporary Art Theory, hoping one day to open my own gallery somewhere in the world. My photography is all about feelings and how our eyes and bodies interact with the mind. I try to go beyond the purely aesthetic, drawing influences from philosophy, film and psychology. The perception is all distorted and you often find double-exposures and upside-down images. Subjects of my images are not complete strangers, I need to have a connection with them. I need to know who they are, their body, their scars, what they think and what they feel: it is the only way I can truly photograph them. I feel inspired by poetry and music,that often helps me find the titles of each image. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9ec7aaac4cd5c717d426f3337a6cb5cf_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/951435cb08482c112b769369c2f75e86_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/38e9491eba6bf7fd6a16f83017edb135_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/axel-stevens 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/16b7fe22725610338b724139de7d987c_hd.jpg I’m Just roaming around, but it is roaming with a clear intention. Looking for things in which I empty myself out, the camera almost like a therapeutic device where searching through this little viewfinder is like peeping through the keyhole hoping to see something hidden or longed for. Sometimes it is a shock. Sometimes it is nothing. An accumulation of energy, good or bad, that is what the camera is, what a photograph is. For me it is not the photographs that are important but the constant searching and the hope that one day I’ll come across that which I was searching for with the knowledge that I will never find it. This thing I’m looking for is called unconditional Love. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/afca566aae15139dbae9cced066c1684_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/db3c8148c4639fc8c927c265dbb73fd5_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4ed33125a7a71829654d7f930063061c_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/josephine-cardin 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f668ae68db184f1c88554acc33767b77_hd.jpg Josephine Cardin is a fine arts photographer who focuses on figurative work inspired by music, dance, and the human themes of loneliness, isolation, melancholy, love and loss. Cardin uses both dancers, and self-portraiture to illustrate scenes that bewitch, seduce, and explore our human sensibilities; through abstract stories with a visual dialogue between the subject and the artist created through a symbiosis of harmonic gestures and magnetic artistry. Cardin's work has been published in The Spoiler’s Hand, Lucy’s, Canto, beau BU, Scope, F-Stop, and Dance Magazines; Playbill, and the book Meet The Dancers. She has exhibited with The Professional Woman Photographers, The Boca Raton Museum of Art Juried Exhibition, and with The Woman in The Visual Arts. Most recently Cardin received and honorable mention for the 2014 Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, and was selected as a finalist for the PhotoNola/International House Mary Magdalene Exhibit in New Orleans. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/15548d375940b320e166fc52cdbfac73_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/65539ba4d3705dcde68a88b0cd94ee88_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e1cd091ce7f871c78bc93b0faee170c8_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/johan-entchev 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a28bffd4b65e48b29ad3c73d09fd71b2_hd.jpg For me photography is the greatest form of self expression. It’s a way of understanding life; kind of a visual diary about it, pictures are notes about past and present. I explore my life through images. There's no objective reality in my work. They are taken about everything around me: childhood, memories, anxiety, despair, fear and fears created by religion. Most of my work is high contrast black and white. This offers a way to express my feelings more specifically. Photography offers a way of working through my emotions and experiences. It’s like capturing my emotions through others. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/15194523d1906ca6669948eee8a5355c_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/460e259e5eb4ed72b47b19ea9eb2c879_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d1d65025774ea5c7593d854eca47fb7c_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/liga-skadina 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/104e1e1e25e8c8d0e09bd15073535da0_hd.jpg I am a self-taught photographer from the picturesque town of Sigulda, Latvia. About a year ago I decided to start exploring the world around me through the lens of my simple Canon Ixus 240 HS. Photography for me is a meditation - it allows me to get away from the world's adversities, it gives me freedom and awards inner peace. Through photography I can express my feelings and deepest thoughts. It enables me to stop the time and linger in a wonderful moment that will probably never be repeated… https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ad6efb999a4218b16b7474032f34817e_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/bb7b7a9a273be29f2b5d031e88b664c3_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e4447ec5d7e9f7c544a5bda0f443f72d_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/sanja-burns 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a733babe4eba3243ba92ab7bd08e8a21_hd.jpg I was born and raised in the former Yugoslavia, in a small industrial town, now within the borders of Croatia. In my teens I relocated to Australia with my family and currently, I am residing in Singapore; my base for the last fourteen years. ! This very journey ignited my fascination with social constructs of “otherness”. I am particularly drawn to seemingly familiar objects and situations, from road signs to meal rituals, which tend take on varied shapes and manifestations across different cultures and in doing so challenge the sense of time, space and belonging. ! At home, my lens is often turned to my family as I personally reflect on our day to day life, exploring and celebrating diversity within our “organisation” as we individually and collectively deal with everyday contradictions in our search for meaning. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9b2b3c80749386b38f891bb40fc6e570_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d30089a8bad9ef97e42e3cc6ce92f2ad_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/0fad76e538f36d4b2ef3da00957b1a4d_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a52f0d2bb1f949ae6f94f99a8ecbb9d3_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/stephanie-d-hubert 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d7a30c7cbcd3353e9101edc7bde56d24_hd.jpg "Enclosed within the limited space of the car, the outside world moves around us while we are unable to interact with it. As in a theatre, we are allocated a seat from where we are not supposed to move, looking at the world from a given point of view. We stay still, we watch: we are quiet spectators. From this passiveness, as a photographer, I personally experience a certain freedom: a given-time, a given-space, and a given-point of view from which I can investigate the distance between me and what I see. I am interested in photography as an experience, an alternative way to see, challenging our understanding of the familiar. Stéphanie d'Hubert, BA student at the Open College of the Arts." https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/cb9c442cdda3b9a49e5daf8006ff9831_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/13710f6742329507843dd23499f13840_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a9513390a9fcb90525f8a10b34b5f7d4_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/bill-lane 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ac69d6171763754f32f4c6adac5cb3de_hd.jpg It is said we reveal more about ourselves when we think no one is watching and with this in mind I explore spaces on the urban fringe where our attention is less intense. Spaces where visual incongruities and unexpected tensions brim with enticing potential. The Situationists sought out the ambience of urban hotspots and developed tools to assist in their exploration and exploitation. Best known of these were psychogeography and the dérive. Debord defined psychogeography as “the study of specific effects of the geographical environment, consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviours of individuals”. A dérive involves ignoring all your usual activities and motives for an unknown period of time and letting yourself be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters you find there. These two tools provide an ideal base for uncovering urban hotspots capable of manifesting themes that resonate with our “emotions and behaviours”. Therefore my aim isn’t to find places that represent preconceived notions of place but rather to photograph my response to place and let themes emerge over time as an inevitable part of this approach. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/1560edcf6223166a99a702ed351a6719_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c863b718847ce12f6549b4e2724a2161_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b2521fb7683a514d309599d8393c9823_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/marie-leander 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/7ae3c0a9bb1b4d2bfd082e020a7edce5_hd.jpg I've been using a camera for years. Mostly for simply documenting my daily life. Only some three years ago I took up photography more seriously. Most professional influences so far are results from two trips with fellow photographers to Africa as well as some weekend workshops. Next stop is Alaska later this year. I'm still searching for my photo speciality. I enjoy wildlife, landscapes as well as macros. Future will tell if I am able to find a more narrow niche. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/0f2924099673806a028884dbc35de79d_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/574fd547ddff30482e8040936d7d1645_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/387fbd40e21e603c80b41944ae3c53dc_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/julia-gunther 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b0f61b6852f4d27df45088f2a65f0010_hd.jpg Antanas is a patient at Kanombe Hospital, Kigali, Rwanda. This image is part of 'Maternity Ward': a photographic documentary series about the doctors, nurses and patients in the maternity ward of Kanombe Hospital, 2013. It’s compulsory for every Rwandan to have health insurance, yet many struggle to pay the annual fees. If a patient is unable to pay their bill, their relatives are responsible for covering the costs and that can take months or even years, during which time the patient is required to remain in hospital. But seeing as many of Kanombe’s patients lost most or all of their family during the 1994 Genocide, they are forced to rely on the hospitals social worker for food and support. 'Maternity Ward' is the 4th part of Julia Gunther's ongoing project 'Proud Women of Africa': a photographic documentation about women that live or work in Africa. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d4bccb320b895171df88f5e25f925445_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d23344682b83e2eb133c99683920d785_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/5b25e25139247f8bf1e95d08da306a37_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/igor-voller 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/935b474e068669f3d576f00e4a0db393_hd.jpg I started photography about 30 years ago under careful observation and guidance of my father who was happy to discover that his boy has some real interest going much further than just «pressing this button». I used to take pictures during my business and leisure trips considering photography as some sort of fun for myself, my family and friends. However about 1 year ago I suddenly realised that I can go further and transformed my hobby into more professional activity. In my works I try to express/convey my vision of the beauty and variety of the World no matter if it is a stunning landscape or eyes of a person. I find inspiration just looking around and catching outstanding moments in usual situations. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/82e5f3aa07cd4abbe26bf959ff184480_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/25fb3debfe415441d46f08e3c34e42e6_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/lilia-kryuchkova 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/22b3f59a2dfe5030205dd4b7b4a9d6f6_hd.jpg “Photography to me is a creative outlet in life otherwise filled with non-artistic endeavors. While my day job revolves around numbers, my photography allows me to appreciate the beauty in life and explore things that are not easily defined by a mathematical equation. Although I am still learning and evolving as a photographer, I find that the subjects I am drawn to the most are people and places. I also love to travel and bring my camera along on every trip, but photography taught me that there is always something interesting to see, no matter if you are one or one thousand miles from home. After all, one day you may just step outside and find your backyard transformed into a page from a Tolkien novel. The world around us, and people in it, are constantly changing, and I enjoy trying to capture the mood and the spirit of a particular moment in time.” https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/bc52387c059ca9b5672f54283f7e53aa_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/02d4e7bcfcf986c3dd6f1d5f098f8c49_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/af4360886bf8f1c25017c3d665f0481c_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/eric-brewer-immel 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/37e072e8040ec5635db6a8191295ee6c_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c95043a85faecdd74e58e9e13b9daeee_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d2c12e06bdd8bbf3fe567bd063f427e2_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/42dfba05593bbb37360693b3b279910e_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/aubree-ross 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/2dccb67c552c1696958e7658caece6e3_hd.jpg Aubree Ross grew up on a farm in Darlington, SC. Ross’ mother is a librarian and her father a farmer. Ross has attended multiple universities in the state of South Carolina and has an Associates Degree and Bachelors Degree in Art. She is a recent Master of Fine Arts Graduate from Clemson University where she studied photography. Ross’ preferred mediums include photography, performance, and ceramics. Ross’ work touches base on multiple interests including identity, transition, gender, femininity, women’s issues, and family. Ross’ experiences, past and present, inspire her work and affect her work flow. Narration is a key element in her art. Ross feels images having narrative elements best represent the message she wishes to convey. Ross informs the viewer of her own experiences, tribulations, and triumphs to inspire strength and change. Ross not only views her work as contemporary fine art but also as a therapeutic practice. Ross works on several projects; inspired by her identity. Ross greatly invests herself in her work through expressing love for her dear family and her consistent fight as a woman. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9300748e6d68d1be3f006c0998b249e1_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/8187c58453a4f5486e9312fd3173cff5_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/edgar-landeros 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/fd6802c22e40a6544aab36daccd921fa_hd.jpg Japan and its pop-culture influence my work. Most notably the sci-fi movies and anime I have enjoyed since childhood. I photograph abstract images reminiscent of alien worlds or strange creatures lurking in shadows. Photos with female models often have a yakuza style element of violence, paying homage to the Pinky Violence films from Japan in the late 60’s to mid 70’s. The other body of my work, which is fine art and travel photography, is photographed in Japan. Tokyo is a city with a futuristic edge as well as a rich culture and history that allows for visually striking images to be snapped from almost anywhere in the city. Because of this, many of the photographs have a cinematic feel. I hope they speak to other fans of Japan and its traditions as well as serving as an entry point for anyone unfamiliar with Japan and its culture. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/5a883fb7b45f41ca8687cb84255783ba_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/059b7d5b3d67d5d1d7bc47d771880d6d_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/aa91dd17d2503d6bfbd3a69b01487399_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/laura-voss 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/be2b613ad3ea479c0c5385832898176e_hd.jpg My work can be looked at and read like a diary. Every project I do and every picture I take are records of my life that I want to preserve. By documenting real emotion, as well as reflecting it through composed imagery, I get to explore my own life from an outsider’s point of view and ponder the questions of being human. Drawing inspiration from philosophy and psychology, I am incredibly fascinated by the power of the subconscious: the driving force behind most of what I do and feel, yet the one thing I cannot ever fully understand. To me, a beautiful paradox. Being creative helps me to uncover some of what lies beneath the surface of my conscience and get closer to answering the question of who and why I am. Being a very restless person, my work too is ever evolving, changing direction and crossing boundaries until the final piece looks nothing like I initially intended it to be. More often than not, I change and grow alongside the project, so that my images are the visual records of this journey. Being constantly aware of the evanescence of the moment, my work can be seen as the effort to collect and archive the experiences and insights I gained and am scared to forget. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a189e513eb4d3db4a5a284aa219136d9_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/ec1cd9329c1a65a27aa2208276e20b03_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/fb9d8742f15633683e80cf95534dd543_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/barbara-danielson 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/4859e229b54b1e391d02203dd8dc53f2_hd.jpg Barbara Danielson is a photographer based out of Iowa City, IA, where she earned her BFA in photography from the University of Iowa. Her upbringing in the rural Midwest has greatly influenced her work, as can be seen in this image from her Main Street, U.S.A. series. Main Street, U.S.A. is a photographic study of small towns, examining the current state of main st. in America's heartland. A glorified allusion of American culture, Main Street represents a nostalgic way of life to American citizens. Politicians in particular use its positive, grassroots connotation for their own gain. Main Street, U.S.A. is an attempt to expose an economic and social reality of America’s Main Street and what it really looks like in our country. In all of Barbara’s work, the most important thread is an investigation of light and its role within image-making. After two years of moving around America, Barbara now lives in the Iowa countryside with her husband and continues to photograph and explore. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/10d21dcc4b7e9daa9c144732969ce573_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/8ccad950e089ee9a4819636b37f3e6c1_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/cab2499952da41737e707d1c417574aa_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/ricardo-reis 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c3b264fc5990a99b22e05b8facd83cd7_hd.jpg A perfect chaos and an eternal conundrum. That´s how Ricardo Reis describes the world and seven years ago he found a way to finally fit in. Photography became his own extension ever since. He gained his knowledge of theory and techniques at IPF (Portuguese Institute of Photography) and through several researches and experiments. An internship at the most selling journal in the country opened his path and soon he began to see his work published in countless magazines and other journals. The desire of expanding his line of work led him to a present time where he is now a photographer that holds in his CV album covers, concerts, fashion shows and participations in short feature films and music videos as a cinematographer. A fraction of his images have already been exhibited in and out of Portugal and awards have been given to his art. At 32, Ricardo Reis is still longing to capture devastating war zone images and to pursue a solid career in cinema. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/7ad0ecdb233332c96922b734361d5d30_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/6d97dc8fc139e6151c59d6a31fcf82b7_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9f7aad779a2011a18f4d550b18ff5af9_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/michelle-fader 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/d4050098a2697c6981e1d7ee27d02c1e_hd.jpg Michelle Fader (b.1987) received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of South Florida in 2012. Her work has been exhibited at the Tampa Museum of Art, the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art as well as featured in publications such as SHOTS Magazine and ToneLit Magazine. In her work, Fader often employs a cinematic aesthetic to present photographic vignettes within an unknown narrative. Solitary figures are a reoccurring motif, existing in states of awareness and vulnerability. In her recent series, Stranger It Becomes, Fader embellishes memories to reflect the brain's eventual fabrication of long-term memory. Michelle Fader works as a photographer and filmmaker in Tampa, FL https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/eb69c0b5ac0e653b5332c51773958449_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/53a9100f8b36519a9ce147eaaf57cc00_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f2c2da08a38a089b2bc6449cf98c9839_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/stephanie-van-leeuwen 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/bcfda356b0caaa70e8b584288b3108f2_hd.jpg My images seemingly have nothing to do with each other but together they suggest a new story. I photograph to retain the memory of things, to satisfy my hunger for the visual arts, to clarify and understand the inner me. To be inspired by little things with sometimes huge meanings. Our eyes don't really see, the brain sees. The eye merely transmits and the brain interprets. So what we see isn't only determined by what comes through our eyes. What we see is affected by our memories, our feelings, our upbringing and by what we've seen before. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/655d8f4b2570d3e933856fb843d542bc_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/dae0c53f62abcfcb803c91f7f107b95e_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/nathan-reader-wilson 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/258354e9aa0eb9c2eb29c5a3bf0b3d9f_hd.jpg I don't set out to create photographs about one subject or another. I always carry my camera and point it at anything that I find interesting; anything that I would like to reflect on again. Intriguing people, animals, objects, or simply a way the light is falling. I try not to think about or analyse a potential image too much, and prefer to be an active observer. Often moments are fleeting and disappear if time is spent doing anything but raising the camera to my eye. I use black and white negative film and enjoy the entire process of photography from choosing a film for the day, to developing and printing the negatives myself. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/6bd4b29c2139a434e2537e900265f628_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/86f835297a07adb61bd2235842e33726_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/8ee04521e36401f78bbe265f3aa17ab8_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/caron-che 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/13453409ee61175490764f6ee24cae8c_hd.jpg 24-year-old fresh graduate at the School of Creative Media of the City University of Hong Kong, specialising in cinematic art. Getting used to making use of film cameras to catch dramatic moments on the streets of Hong Kong ,in which the elements and motives of "human being" are presented in my work ,even though not in the frame https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f9a413d18bb76dd5732cf8af7c405859_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/9c9d5d2cab9b80e1521c47dc91fa8e25_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c0ba084836ba5c93d266a6f32eef21f6_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/nate-mosseau 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3194b2a27e6e4363c70520fcb942924a_hd.jpg I look to create more with my photos. To find parts and pieces of the world overlooked or underused and bring them out in a different light. I look for beauty in corners and empty windows that no one else sees. When exposed in the right way, a corner, or where the sidewalk runs into a building, or the hood of a car can be much more than those items on their own. I try to make people look at the world in their immediate surroundings differently, to see the smaller, lonely parts of the world. I look to evoke feelings of lonesomeness and longing, but at the same time an understanding and commonality between my images and the audience. I believe we all have feelings that we can’t quite make sense of or are not comfortable sharing with the world. I want my photos to allow for a connection to be made through the commonality of those emotions, for the audience, in a way, to feel there is an understanding in the photos. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/13e1e9db5ffffea3444d5452d575d120_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f8607005170dac77b38a4980d18656f2_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f4205984f1ebc2c354985e8eeb46157c_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/joel-han 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3d3618549ed8387eba7facc4d647b377_hd.jpg My work has always been about visualizing emotion provoked by the idea of solitude and dream-like ambiguity. Though I won’t go into too much detail, I’ve been through several noteworthy events in my life that some may even consider tragic or in a better way to put it: memorable. In spite of all the so-called misfortune I have experienced, there was never a moment when I considered myself an unfortunate man. If anything, all of my adversities led me to believe that every person in the world has a story, regardless of what external appearances he or she has in judgmental societies. All of our lives are novels full of twists and turns which are exclusive to each person. In each respective novel, everyone has a moment of solitude and remoteness. Those moments of isolation can be seen as lonely events, but they are also the moments people can learn the most about themselves. In one way or another, everyone is an anonymous hermit carrying stories we may never find out about. I want to capture those moments when people are truly alone, and together as a collective, it would show traces of distinctiveness seen by the eyes of a photographer. I want my pictures to enable the viewers to start observing people one by one again, and appreciate the details one had went through to become what he/she is today. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/394d5c57e24dc776635e4a1bd3813a09_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/03619143b12be19715b53b7e81f6d1eb_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b0e528f3ebfc4259418aa26f6ee4be01_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/ivan-tamayo-ramos 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/02b231fc2b717166cc144f30f68974ac_hd.jpg A glimpse of the present, in the run of the future. When the whole world is on business is good to be an artis https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/6994e75d0be79bdb433c4d8371b1eb78_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/bd647fa654ed22982b31e5c98f518965_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/532e73b3f00b33d315f6eaac07284b12_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a8f3cf073882944cc96c701b9ba84967_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/jennifer-summer-rose 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/83a06640bfb63a67bb08861eb1f451a5_hd.jpg " Every cause and effect pushes us towards choices and places we never would have imagined. Life flashes so quickly before us. It becomes hard to see what's escaping you. I find peace in photographs that capture the wind or smell of the air when I retrace my experiences. What my audience sees, is far more intriguing. " Currently creating in Texas. New Jersey, born and raised. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/34bf601412c1260b7329196f61469812_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a0a38498e6b1ad8bc295ed5e9a8f87c5_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a381d6c9abc9d6ad41f45dac327fefa2_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/arthur-machado 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f88590dfe94d66988613e4b12dbcc85b_hd.jpg This is not a statement of a worldwide known photographer who has his pictures published in books or magazines. It’s not a statement of an awarded photographer who is always travelling around the world on assignments. This is a statement of an ordinary guy who works as a producer in an advertising film production company in one of the most chaotic cities in the world. A statement of someone who has a deep passion for the natural world and wants to share this passion with you. Thanks for stopping by, hope you appreciate these photos as much as I do. It was amazing being in these places and I really hope it encourages you to go there to see for yourself. It’s unforgettable. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/271eb22658d6c51e484b1c88b10a4c07_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/42fd040029e814d575ba7e1f0a06edfc_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/2a0a1909d762457622daed9b2d386d2b_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/bob-harris 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c1b3e77584db595cd411bd411029fc96_hd.jpg I have always had an interest in photography - building a pin hole camera in the 7th or 8th grade. Unfortunately, I could never pursue my hobby as it was too expensive. Then my lovely wife, Sandra, bought me a Nikon D200 - I haven't stopped taking photos since. I am one of the co-founders of the Brindisi underground Photo Association (BUPA) – Which is was the Photo Club I managed in Brindisi. Which was a godsend! It gets us out of the house and we get to practice our art. This has been a great challenge for me – I normally lack the patience it takes for such endeavors – but now I am seeing the results of my work and I am real pleased – taking photographs and always searching for that perfect second to push the shutter button is now one of my favourite past times! All of the members of the BUPA work for the United Nations in Brindisi Italy https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a7c13ce0628e91d6a359d8a2bfca3506_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e1d8bd84d1f47de626d8886309a9968e_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/2d3cdda41309068e8bea5ccae4d9c865_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/tamar-meshel 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/430663912a9f37420a3a8060ca4db209_hd.jpg I am a legal scholar by profession and a traveler and photographer by heart. I have lived and worked in China, the United States, Israel, France, and Canada, and my photographs are largely a testament to the places I have visited and the travels I have undertaken. Seeing the world through the two very different lenses of photography and the law, I find freedom in the former and grounding in the latter. I attempt to capture in my photographs all that is fantastic, incredible, and aspiring in our world, and infuse it into the rational and realistic universe of law. The result is a tension, or rather a balance, between energy and logic, philosophy and science, wildness and sensibility. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/5994283a2814a7b78fb19f6003df1eab_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/17b33d17827ba8e14e2953aeccc05642_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/97c78023dccddf159cfa8c802ccb51fe_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/chieko-tanemura 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/557367821b3ae22851f4c13513bba3bc_hd.jpg These Japanese macaques are known as snow monkeys taking the natural hot springs. They attract many people all over the world. I visited there on chilly February afternoon in 2014. Their emotions, gestures, power relationships and lifestyles remind me of human world. I felt as if taking human portraits rather than animals, and this image shows that my eyes are glued on their dexterous fingers. As a result, my lens functions as a means to discovery, not a means to describe things. It captures what I see and feel. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/27126fa86320c716dec9c0ccb9ed17f4_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/6c7097af0362220d48951b9e4234630e_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/02d23f1a0290cc4d5774c8564e0e0634_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/kristin-allmer 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/51cafb400d6eb92e4dcf55280af2e36e_hd.jpg Inspired by life-long interests in travel and the physicality of the Earth, Kristin Allmer explores the concept of place by creating her own landscapes photographically. With the aid of a microscope or translucent minerals as lenses or filters, she photographs existing and constructed landscapes that, when complete, combine the act of objective viewing with immersive experience. Questions such as, “Is this a place? Can I imagine myself inhabiting this place?” are what drive the form and content of her work. Kristin Allmer lives and works in the United States, spending her time interchangeably between the scrubby dunes of the Jersey Shore and the mountainous regions of northern New Jersey gaining artistic inspiration from the different geographies. She is currently taken with reading about early Antarctic exploration and is determined to visit the pole in the not-too-distant future. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/c5e3e8f5cc8ccc53b1e0f77501c70e54_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/442ffcc7e1e3ca63769e9d36670247e7_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/547b5108ed3cba28fb576a792bda4597_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/abhishek-dasgupta 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/7627f1cf436419804423fbfd8811c11a_hd.jpg I am Abhishek Dasgupta, originally from India but currently working as an IT professional in Minneapolis, USA . Photography is more than a passion for me now as it provides me a gateway from the mundane monotonous life. It helps me to capture every possible feeling and provide words when there are none. My work tends to explore and understand the different aspects of being human . It is through the different faces and the play of light and shadows with them that I try and comprehend the true vision of my photography and life in general. I hope you enjoy and be a part as you witness the world through my vision. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/0b13e94127b7088e9f80d3da711c1e20_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/a3d8b37b6e7501f432412e6d698ebb61_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/b8a0c737ceb8a55fa9daf6ce04d5078c_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/yanina-monti 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/535ab3bb391acf776a31af632b4d33ad_hd.jpg Is an Argentine artist born in Buenos Aires. Lives in the US since 2002. Creativity and constant change in her life have brought her to practicing photography. She studied at Conservatory and School of the Arts in Miami, Florida, and art has been part of her life ever since. She currently finished her professional photographic career. Her work, “Fantasias”, was selected to be part of the Arte Americas 2012 art fair, where her work was critically acclaimed. https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/3c02a4f3b4973bca74e92535e815374a_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/86668beeae11ca9ab8d18b5fd6c371c5_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/bfaa53643f52da7589d16d6d231877da_hd.jpg https://life-framer.viewbook.com/paul-thompson 2014-07-16 weekly 0.5 https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/76fb7bc277f7f7bf655fa4b1cda6f8e2_hd.jpg Paul Thompson was born in England, spent his formative years in Australia and took early retirement in Bali where his passion for photography was rekindled. Now having resettled in Perth, Western Australia with his Balinese wife and their three young children (with one on the way!), Paul spends much of his time with his young family and endeavours to squeeze in time for his artistic pursuits. Paul’s taste in just about everything – whether it be food, music or photography can only be described as eclectic although he has a particular leaning towards portraiture and street photography: His penchant for getting inside the skin of his subjects not surprising given his twenty years of experience working in the area of Mental Health. Paul has had a life-long interest in the visual arts although he has only recently dipped his toe into the very competitive arena of ‘photo contests.’ Having had some early success and positive critical reviews he is currently expanding his photographic portfolio with a view to eventually turning a part-time love into something more substantial: Albeit cognizant of the fact that the cliché of the ‘starving artist’ is very much a truism. With a photography website and a baby in the pipeline Paul can currently be contacted by email at ‘paulthompson1511@hotmail.com’ https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/e54ed5783f1d97b691f5ee895c413c6a_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/f7696db692f86b7ecc87853cfffa57f0_hd.jpg https://imageproxy.viewbook.com/8264a4a9685363e08460ffb64b9fba3d_hd.jpg