Photography is a discipline best enjoyed with friends, peers, colleagues or acquaintances who feel a similar passion for photography as we do. On this occasion, I want to express my deepest opinion on this beautiful insight. In a country, El Salvador, where the academic offerings for photography are quite scarce, photographers must find ways to nurture […]
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.
Photography contests are attractive to photographers of all kinds, but especially newcomers to the discipline. It doesn’t matter what niche or style of photography we practice, there will always be a contest designed for us. The reasons for participating in them can be diverse – from friends hinting that we should participate, to wanting the […]
India is a land filled with diversity, and one day I hope to visit it. Any photograph I see from India arouses immense curiosity in me. I can only delight in photographs of the country. I separate the images into two large categories: ones from travelers, and ones from native photographers. Here I want to […]
Photography has had a relatively short history if we omit the years of the camera obscura. Today, the almost 200 years of photography’s history becomes humble if we put it on par with longer histories like those of painting and poetry. Within this span of time, photography has seen many changes, thanks to technological advances. […]
Some may quarrel with me, but I believe that Hungary – especially during the Austro-Hungarian Empire – gave us many of photography’s most titanic figures. I like to write articles in which I speak of photographers from a certain country. I have a hypothesis that somehow, countries visually influence photographers born inside their borders. The […]
Photography can be more enjoyable when the common social dynamic of “Groups” takes place. The night before he died, the 19th-century French mathematician Évariste Galois postulated a very interesting definition of “groups” – and even though he was certainly referring to math, his definition also applies to photography collectives. “A group is composed of members, […]
