Sandscapes came along from a larger series of photos I have been making title
"A History of the Ocean". I am currently photographing the ocean from a partially personified perspective that the Ocean documents itself, in a sense it even communicates, certainly in the geological as with these patterns in the sand, but in a much greater sense that eludes our understanding. I hesitate to label it any further as that is applying human definitions to something definitely not human, which just hinders our ability to understand it. Nonetheless, there is a distinct mystery to the ocean, a body of water that is as old as the planet in some respects, and will live as long as the planet does too.

In my attempts to grasp the enormity of this idea, I find myself often standing at the beach, wondering if the ocean could communicate in a way we understood, would these be the stories it would tell.


I have lived my entire life in the Pacific Northwest, so it is therefore of little surprise that I became interested in photographing its many natural splendors. Bitten by the photography bug a little over six years ago while hiking in the Columbia River Gorge,
I try to combine my love for the outdoors with my passion for photography.

I am always mindful that even familiar locations can hold fascinatingly new perspectives.
I often travel with a small assortment of cameras to help photograph places in creative and new ways, be it with a plastic Holga, a wooden pinhole or my Pentax 6×7 loaded with Ortho or Infrared film. Despite this small armament of equipment, I firmly believe that the most important things happen behind the camera, not in it.



By: Zeb Andrews (USA)













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We live in a village nearby Cologne - the area is called Kraut Country. I want to show you some "prominent points" of our daily morning walk through fields of cabbage and barley, paddocks and sheep-runs. My dog Kyra is not amused, when I take the Hasselblad with me, but she doesn't notice Holga, another advantage of "Her Ugliness". Amazingly my perception has changed since I have Holga in the jacket-bag, possibly this is just a momentary appearance, because it´s a new toy or is it a irritation of new diffuse glasses for old eyes - everything looks pretty. Anyway - I took some shots of surrounding area, as I had seen it never before and had a lot of fun in the darkroom.

(Bio: born 1948, 1966-1969 training to photographer, 1970-1973 study at Werkkunstschule Köln, 1973-1992 commercial photographer, since 1992 black&white lab and manufacturer of photochemistry)

By: Wolfgang Moersch (Germany)











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"I am 23 years old, from Bulgaria. My photos are absolutely non professional, everything I do is just a spontaneous act. I believe that nothing is as we see it and this is my general reason to shoot; photos show me what my eyes missed. I want to know that those caught moments can provoke people's feelings, to remind them of a forgotten thought or memory. I prefer to work with simplicity; refraining from concreteness and big concepts. I enjoy the freedom while I am taking photos. I use only analogue cameras, mainly an old russian Kiev 60. What attracts me in film is that there is always something uncertain and surprising. "


By: Alexandra Patova (Bulgaria)








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Nikon F2 / Fuji Pro


Interested in photography and motion film I attended a course at National School of Cinema in Rome with cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno but, after that I reversed all my interest in still photography.

With digital era coming I have started to produce digital images for majority of commercials but, at the same time I continue to keep alive my film passion and technique for my personal work.

Interested in people and social photography at -360 degrees- !

By: Nicola Boccaccini (Italy)




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Nicola is also a gifted portrait photographer have a look at his website and you will find work like this:



Photographer William Klein

and portraits of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Tom Waits and Woody Allen.












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The project "Breathe" began as a protest against todays digital image consumption. 
I have chosen a process and a technique that demands time and patience, which leads  to another consciousness, both in my work and about myself.  
My focus is on the human.  The slow changes of a face in front of the lens are very revealing. 
The exposures used are quite long, demanding patience and understanding from the subject and from myself.
I am currently working on the book for "Breathe".

I'm using an Kodak 8x10 inch view camera from 1904 with silver gelatin paper as the negative.   The paper ISO varies, but I have found consistent results with ISO at 5 and my aperture wide open at f8.  The times range from a couple of seconds to a minute or two, depending on the light situation.  I develop the paper-negative in normal B&W paper chemistry. After that I make a contact print, which becomes the final positive.
 
There is something honest and magical what happens while using this process and the 8x10 view camera.  I think that somehow an organic connection is established.
 
I'm a 32 year old photographer from New York who has been living in Sweden for the past 8 years.  I'm doing advertisment as a day job which leaves me time and extra resources to pursue my personal photographic projects.


By: Benjamin Goss










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"Idols and Icons of the Promised Land" is a search for spaces of great intensity and resonance. These are spots that offer me spiritual insights about the connection of humans and nature.

Tal Bedrack, Israeli, 33, male, freelance photographer.
I am taking pictures for local newspapers in Israel, with some recent publications in national newspapers in Germany.

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Potsdam Petrol Stations

"Brightly lit and colourful, islands with a touch of alienation, a sense of loneliness, but busy and strangely awake in the quiet dark of the urban sleep - petrol stations at night.  This Hopperesque quality of atmosphere has always been extremely fascinating to me.
In November 2008 I decided to photograph the gas-stations in my hometown Potsdam. Each of the 8 local petrol stations portrayed with only one single picture.
These eight photographs fit exactly onto one role of medium format film, exposed with my 6x9cm camera (Arca Swiss / Fuji Provia 100F).
After processing I kept the film uncut and it shows now a beautiful 75cm long sequence of that chilling but intriguing, populated but anonymous nocturnal atmosphere." Klaus Hellenthal

The photographer Klaus Hellenthal (*1961) lives in Potsdam, Germany. His work focuses mainly on the decay of technical architecture. He works in colour and b+w.



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URBAN VIEWS

I'm fascinated by the life in metropolitan areas, a space shared by millions of people.
My photography is a personal research, questioning how it might be possible to efficiently and happily live together in a confined space for a large number of people. With my photography I envision a preview of our life in the future.
I'm most attracted and interested in density. My aspiration is to show at least 1000 people or their traces in every picture. Be it the illuminated windows of appartments, the light streaks of vehicles or clothes hung out of windows for drying. Even without seeing people, their footprints are visible everywhere in the urban environment, an organism that is alive and breathing.
The photographs shall be printed in a 2m x3m scale, enabeling the viewer to find another story in every square centimeter. The images should provoke interest on first sight through colour, shape and proportions. But even examined closer and more intensely, one should never be bored. By: Thomas Birke


Thomas Birke is a Berlin based photographer using a 8"x10" Sinar P2 camera and colour negative film for his "Urban Environment"- project.










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Stefan Dieterich from Berlin Germany is a self-thought Photographer, who only works  with 4x5 and 8x10 large format camera's.
"The way these camera's work is slow so I can concentrate"
He mainly shoots landscapes but he is also inspired by the Pictorialism period. For that reason he is using 100 year old lenses.
"The glow and highlights and the smooth tones from these lenses are unique and very special"
Stefan develops and prints all his work in his own wet dark room, prints are handcrafted in archival quality, toned and mounted.


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Edoardo Pasero was born 1978 in Alessandria (Italy).
He lives and works in Milan (Italy) since 10 years now.

All his work is filmbased, medium format, developed and printed in his own wet darkroom.









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I started photography about 8 yrs ago with a 35mm Canon camera and a few lenses, eventually moving up to medium format and shooting 6x6 for a few years. I started working with large format cameras in 2004 and then began working in alternative printing process - Cyanotype, Van Dyke Brown, etc. Eventually I moved up to an 8x10 and began making platinum/palladium contact prints.

I was bitten by the Ultra Large Format bug and began shooting with an old 7x17 banquet camera, and most recently my current 12x20 Folmer & Schwing banquet camera. 

These images are a collection of 8x10 and 12x20 platinum/palladium contact prints and some cyanotype over platinum/palladium contact prints from in and around Austin,
Texas, USA, my home.

I've come to realize that beauty can be found in the most unlikely of places.


By: Matthew Magruder










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I started photography about two years ago. I was interested in night time long exposure photography and taught myself by reading about photography on the internet how to do this.

I am interested in making photographs of the mundane and am trying to make my work revolve around the places/spaces in the contemporary (city) landscape that people normally don't consider to be beautiful.
The 17th of june I have my first (shared) gallery exhibition which is curated around night time photography (www.2x2projects.com).

My viaducts series is an example of this and part of a much greater project. I am trying to take series of pictures of different parts of the contemporary landscape, the viaducts
are a start, but I am working on other series as well and have ideas for even more (playgrounds, traffic lights, fences, car park entrances, tunnels and much much more). I
intend to present all these works together as one single body of work.


By: Sander Meisner


Sander is currently living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands







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I came to photography thanks to a compact digital camera in 2006 while visiting Japan. I got so hooked that I decided to study in a photography school in Tokyo, leaving behind a near 20 year-long career as a recording engineer.

While learning analog darkroom printing, the idea for this series came to me. This is an attempt to explore the very unique (to my French eyes at least) connection of the plants and the city of Tokyo. At times, the Herbarium Japonicum pretends to walk in the path of 19th century botanists, but contemporary elements pop-in to give a twist of anachronism and pseudo-science...

Most of the photos where taken with a Minolta XD 35mm camera with 28mm and 50mm lens on Kodak TMax 400.
Printed on 9.5x12 inches Fomatone MG classic paper and sepia toned.

I currently live in Tokyo, Japan.


By: Bruno Quinquet









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Location is a means of containing a subject within an indirect vehicle as a suggestive presence, the subject in turn can give the location a voice. I have been photographing the tanneries for several years now and with this series wanted to explore the history/spirit contained in them by presenting a staged or cinematic moment, a narrative within a conceptual context - it is the potential of the photograph, like a dream, to suspend time and transform space.

I live in Samos, Greece and was a mixed media artist, though I don't see the point since I discovered a medium format camera.
These were shot with a YashicaD and kodak160NC


By: Alek Lindus (Greece)






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Photography has become one of my passions in 2006, when a friend persuaded me to try and discover the magic of capturing images.
After a couple of months spent familiarizing with a digital camera, I entered the world of film photography, which I have never left since then.
Most of the time I shoot black and white film, and I believe the quality of good black and white film cannot be equalled even by professional digital camera.

Love urban photography and, in particular, I like observing the portrait of a city emerge from images of both its people and architecture. 
Born in Bari I now live and work in Rome, but when I lived in Naples ( where I got into photography ). I discovered that Naples' streets are a never ending theater stage, which I think I will never stop wanting to take photographs of.

The panoramic shots you see on this page have been taken using a Horizon 202 panoramic camera. I got this camera as a gift two years ago and, since then, I have been
attempting to explore ways of using it in urban and street photography. In most cases, I shoot Kodak Tri-x 400 with this camera.


By: Giulia Riccio (Italy)






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