At the beginning of last year I saw this young lady crwaling, climbing, ducking and performing other cool gymnastics moves on stage that I wish my body could do. After figuring out she was not part of the horrible venue’s back up dancers, but was operating a camera like there was no tomorrow, I knew [...]

We walked New York’s High Line with pro photographer Chase Jarvis, known for his empowering affirmation that the best camera is the one that’s with you. These days, it’s far more likely to be your phone’s camera than a traditional shooter, and Jarvis suggests not sweating the lower quality sensor and lens. Sure, having a [...]

Solitary and anonymous figures depicted as immersed in space seem to oddly measure oneself with the environment, looking for a position and even more for a fair dimension. The photographer attends to these distant scenes to build up a moment, a suspended time as expression of being a human in a certain place. In a [...]

Alden Cudanin, creator of Toronto Before, has been into history ever since a trip to Black Creek Pioneer Village with his mom in 1984. Hooked in 2001 by a collection of old photos of New York City juxtaposed with new photos taken of the same locations from the same perspectives, Cudanin told Torontoist, he “was [...]

Wenzhou is a coastal city in China, a port from which whole generations have taken off to new worlds. Stories of migration that are sometimes reversed, like the one of Xiaoxiao Xu, Chinese photographer now living in Holland, who has returned to her hometown with a desire to embrice her memories of childhood. Although mature, [...]

“I am interested in depicting narratives that explore man’s interaction with the environment and seek scenes that explore the dialogue between beauty and horror in the context of environmental change”. These words sum up perfectly the expressive tension that animates the photographic work of this young British artist. Ali Richards resorts to a language that [...]

Born in 1979 Sander Meisner is an Amsterdam based photographer, specialized in medium format film photography using long exposures and found artificial light. He photographs the urban contemporary landscape. Sander Meisner is a night walker, venturing out into the city discovering colorful beauty in the desolate corners of the gray man made structures. He exposes [...]

If traveling is a job then Ed Schofield would be employee of the month. This young photographer from a small town just south of good old London UK, has spend most of his time traveling around the world. Accompanied by his close friends and camera he sets sail to explore and document the world through [...]

The confidence and precision with which Tim Carpenter describes his photography is reflected in his images impeccably beautiful. A look always clear and aware, a composition refined as much as essential in meaning. Never random results, achieved and improved with a switch from 35 mm camera to a 6×7 medium format rangefinder. The absence of [...]

Interested by the human psyche, obscurity and those tender, glorified moments of absence, Helen Flanagan work portraits the intensity of loneliness that we human beings like to close our eyes for.  The general dreamy atmosphere of composition and used palette of loamy colors makes every photo look like a still from a dream. This photography [...]

Telling a place and its complexity, not only through the representation of a landscape with unique characteristics but also playing with bounces, as if the portraits of the people who inhabit this place could give further and more comprehensive readings. Shane Lavalette can do this with extreme elegance and with an enviable mastery of the [...]

Started in 2006 “Skin” is the ongoing research project of Xie Jiankun on the surphace of the city as a metaphor on the condition of urbanism. Hereby some of the thoughts that the chinese photographer shared with us. He starts with a quote of Thomas Struth: «In every city, specific individuals are responsible for what [...]

Born and raised in Panama, Lorena Endara is a photographer whose passion links directly to social justice and territorial issues. We asked her to tell us about “A man a plan a canal Panama” series and, moreover, about her interest and research on landscape. An ever-changing lecture…Read more on Urbanautica.com ->

The work of Patrick Strattner can be read as a kind of staged “reality”, without this necessarily becoming a fiction. This is far. The German photographer’s shots seem to capture the very essence of the people who are being portrayed by building within the landscapes that surround them something like a common sense yet intimate [...]

Meagan Long is twenty-one years old and from the eighteenth largest city in the U.S. Young and confused. Old and worldly. She knows who she is, but knows nothing about anyone else. She has everyone figured about, but is foreign to herself. Hasn’t learned enough about the world. Has learned too much. Too much to [...]

If I had to describe Tang Chan’s work in one word I would say: distance. Even though she shoots portraits most of the time, there is a certain space between the viewer and the subject in her work. I stumbled upon her through a shuttercrack submission and fell instantley in love with her portfolio. You [...]

The experiments of manipulation in photography has grown in tandem with the development of technology. A phenomenon that has deep roots, if we think of Man Ray, Lissitzky and other artists who manipulate reality to create an image functional to an effect rather than to its substance. This search for the surreal, the absurd, and [...]

David Richardson lives in a ‘behind the scenes’ adventure. Music gigs, artists, late night parties, beautiful women, (drunken) friends and drunken crowds are some of the subjects found in this London based photographer’s work. His pictures are somehow realer then life. Maybe that’s because of the film grain, maybe it’s because of the moments he [...]

The philosopher and photographer Gabriel Benaim, originally from Panama, had already surprised us with the series Rural Geometry and his idea of recreating, through photography,  a common place in form of art. A kind of transposition of the paradigm of Ready-made in the photographic medium. The photograph is thus based less on what to view [...]

Susana Raab documentary and editorial photographer narrates places that emphasize people, colors and movement. In this series, someway ironic, she gives us a profile of modernity rich of implicit meanings and significant connotations. The eye wanders between details, appearantly subordinated, that when are bound together lead us to a deepest critical reading. We asked the [...]

Her photos speak louder then any interview could do, cause her thoughts are allready deeply embedded in the chemicals of the movie stills like polaroids. Inverselive shows us that your work must do the talking, and we couldn’t agree more with the photographer from Taipei, Tawain. The answers in this interview are almost redundant but [...]

Cesar Santiago works as a web designer/graphic designer in Granada, Spain. He studied design at the School of Art of Granada and there it was where he got his first contact with analogical photography and the traditional processes of developing. Since then, his little camera always goes with him. We had a small chat to [...]

The beauty of Carl W. Heindl’s work is the huge amount of diversity in his images, but he yet manages to maintain a distinctive style. On a regular basis we saw his pictures popping up on shuttercrack, so we knew we were on to something great. We managed to get a few words from him [...]

It is difficult not to be fascinated by the shots of Riccardo Zipoli on Horti conclusi or winter gardens of Iran. We intuit the desire to tell or at least highlight a civilization and its links with history. It is not about recording or documenting a landscape and its nature, there’s something more. We asked [...]

This is a visit to one of the largest cities in the world, Chongqing. And who leads us by the hand in this journey through a surprising and confusing unknown territory is Ferit Kuyas, a photographer born in Istanbul and now world citizen. “Like almost of my work”, he tells us, “also this project has [...]

Artist made in Hong Kong but living in Holland, Yee Ling Tang faces and compares, with particular attention, issues of perception and dynamics among cultural and social contexts. In the series “To lose the idea of dimensions” this research push her within the reality itself, through manipulations of scale and overlapping of distinct environments. “The [...]

Taking photos of everyday situations while preserving the dignity of the subject is what makes M.A.M08 special. A strong photographer who really takes you by the hand and will let you have a look into his world. His mostly black and white work has a strong cinematographic feel to it what sucks you into…Read more [...]

Max Hirshfeld’s “Looking at Looking” series was inspired by an assignment for a foundation which had provided funding for a research chair at The National Gallery of Art in Washington. Recently we asked him to tell us about his personal experience and interpretation of the museum spaces. Pictures, taken freehand in natural light, are not [...]