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About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 28

Some say negatives are mistakes, Misrach proves they are revelations.

He works with what is usually left behind by other photographers.
By focusing on negatives, he finds new ways to show landscapes, creating a more mysterious vibe.

#NegativeImage #LandscapePhotography #PhotographyBook

About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 27

Wolves see only blue and yellow. So does Julien Coquentin.

He photographs the return of the wolf to northern Aveyron.

#CyanotypePhotography #RuralPhotography #WolfReturn

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About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 26

Ingrid Weyland takes photographs of landscapes, prints them, and then crumples the paper.

She creates a unique style and shows how the environment itself can be scarred, but still resilient.

#ConceptualPhotography #NaturePhotography #PhotoProject

About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 25

What do mushrooms reveal about women’s hidden strength?

In Fruiting Bodies, Ying Ang uses photography to look at mushrooms as symbols of womanhood. The project connects the hidden networks of fungi with the invisible work of women in society.

#NatureAsMetaphor #MushroomPhotography #FemaleForm

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About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Good Citizen is an eight-year photographic and research project by Benjamin Rasmussen

Combining documentary photography and historical research, the book examines how American citizenship has been defined and restricted throughout history

#AmericanIdentity @benjaminras.bsky.social

About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 22

He came back to a country that felt different, or perhaps one that had been changing for much longer than he realised. As both a native and an outsider, he noticed the signs of inequality and the slower pace of change outside major cities.

About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 22

Merlin Daleman’s new book Mutiny shows the social and economic divides that shape post-Brexit Britain. He visited more than 60 towns and cities, from Skegness to Belfast, to understand how political decisions and years of neglect affect daily life

#PostBrexitBritain #EconomicDivide #SocialLandscape

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About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 10

Tokyo during COVID felt both still and deeply alive.

Glen Snyder walked with his camera during lockdown, looking for signs of daily life in the silence.

#StreetPhotography #TokyoPhotography #DocumentaryPhotography @isshinglen.bsky.social

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About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 8

Light is a photographer's biggest tool.

Nick Prideaux uses light to highlight specific details and to convey a specific mood.

#MindfulPhotography #AnalogPhotography #Photobook @setantabooks.bsky.social

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About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 6

He shot it on film, like the rest of the series. When the negatives came back, there was no doubt. This wasn’t just a good image. It was the image. The cover, the anchor, the emotional center.

About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 6

Lace fabric, soaked from an earlier scene, had been left to dry.

“It was like a kind of like lightning bolt… the light just hit it perfectly and I was like, my god, like that’s the shot. Like that’s the water, that’s the flood… the symbology of the flood. This is it.”

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About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 6

Nick Prideaux had been trying for days to find the right way to show what a flood that destroyed his childhood home meant to his family.

He looked for waterfalls, planned fabric scenes, and still felt unsure. This simple accident captured everything he was searching for.

#PhotographyStory

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About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 5

Eric Davidove has spent years trying to capture humor in public.

Eric noticed that many of his favorite images showed people who stood out: those who dressed differently, acted freely, or simply refused to blend in.

#StreetPhotography #StreetHumor #CandidPhotography @edovephotos.bsky.social

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About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 4

David Ricci compiles an extraordinary array of images that mark significant milestones in his career as a fine art photographer.

#ComplexPhotography #Photographer #FineArtPhotography

About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 4

Keiko Nomura uses color portraits, landscapes, and symbolic scenes that reflect her personal memories and emotions to accurately portray her experience traveling around Okinawa, Taiwan, India, and Tokyo.

#FineArtPhotography #JapanesePhotographer #AsiaPhotography

About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 2

In the annals of street photography, few names resonate with the vibrancy and depth of Ave Pildas. His journey from the jazz-infused streets of the Midwest to the bustling energy of Hollywood Boulevard paints a portrait of a man whose lens has captured the evolving American landscape.

#USHistory

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About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Aug 1

Stephen Shames's photographic archive continues to shape public memory today.

What started with protests in Berkeley became decades of personal work, capturing some of the most important social movements in U.S. history.

#DocumentaryPhotography #StephenShames #Photojournalism #USAhistory

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About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Jul 30

The most powerful portraits don’t need to show a face.

In West Texas, Mark McLennan photographed oil field workers.
Over six months, he returned again and again.

What he found was a simple gesture: A single hand.

#DocumentaryPhotography #OilIndustry #IndustrialPhotography

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About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Jul 29

Tomáš Krivka took all these photographs inside moving trains.

#trainphotography #urbanphotography #publictransportation

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About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Jul 28

There’s an entire city beneath New York, and Stanley Greenberg photographed it.

For years, he searched for the hidden infrastructure that keeps the city alive: tunnels, shafts, gatehouses, and pipes buried far below the surface.

#DocumentaryPhotography #InfrastructurePhotography #NewYorkCity

About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Jul 27

Female identity is encoded in hair, not in the face.

Céline Bodin removes facial expression completely and leaves only the back of the head.
What remains is hairstyle as a symbol and as history of expression.

#ConceptualPhotography #HairPortraits #HairSymbolism

About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Jul 26

She had tried to capture the moon, her window, and her handprints on the glass, believing that this picture could explain her feelings. That forgotten photo ended up changing the final shape of her most personal work. It brought her back to a time when she still believed a photo could be proof.

About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Jul 26

Can a childhood photo explain a lifetime of photography?

Bieke Depoorter was nearly finished with her book when she found an old diary from her childhood. Inside was a moment she had forgotten: the first time she ever took a photo of the moon, at 14.

#Photographer #childhoodphotography #throwback

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About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Jul 25

Lea Laetitia Thijs turned family pain into intimate photography.

Her father lives with bipolar disorder, and she wanted to understand him better.
This project became Safe House, a personal and careful way to connect.

#IntimatePhotography #MentalHealth #VisualStorytelling @setantabooks.bsky.social

About Photography @aboutphotography.bsky.social · Jul 23

What does it take to truly see a country, without cliché?

Most people visit Cuba for a few days and take the same photos: old cars, crumbling buildings, and cigars. Claire Garoutte and Anneke Wambaugh did something different. They kept going back for 25 years.

#StreetPhotography #Cuba

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