Here are the International Association of Professional Birth Photographers announce winners of the 2021 Birth Photography Image Competition. There are hundreds of submissions from photographers all around the globe. These photos are very much raw and intimate moments of childbirth. From the press note. “Despite hundreds of birth photographers worldwide…
I’m Clement Merouani, a French Art & Creative Director based in Paris. I love trying out new things, exploring various styles and techniques, and delving into them through an emotional and aesthetical lens. I try to create powerful imagery by focusing on composition and editing. When I travel to a…
Here are the winners and finalists of The Visual Storytelling Contest By The Independent Photographer. “From classic social documentary to imaginative storytelling: The art of visual storytelling encompasses a wide range of possibilities with at its heart, the will to tell a story and we were seeking visual artists aiming…
My name is Mikolaj Gospodarek. My adventure with landscape photography began many years ago when I was mountain climbing and hiking in Poland. I decided to show the beauty of the world around me by taking photos. A few years turned into my profession and a way of life. I…
Winter kickes in pretty hard the last weeks here in northern Italy. We have got loads of snow and ice cold temperatures. Luckyfully I have got the opportunity to go out for some adventures and came back with a hand full of good pictures. Hope you´ll like them to! You…
In a helicopter with a front-row seat to a dreamy view above Stockholm, I experienced the miniature multi-coloured buildings and winding waterways of the city through the large display on a Hasselblad X1D II, feeling the images as I shot them. While flying hundreds of meters above the Swedish Capital…
Holger Nitschke captured this series with a Vintage feel. The model of this shoot is Clara and Hair, Makeup & Styling is Ilka Preuth. Holger Nitschke was born 1978 in Wilhelmshaven/Germany. As an autodidact, he started photography under the label “LichtReize” with a focus on people, portraits,s and fashion in…
Autumn in Anhui – Ningguo Xuancheng where redwood tree contrast with water in Qinglongwan Reservoir. Aerial photo and motion series. Florian Delalee was born in France, live and work in Shanghai and like to go adventure in remote place around Asia to discover a new place and share travel, landscape,…
Visiting the West Coast of Greenland is a bittersweet experience. My visits here are without a doubt some of my photographic highlights but it’s also alarming hearing the local residents talk about how climate change is affecting their beloved land. They talk about icebergs that were over a hundred meters…
The Quarried Series is a documentary series & a visual exploration of marble quarrying in Carrara. At the northernmost tip of Tuscany, one of the world’s finest & renowned marble is getting quarried. The Carrara Marble. A white or blue-grey marble that is used for sculpturing, architecture & interior decoration…
Great wedding photographers have to think on their feet and look at life from every angle. They shoot in the pouring rain, harsh mid-day sun, freezing temperatures, on top of mountains, in blazing deserts, and in the darkest of caves. Frequently, they have to take interesting photos in boring meeting…
Nature Photographer of the Year is a Nature Photography contest that celebrates the beauty of nature photography. While traveling is not on the table at this point in our pandemic lives, looking at nature photography can also provide a form of mental escape. Various studies have shown that it has…
The Budapest International Foto Awards honors its winning photographers from around the world. It seems like this year—even though it was a hard one—helped creative minds flourish all over the world. The Budapest International Foto Awards just published their winners and the photographs are as breathtaking as they are thought-provoking.…
The Independent Photographer, an international network of photography enthusiasts & photographers, has announced the winners of its Black & White Photography Contest. Regardless of genres, we wanted to celebrate the beauty and wealth of Black & White photography. Be it in street, fashion, portrait, landscape, documentary, or any other form…
Alongside societal changes, photographers are turning their lenses away from stereotype images to celebrate themes such as acceptance, vulnerability, uniqueness, and self-confidence. Imperfections are, in fact, by all means, what human beings are made of, and when it is not, that is merely constructed, and dare to say, imposed by…
Boer Gerrit (Farmer Gerrit), 75 years old, is about the last farmer in Usselo, the Netherlands, to do it the old-fashioned way. There used to be 80 around the area, now he is the last one. He knows exactly why he kept doing it the same way for all those…