It is understood that a portrait is a representation of a person’s character. The best portraits are the materialization of the idea of a person. That idea might come from the subject, or from what was expected of them by the general public. This may sound strange nowadays, because the vast majority of people have […]
Author: Federico Alegria
Federico has a decade of experience in documentary photography, and is a University Professor in photography and research methodology. He's a scientist studying the social uses of photography in contemporary culture who writes about photography and develops documentary projects. Other activities Federico is involved in photography are curation, critique, education, mentoring, outreach and reviews. Get to know him better here.
These days, photography is both attacked and loved in almost equal proportions. We live in a time where the democratization of photography – thanks to digitization – has strongly impacted the number of images available on social networks. In this context, Instagram has become one of the most successful social networks for many photographers. Perhaps […]
In our glorious, swift-paced times, we photographers have pretty much two choices when it comes to a final destination for our images. We can publish them online on social networks to serious photography-oriented platforms and expose them to the whole world, or we keep them to ourselves on our hard drives. The first one provides […]
Fashion photography first appeared in French publications such as La Mode Practice, and in 1909, Condé Nast took over Vogue magazine, contributing to the origin of fashion photography. Fashion photography can also be divided into genres or niches like Catwalk, Conceptual and Backstage. A lot of fashion photography is almost like a small film production, […]
As we’ve already discussed, Environmental Portraits grant both subject and background a high level of importance in the frame. Portraiture alone can be seen as the picture of the fish, and Environmental Portraiture as the fish within the fishbowl. That said, we want to introduce you to eight photographers who will give you a better […]
The artist must train not only his eye, but also his soul. Wassily Kandinsky Everything we see hides another thing; we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. René Magritte The relationship between painting and photography has extended the possibilities of image creation. When photography appeared on the scene, it was […]
