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I’m following my instinct – interview with Hideka Tonomura by Matúš Zajac
Intimacy, passion and learning through the camera. These photos take us further from reality and the world is approaching us artists from Japan Hideka Tonomura. What made you decide to study art and photography? What was the study like on Osaka Visual arts school? At Osaka Visual Arts, I […]
Every single photo is a result of a certain manipulation – interview with Igor Pisuk by Martin Čulík
Igor Pisuk is young and very talented documentary photographer from Poland. He has reached experience from world famous and reputable documentary photographers. He graduated from University of Art (Łódź Film School, Poland), study branch – Photography. His contemporary performance is about inner feeling of life.
Anarchy, uncertainty and confusion are difficult truths – interview with Scott Typaldos by Juraj Marec
Photographer Scott Typaldos uncovers the dark side of treatment of human beings. Since 2010 he is devoted to the topic of mental illness in his long term project called Butterflies. His visual is straight and hard-hitting, as a bullet finding the right target in our mind and it looks like there is no distance between him and photographed subjects. We`ve talked about his approach to such demanding project and documentary photography.
Nowadays photographers lack social feeling – interview with Antonín Kratochvíl by Matúš Zajac
Antonin Kratochvil‘s work is significant for a legible handwriting with a focus on dynamic work with light. He is rightly regarded as one of the top 100 most influential photographers as of late. After fighting with death, Kratochvil has returned back to the scene and currently helps to […]
I catch a breath with photography – interview with Roland Błażejewski by Matúš Zajac and Nicole Jašáková
Portraits in the intimate zones. In his eyes, you see the closeness with people, the unity with things that surround him. Roland Kilimanjaro Błażejewski – a lone wolf searching for his truth. What has led you to take up photography? It was some strong voice in myself, that […]
Interviews with documentary photographers
Every single photo is a result of a certain manipulation – interview with Igor Pisuk by Martin Čulík
Igor Pisuk is young and very talented documentary photographer from Poland. He has reached experience from world famous and reputable documentary photographers. He graduated from University of Art (Łódź Film School, Poland), study branch – Photography. His contemporary performance is about inner feeling of life.
Anarchy, uncertainty and confusion are difficult truths – interview with Scott Typaldos by Juraj Marec
Photographer Scott Typaldos uncovers the dark side of treatment of human beings. Since 2010 he is devoted to the topic of mental illness in his long term project called Butterflies. His visual is straight and hard-hitting, as a bullet finding the right target in our mind and it looks like there is no distance between him and photographed subjects. We`ve talked about his approach to such demanding project and documentary photography.
Nowadays photographers lack social feeling – interview with Antonín Kratochvíl by Matúš Zajac
Antonin Kratochvil‘s work is significant for a legible handwriting with a focus on dynamic work with light. He is rightly regarded as one of the top 100 most influential photographers as of late. After fighting with death, Kratochvil has returned back to the scene and currently helps to […]
I catch a breath with photography – interview with Roland Błażejewski by Matúš Zajac and Nicole Jašáková
Portraits in the intimate zones. In his eyes, you see the closeness with people, the unity with things that surround him. Roland Kilimanjaro Błażejewski – a lone wolf searching for his truth. What has led you to take up photography? It was some strong voice in myself, that […]
Observe and listen with empathy – interview with Maral Deghati by Juraj Marec
There are many invisible people behind the curtains who help others in their effort, and that applies to the world of documentary photography and photojournalism; it is not just about photographers themselves. Many people do a necessary and vital job to support and make relevant, so photographers can […]
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Nicaragua, teen pregnancy – Martin Bandzak
Since his first visit of Nicaragua in 2007, Martin Bandzak continued to return several times to document a life of community Subtiava where adolescent pregnancy is hidden. Early marriage, lack of sex education, gender double standards and religious prohibition of contraception are the main reasons why these girls […]
Road to freedom – Jindřich Štreit
Photographer Jindřich Štreit chooses topics in which he can look into the depth of the problem to point it out. To get inside the community of drug addicts was not easy certainly but author conceived it comprehensively. Initially he had recorded their daily lives but after while he […]
Mothers of patience – Fatemeh Behboudi
Fatemeh Behboudi (*1985) was born in Iran and her childhood and youth were spent in the name of war. The Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century. Casualty figures are highly uncertain, though the numbers of dead on both sides ran into […]
Child labor – Lewis Hine
Lewis W. Hine (1874 – 1940) was an American sociologist and photographer. Working as an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), Lewis Hine (1874-1940) documented working and living conditions of children in the United States between 1908 and 1924.
Subcultures – Matúš Zajac
Matúš Zajac (*1971) has got the art education at FAMU in Prague and at the Academy of Fine Arts and design in Bratislava where he was fully interested in documentary photography in atelier of Ľubo Stacho. He finished studies in 2003. Consciously he links the document with visual […]
