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“DARK FRAMES”
PHOTOGRAPHERS
Olivier Guitton
"I am a 22 years old French student and I have started photography in 2020 after having discovered a film camera and a few lenses that belonged to my grandfather. Since then, taking photos has become both an artistic way of expression and a link to my grandpa whom I’ve never met. When I’m using my camera there is a dialog between the feeling I want to convey, the aesthetic effect needed to do so and the setting of the parameters. Indeed, I am using a fully mechanical camera. At the beginning it was quite difficult but now this process and this duality between an artistic process and a more technical part is really fluent. I am mostly taking landscape pictures as well as detailed photos. I especially enjoy using the bokeh effect which is quite amazing with the old lenses I use. The majority of my pictures are taken during journeys. Photography has helped me to develop a more inquisitive eye when I discover new places, enabling me to appreciate them better."
"I am a 22 years old French student and I have started photography in 2020 after having discovered a film camera and a few lenses that belonged to my grandfather. Since then, taking photos has become both an artistic way of expression and a link to my grandpa whom I’ve never met. When I’m using my camera there is a dialog between the feeling I want to convey, the aesthetic effect needed to do so and the setting of the parameters. Indeed, I am using a fully mechanical camera. At the beginning it was quite difficult but now this process and this duality between an artistic process and a more technical part is really fluent. I am mostly taking landscape pictures as well as detailed photos. I especially enjoy using the bokeh effect which is quite amazing with the old lenses I use. The majority of my pictures are taken during journeys. Photography has helped me to develop a more inquisitive eye when I discover new places, enabling me to appreciate them better."
Robert Barcia
Robert Barcia is an internationally exhibited photographer who divides his time between the United States and Greece.
His current projects focus on the multifaceted nature of identity, exploring its social, cultural, and personal dimensions. Through his lens, Barcia seeks to uncover the beauty often overlooked in everyday life and the forces that shape our connections to the world around us. Ultimately, his work aims to answer the fundamental question of human existence: Who are we?
Robert Barcia is an internationally exhibited photographer who divides his time between the United States and Greece.
His current projects focus on the multifaceted nature of identity, exploring its social, cultural, and personal dimensions. Through his lens, Barcia seeks to uncover the beauty often overlooked in everyday life and the forces that shape our connections to the world around us. Ultimately, his work aims to answer the fundamental question of human existence: Who are we?
Shawn Digity
Shawn Digity is a nature and exploration-style photographer with a passion for capturing the untamed beauty of some of the United States unheralded and untapped regions.
Shawn has journeyed through countless small towns and parks across Appalachia and the Midwest, emphasizing rural settings yet dabbling in urban areas as well. He has experimented with several photography niches though, including architecture, street photography, abstract, and still life. Through the hits and misses, Shawn tries to embody a laissez-aller, inquisitive, and devil-may-care brand of photography.
"My favorite style of photography is simply exploration, whether rural, urban, or anything in between. I frequent big cities, small towns, and numerous parks (among other locations). Much of the flora, fauna, and other curiosities I’ve discovered have been in seemingly random locations. Many photos include urbex and rurex findings from several areas in Appalachia and the Midwest. I hope to continue exploring new places and seeing what there is to discover."
Shawn Digity is a nature and exploration-style photographer with a passion for capturing the untamed beauty of some of the United States unheralded and untapped regions.
Shawn has journeyed through countless small towns and parks across Appalachia and the Midwest, emphasizing rural settings yet dabbling in urban areas as well. He has experimented with several photography niches though, including architecture, street photography, abstract, and still life. Through the hits and misses, Shawn tries to embody a laissez-aller, inquisitive, and devil-may-care brand of photography.
"My favorite style of photography is simply exploration, whether rural, urban, or anything in between. I frequent big cities, small towns, and numerous parks (among other locations). Much of the flora, fauna, and other curiosities I’ve discovered have been in seemingly random locations. Many photos include urbex and rurex findings from several areas in Appalachia and the Midwest. I hope to continue exploring new places and seeing what there is to discover."
Anatoly Suzdaltsev
Anatoly Suzdaltsev is a visual artist and photographer. Born in 1980 in South Ural, present time based in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
He is a student at the Academy of documentary and Art photography, Fotografika. Anatoly creates enigmatic worlds by blending documentary and art photography, weaving together objective reality with imaginative narratives and characters.
He photographs on 35mm film and digital, merging classical and contemporary techniques, basic reality and otherworldly vision.
Anatoly Suzdaltsev is a visual artist and photographer. Born in 1980 in South Ural, present time based in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
He is a student at the Academy of documentary and Art photography, Fotografika. Anatoly creates enigmatic worlds by blending documentary and art photography, weaving together objective reality with imaginative narratives and characters.
He photographs on 35mm film and digital, merging classical and contemporary techniques, basic reality and otherworldly vision.
Cheng Potse
"I am from Taiwan and currently attending university. I have a passion for photography and enjoy capturing the moments of everyday life through my lens, sharing the joy found in the ordinary with the world."
"I am from Taiwan and currently attending university. I have a passion for photography and enjoy capturing the moments of everyday life through my lens, sharing the joy found in the ordinary with the world."
Sara Sedeeq
Sara, originally from Iraq, is a Ph.D. candidate in English literature and currently resides in Türkiye. Her unique upbringing, bridging Eastern and Western cultures, has shaped her into a polyglot with a rich appreciation for diverse perspectives. Alongside her academic pursuits, Sara is also an accomplished author and artist, exploring various artistic mediums to express her creativity. She has a deep passion for photography, using her lens to capture and share her worldview.
Sara’s love for literature and art has been a lifelong journey, beginning in childhood and evolving into her current role as an educator in Türkiye. Dedicated to inspiring future generations, she aims to guide young minds toward achieving their dreams. She believes in the transformative power of art as a therapeutic and expressive medium, sometimes conveying more than words alone. Through her work and teaching, Sara hopes to instill a lasting appreciation for the expressive possibilities of art and literature in her students.
"Photography is my means of capturing ephemeral moments and offering others an intimate glimpse into the world through my unique perspective. Each image is a portal, inviting viewers to experience and interpret the world as I see it, full of vivid details and emotional depth."
Sara, originally from Iraq, is a Ph.D. candidate in English literature and currently resides in Türkiye. Her unique upbringing, bridging Eastern and Western cultures, has shaped her into a polyglot with a rich appreciation for diverse perspectives. Alongside her academic pursuits, Sara is also an accomplished author and artist, exploring various artistic mediums to express her creativity. She has a deep passion for photography, using her lens to capture and share her worldview.
Sara’s love for literature and art has been a lifelong journey, beginning in childhood and evolving into her current role as an educator in Türkiye. Dedicated to inspiring future generations, she aims to guide young minds toward achieving their dreams. She believes in the transformative power of art as a therapeutic and expressive medium, sometimes conveying more than words alone. Through her work and teaching, Sara hopes to instill a lasting appreciation for the expressive possibilities of art and literature in her students.
"Photography is my means of capturing ephemeral moments and offering others an intimate glimpse into the world through my unique perspective. Each image is a portal, inviting viewers to experience and interpret the world as I see it, full of vivid details and emotional depth."
Mete Altuniğne
Born in 1982, photographer Mete Altuniğne became interested in photography at the age of 9 with Kodak Ektralite. After 12 years of amateur photography, he started to study at Yıldız Technical University Faculty of Art and Design in 2004.
During his university years, he met digital cameras and gained experience by working in photography studios until he graduated in 2009. After graduation, he worked as a photographer in advertising agencies. He is currently teaching photography and continues to take photographs for his own projects.
"When taking photographs, I am often struck by the fluidity of time. The relationship of time with space and people. Sometimes it is the growth of a person, sometimes the aging of a stone. Finally, all of them are erased in time. Whenever I take a photograph, I feel one step away from this result and I feel that I have taken away what I have photographed."
Born in 1982, photographer Mete Altuniğne became interested in photography at the age of 9 with Kodak Ektralite. After 12 years of amateur photography, he started to study at Yıldız Technical University Faculty of Art and Design in 2004.
During his university years, he met digital cameras and gained experience by working in photography studios until he graduated in 2009. After graduation, he worked as a photographer in advertising agencies. He is currently teaching photography and continues to take photographs for his own projects.
"When taking photographs, I am often struck by the fluidity of time. The relationship of time with space and people. Sometimes it is the growth of a person, sometimes the aging of a stone. Finally, all of them are erased in time. Whenever I take a photograph, I feel one step away from this result and I feel that I have taken away what I have photographed."
Madison Sosnowski
Madison Sosnowski
"I am a sophomore at Penn State University in the US. I was born in Florida but have lived in New York for the last 6 plus years. I am studying Professional Photography and have a passion for all things nature and landscape. My dream job would be traveling the world and taking pictures."
"I am a sophomore at Penn State University in the US. I was born in Florida but have lived in New York for the last 6 plus years. I am studying Professional Photography and have a passion for all things nature and landscape. My dream job would be traveling the world and taking pictures."
Igal Stulbach
Igal Stulbach
"I’m a visual artist making photography, documentary films and video art. I’m exploring the borders between those fields. I’m in constant search. Born in Krakow Poland in the year 1949 to Holocaust survivors, since 1959 living in Bat Yam, Israel. I started my artistic activity at a relatively late age. I am a Flâneur. I created this series while wandering across the streets of Tel Aviv in the late-night hours and looking at shop windows. Mannequins nightlife."
"I’m a visual artist making photography, documentary films and video art. I’m exploring the borders between those fields. I’m in constant search. Born in Krakow Poland in the year 1949 to Holocaust survivors, since 1959 living in Bat Yam, Israel. I started my artistic activity at a relatively late age. I am a Flâneur. I created this series while wandering across the streets of Tel Aviv in the late-night hours and looking at shop windows. Mannequins nightlife."
Igal Stulbach
Jess Cowher
Jess Cowher, a native of Southbridge, Massachusetts, developed a passion for photography during her teenage years. Documenting her life and friendships through images, she honed her skills early on. After earning an A.S. in Nuclear Medicine, Jess transitioned her career into Radiology IT.
In 2004, she married her childhood friend, Matthew. As life continued on, Jess rediscovered her love for photography, particularly black and white photography. Traveling provided inspiration and fueled her artistic pursuits. With her husband’s encouragement, she made time to explore this passion. Photography offered a refreshing contrast to her daily routine. More than just a hobby, it became a source of expression and a way to connect with others. Jess and Matthew currently reside in N/E Connecticut, with their beloved Old English Bulldog, Stella Nova.
"I love photography. I have always loved photography, especially the kind that is real, candid and in the moment. I am drawn to black and white photography for that reason, it always felt real. My photography is personal. It is places I have traveled to with people that I love. It is places that have stories and memories. It is moments in time you wish you could go back to. I want people to see these places from my perspective and hopefully inspire others to start capturing moments for themselves."
Jess Cowher, a native of Southbridge, Massachusetts, developed a passion for photography during her teenage years. Documenting her life and friendships through images, she honed her skills early on. After earning an A.S. in Nuclear Medicine, Jess transitioned her career into Radiology IT.
In 2004, she married her childhood friend, Matthew. As life continued on, Jess rediscovered her love for photography, particularly black and white photography. Traveling provided inspiration and fueled her artistic pursuits. With her husband’s encouragement, she made time to explore this passion. Photography offered a refreshing contrast to her daily routine. More than just a hobby, it became a source of expression and a way to connect with others. Jess and Matthew currently reside in N/E Connecticut, with their beloved Old English Bulldog, Stella Nova.
"I love photography. I have always loved photography, especially the kind that is real, candid and in the moment. I am drawn to black and white photography for that reason, it always felt real. My photography is personal. It is places I have traveled to with people that I love. It is places that have stories and memories. It is moments in time you wish you could go back to. I want people to see these places from my perspective and hopefully inspire others to start capturing moments for themselves."
Fiona Demertzidis
"My work is emotive and instinctual, an outcome of the play of the subconscious impulses of the mind and free exploration of surrounding structures. My creations are an outcome of chance and are driven by imperfections. I don’t create the perfect photograph or painting, I create layers of beauty, character, depth and meaning."
"My work is emotive and instinctual, an outcome of the play of the subconscious impulses of the mind and free exploration of surrounding structures. My creations are an outcome of chance and are driven by imperfections. I don’t create the perfect photograph or painting, I create layers of beauty, character, depth and meaning."
Ric Steiger-Leeson
Ric Steiger-Leeson
Ric is a creative director with over a decade of broadcast industry experience, bringing a cinematographer’s eye to their photography. Ric’s exploration of the history of vintage lenses and cameras brings a timeless quality to their work and a 20th century texture to their images.
Ric is a creative director with over a decade of broadcast industry experience, bringing a cinematographer’s eye to their photography. Ric’s exploration of the history of vintage lenses and cameras brings a timeless quality to their work and a 20th century texture to their images.
Ric Steiger-Leeson
Dhyo Singh
Dhyo Singh learned very early Argentic photography. Musician, he creates original sound atmospheres imprinted with synthetic textures and ethnic sounds. Self-taught, he has been interested in digital photography for a few years and then begins to create digital images from the photographs he made during his travels around the world.
Like his method of composing musical works, his work of image creation is based on a digital edition combining a photographic cliché and the integration of a number of external elements or treatments necessary to make totally new universes with frames resolutely surreal or opposite in an impressionist and naive style. The aim is naturally sublimation of a basic image to give it another dimension.
"I consider my work as a testimony of scenes of natural phenomena, or even scenes of human activity and its interaction with nature. It is very often a matter of showing what I see with my sensitivity, and of drawing the attention of others to a colour, shape or movement that their eye would not have seen. Rather than trying to compose an image, a theater, I seek the magic of the moment, that which is rarely repeated. When the photograph is sufficient in itself, it will integrate my realistic collection; sometimes I manipulate the photograph in post-production to sublimate it and give it a more unusual or plastic character."
Dhyo Singh learned very early Argentic photography. Musician, he creates original sound atmospheres imprinted with synthetic textures and ethnic sounds. Self-taught, he has been interested in digital photography for a few years and then begins to create digital images from the photographs he made during his travels around the world.
Like his method of composing musical works, his work of image creation is based on a digital edition combining a photographic cliché and the integration of a number of external elements or treatments necessary to make totally new universes with frames resolutely surreal or opposite in an impressionist and naive style. The aim is naturally sublimation of a basic image to give it another dimension.
"I consider my work as a testimony of scenes of natural phenomena, or even scenes of human activity and its interaction with nature. It is very often a matter of showing what I see with my sensitivity, and of drawing the attention of others to a colour, shape or movement that their eye would not have seen. Rather than trying to compose an image, a theater, I seek the magic of the moment, that which is rarely repeated. When the photograph is sufficient in itself, it will integrate my realistic collection; sometimes I manipulate the photograph in post-production to sublimate it and give it a more unusual or plastic character."
Francis O’Shaughnessy
Francis O’Shaughnessy focuses his research on the construction of the audacity to live in his vision of the portrait in the landscape and the portrait of the landscape. He attempts to create dialogues between performance art and photography by orchestrating stagings that have their origins in the world of visual installations.
He creates scenographic spaces that evoke fictions enveloped by nature. His constantly (re)questioning body of work speaks about humans: their loves, their dreams, their nonsense and their quest for meaning. He introduces suggestions into his work that recall his identity mix without his conceptual and experimental representations being limited only to his cultural diversity. Lately, he has been looking at the inner landscapes and the passage of time that shape who we are. Thus, he attempts to interpret the infinite facets that make up the human soul by paying particular attention to the sphere of ritual, intimacy and adoptive identity.
Wet collodion is a primitive black and white photographic process that allows prints to be made on aluminum plates. The creation of an image is done through the use of a bellows device followed by various manipulations in the darkroom. For Francis O’Shaughnessy, this medium became a place of experimentation to architect dreamlike paintings to not capture what he thinks, but to understand what he thinks. By combining ancient processes with today’s technology, he revisits the knowledge of the past to push the limits of visual photography as well as its current concepts. Known for his singular approach, his exploratory studies focused on visual poetry reveal the concrete signature of his imagination.
For him, it is truly a poetic act to capture feelings of escape and elevation of the spirit and then transform, metamorphose or reinvent them into photographic compositions.
Francis O’Shaughnessy focuses his research on the construction of the audacity to live in his vision of the portrait in the landscape and the portrait of the landscape. He attempts to create dialogues between performance art and photography by orchestrating stagings that have their origins in the world of visual installations.
He creates scenographic spaces that evoke fictions enveloped by nature. His constantly (re)questioning body of work speaks about humans: their loves, their dreams, their nonsense and their quest for meaning. He introduces suggestions into his work that recall his identity mix without his conceptual and experimental representations being limited only to his cultural diversity. Lately, he has been looking at the inner landscapes and the passage of time that shape who we are. Thus, he attempts to interpret the infinite facets that make up the human soul by paying particular attention to the sphere of ritual, intimacy and adoptive identity.
Wet collodion is a primitive black and white photographic process that allows prints to be made on aluminum plates. The creation of an image is done through the use of a bellows device followed by various manipulations in the darkroom. For Francis O’Shaughnessy, this medium became a place of experimentation to architect dreamlike paintings to not capture what he thinks, but to understand what he thinks. By combining ancient processes with today’s technology, he revisits the knowledge of the past to push the limits of visual photography as well as its current concepts. Known for his singular approach, his exploratory studies focused on visual poetry reveal the concrete signature of his imagination.
For him, it is truly a poetic act to capture feelings of escape and elevation of the spirit and then transform, metamorphose or reinvent them into photographic compositions.
Andrew Hendrick
Andrew Hendrick is an American street photographer based in Reykjavik, Iceland. His work has been exhibited and published across the US and Europe.
Through his photography he explores the human experience from subjects that’s ranges from the bustling streets of New York City to the quiet landscapes diverse of Iceland.
"Through my work I explore the nuanced moments within everyday life. I attempt to capture these often overlooked events candidly so as to preserve the raw experience and allow the viewer to observe these moments that may otherwise be overlooked."
Andrew Hendrick is an American street photographer based in Reykjavik, Iceland. His work has been exhibited and published across the US and Europe.
Through his photography he explores the human experience from subjects that’s ranges from the bustling streets of New York City to the quiet landscapes diverse of Iceland.
"Through my work I explore the nuanced moments within everyday life. I attempt to capture these often overlooked events candidly so as to preserve the raw experience and allow the viewer to observe these moments that may otherwise be overlooked."
Rainer Würth
Rainer Würth (1967) writer, photographer (portraits, body & nude, landscape). In his photos inner and outer landscapes often blur into one another. He is interested in the open, in fragments and abstraction. For him as a photographer it is all about the moment, motif and composition. In the process of taking pictures Rainer Würth experiments with apertures and exposures, intentional camera movement (ICM), light and color. The camera is a tool for him to create visual poetry or to tell a story.
"The absence of color I often see as a gift. It offers me the space to focus on light and shadow, on composition. On the essence of an image, the story it tells, the visual poetry it creates."
Rainer Würth (1967) writer, photographer (portraits, body & nude, landscape). In his photos inner and outer landscapes often blur into one another. He is interested in the open, in fragments and abstraction. For him as a photographer it is all about the moment, motif and composition. In the process of taking pictures Rainer Würth experiments with apertures and exposures, intentional camera movement (ICM), light and color. The camera is a tool for him to create visual poetry or to tell a story.
"The absence of color I often see as a gift. It offers me the space to focus on light and shadow, on composition. On the essence of an image, the story it tells, the visual poetry it creates."
Rainer Würth
Rainer Würth
Maryam Shabani
Maryam Shabani
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