Introducing Michael Scandling and his minimal seascape series
I would like to introduce you to an artist who’s work I greatly inspires me. Michael and I became acquainted last year. Unbeknown to me, he had been following my blog for a while. After seeing some images from his current seascape series, I felt compelled to share them here. Michael is a very talented […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Augustus Washington
Augustus Washington was an African-American photographer and daguerreotypist born in 1820. He was born in New Jersey as a free person and immigrated to Liberia in 1852. He is one of the few African-American daguerreotypists whose career has been documented. Washington grew up in the Americas of the 1820s, a time when African Americans were denied even the most basic […]
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Passion vs Vision
Photographs have become an universal language. We all have numerous images within our reach. I personally have over 3000 images on my phone, some dating back to 2010. I capture because I feel compelled to and I keep picking up my camera because I find peace and it is my way of seeing what’s around. […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Jan Bulhak
Jan Bułhak was born on October 6, 1876 in Ostaszyn, near Navahrudak, at that time Russian Empire now Belarus. From 1888 till 1897 he studied at Russian classical gymnasium (a pre-Revolution secondary public school of the Russian Empire) in Vilnius. In 1897, he entered Jagiellonian University in Krakow where he studied literature, history and philosophy, […]
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Under the sun
Photography is one of the most prolific forms of art and expression. It revolutionised the way we see and capture what we see daily. Initially, artists in this medium focused primarily on portraiture, still life and landscapes. During the late 19th Century, in both France and USA , artists started to pictorial photographs. These photographs […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Vittorio Sella
Vittorio Sella was an Italian photographer and mountaineer, who took photographs of mountains which are regarded as some of the finest ever made. He wad born in Biella in the foothills of the Alps in 1859. He made a number of significant climbs from a young age. He was the first person to make a […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Ara Guler
Ara Guler is a Turkish Armenian photojournalist, nicknamed “the Eye of Istanbul” or “the Photographer of Istanbul”. He was born in born on August 16, 1928 in Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey. He studied at the local Getronagan Armenian High School. Owner of a pharmacy on Istiklal Avenue, his father had a wide circle of friends from the art world of the […]
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A sense of timing – Minute
They say that in photography timing is everything. Having captured numerous images over the years , I’ve come to believe this to be true. Timing is a skill that can be learned but seeing a photograph does not necessarily tell you the steps involved in creating such image. A photograph is created using light. The […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – George Rodger
George Rodger was a British photojournalist noted for his work in Africa and for taking photographs of the death camps at Bergen-Belsen at the end of the Second World War. He was born in Hale, Cheshire in 1908 and spent his childhood in Cheshire and in Scotland. He attended St. Bee’s College, Cumbria but left […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Frantisek Drtikol
Frantisek Drtikol was a Czech photographer especially known for his his characteristically epic photographs, often nudes and portraits. Dritikol was born in 1883 in a mining town in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he rose to become a prominent artist and famed portraiture photographer. Drtikol grew up with a desire to draw and paint. […]
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Photography & Vision 